The more pain you can eat on behalf of your customers, the bigger your moat

As chaos and violence erupts for a second night in France and Italy the pro-Pal students in London are inspired. They’re trying to kick it off here too. Vile opportunists.

She voted for it. She welcomed them. Faced with the encore, she begs them to stop. In her heart she knows they will not. Everything she believed. That they were French like her, fighting for the same cause. That the ones who warned her were full of hate. That she would be safe. It all falls apart in this moment. She is terrified of what comes next. In her heart she knows. Only remigration can save her.

Since Verify was launched in May 2023, more articles have been written about Israel and the Middle East than any other topic. Almost a quarter of all Verify articles. More than the US, more than Russia-Ukraine and, most remarkably, even more than UK politics. This is disproportionate coverage to an obsessive level. We wonder why some people have become so obsessed with us but we don’t need to look far to see that the national broadcaster is fanning the flames of this obsession.

Only the BBC could devise a funding model where the solution to people not watching your programmes is to charge them for watching somebody else's. Under this logic, every time I order a Domino's, I should send Pizza Hut £2.50 to support the future of British pizza.