20 h. ago Who is Robbie Gibb, the man at the heart of the BBC scandal with links to Boris Johnson?

BBC staffers and leading political figures are calling for Sir Robbie Gibb to step down from the BBC board. So, who is the Tory ‘agent’ at the centre of a tangled web of politics and media interests, asks Katie Rosseinsky

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26 h. ago Billionaire Tory donor throws his support behind Nigel Farage and gifts £200,000 to Reform UK

Lord Bamford, who has given more than £9million to the Tories and even hosted Boris Johnson 's wedding, revealed his latest intentions over the weekend.

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54 h. ago BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders

Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bossesA BBC board member with links to the Conservative party “led the charge” in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza and transgender rights, the Guardian has been told.Sources said Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board during Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister, amplified the criticisms in key board meetings that preceded the shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Presenter Colin Brazier berates Nick Robinson over Boris Johnson blast

The BBC was this week plunged into a fresh crisis after an internal dossier exposed a string of incidents that demonstrate serious apparent bias in its reporting.

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3 d. ago BBC bias row: Nick Robinson and Boris Johnson clash as corporation to apologise over Trump speech edit

BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Nick Robinson: ‘There is a political campaign by people who want to destroy the organisation that you are currently listening to’

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4 d. ago BBC expected to apologise over Panorama edit of Trump speech

The programme spliced clips together from sections of the US president’s speech on January 6 2021.

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5 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: Until BBC boss Tim Davie either comes clean on how Panorama doctored Trump's speech

So where is Tim Davie? What has happened to the Director-General of the BBC? It rather looks as though he has decided to go to ground.

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5 d. ago HMRC worker who refused to return to office after Covid lockdown blames his union after being ordered to pay £20k

Martin Bentley, 67, was 'prepared to use whatever means he could' to avoid going back to the office when Covid lockdown rules were relaxed, a tribunal in Liverpool heard.

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6 d. ago HMRC worker who refused to turn to office after Covid lockdown blames his union after being ordered to pay £20k

Martin Bentley, 67, was 'prepared to use whatever means he could' to avoid going back to the office when Covid lockdown rules were relaxed, a tribunal in Liverpool heard.

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6 d. ago ‘That was better than my wedding day!’ The 20 greatest moments from The Celebrity Traitors

Alan the assassin, Clare as Boris Johnson and of course, Celia’s fart the dynamite scenes have come thick and fast in the inaugural series. Here are the very best bitsRemember when fans feared that an all-star edition would risk ruining the hit reality game’s magic? A triumphant inaugural VIP series of The Celebrity Traitors has blown such worries out of the Highland loch water.Ratings have surpassed 13m, overtaking Strictly Come Dancing as the BBC’s biggest franchise. It has been the most talked-about TV show of the autumn, if not the year. Anticipation is now at fever pitch for Thursday night’s final. As we approach the endgame, relive the highlights so far with our cloak-clad catch-up Continue reading...

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8 d. ago HMRC worker who refused to return to the office after Covid lockdown is ordered to pay £20k

Martin Bentley was 'prepared to use whatever means he could' to avoid returning to the office when lockdown rules were relaxed, a tribunal in Liverpool heard.

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9 d. ago Mary Earps reveals she consumed nothing but soup and Echo Falls for two weeks during Covid lockdown after being dropped from England squad

Mary Earps has opened up about her mental health difficulties after she was dropped from the England squad in 2020 by then-manager Phil Neville.

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9 d. ago New study attempts to settle the debate between home vs office working

Recently published research using workers in the last phase of COVID lockdowns reveals a complex picture

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1 week ago Mary Earps: ‘I was in pure survival mode but barely surviving at all’

In an exclusive extract from her forthcoming autobiography, the former England goalkeeper reveals how her life unravelled during the Covid lockdowns of 2020In early 2020, on the eve of lockdown, Phil Neville, then head coach of England, dropped Mary Earps from the squad.For the first time ever, I began to feel something unimaginable; I felt disillusioned with football and unsure what I was doing in life, chasing this dream that was constantly in reach but never fully within my grasp. And then, abruptly, lockdown hit. And the world changed, at either the best possible time for me – or the very worst. Continue reading...

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1 week ago BORIS JOHNSON: Traitors brilliantly exposes the human flaw that makes us blind to villainy, even when it's staring us in the face. Every politician should heed the warning

So, Jonathan Ross has gone! They've got him at last, the great simpering dissimulator.

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1 week ago BORIS JOHNSON: Traitors brilliantly exposes the human flaw that makes us blind to villainy, even when it's staring us in the face

So, Jonathan Ross has gone! They've got him at last, the great simpering dissimulator.

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1 week ago Keir Starmer often strident in opposition struggles to maintain probity in government

Despite pledges to run a squeaky clean administration he and some in his cabinet have fallen foul of the rulesThere is a theory in British politics, often attributed to Tony Blair, that you need to be careful about throwing a boomerang in opposition, because when you make it to power it could come back and hit you in the face.As opposition leader, Keir Starmer became adept at landing blows on the Conservatives. Over the Partygate scandal in particular, he called for Boris Johnson to quit over his rule-breaking. “You cannot be a lawmaker and a lawbreaker and it’s time to pack his bags,” he said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Starmer feels the effects of setting high standards for his party in opposition

Despite pledges to run a squeaky clean administration the prime minister and some in his cabinet have been caught outThere is a theory in British politics, often attributed to Tony Blair, that you need to be careful about throwing a boomerang in opposition, because when you make it to power it could come back and hit you in the face.As opposition leader, Keir Starmer became adept at landing blows on the Conservatives. Over the Partygate scandal in particular, he called for Boris Johnson to quit over his rule-breaking. “You cannot be a lawmaker and a lawbreaker and it’s time to pack his bags,” he said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Boris Johnson tells Tories to stop ‘bashing green agenda’ or risk losing next election

Former PM says he has not seen party ‘soaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero is’Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives they will not win the next election by “bashing the green agenda”.The former prime minister said he had not seen the Conservatives “soaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero is”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How could Keir Starmer get away with lying about China when Boris Johnson was hauled over the coals for a piece of cake? DAN HODGES

Not one. Not two. Not three. Not four. But five. Five lies. Two weeks ago the Prime Minister stood up in the House of Commons and responded to a series of questions on the China spying scandal.

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