Sameer Padania

Great to hear this!

for those interested the report is here
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

These are really good and their full blueprint is worth reading
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BBC_Citizen-Participation-FAQs_2026_Feb.pdf | Sameer Padania | 15 comments The BBC's response to the Green Paper consultation (https://lnkd.in/eWVQP5eV) includes quite a few areas that overlap with things we have said in our Demos paper (see comments below), but encouragingl...

Thanks so much for sharing this, @chrischirp.bsky.social - really appreciate your kind words. And it turns out the BBC has quoted us in its official response:

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The @demos-uk.bsky.social Our BBC report is rooted in solid evidence & analysis, & inputs from experts & stakeholders, so it is hugely gratifying to see that the #BBC quoted us twice in its own official response (see my read-along on - sorry - LinkedIn👇)...

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The Constitution Unit. The future of BBC governance. 30 April 2026, 12:30pm–1:30pm. Prof Dame Diane Coyle (Bennett Professor of Pubic Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Vice Chair of the BBC Trust). Prof Georgina Born (Professor of Anthropology and Music at UCL). Sameer Padania (Fellow at Demos). Chair: Prof Alan Renwick (Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit).

On 30 April, join @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, Georgina Born and @sdp.bsky.social to discuss the future of BBC governance.

They will cover how it can respond to polarisation and distrust while ensuring independence, accountability and public involvement.

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Does anyone know what to do when there’s a swap #scam on #Vinted? My wife ordered something, but the package she received contained something else - the seller swears she sent the coat, Vinted want the label beneath the label (physically impossible to separate), & refusing to refund her.

a woman with her arms in the air says you are free netflix ALT: a woman with her arms in the air says you are free netflix

Correction: “cursed”

NOT *THAT* #COYS MODE YOU MADMEN

Activate #COYS mode…

COME ON YOU LILYWHITES!

@orwellprize.bsky.social 👇🏾

Smoke extractor?

And with the added pressure of the <ahem> fanopticon…

(VAR, offside sensors, goal line visualisations, cameras from every conceivable angle, Zapruder footage of blatant fouls/cheating, refcam, shoecam, ballcam, the weird one on strings and pulleys)

And paging @emilybell.bsky.social...

Phew!

We must always guard against that - but I think the environment has changed a little, & this Green Paper is infinitely more supportive to the BBC than the last one, which is an opportunity. I mean it even says - bringing a tear to my jaded eye - that it is about more than fixing market failure!

Maybe! Once you remove the Sword of Damocles from over the BBC's head - i.e. give it a permanent Charter, & get the big picture defences for its independence & accountability right - we believe it will make it a healthier environment in which to test out how best to build on that!

@chrischirp.bsky.social, we drew on your essential UCL Policy Lab report on Strengthening the Institutions (which should be widely read and heeded!) in this @demos-uk.bsky.social report on the BBC.

Inside Russia&#39;s Fastest-Growing Vigilante Network | 🇺🇦Sviat Hnizdovskyi A few months ago, more than a hundred masked nationalists marched through a Moscow suburb. Local channels reported it was a patrol organized by something called the Russian Community. A month earlier,...

“It couldn’t happen here” exhibit ♾️

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#nationalsecurity #democracy

I’m sure @victorpickard.bsky.social would be all over that! #informationinequality

👋🏾✊🏾 Hope all is going well in your new role!

They’re so desperate to cosplay as Crusaders that it can only be a matter of time before they rename it The Daily Chainmail.

🤦🏾‍♂️🫠

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Footholds in here for those thinking about:
- Digital Public Infrastructure
- Public interest AI
- National security
- Information warfare
- Epistemic security / fracture or cognitive resilience
- Creative industries
- Democracy

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Media Reform Coalition Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.

And our Public Lock appears in @mediareformuk.bsky.social’s open collection of policy proposals, the Alternative Green Paper:

www.mediareform.org.uk/bbc-alternat...

Reviewing the BBC's Charter - British Broadcasting Challenge The government's BBC Charter consultation closes 10 March 2026. Download our guides to help you respond.

The British Broadcasting Challenge has also got a useful guide for how to respond to the consultation (I agree with a lot of it):

britishbroadcastingchallenge.com

Our BBC: A blueprint for a more independent and future-proofed BBC Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

And the full report by me, @hannahperry.bsky.social & @pollycurtis.bsky.social is here - including a fuller explanation of why the BBC is our most crucial public interest technology organisation and anchor of our digital sovereignty:

demos.co.uk/research/our...

In short:
- remove 10-year limit on the BBC’s Charter
- streamline & modernise Reviews of the BBC
- recognise BBC as public interest tech organisation
- make Board appointments independent
- take funding decisions out of political control
- involve citizens in governance