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TottsYesterday, over 500,000 people marched in Central London in what was the biggest defiance of far right politics
You will hear all most next to nothing about this in the MSM
#alltogethermarch
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Solène de Montmarin@Geri Viva el UK !! ✊🏻
TC Won't Give In To LiesZero stories in the #BBCNews app today
But you can read the story of people whose skin "is falling off" (story # 4)
Can't argue with those news priorities.
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FFS, #MediaMustDoBetter
@TCatInReality Tommy Robinson is doing another Untie the Nation March soon I bet that will be heavily publicised
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? Yeah, I'm sure he'll pull another stunt and that the media will eat it up.
They'll bash some heads to make sure there are arrests to drive it up the algorithms.
@TCatInReality scheduled for Saturday, May 16th apparently ffs
HarriettMB@Geri @TCatInReality He’s coming back from the USA then: remember he had to leave the UK because he was under death threat he claimed…’evidenced’ by posting a recording supposedly of the cops advising him of the threat. Did they catch the perp, or was the threat and recording an acted thing for attention? His account continues to post hideous racism while he lives it up in the USA.
Which billionaire is Yaxley-Lennon grifting off while holidaying in America?
Oh, I see Yaxley-Lennon is on a work trip in America. Coordinating with his allies in the rightwing globalist movement
BBC News - Tommy Robinson welcomed at US State Department
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxdzn2evv5o
@TCatInReality @Geri It’s interesting he was able to go at such apparently short notice…. His ESTA thing should have flagged up his multiple convictions, and his double barrelled name should have also delayed processing. But he ‘fled’ to Europe and was in the USA in about a week. Normally, the ESTA means anyone with criminal convictions of the type he has would be excluded. Maybe we don’t live in ‘normal’ times any more, especially not those in the USA.
Yaxley-Lennon already had a standing ban in the USA for trying to enter on a fraudulent passport years earlier.
Someone powerful waived that to admit him to America on short notice.
Now, who would want that? 🤔
@TCatInReality @Geri It seems he’s being sponsored by a politician named Rittenhouse. I wonder if that one is any relation to the young Kyle Rittenhouse who crossed state lines with guns and murdered non-white people: who escaped justice, and who isn’t the leader/hero the Republicans tried to make him?
Don't know who. But a Congressman wouldn't have that kind of power.
Here's a nice summary of Yaxley-Lennon's crimes and legal problems.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tommy-robinson-timeline-legal-troubles-133503633.html
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@LaD_Hallo @TCatInReality look at the bias in this
The 4th paragraph is bold text and talks about 100,000 marchers
Yesterday's march is described as tens of 1,000s
@Geri @TCatInReality Ok, moving the goalposts, I get it. The BBC has high standards in reporting and is compared to many private news outfits, relatively independent. I think we can be happy here in Europe that we still have public broadcasters.
@LaD_Hallo @TCatInReality I am sorry to say. Once we would believe that the BBC has high standards of reporting but that has been proven to be not true for Example, a 2025 study by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), which analyzed over 35,000 pieces of content, concluded that the BBC's reporting was systematically biased in favor of Israel
Also. ...
I could share much
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades of occupation and violence against Palestinians. Harriet Williamson reports.
@Geri @TCatInReality And conservatives say it has a left wing bias. I have seen some excellent Gaza footage by the BBC, showing the consequences of Isreali bombings in horrible detail. Public broadcasters aren't perfect, but there is much more accountability and that is valuable. It is little bit like the parties in democracy, they are never really great, but the alternative is way, way worse.
@LaD_Hallo @TCatInReality no, you are missing the point. It was an objective serious piece of academic research
@Geri @TCatInReality By the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) - which is a group with close links to Islamism (results of a short internet search). That is no university and I am sure if we looked into the study design it would show some interesting tweaks. Don't get me wrong I believe that most western media have a pro Israel bias, but I still think of the BBC as a very trustworthy source overall.
What about this then
https://asserson.co.uk/assersonreport/
This comprehensive report, covering the period from October 7, 2023, to February 7, 2024, scrutinises BBC content in both English and Arabic, revealing a consistent pattern of bias that may undermine the BBC status as a trusted news source
BBC Report - Asserson
The Asserson Report – The Israel-Hamas war and the BBC This comprehensive report, covering the period from October 7, 2023, to February 7, 2024, scrutinises BBC content in both English and Arabic, revealing a consistent pattern of bias that may undermine its status as a trusted news source. To see the report: Would you like […]
Ah, now the Beeb has an anti Israel bias, I got it. You tell me the BBC is not credible but you present me with links from the most dubious outfits which you apparently find more trustworthy (without investing ten seconds into checking the source). I should probably find that a bit funny but I don't, because that is how populism is winning.
@LaD_Hallo @TCatInReality that is such a tenuous connection that the Telegraph has discovered it's quite risible.
Irrespective, returning back to that first article, tbe original post, see how they present one side in heavy emboldened text - for no apparent syntactic reason
@Geri @TCatInReality I am not sure what you are referring to, the bit which is underlined? Looks like the reason is an embedded link. There are a couple more later on in the article.
@LaD_Hallo @TCatInReality oh, it doesn't matter, Dipper. I think I'll just leave this here and suggest being mindful. Take care xx
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25391312.bbc-cuts-off-student-opening-a-level-results-genocide-comments/
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25391312.bbc-cuts-off-student-opening-a-level-results-genocide-comments/
mattock@TCatInReality @Geri of course it _is_on the BBC. Lots going on in the world, but type in London March.
@mattock @TCatInReality the argument that is being made here is that it is not amongst a news leader item, compared to "our skin is falling off"
Steve Woods@Geri I heard it mentioned on the radio news yesterday evening.
As per usual, lying Mr Plod claimed the attendance was 10% of that stated by the organisers.
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Stoneface Vimes@Geri as fully expected the met failed to spot around 450,000 people though. Hands up anyone who didn't expect that.
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CockneyLaurieReminds me of the decades of ignoring the biggest annual peaceful march in central London...
Before the modern protests caused by the Far Right rise LGBT folk organised Pride since 1967 and never covered on the news before the mid 2000s
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Toni Aittoniemi@Geri Awesome!
I’ve always found demonstrations to be not just displays of discontempt, but networking events. What happens after the demo often counts for more.
And of course, reality manufacturing from MSM being in the hands of the far-right is accelerating as a counter-strategy. The only thing they know is doubling down. And they are afraid!
World Basement Classic@Geri Third biggest story on The Guardian currently: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/28/london-far-right-march-biggest-ever-multicultural-protest
Harder to find on the BBC site but still covered: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rn03ryz8o
Covered by the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-protest-today-far-right-b2947672.html
@diffrentcolours and in the Daily Mirror xx
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Bogdan Buduroiu@Geri ... organisers claim
The Met claims 50,000, so the number is probably somewhere in the middle
@budududuroiu were you there?
I have attended numerous marches in London xx
@Geri why does that matter? I've been to Glasto and there's no way I could tell you how many people are in attendance at whatever stage I'm at at the time
@budududuroiu you get an understanding of size if you are present rather than just watching on a TV
BTW the Daily Mirror are leading with 500 K
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@budududuroiu @Geri It isn't in the "middle". The Met made up a low figure out of nowhere to mislead the public and downplay the size of the growing resistance movement. The police figure should be completely ignored, because halfway between the organisers' estimate and an imaginary number, is another imaginary number that is higher but still wrong. 🤷🏻♂️
purple's a fire marshal first aider@budududuroiu @Geri ‘somewhere’ — the middle of those two figures would be 275k, which would have the Met underestimating by more than five-fold, whilst still representing 55% of that claimed by the organisers.
Slightly unequal error margin that.
> Slightly unequal error margin that.
Why wouldn't it be unequal? You have one party stating they're using CCTV and aerial footage, and the other going off vibes from a stage, it would be weirder if these two methodologies _had_ an equal error margin. Unless you think Kevin Courtney had acess to CCTV to run a quick Jacobs' method on the crowd before his speech.
@budududuroiu @Geri your proposal here was that the organisers counted most people twice, whilst the Met only counted a little under one in five. That they missed four in every five.
That would make the Met the party with the worse accuracy, even with all that fancy CCTV.
@budududuroiu @Geri ah, so what you are saying is you only beleive the Met's number then 😉
Also, I presume you were being factious with ‘vibes from a stage’, but just in case: Kevin Courtney spoke several hours into the event, and the figure would have been based on the observations of the many stewards, quite possibly using a Jacobs-adjacent methodology, not simply ‘vibes’.
@purple I'm not, lmao. I'm saying the framing you're using in the comment above to expect error rates of both parties to be similar actually works in favour of saying that the true estimate is probably closer to the Met estimate.
Let's take the midpoint of 275k, this would require the Met to be off by 5.5x while the organisers are only off by 1.8x. Even accounting for partisanship of the Met, and difficulty of estimating crowd sizes, 5.5x error rate vs 1.8x from on the ground reporting without the aid of tech is a preposterous difference.
If both the Met and organisers we're off by 5.5x, the figure would be between 100,000 and 250,000, roughly.
If both the Met and organisers are off by 1.8x, a similar range is found.
Both of these ranges are closer to the Met estimate, that's what I'm saying, responding to your claim about error rates
Simon Hewison@Geri I did actually hear about it on BBC radio 2.
JohnThey media is also continuing the op that if people vote for Greens they're gonna get Reform, and that "right wing movements are surging everywhere" and that "anti-immigrant sentiment is universal", all of which are refuted by literally every material measure of politics in the West right now.
They just can't, for the life of them, talk about "leftism" being popular, because that would violate every tenet of their ideology.
@johnzajac exactly
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@Geri
Absolutely. I had to really search hard for coverage yesterday. And I don't think it was because I was USian. It looked like the UK MSM downplayed it, too. The Met tried hard to undecount the crowd and they directly antagonized PA so they could make arrests and justify their characterization of the organization.
I also think that on *both* sides of the Pond, we need a firm rally cry that is easy to remember and covers what it is we are trying to change. France had Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. We need something like that. I am not sure No Kings, No Tyrants, or Hands Off are quite right. And with the London march (fantastic!) "Together Alliance" could use a little workshopping, too.
People smarter than I am ought to be able to come up with something. I know the Far Right is Way Wrong, but I'm not sure how to express that where it's catchy enough. Branding seems like a small thing, but in this case, I think it could really help. How do we get the fight vs. Fascism and Greed boiled down to something simple?
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