We only went and won it!! 🎉🎉🎉 A newsletter has just won the biggest prize in British journalism Absolutely delighted. Huge thanks to Khadija and to all Democracy for Sale’s supporters 😊

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why has Murray from Flight of the Conchords been appointed as US tourism envoy?

If Starmer was any good at politics (which he isn't), he could use this – very loudly and publicly – to further clamp down on all foreign donations to any party or member of parliament/the Lords.

What to do this weekend, from Banksy’s statue to a Soho clown show observer.co.uk/the-sensemak...

Barnet very close. Follow the coverage from The Finch here thefinch.news/article/barn...

Really impressive live feed of local election results in The Finch thefinch.news/article/barn...

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social is so good. www.ft.com/content/5cdf...

Hobbled onto this train in obvious discomfort. Every single person in this photo is younger than me. Not one offered me a seat. Their phones are more important.

This testimony from Olly Robbins is devastating. No. 10 pressure for a quick decision on Mandelson’s appointment demonstrates a catastrophic error of judgement.

🎉Really excited to see the launch of Arguably today. I’m proud to be part of this group of writers and to contribute to a new space for progressive ideas and serious debate at a moment when both feel urgently needed.

‘Hungary, Europe!’ Spontaneous chant I just heard on streets of Budapest … Supermajority means Tisza really can dismantle the Orban system… and Orban has conceded… It will be a tough road ahead but truly hard to imagine a better result… I’ll be writing about it soon…

The fall of Orbán is the first good news in Europe for some time. The scenes from Budapest are incredible www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

All news is local news. Kudos to ProPublica on this initiative.

Last year, @martinbright.bsky.social attended Battle for the Soul of Europe, organised by Orbán-funded MCC Brussels. The event brought together far-right figures from across Europe, highlighting growing networks opposed to the EU & free expression. Read more ⬇️ shop.exacteditions.com/index-on-cen...

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Serious question. When will the American people stop this maniac?

Serious question. When will the American people act to stop this maniac?

This is an interesting development

Thanks to @eurozine.bsky.social for republishing this piece about the Brussels-based think tank pushing Orbán’s anti-EU agenda.

Philadelphia is the city I wish UK politics was obsessed with: every year there’s a new spin-out from the universities. This is what we should want (and could have) for all our cities!

"Look at the results... PBS, defunded. NPR, defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-eyes Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone Stephen Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough, CNN is gonna have new ownership as well." www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

#UK: Following a close call, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has confirmed increased funding for the BBC World Service. Index's @martinbright.bsky.social reminds us why we need it more than ever: www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/we-n...

Will Mojtaba Khamenei turn out to be Iran’s Richard Cromwell?

Everyone needs to follow @danneidle.bsky.social right now. This is such important work.

#USA: At Davos last week, #Trump made his intentions clear: tighter control over the free press. His backing down over #Greenland offers a lesson for the US media - stand up to him before it's too late. Index's @martinbright.bsky.social writes ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/01/the-...

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The far right is coming in 2026 - its message is coherent, unified and it hates the EU www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/01/the-...

A proud moment. The work of the London Centre for the Study of Antisemitism is vitally important. londonantisemitism.com/team/martin-...

Are the mainstream media here? They should be.

A beautuful tribite to Rachel Cooke from @timadamswrites.bsky.social Terribly sad news observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRAa6a_... This song gets me even when it isn’t sung by Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal with the survivors of the Bataclan massacre.

I’ve been thinking about this piece by Rachele Dini all week. It’s a very depressing read, but beautifully done, which is some consolation: lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

As ever @sundersays.bsky.social sets the right tone:

This is really rather good. I don’t know why I was sceptical. A sophisticated and mature take on a very difficult and morally complicated story. Journalist on journalist stories are never comfortable reading/viewing. Especially for journalists.

@freepress.bsky.social joined @wgawest.bsky.social today to protest ABC/Disney’s capitulation to the Trump administration’s calls to censor Jimmy Kimmel.

“See you in Valhalla”. Where have we heard that before? theconversation.com/far-right-ex...

The AI impersonation plot thickens... Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The arrest of Graham Linehan over a series of posts on X has been a stark example of overpolicing what we say online in the UK. Index's @martinbright.bsky.social writes about the episode: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/09/the-...

Could you get in touch please? @gregwilliams718.bsky.social

Join us this Tuesday for Land of the Free? A magazine launch and panel on #Trump's assault on free expression. With @ericawagner.bsky.social, @anveebhutani.bsky.social, and @charlieholt.bsky.social. 📅 Tuesday 5 August 📍 St John's Waterloo Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/land-of-th...

Can we now talk about the American Dissident? A conversation with @benjaminnathans.bsky.social for @indexoncensorship.org www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/has-...

The term "dissident" emerged during the Cold War. Index was created at this time & worked with dissidents from the USSR. So what can US political activists now learn from the original dissidents? Index's editor-at-large @martinbright.bsky.social explores: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/has-...

At risk of sounding like an old git, Glastonbury seems to be just a series of bland acts playing songs using the same intervals with that pop-country-Swedish vibe. It’s as predictable and predigested as the politics.

As Health Secretary Wes Streeting announces a national inquiry into maternity care, revisit the ground-breaking investigation by Index's @martinbright.bsky.social on the culture of secrecy shrouding maternity services and women’s healthcare in #England: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/04/whis...

I was delighted to hear about the release of political prisoners from Belarus, but the campaign must continue for others still detained. bjr.org.uk/handing-the-...

I keep hearing that we’ve seen this film before… www.officialsecretsfilm.co.uk/home/