Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

Long live GBeebies hey?

Just seen that bit in bold on the lunchtime news. It also seems that Mahmood has no jurisdiction over the Sentencing Council, she can only request or advise or recommend...

Exactly! An altogether different issue but, like you, I always find it useful to follow more ‘grown up’ news sources.

[MadAmster]

Exactly! An altogether different issue but, like you, I always find it useful to follow more ‘grown up’ news sources.

Do you often see people who post things on "social media" and then acknowledge they were wrong? I don't and I don't think it will happen here either.

[swaledale]

All those losers frothing at the mouth over nothing, getting their panties in a bunch over myths and falsehoods, which even if they were slightly true, wouldn't impact on their lives is laughable. Our resident loser repeatedly parroting stuff which has only a tenuous connection with reality is painful. Does he not have the self awareness to understand that his credibility is shot?

Meanwhile all those Tory politicians and ex politicians who were cheer leaders for Trump and Vance choke as they watch the narcissist and psychopath blundering through established diplomatic and international norms, blow holes through legal agreements and treaties (some of which Trump signed!). It will not end well for these bozos.

[ramAnag]

Do you often see people who post things on "social media" and then acknowledge they were wrong? I don't and I don't think it will happen here either.

Tbh I don’t see much on social media - other than this forum - at all. Mainly because I really can’t be doing with all the deliberate misinformation and half baked anecdotal half truths.
The process of reading and repeating what is, all too often, little more than exaggerated drivel has become dangerous though imo. Just as mobile phone technology has made everyone a photographer, so the internet has seen too many people become wannabe journalists and unfortunately the gullible swallow it all up because it reinforces their reality.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Agree with that wholeheartedly rA. I can't be dealing with all the drivel put out by the left wing press.

[Andy_Faber]

Agree with that wholeheartedly rA. I can't be dealing with all the drivel put out by the left wing press.

I?d just come on here to say roughly the same.

?I didn?t read about it but I wholeheartedly support it if it agrees with my POV and decry it (and its originators) in the strongest terms if it doesn?t?

Jesus (other deities exist (or maybe don?t)) wept

[ramAnag]

Agree with that wholeheartedly rA. I can't be dealing with all the drivel put out by the left wing press.

I suspect you?d find it difficult to find examples of ?the left wing press? in this country, GP…but in any case the discussion was about social media.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I suspect you?d find it difficult to find examples of ?the left wing press? in this country, GP…but in any case the discussion was about social media.

So it wasn't you whu said this up thread -
"Of course the likes of Jenrick, GoBSh*t* News and you know who have got it round their necks?again!"

Someone must have hacked your account and sneaked in the reference to your normal hobbyhorse....

[ramAnag]

So it wasn't you whu said this up thread -
"Of course the likes of Jenrick, GoBSh*t* News and you know who have got it round their necks?again!"

Someone must have hacked your account and sneaked in the reference to your normal hobbyhorse....

Yes it was, but as you describe - ‘up thread’ - and not in the post you were responding to, by which time MA and I were referring to people’s responses to social media. Anything else I can help you with?

[Geoff Parkstone]

Apologies for cross threading! Incidentally, if Id find it difficult to find examples of left wing press in this country, why refer to it as right wing press rather than simply press. Isn't it tautology