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Theme of the day: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fact Check: Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal it was on the front page for SIX days (long before he appears to have even noticed it)

“…the excitement of the early web has made way for shame and bewilderment at how much we lose by allowing the rich and powerful to kill the parts of society that make it function better.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reading Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket. If it’s going to be filmed it should be by Wes Anderson, not Paul Thomas Anderson …

As Labour descends into the type of psychodrama we suffered under the Tories for years, it’s clear the gulf between public expectation and what any govt can deliver makes U.K. effectively ungovernable. And has been since Brexit. It’ll take more than wishful thinking to dig us out of this.

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

The national security assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse - finally released via FOI. Trump isn’t all we need to worry about. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...

This isn't a crisis we fact-check our way out of, we need to build something bigger and more radical to resist the tide of authoritarianism engulfing our democracies. We can't wait for institutions to act, it's up to us to organise.

We need to get out good, verified information to the public as rapidly as possible, so counteract populist, conspiratorial, and authoritarian narratives that are produced by systems that work well in our modern information environment.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

Really great piece from Allan Little - a long read. We need more of this kind of perspective www.bbc.com/news/article...

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

I’ve always thought @lewisgoodall.com is too good a reporter to be wasted sitting in the studio. Good to read he’s back on the ground again.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Thrilled to have worked on this methodology and with Sander to produce these results.

I’m not convinced the current media climate of endless “news chat” and speculation rather than actual reporting really helps anything (except podcast profits maybe)

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example. inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from inter­national leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

It's Davos this week, so please find attached a list of phrases that you may hear and what they actually mean. Full phrasebook here 😉 www.ft.com/content/ab4f...

Journalism & Democratic Backsliding webinar from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit webinar series. Featuring @jayrosen.bsky.social, @sambrook.bsky.social, and @panievsky.bsky.social. youtu.be/MrAnVd35bcE?...

O’Reilly - AI and the Next Economy with Tim O’Reilly - www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-and...

Evidence consistent with a coordinated campaign against @ofcom.bsky.social regulators (with faces obscured by me in the screen captures).

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow

Episode one of #Traitors and everyone is trying to strategise and second guess based on nothing whatsoever 😆

A great listen - but I balk at the assertion AI can “think” better than people. Surely it can process and synthesise exponentially faster, but that’s very different from independent thought. (And on that difference hangs our future! Happy 2026!) pca.st/episode/e990...

I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs

I’m sorry to say that this is not a “glitch” but a design consequence. gizmodo.com/grok-is-glit...

Brilliant @robertplant.com and Saving Grace gig at Royal Festival Hall. Best I’ve seen for a long long time. So hope @nonesuch.com release a live album …

Around two thirds of Reform's money has come from overseas | me with @catneilan.bsky.social 📰 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

As this from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the Democracy for Sale team shows, by not acting on a donations cap, Labour are sowing the seeds of their own electoral destruction. Utterly idiotic. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

Radio 4 is rebroadcasting its abridgement of Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard: this is the first childhood section "His baby words would have been in his natal language, which he would soon forget" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Let’s hope there’s now a BBC4 Stoppard season…

Now Tom Stoppard’s gone. Sheesh, what a year ….

I have zero interest in AI music or AI photography. Both seem to miss the entire point to me …

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Excellent from @henrymance.ft.com on the BBC on.ft.com/4r7eNtC Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?