Guido Fawkes

> client-journalism it engages in with regard to the Conservative party.

BBC Caught Altering Budget Article to Be More Favourable to Labour - https://order-order.com/2024/11/01/bbc-caught-altering-budget-article-to-be-more-favourable-to-labour/

When Ivor Caplin, the former Labour MP that, among other things, attacked Musk for talking about Pakistani rape gangs, was arrested for pedophilia [1], this is the article they published - no photo, no name, no party affiliation, and no followup article - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg45y4r0yngo

BBC omits identity of Nigerian murderer from article about how he killed his wife [2,3], making it entirely about "gendered violence" instead. Readers can't make the incorrect inference if you simply withhold information from them.

BBC omits all criticism of Starmer from their reporting on his meeting with Trump [4].

The famous Trump capitol speech splicing: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/03/bbc-report-reveals-bias-donald-trump/

When Farage's private bank account was closed due to his politics, the BBC first simply took the bank's word that this was entirely due to financial considerations. When Farage obtained internal documents of that bank, explicitly saying he met financial criteria for an account, but it was closed despite this due to his politics, the BBC issued a correction article trying to imply his politics were merely "also" considered [5].

BBC uses all-white stock photos to warn about obnoxiously loud phone…

No, sigh, it's the other way around. The people who believe the law was broken were lied to, by a corrupt set of regulators. Very apt, given the topic here.

The Electoral Commission spent a long time trying to build cases against Leave campaigners. It did so because although theoretically neutral, like a lot of British government institutions it's run by people who are openly biased and happy to make strongly political statements on the record. The EC is literally run by people who made public statements saying Brexit and the Tories are bad, and that they wanted Remain to win. They also never bothered speaking to the people they were fining as part of their investigation. Not a good start.

https://order-order.com/2018/07/17/electoral-commission-email-reveals-they-refused-to-speak-to-vote-leave-officials/

So they worked over-time to try and prosecute people who campaigned for Leave, but they themselves (fortunately!) do not have law enforcement powers. This is indeed fortunate because every single case they referred to the CPS and Police was dismissed on the grounds that no crime had actually been committed. The High Court has repeatedly criticised the EC for appearing not to know what electoral laws actually say. Or in other words, the people you are claiming "officially found" one side to have violated the law, had their investigations/decisions labelled by the High Court as "unconstructive", "arbitrary" and lacking "any rational basis" (quoting the judgement itself…

Do you actually work in the City or in the financial industry?

There are many cities in the EU. If London has no advantages other than being in the EU then why is so much financial work done there?

By the way, unlike what many in this thread seem to think, being in the EU is of limited value for business protection. France and Germany via their proxies have been trying to pull financial work out of London for years - the EU Commission already tried to illegally ban Eurozone countries from using the UK for certain types of trading and clearing, and the British government had to sue the EU in its own courts to get the ban lifted (said ban entirely violated all the treaties which explicitly forbid that, and the Commission knew it, which goes to show what kind of government we're talking about here).

Despite these challenges the UK has done very well and not just in finance. In 2018, out of the big western European economies (the UK, France, Germany, Italy) which do you think had some of the best GDP growth?

https://order-order.com/2018/11/09/eu-experiencing-significant-growth-slowdown/

Yes, in the November quarterly GDP figures released by Eurostat, they showed the UK did the best. If you believed what you read in the press you'd think the UK economy was about to collapse, but it's not the case.

I think the spread of support is less clear. I vaguely recall some survey a few months back that posed a carefully-phrased question along the lines of "ISPs should do more to control what children see online (agree/ disagree)" and the support from Guardian readers was clearly in favour (can't rememeber the percentage).

There's a split in the Conservative party about infantilising adults - you just have to read ConservativeHome to see that. I would go as far to say that a majority of activists dislike what Cameron is being seen to do with the ISPs.

Contrast his current actions with his words several years ago: http://order-order.com/2007/11/24/cameron-we-are-libertarians/

I feel he's dangerous because he doesn't espouse an ideology. He doesn't offer a sense of where he wants to take the country - just wherever the newspaper headlines will take him. It might most kindly be described as a misguided sense of noblesse oblige.

I am not insisting you listen to it. I don't listen to it; I prefer to read news rather than listen or watch it.

I do expect anyone who lives in the UK to be aware it exists, including people 10 years older than me.

> An almost comedic interview on the Today Programme this morning had Home Secretary Priti Patel attempting to defend the Government’s new rules on ‘mingling’ ...

https://order-order.com/2020/09/15/mingling-banned-under-draconian-rule-of-six/

> Nigel tells the Today programme “it's been an appalling few weeks” for UKIP...

> Radio 4 sources are loudly and widely sharing concerns that Sarah Sands is planning big changes at the Today programme.

> For the first time Guido can remember, this morning's Today programme included "major websites" in its paper review

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aorder-order.com+%22today+programme%22

With respect to the politicians not turning up, it's worth noting that at least some of the candidates for PM are against the Online Safety Bill and want to scrap it. So for them, campaigning to become the next leader may actually be a more useful way to spend time than hearing what they already know.

It appears the OSB has become a victim of incoherent requirements specifications. It's grown enormously during its gestation period and is now trying to do way too much, including things that are self-contradictory. Some politicians recognize this, for example Kemi Badenoch:

https://order-order.com/2022/07/11/watch-badenoch-slams-online-safety-bill-promises-to-champion-free-speech/

but I recall others saying similar things. I just can't find the references right now.