The most interesting thing about this Epstein saga: there are calls for the UK PM to resign over appointing an ambassador with dodgy links, but in the US it looks like business as usual 🤷‍♂️

🚨NEW: UK Parliament will debate a petition on March 16 requiring automatic by-elections when MPs switch parties. The petition argues constituents should have the right to approve or reject their MP’s party defection through a vote. Over 126,000 signatures triggered the parliamentary debate.

This book should be added to school curriculums teaching kids media literacy in today’s polarised world… fantastic work @eliothiggins.bsky.social !

I've subscribed to Brown reporter's RSS feed, because this sort of thing ↓ seems to be in the right place for me.

Grateful to @bearlypolitics.co.uk for the space to explore this: What happens when governments prioritize deportation numbers over accuracy? My piece on the Reform UK’s ICE-inspired enforcement plans and why the risks go beyond immigration 👇

🚨BREAKING: The government has dropped plans requiring workers to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK

A cage fight at the White House, and a country wants all the data in your phone. Just a normal week in global politics. The world is shifting fast. Don't get left behind. Make sense of the madness in 4 minutes or less. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/brownrep...

🚨 NEW: Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says UK is ‘sick’ as he defects to Reform UK His party was in power for around 14 years and he is also cofounder of YouGov (polling firm)

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham backs Conservative call to ban social media for under-16s as pressure mounts on No 10 to protect children @theguardian.com

🚨 NEW: EU demands 'Farage clause' in Brexit reset talks Brussels wants compensation if a future UK government tears up Starmer's deal @theguardian.com

NEW: UK govt considering banning X? As per PM, all options are on table, including boycott of govt ministers from X

🚨BREAKING: Venezuela to buy ONLY American products with new oil money!

🚨NEW: "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington. "I'll get impeached."

Can we not just stop Grok from fulfilling such requests?

Its always about OIL stupid 🤷‍♂️

A single man is richer than some countries, and a country is banning the creation of some mobile apps. Just a normal week in global politics. The world is shifting fast. Don't get left behind. Make sense of the madness in 4 minutes or less. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/brownrep...

🚨 NEW: Epstein files reveal Prince Andrew's connection to Peter Nygard, a second wealthy sex offender who was jailed for sexual assault in November [ @the-independent.com ]

Bastion of free speech Bari Weiss 🏆

People at X were saying christmas is cancelled in London? 😂 this tree looks beautiful 😍

🚨 NEW: 'Frightening' surge in police officers convicted of sexual offences since Sarah Everard's murder, Home Office calls figures 'shameful' [ @the-independent.com ]

🚨 NEW: The Trump administration has halted the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a MIT professor. [ via @bloomberg.com ]

Hunger games soon?

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Where are we going to stop?? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Here we go… fyi The US-UK “technology prosperity deal”, was announced in September, aimed to spur co-operation between the two countries in areas including artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear energy.

Now trying to enrich himself with UK tax payer money 🤦🏻‍♂️

Absolutely Bonkers 🤯

BREAKING: Over 1 BILLION views - Massive AI fake news operation targeting UK government exposed on YouTube. 150+ anonymous channels caught spreading false stories about Keir Starmer using cheap AI tools.

Big beautiful condom 😂

GB News mentioned Muslims/Islam 17,000+ times in 2 years, 50% of all UK news channel mentions. As expected the coverage was “overwhelmingly negative” Then they falsely linked UK’s largest Muslim charity (Islamic Relief) to terrorism. Court forced them to apologise + pay damages.

Substack asking me to verify my age to view chat? What a world we live in 🤦🏻‍♂️ THANK YOU UK 🙃

🚨BREAKING: As per new UK Govt law people will be DENIED trial by jury if they are charged in relation to the right to protest, where the law has been tightened a lot by government. The reasoning being that such offences will carry a sentence of less than 3 years

🚨 NEW: Children who arrive in the UK on small boats could be searched to check if they are concealing phone sim cards in their mouths under new Home Office rules.

couldn’t be more accurate…

way to go 🙌

Not a single element of surprise here 🫠

This was fun to watch 😂 x.com/lbc/status/1...

this needs to be investigated… a petition is already up and got 70K+ signatures petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

This isn’t going to fit with far-right narrative well 🤷‍♂️

This question has been bugging me since yesterday. I wrote my thoughts on it. From Mamdani’s POV its simple but its a bit more complex from Trump’s POV. brownreporter.substack.com/p/why-has-tr...

Both of them on complete opposite of political spectrum but still talking about working together… we need this kind of pragmatism in today’s politics

Beige reporter ain’t got the vibe tbh 😂

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

So after BBC apologised BUT didn’t pay any compensation to DTJ, he’s now going to sue them for $5bn… it was $1bn before but anyway how pathetic you have to be being a billionaire yourself and trying to bankrupt a public funded news organisation… surely UK govt need to step in stop this mockery…