“We’ve done a racism by mistake”

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I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...

The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it

Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.

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As a former hotelier, we get charged 15-20% by the booking engines. We always gave better prices to people that booked direct for exactly that reason. Exp*dia are actually worse to deal with than B.C if you can believe that. Between them, they own all the major booking platforms aside from airBnB

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.

Anyway, my masters is done and so I'm looking for more project work and potentially the right permanent job if it comes along. If you've liked the cut of my jib and think I'm right for something, or know someone who might - you can check my website. www.jmoxley.co.uk

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Ed: Rees-Mogg is still a cunt.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

These are all valid points. It's not racist or fascist to say we should control the border. These people are fleeing terrible danger and we owe it to them to make their escape route as safe as possible.

@stefaniabarutta.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because if they are unescorted they will just disappear, they won’t be claiming asylum and they will be exploited entering the black economy. They wld become victims of modern slavery. Also it wd give credit to RW talking points that we hv no control of our borders.

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 6d ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

My daughter says Absolute - a - rooney

The Right Runcible Howard Batey@howardbatey.bsky.social · 6d ago

First out-a-rooney! #GBBO #BakeOff #GreatBritishBakeOff

A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. https://bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-most-popular-eu-policy-in-all-uk-seats-bar-four-megapoll-finds/

i say again, if everyone wishes to keep reskeeting a news headline account, perhaps just make a news headline account that isn’t run by a paid reform party worker

It's Poets day on Bluesky.

Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell@gazzalw63.bsky.social · 2w ago

That’s yer actual Beowulf by the way Pet.

Primary-school students in sub-Saharan Africa who receive nutritious meals at school stay enrolled for longer and earn more money throughout their lives than those who don’t go.nature.com/4xZtxxs

Schoolhouse meals serve up an income bump

Modelling shows a link between feeding programmes and higher potential earning in five African nations.

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It's a bumper day for Democrats' senate polling

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

I’m having severe trouble finding this story on the BBC homepage. How about you

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reform UK tried to ‘cover up’ assault incident that led to its Welsh leader’s resignation nation.cymru/news/reform-...

Nothing like enough attention has been paid to the massive, massive tax rebate young, working families have been given through free nursery provision. It amounts to hundreds of pounds a month to people who spend nearly all they get. Probably why we're still growing in spite of everything.

LibreOffice 26.8 and the languages for which nobody is paid: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...

Anybody wondering why the police didn't react to masked fascists taking over Dover need wonder no longer.

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2w ago

Politics UK: ‘Former Met Police commander Pete Newman is Reform UK's candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election’ 1/

So they're doing "Operation Vanguard" Not sure hiring their own security sits well after the violence we saw at their conference and how their security teams dealt with it.

This is an interesting (and I thought, uplifting) thread on AI destroying civilisation and killing us all.

Ryan Shirlow@ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 2w ago

It is quite telling how a certain tech bro jumps from “breaking the internet” to “destroying civilisation” and then “killing all humans.” Sadly I think there would be a terrible period of disruption & lawlessness if the internet was taken over by AI, but I like to think most people would survive.

The state of this headline! The story is nothing to do with migrants or the Pakistan U19 cricket team. It's a story about racists who saw brown faces and formed a vigilante mob. The headline should reflect the racism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

When you find yourself in a hole, stop boring boring boring …

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

For those of you into boycotting fascist led enterprises... Although I imagine it's gone to private equity by now in which case take your money elsewhere anyway, to a sushi maker who gives a shit.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yo! Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe tells LBC he'd vote for Reform, and argues that Christian Nationalist Danny Kruger should take over the party.

The moral of this story seems to be don't call the police to warn that you've seen far right thugs gathering in their hundreds, on Poets day. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Far-right port protests: police told to improve intelligence gathering

Whitehall officials ask why laws meant to clamp down on mask wearing at demonstrations were not used

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