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Esther Bintliff

@estherbintliff.bsky.social

UK editor, The New York Times. Born in Bradford, raised in Durham, now in London.

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Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 4w ago

A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party

Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...

bylinetimes.com

Esther Bintliff@estherbintliff.bsky.social · last mo.

"Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum." Always loved this Harper Lee description of Maycomb, Alabama; never thought I'd live it while working from home (minus the talcum and, sadly, the naps)

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Ukrainian man who set fire to two homes and a car linked to Keir Starmer, and a friend who assisted him, have both been jailed today The fires were commissioned by a Russian Telegram account, but a bizarre conspiracy theory that the culprits were "rent boys" persists inews.co.uk/news/starmer...

Starmer was targeted by sex worker conspiracy straight from Putin's playbook

It was a conspiracy shared by a handful of social media accounts and ultimately ended up in Russian state media

inews.co.uk

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The phrase "two-tier" policing first entered Britain's political mainstream in August 2024, when people supporting the Southport rioters were complaining of their treatment But it is not a mainstream term - it originated with far right and conspiracist groups trying to push their own narratives

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This story has now been updated with what we've heard today In one of the last messages from his Russian-speaking handler, the main arsonist was told: "If the police detain you, secretly write the word ‘geranium’ and I’ll send a lawyer to you, I’ll give you money for a week and a new phone."

Lizzie Dearden@lizziedearden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The trial of 3 men accused of being behind arson attacks on two homes and a car linked to Keir Starmer has begun The person who set the fires was "recruited, instructed and promised payment" by a Russian-speaking Telegram user under the name "El Money" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

Esther Bintliff@estherbintliff.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is worth a read and highlights big questions about the structure of newsrooms and coverage. "Meanwhile the reporter working away on a benefit fraud or an eyewitness despatch about teachers in Birmingham being pressured not to talk about evolution can only deliver slowly, at greater expense..."

Mark Urban@markurban.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Did our feral political press pack call time on Starmer prematurely? Accusations are flying . markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lo...

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

rollingstone.com