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plentie.bsky.social
Interested in opinion polling. And how the mainstream press frames stories. Third-culture person.
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🚨🚨1000 % of this. This is extremely good by @iandunt.bsky.social also with his very high standards. "THANK GOD FOR IMMIGRANTS".

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

My interview with exiled Vietnamese blogger Mother Mushroom: "I constantly ask myself: Am I doing enough? Am I amplifying the voices of others — or unintentionally overshadowing them? That balance is a constant struggle." Published by @globalvoices.org advox.globalvoices.org/2025/05/08/e...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

We're not tourists, or fresh off the boat, and we speak English perfectly. Covering the tiny range of British Chinese history and arts output since the early 2010s, I've been wanting to see a book like this. It's about time the Chinese in Britain explored their own identities. #books

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about the Supreme Court decision, and how the anti-trans movement represents a microcosm of how the UK is run by a media-political elite via captured institutions and constant undemocratic stitch-ups novaramedia.com/2025/04/29/h...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

It’s a constant, and subversive and relentless drip drip pervasiveness… but for those specifically targeted it must be terrifying www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not sure an increase in those who self-identify with the political left, which is what the survey shows, is equivalent to 'journalists are getting more left-wing). (1/2) pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

submitted 45 days ago • 136 comments

Labour's lost me today. Until now I gave them the benefit of doubt: inherited a poisoned chalice, change takes time, quiet competence better than grandiose gestures etc. But announcements on the very same day which give racists AND transphobes the green light for hatred? Utterly unforgivable.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I think it’s safe to say that the “mass media human” is here and they are far, far worse than either McLuhan or Eco thought they would be. Give me back the Gutenbergian human, please!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The Hobhouse story is a test of whether my hatred of authoritarianism surpasses my hatred of bullshit media framing. Turns out it doesn't. It's obvious why she was excluded (even if it's a bullshit reason). And spare me the bullshit faux-humanitarian "visiting her newly-born grandchild" angle.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The omnipresent Victor Gao now on Matt Frei's LBC show. Why do broadcasters keep trotting out the same tired old voices when there so many others who are equally or more qualified? Is it simply laziness?

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

LBC under Global, shamelessly agitating for clicks. I grew up listening to Dan Damon and Phillip Hodson on LBC. I still listen, to quality hosts such as Matt Frei. But fuck everything about today's LBC. Like all Big Media, they seek not to inform, but to incite. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

“Inspired by Banksy’s subversiveness” tells you everything that is wrong with significant sections of the art world. Tbh Banksy isn’t subversive - he makes moderately edgy points in places where doing so carry no consequences apart … (1/4)

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Share...important!!! deanblundell.substack.com/p/the-disinf...

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

Below, the context, as @demesdavid.bsky.social kindly pointed out. Reminds one a bit of John Cena, who publicly prostrated himself after calling Taiwan a country, saying he was ”very very sorry“ and that this was ”very very very very very important”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z88z...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

The Economist doing its thing. Everyone knows about Helen Joyce, but do all of its staff share these views? Could a trans ally survive working at The Economist?

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments