In the eyes of most Iranians, it is the supreme leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards ( #IRGC ) who make major political and foreign policy decisions.
On #TheGlobalJigsaw we looked into the structure and role of the IRGC:
#BBCLauraK just stated that there are terrible problems with the #Scottish#NHS. What's she on about - of course there are problems after 14 years of Tory mismanagement and corruption but we haven't even had strikes here unlike the rest of UK.
Kuenssberg confirms yet again that she's a mouthpiece for Sunak, trotting out exactly the same biased desperate anti-Scottish Government sound bites with which he defends himself at #PMQs.
This isn't journalism. It's gaslighting propaganda. Kuenssberg is another #BBC House Jock, just like Bruce.
Listening to the 1800 Seconds On Autism podcast from the #BBC, which is far less dry than a number of other podcasts on the subject I've tried. Can recommend for any #ActuallyAutistic people looking for an informal chat about their ND-ness.
Damning report on @BBCRadio4 this morning about the financial situation of UK universities. As Id been told by others involved in UK digital policy, the general attitude is to digitise almost any aspect of UK HE that can be automated, and employ #AI tools to achieve this. To me this is almost a death knell of UK HE standards. No one attends university to learn with a bot, least of all to pay high fees for the pleasure. #bbc#highered#academicchatter
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
The Heir "flies" helicopter after taking over the family business from his papa (whereas the Spare actually flew them in combat).
William sat in the front seat of the Army Air Corp Apache Longbow attack helicopter. As any fule kno the front seat is where the gunner sits; the actual pilot sits behind the gunner in the rear seat...
Either #BBCNews doesn't know, or doesn't care, or #BBC is worried about losing its Royal Charter?
B2 Release b2-20240423-163255-0fcf3c3-prerelease · (github.com)
BBC Micro emulator for Windows, OS X, and Linux...