Peter Davies
@MastermanDavies
BSc MCIArb Chartered Arbitrator & Party Wall Surveyor, Building Surveyor, Land Economist at Masterman Davies, London
Gaza exposes BBC as propaganda not public service. It does not distinguish fact based/expert/investigated knowledge & interest-serving "opinion". Giving them equal time is not impartiality. Its incessant updating & selectivity capture narratives & hide what is actually going on.
Renowned Journalist Peter Oborne tears into the BBC: ‘170 Journalists murdered by 🇮🇱 in Gaza 🇵🇸, the BBC reported only 6%’ ‘The BBC reported 60% of journalist murdered in Ukraine 🇺🇦’ ‘Do the BBC agree with Lammy that journalists aren’t in Gaza 🇵🇸?’ It’s complicit. It’s racism.
How do you tell who is telling the truth? The ones trying to silence other people are probably the liars.
Earlier this year, I thought I'd join Facebook to broaden my reach. Ten minutes after joining Facebook, I was banned after sharing my first post. This is the post in full👇🏻 gov.uk/government/pub… Keir Starmer talks about stopping the blockers, of course he really means the…
In politics the solution to everything is PR/spin: Deny, Delay, Distract, Deflect, Dis-inform +Divide, Denigrate +De-platform Detractors. POWER IS THE ABILITY TO HIDE TRUTH. It's never given up willingly. POWER co-opts everything, & corrupts. TRUST COMES FROM ACTUAL EXPERIENCE.
Let's face it, it all comes down to trust. Which one do you trust? #LabourIsDead
TRUTH & data call POWER to account. Public discourse/media are mainly trivial & controlled by vested interests. Fact based & expert/investigated knowledge, & interest-serving "opinion" are not distinguished. Truth +data tests policy & actions for WHOSE INTERESTS are served.
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
BBC is exposed as propaganda not a public service. It does not distinguish fact based/expert/investigated knowledge & interest-serving "opinion". Giving them equal time is not impartiality. Its incessant updating & selectivity capture narratives & hide what is actually going on.
The level of outrage and shock from certain media outlets at what they’re now seeing and reporting - but couldn’t before - is outrageous and shocking when you follow the course of their reporting over 21 months. What flicked their switches ? 60,000 killed + 1 ? Is 60,000 the…
Water Cos. have traded while insolvent +reneged on core purposes: massive theft +fraud. Value negative. Nationalise at £1. Directors, shareholders +lenders must be wiped out as repairing £bns environmental damage +compensation to impacted public/business are liquidation priority.
"The Cunliffe Report is a joke. It protects water profiteers, screws over billpayers, and will do little to reduce pollution in our rivers and coastlines. The only solution is for water to be taken into public ownership" My new column for @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/the-cu…
28/7/25 Negotiator: Petition seeking years for buyers to pay stamp duty by agents, portals +TV's Phil Spencer. Industry +populist appeal as SDLT is a scapegoat. But reducing or delaying it raises prices! +delay is a cost +risk to buyers & the public purse. thenegotiator.co.uk/news/regulatio…
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). kwize.com/quote/8771
The government's ban on Palestine Action violates international law, says the UN human rights chief. We ended up with a Labour government led by a human rights lawyer - who breaks international law in order to crush opponents of genocide. Wild. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). kwize.com/quote/8771
.@volker_turk: "UK 🇬🇧 Government’s decision to proscribe the #Palestine Action protest group under terrorism legislation raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism laws are being applied to conduct that is not terrorist in nature." Full statement: ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
14/9/21 Law Society Gazette: “Campaign aims to outlaw “toxic” NDAs...” Corporations preserve fiefdoms & suppress challengers. Whistle-blowers need to be frightened off. The imbalance of power with individuals is about money, & NDAs are an obvious refuge. lawgazette.co.uk/news/campaign-…
Honoured to meet Zelda Perkins, whose powerful campaigning with @cbmsilence has been vital in highlighting misuse of NDAs to silence workers. We're banning NDAs that prevent people from speaking out about harassment and discrimination. #CantBuyMySilence
The tragedy of Palestine goes back to the reign of Queen Victoria when Britain ruled the world, & Jewish people were already being driven out of the Russian Empire & Eastern Europe…. “How British colonialism has caused a century of war in Palestine.” youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLT…
This map was issued by National Geographic in 1947, one year before the Nakba, there was no such thing called “Israel”.
The beauty of the Nolan Principles is that, time & time again, they encapsulate exactly how organisations & senior individuals are NOT conducting themselves. Shakespeare's Hamlet: Act 1, scene 4: "a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance." gov.uk/government/pub…
"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, everyone will have always been against this." - Omar El Akkad
How do you tell who is telling the truth? The ones trying to silence other people are probably the liars. Freedom of speech does not exist unless ordinary folk feel safe to say good things about bad people & bad things about good people.
Once again independent media doing the journalism mainstream media appears incapable of. Some impressive sourcing here to expose the government's dishonesty. declassifieduk.org/revealed-how-p…
13/2/23 Have I got News 4U/Private Eye Why comedy exposed PO/Fujitsu Horizon corruption before UK MS media! In captured/authoritarian regimes, it is only in satire that people can say what is actually going on! The real joke is "British Media & Justice" facebook.com/HaveIGotNewsFo…
Good for Ian Hislop. Where are all of the other editors?
In public policy, when something is obviously wrong & not getting fixed, there can only be 2 possible reasons 1. Government & regulatory agencies, media etc are incompetent &/or 2. the situation is deliberate &/or designed &/or captured to serve the interests of those with power.
Goldman Sachs boss wants more deregulation, tax perks for the rich Post-2008 crash bank reforms being reversed. Govts bail out banks; guarantee their profits (PFI); rarely prosecute bankers for abuses; gave them £895bn QE But they want more. news.sky.com/story/goldman-…
In public policy, when something is obviously wrong & not getting fixed, there can only be 2 possible reasons 1. Government & regulatory agencies, media etc are incompetent &/or 2. the situation is deliberate &/or designed &/or captured to serve the interests of those with power.
Damning statement from civil society organisations, trade unions, and grassroots groups: No confidence in the Cunliffe Review. Our water system needs to be publicly owned. Tweaks to a system that treats water as a profit machine won't cut it. compassonline.org.uk/statement-of-n…
Wise consumers will presumably now stop buying any food grown in the UK because it is all potentially contaminated in very serious ways, which are hard to know or measure. And now there must be a certification scheme for food guaranteed not to be so contaminated to save farmers!
Sewage sludge can contain dioxins, furans & PAHs, & must be regulated under the Environmental Permitting Regime, in the same way as other waste products containing chemical nasties, not treated as a fertiliser, says Commission. fightingdirty.org/press-release-…
30/5/25 MMT France: Britain: the self-financing state. UK govt funding is through Consolidated Fund but ££ doesn't have to be raised anywhere. UK effectively prints ££ for anything it wants to do. Taxes redistribute, penalise/nudge +deliver wider policy. mmt-france.org/2025/05/31/the…
For over 100 years fools have been predicting financial ruin. It will never happen. The UK is a monetary sovereign that issues its own fiat currency. It can never run out or go bust. It doesn’t use taxes to fund itself, it doesn’t “borrow” that which it alone creates.
Starmer's Labour Party Ayn Rand 1905-82 Capitalism: the unknown ideal: “men cannot be enslaved politically until they have been disarmed ideologically. When they are so disarmed, it is the victims who take the lead in the process of their own destruction.” edarcipelago.com/classici/ayn%2…
#OTD 1994. Tony Blair elected Labour Leader. He calls for a project of national renewal: “Where there is no corner of Britain, not in its length and breadth, where we shield our eyes in shame and look away because we dare not contemplate what we see”
Water Cos. have traded while insolvent +reneged on core purposes: massive theft +fraud. Value negative. Nationalise at £1. Directors, shareholders +lenders must be wiped out as repairing £bns environmental damage +compensation to impacted public/business are liquidation priority.
Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure. It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership. That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector. Put water back into public hands, now.