The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

"Anyone on the left who prays for [the BBC's] downfall has a death wish."

https://www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-davie-crisis-robbie-gibb-deborah-turness-panorama-trump

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The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it

The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey

The Nerve

why are Britain’s elites more tolerant of overt racism in 2025 than they were in 1968?

https://linktr.ee/originstorypodcast
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https://www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-story

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#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood #EnochPowell
#IanDunt #DorianLynskey

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Really informative listen, painfully acute, and not at all dry:

#OriginStory
#RiversOfBlood – How #EnochPowell poisoned Britain

How did one speech poison British politics? What led Powell to deliver it? What can it teach us about the timeless tricks of anti-immigrant oratory? Did he merely activate the British public’s latent racism or actively feed it? What lessons have politicians failed to learn about how to deal with anti-immigrant sentiment? And

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#IanDunt #DorianLynskey

"Verglichen mit einem #Atomkrieg, beraubt die #Klimakrise die Erzählenden ihres üblichen Werkzeugkastens." Selbst wenn das Schlimmste schließlich eintritt, reagieren die meisten von uns mit geistigen Verrenkungen … #DorianLynskey zitiert eine Figur in #MargaretAtwoods 'Das Jahr der Flut': "Niemand gab zu, es zu wissen. Wenn die Leute anfingen, darüber zu diskutieren, schaltete man sie aus, weil das, was sie sagten, sowohl so offensichtlich als auch so undenkbar war."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/11/families-like-ours-tv-danish-drama-climate-crisis-authoritarians
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Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours

The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look away, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian

Transatlantic trolling: What is Europe's answer to Musk's attacks? • FRANCE 24 English (44min)
A well-informed and insightful panel discussion incl. #MarietjeSchaake and #DorianLynskey

#France24 #elonmusk #musk #farright #EuropeanUnion #DSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG_-SvlQqiE

Transatlantic trolling: What is Europe's answer to Musk's attacks? • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube
@Blogfeedser I don't know if you've ever listened to #OriginStory, but having just heard their latest episode I thought I should share it with you.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3D6dFQwWiK7isfuXiSKlMi?si=yv1TxQuTR5-w6zfxQvLYnw
#podcast #IanDunt #DorianLynskey
Bonus edition: Far-Right Riots

Episode · Origin Story · Racist violence has inflamed several British cities this past week. Should we call the events protests, riots or pogroms? Are the participants actual fascists or ordinary citizens with “legitimate concerns”? And how did the fiction of “two-tier policing” go from extremists to broadcasters in a couple of days? Ian and Dorian analyse how the language of the far right and its mainstream enablers obscures what is really going on and ask if Britain’s worst street violence since 2011 will change anything.   https://www.patreon.com/originstorypod   Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Produced by Jade Bailey. Origin Story is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spotify
I admit that I tend to move from obsession to obsession & dive down a lot of rabbit holes. Having read #DorianLynskey’s brilliant book,#TheMinistryOfTruth, a biography of Orwell’s “1984” I apparently ordered this from the internet whilst drunk. It arrived today & may be the best hammered internet purchase I have made to-date (a very low bar, admittedly).

I preordered the audiobook edition of Everything Must Go. The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, by Dorian Lynskey. Read by the author.

Its published on Thursday in Hardback, eBook and Audiobook.

https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Everything-Must-Go-Audiobook/B0CN1ZXCPR

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Must-Go-Stories-About/dp/152909593X

#Books #Audiobook #Bookstodon #DorianLynskey

Everything Must Go

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Read by the author, Dorian Lysnkey. 'I was blown away by this book. The staggering range of references, the razor-sharp analysis, the wisdom, left me gasping out loud at times. Lynskey also somehow manages to make a book about the end of the world feel ...

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