Asylum seekers in Thetford have been under attack for 3 days. Lots of headlines in that but the Express chose outrage over 2 sets of bedding & some cookware. 😒

Really pleased that our podcast 'Carrie Jade Does Not Exist' has been included in the Acast Classics series. Unbelievable that people are still listening to/enjoying this three years on. www.acast.com/en-gb/blog/a...

Acast Classics 2026: four must-hear limited series podcasts from the UK and Ireland

Introducing Acast Classics: four exceptional limited series hand-picked for their journalism, craft, and storytelling. Free to listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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🔴 Do I know any Australian lawyers? Looking for info on immigration law (UK to Aus) in the early 2000s.

✨🎸 #comics #webcomic #art

The big talent-stealing machine won't steal any more. Damn shame...

Futurism@futurism.com · last wk.

"I have no idea how to get around this."

🔴NEW: I spoke to multi-denominational progressive Christian community members, protesting an upcoming fringe Christian nationalist event being held in August, and how they see their faith as being co-opted by far-right interests, for @bylinetimes.bsky.social: bylinetimes.com/2026/07/29/t...

Tommy Robinson's Temple: The Christian Conference Uniting Preachers from the Far-Right Fringe

Organisers of the "Make Great Britain Christian Again" conference include preachers linked to far-right rallies, prompting warnings that faith is being used to provide moral cover for nationalist poli...

bylinetimes.com

Just Zia Yusuf admitting/pretending that he knows nothing about secure units or the mental health act. Gotta keep those voters angry and misinformed! 😐

Really happy to be part of this great new initiative from @tbij.bsky.social connecting families with local court reporters. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Find a journalist to cover your family court case

Do you want a journalist to cover your case in the family courts? You can find one using this map

thebureauinvestigates.com

Great report from @mccoolingtons.bsky.social on the UK's Christian Right. www.thenerve.news/p/cpac-confe...

Liz Truss, dark money and the gen-Z Catholics: who’s behind CPAC in the UK?

The British debut of Maga’s favourite conference last week was widely seen as a joke. But a Nerve investigation reveals its young organisers are part of a web of culture-war connections – from the US ...

thenerve.news

Spent most of this month investigating dark web hellscapes, so today was all about Pride & sunshine.

Really pleased to be short-listed for the David McClure Fellowship with Oxford Brookes. Won't know the outcome til September but I'm crossing everything! open.substack.com/pub/oxfordpu...

Shorlist revealed

Public Interest Journalism Fellowship 2026

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There's also a level of classism to the question. "Why didn't they just leave?" As though it's easy to just walk out on your home/belongings & start over. Like victims all have an escape fund & a cozy little pied a terre they can sojourn to.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last mo.

There are still tons of people who ask why victims stay in abusive relationships and use that line of thinking to attack and undermine the credibility of victims. The actual mechanism of coercive control is still so misunderstood by the public—a victim staying actually makes perfect sense.

Last yr an NHS doctor was struck off for harassment of other professionals, but his online abuse continued & police failed to act leaving victims in despair. My latest for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

I was a policewoman who caught stalkers - then a gang of them came for me

Janet Wendleken was looking forward to retiring until she became the latest victim in a targeted network of cyberstalkers

inews.co.uk

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Absolutely delighted to have won an Orwell prize for reporting homelessness and come runner-up for exposing Britain’s social evils! London Centric is a tiny team, so seeing our stories get recognition is wonderful and wild. Thanks as always to my truly wonderful editor @jim.londoncentric.media

Big thanks to @nasuwt-official.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Exeter women's conference today. Lots of good discussion about Incels, the manosphere and protecting/challenging our boys.

Great night for @londoncentric.media at the @orwellprize.bsky.social . Runner up for Exposing Britain's Social Evils and @jim.londoncentric.media & @pollysmythe.bsky.social won the prize for Reporting Homelessness 😁

The man funding the network is also one of Christian Concern's few named donors. national.thelead.uk/p/christian-...

Christian Concern: Inside the rise of a powerful evangelical lobby

Court cases, think-tank connections and opaque funding streams reveal how a Christian pressure group has become a central player in the UK’s culture-war politics.

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Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The ‘Right-Wing Arms Race’ to Deport Non-White Britons – Backed By the Tufton Street Brexit Lobby — @nafeez.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: A dark money lobbying network backed by a Reform UK donor is hosting figures pushing for the forced removal of millions of ethnic-minority…

NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year. However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year. In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.

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Please send me any and all stock images you've seen which are just nebulously newsy words clumsily rendered as a key on a computer keyboard. Feel like I've seen thousands of them over the years, and this is a beautifully stupid example of the genre.

A Restore Britain spokesperson went viral claiming a London school left a pupil in tears after her ham sandwich was confiscated due to the school's ban on park. She challenged doubters to phone the school. So @kdenkwrites.com did. This is what she found: www.londoncentric.media/i/193542671/...

Wtaf. This is effectively legalising neglect. I've worked with people who had profound cognitive impairments and they may not be able to say (e.g) "take me to the park", but you can see from their reactions/expressions once there how much they enjoy it. They know the diff btwn free & shut in.

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@stephaniejane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is horrifying. It classes disabled people as not fully human, because it is saying that they cannot ‘feel’ the same way as an able bodied person would in the same circumstances. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Over the weekend, Restore spokesperson Orla Minihane claimed that a London school banned pork products, but what really happened? My latest for @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...

Lime axes speed limits for Deliveroo riders

Plus: How to end the tube strikes • Did a London school really ban ham sandwiches? • Who's reclaiming lost sex toys from TfL? • Was a Waymo really lost on Waterloo Bridge?

londoncentric.media

Lots of serious political things to be concerned with, but also new tiny octopuses!

michaeledward@michaeledward.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scientists have discovered a tiny blue octopus lurking beneath the waters near the Galápagos Islands. About the size of a golf ball, the newly identified deep-sea species was found nearly 1,800 meters below the surface during an expedition in the Pacific Ocean.

What would make Bellingcat an organisation you’d like to support? We want to hear from you. Help us build the Bellingcat of tomorrow by filling out this quick survey: bellingcat.questionpro.eu/t/AB3vDHmZB3...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Revealed: Palantir’s NHS tech is ten times slower than current system

NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show

open.substack.com

🔴NEW: Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson

The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures

bylinetimes.com

New: Essex 'flag man' and Epping hotel protest organiser pleads guilty to assaulting a woman. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

'Flag Man' Behind Nazi-Linked Anti-Migrant Protests Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Woman

Craig Kitts, who says he is fighting to 'protect our women and children' from migrants, admitted to assault by beating

bylinetimes.com

As a former social care worker, I challenge any MP to work in elderly care, SEMH facilities or similar for a week. Then tell us how "unskilled" it is and whether they feel minimum wage is appropriate.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CARE WORK IS HIGHLY SKILLED WORK and only paid so poorly because of the failure of successive governments to value it properly

Tenconi and Ross are doubly linked to Reform, as seen last year when they attended a conference with the Erdington Reform candidate and the Romanian far right AUR party. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/r...

Reform UK Candidate Runs Firm Hired by Sanctioned Pro-Putin Bosnian Serb Leadership

Kenneth Morris, who is standing for the party in Erdington, Birmingham, co-ordinates the UK arm of a transnational far-right political network

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Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

7/8 The church meeting, organised by Stand Up to Racism, was disrupted by activists linked to Rushmoor People First, UKIP and Turning Point UK. Jack Ross (left), not pictured with Farage but convicted over his role in the raid, describes himself as CEO of Turning Point UK. Photo: 'X'