Dr Chris Dexter-Mills🇪🇺

Musicologist, educator, harpsichordist, organist, continuo player, composer, conductor, historian, linguist & European. Green Party activist. All views my own.

[Guy Lambert @GuyLambertUK]

Astonishing that our premiere broadcaster has to make cutbacks like this. We should be investing in it, a cultural institution that has been the pride of Britain for generations. Worth £5b to the economy. Why is @lisanandy letting this happen? Absolutely bonkers.

[Dr Chris Dexter-Mills🇪🇺 @CDexterMills]

Little short of an act of cultural vandalism - @Radio4 The World Tonight will be missed by many. Thanks to all at The World Tonight for years of highly regarded news coverage and analysis. How can listeners help to reverse this egregious announcement?

[Robin Lustig @robinlustig]

Very sad to learn that Radio 4's The World Tonight is to be killed off in the latest round of BBC cuts. It has a long and honourable history as one of the more thoughtful BBC news programmes and I am proud to have been associated with it for more than twenty years.

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

For about the last decade, the BBC has been chasing one particular audience; 16-35s. They imitated everyone else catering to that audience, and cut back on the kind of programmes that used to make the BBC distinctive, for all ages. It hasn't worked; the death spiral continues.

[Dr Chris Dexter-Mills🇪🇺 @CDexterMills]

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[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement, which was stolen from us by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

This is the debate that we have to win if the UK is to rejoin the Single Market or the EU. In 2016 the Remain campaign did not defend our Freedom of Movement because its spineless leaders were frightened of the right-wing press. Our freedom was robbed from us without a debate.

The wave of migration from Eastern Europe is a thing of the past. Thanks to EU membership, Eastern European countries have greatly reduced the economic gap with the UK. The immigration hysteria of 2016 was a panic about a migration surge that was soon going to end, but the wretched Remain leadership failed to make that point. Indeed, given its leadership, it is remarkable that Remain got as much as 48%.

Please don't do the typical thing of educated people of finding all sorts of practical reasons why this can't happen. If Brexiters had been like that we would still be in the EU. It is our job as ordinary people to make the demand as loudly as possible. It is for politicians to listen to the people and look for ways of fulfilling that demand.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Pope Leo XIV in Madrid: “I encourage you to nurture the process of European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity.”

Wonderful.
A powerful reminder of how beautiful and hopeful the European project truly is.

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[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state "taking a much tougher stance". Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews @adamparsons

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The gravy train continues.

Failed former CEO of Ofwat, David Black has reappeared at a consultancy company called BRG where he will "Advise firms and investors across regulated industries as they navigate shifting regulatory frameworks".

His boss? No less than former head of regulation at Thames Water one Colm Gibson.

As @PrivateEyeNews would say "Trebles all round". Well actually that's exactly what they did say. 👇👇👇

[Dr Chris Dexter-Mills🇪🇺 @CDexterMills]

@hicasamadim @jamesummer2 72 would seem to be one workable solution…

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

MPs are blaming regulator OfCom for the disaster at Royal Mail.

This is a red herring. Ofcom can’t fix Royal Mail.

To fix Royal Mail, let’s take it into public ownership and run it in the interest of households, not the profits of a Czech Billionaire.

[Dr Chris Dexter-Mills🇪🇺 @CDexterMills]

@BBCNews could I respectfully point out that there are things going on in the world other than football! 22:00 TV news bulletin today led on soccer yet again (only for 15 minutes or so & not Southampton or Arsenal this time) - some of us remember when you broadcast news!

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Southampton lose appeal against expulsion from Championship play-offs for spying https://t.co/moJbDic8xP

[Windrush WASP @WindrushWasp]

People waking up and realising they don't have to have a crappy world so that a few people can make a lot of money not doing what they are paid to do.

The privatised water industry is undermining legitimate businesses and the lawful economy with its criminally operating scam, and has been for years - with continuing government support.

That ends when enough of you say so.

You can actually fight back https://t.co/J5ADoh2hre

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

“At the heart of Europe” means something to pro-Europeans, because it’s *our* phrase.

Starmer had better not nick our rejoin line in order to keep us outside the EU…

…in doing so he’d be aggravating the very base he’s trying to appeal to.

https://t.co/Y3IFLA2jGo

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

This makes an absolute mockery of Starmer’s pledge, just a few hours ago, to put the country “at the heart of Europe”. And why on earth is the Brexit vote one that can never be revisited - even when a majority in the country recognise it was a mistake & want to return? Madness

[Ramita Navai @ramitanavai]

Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @BAFTA and the judges for a great evening and a great honour.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

A strong domestic, clean, safe, non polluting water industry is vital not only for our economy but the very existence of humanity itself, every bill player, customer, voter, every resident of my street, your street, the next street over.

That’s why we’re introducing a Bill... ah, no, sorry, wrong industry... 🤔

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The documentary @BBCNews dropped, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, won a BAFTA award.

Ramita Navai: “the BBC paid for and refused to show, but we refused to be silenced and censored.”

Silence and censorship is not journalism, the BBC is engaging in genocide denial.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Keir Starmer knows public ownership is popular - so he talked about British Steel

But what about
Sewage in rivers
Energy bills out of control
The NHS still privatised
Letters not delivered
Public transport not working
Profits leaking from care

On our side? END PRIVATISATION

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

There’s something rotten in the state of the BBC’s political reporting. And unless it’s fixed soon, they will bring the catastrophe of Trump to the UK.

[Hugh 🌹 @HughEdw31897368]

This should be one of the top stories. Not a peep on @BBCNews early evening bulletin. Even more sinister there’s no mention anywhere on the BBC News App #GetHarborneOut