Extraordinary at so many levels. How could Iran not protect their leader? Also, Trump's foreign policy is 'working'. A sh&t storm is coming but it is one that the US administration wants. www.thetimes.com/article/85ee...

Well this is going to shake up the conventional wisdom. If true. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Islamophobic booking at Elland Road. @leedsunited.com need to get their act together.

Interesting to see how in the UK everyone is making massive generalised conclusions from a by-election. They are by their nature unrepresentative. Yet everyone using it to prove their own political theses. See also: I went to talk to voters and they also confirmed my priors.

Eventually, journalism can win.

No wonder broadcast news is bleeding audiences. A major breaking news story and the BBC main bulletin has two correspondents repeating the same points that were in the first package. So slow, so performative, 'theatre of news'.

And yet no interest in places like the UK from protestors who care about liberty and oppression.

This shows how populist calls for the reduction of HE by Reform and the Tories are addressing a symptom not the problem - we need an economy that makes use of graduates not fewer graduates

Interesting that the Times has named the Austrian climber but BBC and Guardian are sticking with Austrian reporting restrictions> Climber guilty of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend to die www.thetimes.com/article/df1a...

Gosh everyone should go see Wuthering Heights. It's so bad in so many sumptuous ways that everyone will have something to hate. So many potentially wonderful ideas as well, that go nowhere. And overall, quite nasty. Basically, soft porn sadism with Disney princess sets.

Interesting how VAR seems to have reduced referees' ability to make good judgements in football - it's a small sample but today's FA Cup games [not my team's!] seem to suggest they've become too reliant on the failsafe of the tech

Sorry but this is an 'I totally agree with this" post. Having gone to Blueberries at Stratford East this week I am sick of us normalising fascist language and lies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We mourn a graphic legend. Paul Sample RIP (I was an Ogri fan, not Tom Sharpe. It's a long story involving an MZ, Suzuki GS450 and a Moto Guzzi) www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Olympic spirit: "There is a theory that the athletes are not necessarily using them but instead taking them home as souvenirs of the games"!😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/winter-olymp...

And will this be the first question every journalist asks him? Including the pro-Ukraine @telegraph.co.uk? Er..no. We're waving a Putin stooge into power.

Oh God. The perfect story. 'The couple who instigated the fight fled the club for their gated condominium on the beach' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

When reality matches the meme [play jingle]

Why is the BBC amd other media goving such prominence to factually inaccurate remarks of a unelected Monaco resident? And it wasn't 'an apology' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Another respected institution caves in to political pressure. It takes years to build a reputation and just days to lose it. Every trustworthy company should now boycott Gallup. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pre-ordered.

Good critique by Mark Urban of the Westminster lobby esp because he doesn't attack the quality of their journalism per se. I'm surprised how defensive Lobby journos have been about any criticism. It's not personal, but about the viscious vortex they inhabit markurban.substack.com/p/did-the-lo...

Meet the 12 news orgs from 11 countries selected to innovate with AI and audiences as part of our latest Innovation Challenge programme. From Brazil to Taiwan they will be creating AI tools and systems to improve their business sustainability #JournalismAI #LSE www.journalismai.info/blog/meet-12...

Crazy it's taken so long. The Hayward Gallery alone is a global masterpiece of functionality and elegant use of a remarkable set of textures and masses

This is compelling history as drama and a deeply serious exploration of memory, morality, responsibility and inhumanity - the panel after was excellent too. What these times needs. If you can get a ticket, go www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all...

Loved No other Choice. Sumptuous direction, taut acting, clever narrative but 20 minutes too long. Also, I want that house www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

The SEO on this Sun article about the Winter Olympics is gold-medal winning level. Even the URL is wonderfully optimised to snare online attention www.thesun.co.uk/sport/381160...

This was so enjoyable and moving: immersive drama at its least pretentious and most direct: sold out but catch any repeat you www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

And some local news. The Lunch with the FT this week is at the wonderful Italian restaurant where we had our wedding reception giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I mean, seriously, they have a point. Oldies cause far more damage and n social media than under 16s

Politician says 'don't vote for me'. Literally. Bizarre www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Warning: this video is horrific. ICE are just mobs of murderous thugs. America is out of control.

Incredible the work put in by this person to stir up race hate - another great story from Londoncentric

This was written before the 'deal' at Davos over Greenland but interesting how Allister Heath's usual apocalyptic vitriol is aimed at Trump. Trump is a state-capitalist kleptocrat imperialist. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Well he's not wrong if 'hot' means 'causing most alarm, friction and attention'

We have a new research paper as part of our Polis, LSE/Journalistfonden fellowship by Swedish journalist Mersiha Ajdinovic on how AI is shaping journalist's voice and visibility: How do they adapt their values? How does it impact on their editorial identity? www.journalismai.info/research/202...

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Please consider passing this along: If you are a scholar interested in journalism and how it's coping with increasingly violent targeting and repression (see Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, even the US), please consider sending in an abstract. There are even bursaries available for early career folk.

What is 'brilliant' about this US administration is that they do the interviews and repeat their nonsense lines because they know that facts don't matter. This really screws conventional ideas of accountability journalism

Who says crypto doesn't have practical uses? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Love this circularity. @telegraph.co.uk builds up a woman's fame through obsessive (hostile) reporting and then says the end of the world is nigh because people buy her jam and make her rich. Karma. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Interesting how Instagram seems to be suppressing political comments at the moment. I've had some very mild language blocked. Just shows how the platforms can moderate speech if they wish and how ridiculously hypocritical they are.

As a young journalist I admired Gerry Gable's incredible anti-fascist work. His life story is amazing. Of course he wasn't perfect but we really need more people like him now as racism and racism is reborn. www.thetimes.com/article/9fbb...

Tick another box on the fascism ingredient list

A six year contract at Chelsea? Rosenoir has a brlliant agent for someone who's been sacked by Hull. Bravo! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

And over to you @ofcom.bsky.social We have the regulatory tools. You would not tolerate this with any other medium, why not act now? Shut it down. Imagine if any other company did this, their owner would be in court/jail

An enjoyable historic romp across historic civilisational collapses with a knowing nod towards current events from Adrian...

"Wildly fantastical as this scenario may seem"