Phil Tinline
@phil_tinline
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Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022) and GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("eye-popping" - Daily Telegraph) https://t.co/6wjhORJgUJ
Joined July 2011
I'm delighted to say I've been commissioned by @HoZ_Books (UK) & @ScribnerBooks (US) to write a book about America's political nightmares. So after 20 exhausting, exhilarating years of making docs at BBC Radio, I'm going freelance to write. And make more docs. And...let's see.
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@phil_tinline "Much as he plays on real anxieties,it is hard to imagine[#Trump's]politics working so well without so much similar lie-strewn rhetoric having been pumped out daily without challenge. So the fact that he is now threatening to sue the #BBC.."
prospectmagazine.co.uk
American media have cultivated conspiracy and resentment, setting the stage for the president’s fight with the BBC
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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @phil_tinline argues Trump’s legal threats against the BBC were a century in the making. Plus, Shabana Mahmood’s asylum crackdown and Palantir’s expansion. https://t.co/394vbrV9FH
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A closer look at the BBC’s foundation suggests that a battle with an American demagogue has been coming for a century, writes @phil_tinline. https://t.co/FB1yuX2ecW
prospectmagazine.co.uk
American media have cultivated conspiracy and resentment, setting the stage for the president’s fight with the BBC
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Defending the BBC while we still have it. @BBCFreeThinking @BBCRadio4 spirited episode where @ShahidhaBari talked to Luke Kemp, @ClarkeMicah, @NevilleMorley, @phil_tinline, @RhiFirth —on Endings Young Earthers will lament the BBC’s absence of impartiality https://t.co/e2AgUJ9cZQ
bbc.co.uk
Peter Hitchens, Rhiannon Firth, Neville Morley, Phil Tinline, Luke Kemp join Shahidha Bari
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How Labour can attack deportation plans, by @phil_tinline
newstatesman.com
I suggested an app called “Will the Tories/Reform deport you?”. Then someone actually made it
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Speaking to @arusbridger and @lionelbarber, @jimwaterson outlines his fears about the improper and uninspired use of AI in newsrooms. Watch the full interview: https://t.co/COdcdhRw7h
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You know how people keep mixing up hoaxes and reality? At 6pm on Thu 9 Oct, join me and @jamesrbuk at the Conduit to talk about the most spectacular hoax in modern America, why some people insist it's real 58 years later, & what it tells us about now: https://t.co/xkvu3QZdG5
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Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.  A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵
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Thread, in which @DrMatthewSweet goes to Reform's conference to appeal to them to call out conspiracy theorising, up to and including violent threats against the King, as a matter of patriotism.
At @reformparty_uk with @antisempolicy. @NatashaC an excellent moderator. The empty chair belongs to @TiceRichard, who sent his apologies. We've done this event at Lib Dems, Labour and Tories, but nobody has ever put their hand up to say they believe in conspiracy theories.
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Good to see a practical discussion of the challenges facing the country today from @Anoosh_C and @phil_tinline for the @NewStatesman with @iconeighbours work referenced. To rebuild trust and communities, we have to rebuild social infrastructure. https://t.co/TZUNhNNj8P
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This looks like essential listening. @kavpuri is very good at this.
My new @bbcradio4 podcast #TheSecondMap about the "forgotten war": Britain's war against Japan is NOW @BBCSounds. It's told by those who were there including the remarkable 104 yr old Capt Yavar Abbas. #VJDay80
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The Monocle Daily: What can Europe offer Zelensky ahead of the Putin-Trump talks? @phil_tinline and @carolewalkercw join to discuss. Plus: Netanyahu’s maniacal “vision”, how the US sees the UK and why AI might not be coming for your job just yet https://t.co/ZyW2sN2mDJ
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"Contemporaneous fears of civil war sit in a long tradition – in which, so far, the most consistent thread is that they have not come true." @phil_tinline: Visions of an English civil war
newstatesman.com
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown? @phil_tinline asks.
newstatesman.com
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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"Over the last century, people in British politics have worried about civil war, repeatedly, in ways not unlike today." @phil_tinline: Visions of an English civil war
newstatesman.com
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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Somehow, when people conclude that British politics is heading for catastrophe, they tend also to declare that no one has thought such things before, because we think "it can't happen here". But actually...
"Over the last century, people in British politics have worried about civil war, repeatedly, in ways not unlike today." @phil_tinline: Visions of an English civil war
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"Contemporaneous fears of civil war sit in a long tradition – in which, so far, the most consistent thread is that they have not come true." @phil_tinline: Visions of an English civil war
newstatesman.com
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown? @phil_tinline asks.
newstatesman.com
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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Really enjoyed this:
https://t.co/Woe8caJJ1k On the Trail of Delusion, Episode 18 with Phil Tinline Phil Tinline is the author of Ghosts of Iron Mountain, which is about a hoax in the 1960s that fooled Fletcher Prouty, and has huge implications today. @phil_tinline
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Wow, OpenAI has completely lobotomised ChatGPT. Previously I could get it to search for potential interviewees/sources for stories and surface their (public) emails on their public websites. Did it no problem. Now:
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