A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

Ah, looking forward to the UK media's earnest zeal in pursuing a public interest story regarding a Cambridge academic guilty of unethical behaviour.

Worth noting too how Reform's James Orr—disgraced by Verbatim's Channel 4 exposé—leapt to Nina Power's defence (alongside Kathleen Stock) following the damning judgment and her unmasking as antisemitic conspiracy theorist and anonymous contributor to a notorious neo-Nazi account.

Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Luke Turner@luketurner.com · 5mo ago

I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.

Very annoying that I can’t enjoy 5 minutes of schadenfreude about Farage without being reminded of current and impending total climate collapse. Actually

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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ICYMI this is what the BBC were up to while Channel 4 were investigating Reform for allegedly breaking the law on party donations

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 21h ago

A journalism is when you wade into the water to yell at desperate people why they don’t cross the Channel legally

Wow. Watch Channel 4 News now Nigel Farage discussing elicit funding for reform U.K. from a foreign donor All on secret camera

I say this because if somebody offers your media outlet an interesting poll exclusively, I can see how checking *who* paid for it can slip through the net because you’d expect the polling company to behave responsibly JL Partners really are going to struggle to explain themselves after this

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 16h ago

So The Telegraph and The Times put polls in their papers paid for secretly by foreign Reform donors so Reform could say they didn’t pay for it - and readers were not told who paid for the polling, but they were on the FRONT pages Yikes and yikes As an industry we need to treat polls with more care

Making a thread of disabled artists because a lot of AI "artists" use disabilities as a defense for using the theft machine and are really quick to call you ableist for calling out that bullshit You dont need to be of able body and or mind to create.

The BBC on civilisation-ending climate change: LOVELY WHETHER EXPECTED THIS WEEK The BBC on people exercising their human right to seek asylum in the UK:

Little Girl's Flu Shot Scream

ALT: Little Girl's Flu Shot Scream

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I’ve long felt that football writers have a lot more freedom to do what they want than culture writers do - the Guardian crew generally being the pick of the bunch - this is superb

There Must And Shall Be Aspirin@boscobel1975.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am going to argue that - whatever your interest in football - you will agree that @barneyronay.bsky.social opening paragraph on the transfer window is high art.

When a PM walks into Downing Street it’s like they’re handed a Valyrian blade & told of the white walkers, the night king & the coming fight of ice and fire. Except it’s a load of corporate lobbyists in expensive suits who quietly explain they’ll fucking bring them down if they touch the status quo

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

doth your raven even quoth, bro

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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The headline doesn’t do justice to this piece. It is extremely good, thoughtful and philosophical. I hate the pervert glasses so much, and this expresses exactly why. (Yes, with a carve out for people who actually need assistive tech, as the piece also says.)

Jonathan Liew@jonathanliew.bsky.social · 3d ago

wrote about the nonce goggles www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

This could be useful...

Hear me out… Keir Starmer for president of FIFA

I love “insults”. The openness is beautiful: a blank canvas to fill. What word does your head immediately scream?

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 3d ago

Ahead of Reform UK's party conference, we asked Britons to describe Nigel Farage in three words 71% used at least one negative term, with the most common being "racist" and "liar" 27% used at least one positive term, with the most common being "patriotic" and "honest" yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

If you contact your Italian ancestors using a board game, that's a Luigi Board

The Spectator - for racists and rapists - they can have that for their next advert if they want

Robin Ince@robinince.bsky.social · 4d ago

Important to remember - Michael Gove is happy to hire a rich man just released from prison for attempted rape , and believes close Epstein friend Andrew Windsor should be left alone , but that black academics should be hounded

Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism.

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

Everyone knows this guy is a prick, but imagine being English (and a Brexiteer) and buying a literal castle in Ireland and then telling local Irish people they can't visit their family graves. Imagines telling *any* Irish person they can't visit the family graves! My mother would feckin kill him

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 4d ago

James Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the British vacuum brand, is in a stand-off with locals in Co Waterford over access to a graveyard and historic rights-of-way on the grounds of his estate. Dyson owns the historic 850-acre Ballynatray estate, which he purchased for around €30 million.

Any suggestions on where I could find out more about the reaction in the Danelaw to Scandinavian attacks on Kent in 1009/1010? Interested in how a) well-informed and b) concerned people there were likely to have been, given they weren't immediately at risk. #Skystorians

Let’s make this cunt famous. Apologies to the passenger here, who should ideally have the dignity of being blurred out - I dunno how to do that I’m sorry.

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 6d ago

ABSOLUTE BARBARITY. An Arkansas trooper smashed a car window, yanked passenger Tedrick Washington OUT BY HIS DREADS, and beat him. Being a backseat passenger isn't a crime deserving state-sanctioned torture. Cops lie in reports, but bodycam proves the abuse. DEMAND BADGES NOW! 🎥 Cap House Media

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