NBC ‘will push for’ Premier League games in the US..⁦Premier League⁩ tell ⁦NBC Sports⁩ to sod off & organise its own ‘football’. No-one needs Premier league games in the US & Americans can just watch and wish. Don’t give in to the lure of $$$!

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UK Gov’t claims Irish do nothing to solve their immigration issue, ignoring the immorality of its own ‘solution’ of sending people to Rwanda: “they are too squeamish to do anything about it so they’re looking to find someone else to blame.” Squeamish. Wow

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What’s the excuse this weekend ⁦⁦British Airways⁩ ? Last weekend it was a 6 hour delay on tarmac due to faulty plane & then a 48 hour delay. Yes, 48! Today #BA269 is cancelled. Only your cabin crew make you a tolerable airline. The rest, esp. on time planes, is awful.

OJ Simpson, the former US football star and, later, actor, is dead. He was 76. And unrepentant. I covered his trial and his astonishing acquittal for murder of his wife & her lover. He takes his secrets to the grave. Because if not him, then who? #OJDead theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Wow. ⁦Matthew Syed⁩ fires on all cylinders.Powerful piece: Britain backing Russians at Olympics. UK sports minister, sends private letter to the Int. Olympic Committee supporting involvement of Russians in 2024 Paris Games, a reversal of UK policy.
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So British Airways will invest £7 billion to transform? “BA will integrate artificial intelligence & machine learning into operations,blah blah..leverage predictive analytics..blah”. It can’t get planes to run on time, it can’t treat passengers well (BA260). It’ll be a long road

“All (the Conservative Gov’t) need to do is stop lying,stop deflecting & provide factual answers to the very simple questions that have been asked. Then everyone can move on.” It’s the story of the last decade; Brexit lies, Johnson, Partygate, migrants, sewage, the economy, et al

This says it all about Britain’s answer to Der Stürmer.

Obituary of one of ⁦ITN⁩’s first women reporters, reportedly sacked for asking “a political question”. Like Gerald Seymour & ⁦tom bradby⁩ she went on to write best selling novels after a trailblazing career as the ⁦Nina Nannar⁩ of her day.⁦ITV News⁩

Hi British Airways. You held us 5 hours on BA260 on Sat.a.m. in 30 Cel. heat. No air. Then offload us, no info. You schedule a Sun. flight, then Monday. 48 hrs to fix a “minor issue”? No comms- a policeman @ airport told me Sun.flight off. Appalling service. Now a joke airline.

Quite a life. Quite a journalist. Pioneering Guardian reporter Hella Pick who lived a very full 96 years. theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

The cost of journalism and the welcome of a refuge. Many of us flew into war zones & back out weeks later. For many there’s no easy escape.
‘You’re famous, what are you doing here?’: The asylum seeker who has gone from Somali TV to a bunk bed in Dublin.

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This did not age well.

“The saviour of the TV news world” says a boss of the British right wing channel ⁦GB News⁩. Its arrogance (which it routinely ascribed to ⁦BBC News (UK) & others)⁩ is matched only by its biased & shallow ‘news’ coverage. No news channel- it’s a hard right propaganda tool.

On this day 21 years ago, we lost this guy. His children Alex & Camille lost a loving father, his wife Fabienne a wonderful husband. His body has never been found, adding to a long trauma. Fred Nerac,ITV News⁩⁦ITN⁩ Cameraman & Editor, lost in Iraq, never forgotten.

A French journalist, interviewed on BBC Radio 4, says the majority of the 1,500 or so people around Calais, trying to get across the channel on small boats to the UK, are from Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria. I wonder what connects those 3 countries? Hmmm…Not pomegranates for sure.

Sort to hear that ⁦Leo Varadkar⁩ is leaving as Ireland’s Prime Minister. He was, and is, a fine man who excelled in leadership during Covid, in glaring contrast to the UK’s PM at the time. Respected by his adversaries & lauded by his colleagues, he’ll be missed.

What a joke for the ghastly ⁦GB News⁩ to say that it’s 'deeply concerned' by the 'chilling' decision made by the UK Broadcasting regulator ⁦Ofcom⁩ that it says broke rules by having Conservative politicians present news programmes. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

A portrait of Britain’s decline & of abject failure, by the always excellent ⁦Matthew Syed⁩. The tragedy is there seems no prospect of reversing this in the next decade. Or two.

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The frightening & very real prospect of The Death of Democracy in the US, as outlined by the always excellent ⁦Edward Luce⁩ ⁦Financial Times⁩. With a special warning to journalists; democracy dies in darkness & in boredom with Trump’s dangerous deeds & words.