“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Three national newspapers are carrying this story as their main headline. I don't know if the accusations about plagiarism are true or not but I do know this would never happen to a white, male professor & this sickens me because of the racist message it sends to talented young black academics.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 7h ago

An update from Professor Arday https://goodlawproject.org/an-update-from-jason-arday/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=glp_post_27503&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-08-2026

“It beggars belief that Kemi Badenoch was happy for a former neo-Nazi to stand in the first place. That she has gifted him a plum job further adds to that shame​,” Bridget Phillipson, the Equalities Minister said.

Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission

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Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine Self-styled "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights” who was jailed in 2015 for antisemitic online posts.... Selected as a Tory candidate.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

The 'I'd pick up a rifle man' seems to assume that his past words & deeds will just be ignored when he tries to attack other politicians to distract from his shady relationships with convicted fraudsters & crypto billionaires. But the public sees right through it which is why he is -32 in the polls

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d ago

Nigel Farage (2016), "It's legitimate to say.. If people feel that voting doesn't change anything" "Then violence is the next step"

Today, the House of Commons Defence Committee published its report on the Ministry of Defence Afghan data breach and resettlement schemes.

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.

Very disturbing news from York. I know this mosque well and worshippers must understandably fear for their safety now.

The Leverhulme Trust, as part of its major (£100 million) centenary investment in UK research, has announced 3 new partnerships designed to enhance opportunities for underrepresented groups at the early stages of research careers. @leverhulme.ac.uk Terrifically good news, and sorely needed. 1/3

You could not make this up - but the Home Office actually did

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them

Lydia Polgreen@polgreen.bsky.social · last wk.

Uh, did Emily Wilson's Odyssey takedown crash the @lrb.co.uk website?

Every US media outlet is putting out this statement from McConnell's office without questioning either the photograph or the claim that his rehab is going great despite childhood polio. If this is true then why doesn't he just pick up the phone to the Governor to reassure him he is fit for office?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: A statement from the Office of the Attending Physician says Mitch McConnell "is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office." A photo from McConnell's office:

One thing you can absolutely guarantee in life. When Labour ministers talk about difficult choices, it's never the rich and powerful that will be taking a hit.

“Private equity now owns the plumbing of English general practice. The GP records of more than half the country sit on a system controlled by a firm whose business model is returns for investors, not care for patients, and the public found out after the fact.”

Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm

Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England

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Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

It's quite hard to write a letter when you are unalive according to scientists

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · 2w ago

AOC Makes A Great Point 👉.......

It's only a matter of time before someone answers these constant calls for violence - and then what? Will police & prosecutors sit on their hands because they are too afraid to go after the world's richest man? History has already taught us what happens when governments appease fascism.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

Apparently Tice has threatened the BBC with his lawyers for conducting a "hit job" on him without actually saying the allegations are completely untrue.

Sathnam Sanghera@sathnam.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The decision to freeze the account of a political party has no known precedent in modern times." www.thetimes.com/article/48c9...

UK government - and every decent person - should get off #twitter now...

Michael Feola@feolski.bsky.social · 2w ago

The world’s richest man, at it again. Reminder: “remigration” is far right code for the forced expulsion of ethnic “undesirables” in order to “purify” the nation.

One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.

BBC News - Green-led council 'won't assist immigration raids' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green-led Lewisham council will not assist in immigration raids

Lewisham has become the first council in the UK to refuse to assist Home Office immigration raids.

bbc.co.uk

Its not just me & Angela Rayner. If this Labour government rule out rent controls, a wealth tax, refuse to nationalise water companies, drill for oil and gas, continue to arm Israel - The country will be asking what's the point of a Labour Government? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls

Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham

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How it's going on Twitter... X just suspended the account of the UK Embassy in Israel after it posted this thread

This isn’t looking good for Reform and Farage is it! 🤣🤣

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reform UK donor and Farage ally George Cottrell carried a fake Swiss passport under the name ‘Oscar Drewitt’. Cottrell was hired under the name by the future Reform treasurer Mehrtash A’zami. A’zami later vetted Cottrell’s mother's donations to Reform, now the subject of a police investigation

I'm sure it was just resting in his account

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2w ago

A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...

This prosecution of a leading KC for representing the interests of his client in a closing speech which was not interrupted by the trial judge happened under a Labour government led by a former human rights lawyer. Gareth Pierce is right to call it "terrifying". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action trial lawyer’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’ for profession

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

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Oh Manchesterism - so many questions that we don't have answers for... open.substack.com/pub/european...