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Seems like a lifetime ago, but in 2021 we fought tooth and nail to keep the Hackney Downs LTN. So proud to see what it looks like today. Who would want to turn this back into a traffic-choked junction?
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Conflicts over road safety interventions getting real 👀
My local school street vandalised this morning 😡 They've gone through the poles with an angle grinder. You can see from the traffic why restrictions are needed. Blocking the drop kerb as well, what lovely people cc @hackneycitizen @hackneygazette @hackneycouncil
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My local school street vandalised this morning 😡 They've gone through the poles with an angle grinder. You can see from the traffic why restrictions are needed. Blocking the drop kerb as well, what lovely people cc @hackneycitizen @hackneygazette @hackneycouncil
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I don't watch much BBC news – do they ever ventriloquise for other groups involved in conflicts in this way? Do you ever hear 'Russia would deny they've invaded a sovereign country'? Or 'Hamas would deny they're a terrorist organisation'?
It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc…
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I am trying to learn French with proper audio aids for the first time, after a lifetime of just guessing. Did everyone already know that not only does <œufs> have a silent f, it also has a different vowel from <œuf>???
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Will Petty 🌳🌳 retweeted
You...localize names and words? To have them adhere to the phonotactics of your language? We don't do that in my country. I cannot pronounce w or th btw
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BOSS: Have you sorted the competition prize money? £12,000 isn’t it?
ME [CLEARLY WEARING A BRAND NEW £76 BANDANA]: Yeh something like that
ME [CLEARLY WEARING A BRAND NEW £76 BANDANA]: Yeh something like that
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Has anyone ever successfully steamed broccoli in the microwave? Peas and potatoes come out great when I do it; broccoli seemingly has no intermediate stage between raw and mush 😐
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🚨 Upward extensions coming soon to Hackney.
This is HUGE NEWS for more housing in London.
The planning inspector has backed the Stamford Hill Area Action Plan.
This means Hackney is now one step closer to bringing South Tottenham’s upward extensions, used by 60% of eligible .
📷 Here's what Stamford Hill's upward extensions will look like.
This is HUGE NEWS for more housing in London.
The planning inspector has backed the Stamford Hill Area Action Plan.
This means Hackney is now one step closer to bringing South Tottenham’s upward extensions, used by 60% of eligible .
📷 Here's what Stamford Hill's upward extensions will look like.
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Will Petty 🌳🌳 retweeted
last week they invented rubbish bins. this week they got ham sandwiches. god's most unstoppable city
The jambon-beurre—a classic Parisian sandwich of ham and butter on a baguette—is having a moment in New York. Recently, the sandwich has been cropping up at shops and boulangeries across the city. But the best jambon-beurre is also the newest, Helen Rosner writes. It can be found y, a novel effort by the actor turned baker Richaud Valls. “The reason this sandwich has won my heart more than others in the city is the torpedo of bread they’re tucked into,” Rosner continues. “Which sighs and crackles, an entire universe of complexity and depth in its crumb.” Read more: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/qWOig0Community noteThis is a jambon-fromage, as there's cheese in it. A jambon-beurre is just ham, butter and (optionally) some bits of cornichon on a half-baguette
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jambon-be…
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Will Petty 🌳🌳 retweeted
Heartbroken by the death of Sir Patrick Stewart.
From Shakespeare to Star Trek, he boldly went where few had gone before, and took millions of us with him.
He never forgot his roots, nor did he shy away from using his voice to stand up for others, particularly those affected by domestic violence.
May he rest in peace and rise in glory.
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Will Petty 🌳🌳 retweeted
We need to decide if minimum wage is enough to buy a house with a garden of only you'd kick your avocado addiction, or if £100k + in take home pay is unlivable. It cannot be both.
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what happened to the promised parallel cycle route to divert cyclists away from Oxford Street? it's currently "on hold" awaiting direction from Westminster transport lead @timjmitchell. Officers say there is "Lack of clarity on direction and delivery mechanism"
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They are calling it the most boomer quote of all time.
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