@theguardian.com it is a pity you will leave the Scott/Heather Herbert charges for your rivals to cover, perhaps even when it concludes with an acquittal or guilty verdict (or is dropped before it reaches court), as though a certain type of objectionable men have a legitimate excuse.

@theguardian.com still no article about the crisis in the UK section of Amnesty, the withdrawal of the "anti-rights" document & the legal letters on claims of defamation from LGB/women's organisations you might once have identified with.

@heatherherbert.uk not much point in blocking those of us on the other side when you & Sophie Molly intermittently receive unflattering press attention demonstrating your true selves.

A flagship Conservative conference being organised by former Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to host Romanian ultranationalist George Simion, a man who leads a political party steeped in antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/06/liz-...

Liz Truss welcomes Romanian who praised Holocaust denier to her London conference | Searchlight

A flagship Conservative conference being organised by former Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to host Romanian ultranationalist George Simion, a man who lead ...

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If you have been using X over the last year, you are likely to have seen claims that rent boys were behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's former homes and car We charted how the *completely false* conspiracy theory spread from far right 'patriots' and conspiracists 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

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HOW BRITAIN LOST CONTROL by @anooshc.bsky.social, the story of how we outsourced the state and became HMO Island Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

How Britain lost control

Everything is broken. Nothing changes. Voters are mad as hell

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Whether it's deaths in custody, stop and search or police racism, black and brown people are *far* more likely to be victims than white people. The inversion of reality by the likes of Farage & Robinson, claiming that two-tier policing works AGAINST white people, is a deliberate strategy.

The 1965 Leyton By-election: when Denis Healey punched a fascist 🥊 https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/1965-leyton-byelection-denis-healey-punched-fascist

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The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Note Farage deliberately ignoring many calls to condemn the violence against police.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After Nigel Farage claims we're living under two tier policing Keir Starmer slams him at #PMQs "His response has been to call for rage, rage, that's his response to a father that lost his son" "Exploiting this tragedy to creating grievance and division is wrong" "It shows exactly who he is"

Read @amyborrett.ft.com and I's Restore "hit piece" — on how world's richest man Elon Musk is amplifying Rupert Lowe, the far-right nativist party's founder — for free here: as.ft.com/r/3ee6cd78-b...

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/...

Henry Nowak's father told the nation that "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We want his story to help make our streets safer for everyone". Here's how Nigel Farage responded

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The normalisation of right wing discourse in both major political parties, let alone in much of the media, has been one of the most striking, and disturbing, changes in my lifetime. Things weren’t great in the 1960s (Smethwick) but this is off the scale.

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

The Telegraph is choosing to exploit the murder in exactly the same way as Farage (who gets an oped), Yaxley-Lennon and Lowe.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

The worst possible way to honour the memory of Henry Nowak, victim of a horrible murder and a grave misjudgement by the police, is to do what Nigel Farage appears to want: turn it into an excuse for racial conflict.

You’ve released this podcast in the same week that a woman in France has been convicted - actually convicted - for saying out loud that ‘women should be wary of people with a penis’. The same country that brought you the Pelicot case. And you wonder why JKR speaks out. Extraordinary.

@nortontaylor.bsky.social A useful obit, but "Weekend World" was a London Weekend Television programme, rather than Thames. Gerry Healy's organisation was the *Socialist" Labour League (from 1973, the WRP) www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

David Gow obituary

Journalist, gifted linguist and European business editor of the Guardian who was dismayed by Brexit

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He rescued the Michael Jackson estate. Can he save the star’s legacy? on.ft.com/4oiwcO7

He rescued the Michael Jackson estate. Can he save the star’s legacy?

John Branca, one of the most powerful lawyers in music history, is being tested as new allegations come to light

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‘The pre-moderns were painfully aware of the potency – and the perils – of unguarded speech. “The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity,” warned the Apostle James.’ Ferdinand Mount on the contested history of free speech: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ferdinand Mount · The Tongue Is a Fire: The Trouble with Free Speech

It’s​ puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions...

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I've just been told about this, and I'm honoured to be on the list. Far be it from me to seek to influence your vote, and there are other good people here ... but I trust, as ever, in my readers' impeccable judgement 😉 www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote

Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award

Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?

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"That innocent people are disappearing into El Salvador's prisons is no secret—making the embrace of [President Nayib] Bukele a disturbing signal of just how far a strongman can go without losing political ground," Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:

El Salvador’s Exceptional Prison State

The president chose security over justice. For how long will his country accept the price?

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The UK is preparing to chop off one of its universities' last means of support. In the middle of a trade war, they're going to cripple one of their strongest export markets. While immigration plunges anyway. Britain - the stupid country. 🇬🇧 www.ft.com/content/f441...

UK Home Office’s reform of graduate visas runs into opposition

[FREE TO READ] Education department at odds with plan to curb number of overseas students allowed to stay in Britain

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Monetising misogyny. Once again, can I suggest that any male self-styled liberal comedian who wants to be an ally to trans people in sport, takes aim at homophobic,transphobic, racist male sport so that it is more welcoming for a diversity of males including trans girls/women.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver@lastweektonight.com · last yr.

This week’s main story is about trans athletes, where the conversation around them is coming from, the nuances around competition and safety, and where it looks like things might be going. Full segment at the link in our bio.

Adolescence. Will these dangerous teenage boys all end up in cells? The new Private Eye is out now

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her career, it is she who should feel shame, says Mandy Rhodes www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...

When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her career, it is she who should feel shame

The former first minister helped gouge a jagged wound in Scottish politics so raw it can hurt

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Drawing on fresh archival discoveries, Matthew Rivera tells the life story of the elusive and legendary jazz trumpeter Frankie Newton.

Frankie Newton: Lost and Found  | Matthew Rivera

In the mid-1940s, when Weegee took his haunting photograph of Frankie Newton, the trumpeter was already retreating from the jazz scene. He was working as

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