2011: Right Response Understanding and Countering Populist Extremism in Europe Matthew Goodwin A Chatham House Report 2026 Matt Goodwin is using his previous work as a handbook for delivering what he once stood against www.chathamhouse.org/sites/defaul...

MattG-2022 opposed ditching Boris Johnson, to protect the realignment, and chanpioned Badenoch as an anti-woke Conservative who could shift arguments [because she is black & rightwing] Yet by 2025 he was writing about "the idea of Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Bademoch"

Goodwin knows it is a symbolic role. He may be partly traffic maximising for clicks. Or be radicalising further quarter by quarter on racial essentialism.

"Everywhere I've worked, people have been welcoming to me... [and] I am proud to be a Bristolian; my children were born in Bristol," he said. "We are a Bristol family." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think it would surprise the Matt Goodwin of 2022, not just of the Goodwin of 2014, that he now opposes (would ban ?) refugee participation in public life. He used to see ethnic minority leadership as a good sign of integration & showing Britain had progressed more on race than progressives thought

Still a Fellow of the Royal Society. They must be so proud.

What has changed: Before, wearing a mask wasn't an offence. You only broke the law if an officer told you to remove it and you refused. Now the *wearing itself* is the offence. Masking is the crime. 3/

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (section 157) came into force on 29 June. Police can designate an area a "no-mask zone" for up to 24hrs around a protest. Wear anything that conceals your identity there - a protective respirator included - and you have committed an offence. 2/

🚨 WARNING: As of Monday, wearing a mask at a protest is a criminal offence in England & Wales. This is now the law. 🧵 on what this means for Clinically Vulnerable people... 1/ #ProtectVulnerableProtesters

I imagine everyone involved with safeguarding this child would have been aware of their trans status and would have approved of the family's actions. Which of course is extremely worrying.

Just to be clear here, is it saying that social workers and the rest knew what the parents were doing and were totally fine with it? Or were no social workers involved, because every person outside the family naturally assumed that this child was a girl?

This is child abuse.

I cant believe there is no research, money or concern 😉 EA are wonderful.😉 Plenty of money for weapons, HS2, nuclear power stations.

All chemical safety research, globally, is very underfunded. By the time enough research is done to realise how harmful a chemical is, it may have been in use for decades +, during that time, it will have been disposed of as general waste.

It's troubling really

It really is. There was an ex ICI guy I knew on one of my volunteering jaunts that told me that much of the Mersey basin between Stanlow, Runcorn and Northwich was somewhere that no one should dig due to war era through to now contamination and it looks like he wasn't wrong. 🌞

As well as the levels of cancer in the area it might a good idea to check out incidence of sarcoidosis too.

Having mostly exhausted more conventional conspiracy theories, Russian officials now claim Ukraine is coordinating international drug cartels. Naturally, it does so in full accordance with the strictest Kremlin standards of providing absolutely no evidence for their extraordinary claim.

Voedsel moet dichterbij de mens staan Voedsel zou om gezondheid moeten draaien www.biojournaal.nl/article/9852...

Bloody Time Team

What an utter pair of snivelling cunts.

Totally not overreacting, are they? 🫢

🇲🇹#Malta: Today, Yorgen Fenech, the alleged mastermind of the 2017 car bomb assassination of Maltese investigative journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia, finally went on trial. IPI sends our support to her family, who are in court to witness the long-awaited opening of the jury trial.

That road past Winnington has had quite a lot of housing development. People must love living there. Google seems stuck on 2009 vut I'm sure I passed an even more recent one.

One of Fleet Street's finest.

Fantastic tribute to a first class journalist.

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/police... Police use of AI: constrained and cautious or out of control? #AIEthics #Accountability #transparency #WeCopWatch

They wish!

Some wag on X suggested JKR is funding his legal fees😄

Last night watching wildlife cameraman David Perpiñan work on a documentary on urban wildlife in Barcelona, here filming a hedgehog we'd caught as part of a scientific study of their population in Montjuïc with Galanthus+Zoo. Little owls mewling and traffic rumbling past. Can Mestes allotments

Well, that's the thing, there's so little research, & so little funding for research, on the impacts these cocktails of pollution have - but whenever any is done, the results are concerning.

The area around the historic *Brunner Mond*-*ICI* chemical works site in Cheshire has been dubbed by some locals *England's Bhopal* - the cumulative known effect of the resulting environment on _anything_ living including human being in the district is extraordinary. As for unknown effects......

Yes, it's not in a place where you'd ever expect such dumping. A lot of the dumping is historic so predates much of the regulation that came in during the '90s. Even so, the fact many barrels of waste were reportedly delivered at night suggests they knew people wouldn't be pleased.

I am so shocked by this. We live on a narrowboat and frequently passed Malkins Bank, there is a lock near there on the Trent and Mersey Canal. It is unbelievable that toxic waste dumpers like ICI are allowed to dump with no sanctions or a method of claiming remediation costs from them.

Foxy crime wave continued www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1004319...

There was a veritable vulpine crime wave in South London that year. www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9581004...

One does not need to repeatedly invent battlefield victories in the form of RT headlines if victories are self-evident, or even just real. In Moscow’s case they are neither.

Hazardous sodium cyanide, heavy metals, oil, radioactive waste, benzenes, toluene - a labyrinth of caves beneath a golf course in Cheshire brim with "chemical soup". The former leaseholder says the Council failed to warn him. My latest article, out now: share.google/pBTpx6J5O6s3...

It chimes with this viral article by Stefan Collini in the LRB about what's happening to higher education in the UK (none of it is good). All thanks to "marketisation" and the demand that academic research must lead directly to economic growth. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

An off-the-cuff remark in India’s highest court triggered something no one had planned for: Within days, millions of young Indians were publicly calling for changes and reforms and creating impacts. globalvoices.org/2026/07/01/t...

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APILN GREATEST HITS: CATFORD FOX HORROR FOR MAN ON TOILET This not-photoshopped-at-all image shows just the opening scene of the ensuing battle, re-enacted throughout the whole terrifying story, and ending with a shot of an angry, slightly mauled cat. www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1053466...

Facial recognition is entering classrooms and campuses. We are tracking its spread and impact on privacy rights. pvcy.org/frtmap

I remember an article about the Police pulling over a speeding car. The driver said "Why did you pull me? Everyone was speeding" The response from the officer was "Lots of people buy a raffle ticket, but not everyone wins" I can apply the same logic to this.