Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within

Taiwan and Ukraine face similar battles against disinformation. At an expert panel our co-founder and CEO, Wu Min Hsuan (Ttcat), explained how Beijing and Moscow share and adapt tactics to undermine democracy. 👉 See the full discussion: dtl.tw/dzhsej

Reform U.K. politician Nathan Gill has admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while being a member of the European Parliament. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Facts matter

Hannah Arendt should be compulsory reading for everyone right now.

Today (Weds 24 Sept) from 09:30, the fourth of seven new OU/BBC Morning Live films will air, exploring Future Faith. www.bbc.com/programmes/m...

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

I have questions

the booker prize judges make a lot of fuss about having to read 153 books. but assuming an average weight of 750g per book, that comes in at 115kg of literature - or just under the weight of a single adult male ostrich

🔴NEW🔴 Curtis Yarvin: How the Alt-Right Gets In Following his appearance in London, @nafeez.bsky.social & @peterjukes.bsky.social examine the writings of the thinker who apparently inspires Silicon Valley Tech Bros & the Vice President of the United States bylinetimes.com/2025/09/24/c...

‘More than half of Reform’s donations in 2024 came from people with homes in low-tax jurisdictions or with offshore business interests; 40 per cent came from climate sceptics or investors in fossil fuels.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social at the Reform UK conference: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

42,000 years ago on France’s Atlantic fringe, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared beads, pigments, and tools. A jewelry workshop at Saint-Césaire reshapes ideas of contact and culture. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Neanderthals www.anthropology.net/p/shells-pig...

What if the rapture happened a long time ago but only Amelia Earhart made the cut?

Job Klaxon! Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry. Job Details Salary - £41,177.63 Full Time London Deadline - 29/09/2025 ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

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Letters from Barnard faculty in response to the recent op-ed by Barnard's president claiming to be championing free speech, including this powerful response by my religious studies colleague Elizabeth Castelli. (gift link below) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Congratulations to the control box at the UN's media centre. That shot of Trump's senior team, locked in different frozen expression masks, while he spews climate change denial and white replacement theory is just amazing.

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

Time to delete your academia,edu account 👇

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

🇲🇩❗️A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern European state, — BBC. Participants were paid to find supporters of Moldova's pro-Russia opposition to secretly record - and also to carry out a so-called poll.

"...a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." FDR 1938

Since privatisation in the 1980s, we the public have paid *almost £200bn* to shareholders Your household has paid £250 extra a year since 2010 for this ideology Excellent new study from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social 👇 Time to take back OUR public assets 💧💡🚌🚄📮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.

Religion news 16 September 2025 ➡️ Christian Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Reform ➡️ Historic first as King attends Catholic mass for Duchess of Kent ➡️ Bishops warn protests risk fear & intolerance ➡️ Pope speaks out against top executive pay

SkyNews reports from London and Tommy Robinson led rally: “People carried crosses. When the crowd arrived at Whitehall, they were led from the stage in a chant of "Christ is King" and then a public recital of the Lord's Prayer shortly after that.” news.sky.com/story/politi...

It was sly, scheming leftist professors.

President Trump has ordered American flags at half-staff after the deadly shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk—something he did not do when Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated months ago. trib.al/VwZm4tn

Newsom choosing to frame right-wing extremist as someone interested in „good-faith debate“ & engaging „with each other, across ideology“, is asinine. Kirk promoted the „Great Replacement“ conspiracy theory, spewed hate against LGBTQ people, called for a „patriot“ to bail out Paul Pelosi‘s attacker

'The British Academy has warned that students in parts of the North, South West & East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland & Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities & arts courses.' www.timeshighereducation.com/news/humanit... @timeshighered.bsky.social

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

My PhD colleagues Georgia Boyd and Gabriel Omachi are organising a multidisciplinary colloquium on researching sensitive topics. Call for papers deadline: 15 August. #CFP

Britain’s Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson referred to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as his “best pal,” according to a letter released by US lawmakers.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 21 minutes. Where can a theology degree take you? My (edited) thoughts on @BBCRadio4 this morning

Another BBC piece about the value of theology and religious studies degrees! Three interviews, starting at about 18 minutes 30. @thebasr.bsky.social @bsasocrel.bsky.social

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year. The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

Nigel Farage lashes out and calls Mirror reporter ‘disgusting’ after tax question www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic... #FragileFarage

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Christopher Monckton calls for all university teaching to be recorded and permanently archived online. "That would stop the communist propaganda dead!"

Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.

'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

Reform UK Conference: Anti-Vax Misinformation Doctor Given Prime Health Slot bylinetimes.com/2025/09/05/r...