The full scandal of Maitlis, Barnes & Cohen at newsnight is gobsmacking. Theyre responsible for so much harm. Details, including multiple articles of proof, here: bsky.app/profile/mimm...

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Right. I’m not paying a licence fee to see BBC News become even more like Fox News to 1.2 billion page visits a month. if they are going to be captured by fascists they can do it commercially. Being very charitable they can spin off BBC News and sell it and we keep radio 4 and Songs of praise

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

Resign

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

Sure, though for the past 3 decades (?) the idea of a national culture has p much been undermined by successive governments : cuts to arts funding, walling off access to creative industries to the richest in society, making the UK incredibly difficult to be a creative worker etc.

Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement

This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

That’s a fantastic trailer. youtu.be/8Y6yG4SgFew?...

“The decision ... to collapse this publication into Vogue and eliminate the politics reporting staff at Teen Vogue is evidence that corporate concentration eliminates innovative ideas and silences voices with less power.”

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

People With opinions Who owe their careers To their parents Them. Them.

"Investors are as heavily exposed to AI as their forerunners were to internet and telecoms stocks in early 2000. They may be about to discover there’s no such thing as a “good” bubble." www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

The Mamdani grin is a genuinely brilliant coping mechanism when facing bullshit.

Go Spain! This article doesn’t mention their aggressively progressive policies to help people with the cost of living crisis: price cap on energy, subsidies for households, and tax cuts www.reuters.com/default/spai...

Review of @samwetherell.bsky.social’s terrific new history of Liverpool, a definitive study of the city‘s 20th century with clear lessons for the 21st.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I love that Marx would be the loudest Ukraine/Palestine "support these people or go die in a hole" dude alive.

There should be a post labeller directory to search for a suitable labeller for an account you low level hate follow.

Reeves won't get the Louise Haigh or Angela Rayner treatment because none of this is about being a stickler for the rules. The rules for MPs are there so when you want to get rid of someone, you can find a rule they've broken.

"He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees."

Male loneliness crisis is a fake problem. Just go up to a guy who has a Brompton and ask, is that a Brompton

at this point it's nearly impossible to figure out who is actually stupid vs who is pretending to be stupid vs who used to be pretending to be stupid but did it for so long they became actually stupid

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

I wrote about the stupid white paper. In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.

See also this powerful BBC documentary which highlights how public school librarians are facing harassment, threats and laws that criminalise their work following white Christian nationalist campaigns to ban books on race, gender and LGBTQIA+ lives. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

Win probability calculators are one of the more absurd artifacts of our obsession with data. I look into how they are made and who they are for.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Frederic Warburg here posing an unwise rhetorical question to his wife following an exchange about his employer (1922-1935) - Routledge

‘Honours dishonour, titles degrade, office-holding ossifies.’ Flaubert

Flaubert "was an Artist, while his publisher was a Tradesman." "A publisher can exploit you, but he hasn’t the right to appreciate you. I’ve always thought well of [my publisher] for never having said a word to me about my book." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"I'll just have AI index my book." Please don't. Whether you'll be working with a professional indexer or hoping to index your own book, this looks like a great free webinar on the 101s of Indexing! tinyurl.com/ync23enc

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

We need to get past the idea of these people being "radicalised" on X. The British ruling class has been racist for centuries. For a while that was suppressed by hard won anti-racist social norms. But after years of chipping away with e.g. talk of "legitimate concerns" those norms are now collapsing

How likely are different household item to be successfully repaired when presented at a repair cafe? Knives can easily be sharpened and made fit for more use.

Doesn’t sound that peaceful to me

“The two main marketing points of the [private credit] industry seem to be illusory,” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff. Early 2020s: LLMs Early 2010s: MOOCs Early 2000s: Wikis

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows. But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished. Solidarity with the survivors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

You want the whole thing? Oh go on then... 38 years ago today a sodden Ian McCaskill carries the can for the weather forecasting failures around the Great Storm on 1987. One of my favourite ever pieces of TV

They definitely hear things that upset them, like: You must secure your second year accommodation by November of your first year and pay two months rent as deposit up front. We may increase the rent before you move in. Or: Yours is a worthless degree that a future Conservative government will ban.

"I work in finance and don’t have the time to worry about the bins" SEND HIM DOWN

📕NEW BOOK📕 Visual Research Methods in Arts Administration (Elise Lael Kieffer) "This book explores the benefits of incorporating the photo-elicitation method into interviews within arts and cultural administration, leadership, and management research." www.routledge.com/Visual-Resea...