jwmurphy
Tooting
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphyso a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphyforgot to share the link sorry www.ft.com/content/f869...
- Reposted by jwmurphyIn tomorrow’s #StrongMessageHere I’ll be discussing all things Peter Mandbatton-Windsor with Emily @maitlis.bsky.social. 9.45am on #BBCRadio4, and full ep on all poddy platforms including #BBCSounds
- All on iPlayer. Some of the best TV ever made. Don’t be in a hurry…
- Reposted by jwmurphyThis is the type of letter you write and make public when you’ve discovered that the CIA is up to no good and can’t be trusted—and you have no confidence the people in charge care.
- Reposted by jwmurphyCrawling so far up Musk's backside that he'll likely meet the team from GB news coming the other way.
- FFS
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- I think Reform may have seriously underestimated the percentage of their voters sitting around, doing FA. #r4today
- Reposted by jwmurphy
- Reposted by jwmurphyHear me out: can we have Gordon back
- Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[This post could not be retrieved]
- Can’t wait to see them this year
- Reposted by jwmurphyNew pod up, on #BBCSounds and everywhere else. @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and I take a vigorous trot over Andy Burnham, Suella Braverman, and Donald Trump in Davos, as we try and answer Trump’s question: Are you a stupid person? #StrongMessageHere
- Can someone at #6music explain what a VPN is to Iggy Pop pls?
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- What’s on TV have completely done one over TV Choice!
- Reposted by jwmurphy8pm Monday. Essential viewing IMO. Russia is one of the most hostile places in the world to be a journalist, with threats of intimidation, expulsion+imprisonment. #BBCPanorama follows a year in the life of BBC Russia editor, @bbcstever.bsky.social as he tries to walk the tightrope…
- Reposted by jwmurphy100 gigawatts is FIFTY (50) Hoover Dams
- Reposted by jwmurphyI enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.
- Reposted by jwmurphyCan’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
- Reposted by jwmurphyand no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy1903: Don't build a fire station! It will arouse desire for a library.
- Never has our radio been retuned more quickly from 4 to 6 than when the announcer introduced Badenoch’s Desert island discs this morning…

- Reposted by jwmurphyI think about this post at least once a week
- Reposted by jwmurphyWhat I miss from the old place is the fun encounters you could have with celebs
- Reposted by jwmurphyThis is Callie. She is trained to accurately detect bowel cancer in order to provide rapid diagnoses through non-invasive testing. Some might call it lab work, but Callie is actually a sprocker spaniel. 14/10 incredible job, Callie (IG: medicaldetectiondogs)
- Reposted by jwmurphymy dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
- Reposted by jwmurphylol what
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphyThe director of McDonald's Netherlands is called... Zoe Hamburger www.mcdonalds.com/nl/nl-nl/con...
- Reposted by jwmurphyThis was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by jwmurphyMeanwhile, a large group of upwardly mobile young middle class professionals being hammered by the tax system should be a wide open goal for a viable centre right party but...

- Reposted by jwmurphyMeanwhile recent policy u-turns have protected the incomes/wealth of non-graduate pensioners and wealthy farmers, two of the least Labour voting groups in the electorate.
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Vodka up 17% in Russia
- With the FSB set to secure broad powers to cut communications, one Russian paper criticises the idea: “It's impossible to imagine the functioning of a modern economy without a functioning Internet.” Another paper on prices in 2026: “Vodka up 17%, cucumbers 21.3%.” #ReadingRussia
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphyLiz Truss's real legacy
- Reposted by jwmurphyLads. You've invented Rumbelows.
- Reposted by jwmurphy‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
- Reposted by jwmurphyCalling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by jwmurphyMatt Goodwin was my university tutor. I’ll have a few things to say about him over the coming weeks.
- Reposted by jwmurphyLooking at the responses under Starmer’s Holocaust Memorial Day tweet (advice, just don’t, don’t) and I have to say this is the most amazing AI generated graph
- Reposted by jwmurphy[Not loaded yet]
- This was proven just an hour later with Nick Robinson talking about something called “The Aphex Twin”
- Reposted by jwmurphySame in the UK, probably getting worse with the disappearance of ‘intellectual’ Tories & Reform’s glorification of pig ignorance. I never know how to articulate this without making the problem worse! (As demonstrated above.)