🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it? Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics. @commonswec.parliament.uk

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."

Great interview with Andrew Lownie about his book on the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson & the reaction to it by the palace. With a mention of the @fpalondon.bsky.social! We invited him for a press briefing in September when the UK media still tried to ignore the book.

Not that we didn’t know this already, but here’s proof: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Astonishing video, worth watching in full.

Honestly TELL THE STORY. Won’t someone just tell the fucking story of how Brexit created this economic hardship, how a Muslim immigrant just saved the lives of those commuters on that train, won’t someone in politics or even media just connect the fucking dots and TELL THE STORY. IT’S RIGHT THERE

For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work

Together with my colleague Leonie Scheuble in Washington, I did a deep dive into the Epstein affair. Just at the right time, as it turned out. www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Virginia Giuffre’s memoirs were not an easy read - but an important one www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

A ‘poor performer’? Is that what Andrew is called now? More like an entitled performer, if you ask Virginia Giuffre

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Even the dead Epstein is haunting Prince Andrew et al: www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Do listen in. It became quite, ahem, heated.

Under Trump, the US is turning into the GDR www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

‘Business secretary Peter Kyle was asked by Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning if the demonstration – organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson – “disturbed” him. Kyle said the number of people who turned out for the protest shows free speech is “alive and well” in the UK.’ For shame

The cognitive dissonance (which is perhaps generous) from the government on the state of free speech comparing its response to the far-right against those protesting the proscription of Palestine Action is increasingly hard to comprehend, as govt belief moves into govt (in)action.

Thank you! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #charityvideo

I went to the Reform party conference. The experience will haunt me for a long time: www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Column, on Westminster politics played to an empty stadium and the leaching of power elsewhere www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am at Parliament Square in London, where I am watching peaceful protesters arrested for holding signs. History will remember all of these brave people as heroes.

All that work, all those billions of dollars, and they’ve created Marvin The Paranoid Android.

Ich bin aus der deutschen Nationalsprache ausgetreten, weil sie mich nicht mehr interessiert, wenn Wolfram Weimer und Jürgen Kaube ihren Schönheitsgehalt von oben festsetzen. Für @taz.de hab ich mir drei Krawatten umgebunden und ein superseriöses Erklärstück geschrieben!

BREAKING: JOINT STATEMENT FROM REUTERS, BBC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS & AFP. Warning that their staff face death by starvation in Gaza. Horrifying and unprecedented.

A little plug for this wonderful book by my friend Horst Friedrichs featuring some fantastic old London shops: www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗

„Neoliberalism is the ideology that lost its name - for good reason.“ Interviewed @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for stern magazine www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Ok this one wins

In case you missed it in The Other Place, Liz Truss has gone properly fucking nuts.

Why Liverpool will not be divided by this tragedy: www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Following the Foreign Press Association’s complaint re denial of accreditation to the UK-EU summit, I’m happy to report that most EU media were admitted in the end. We appreciate that & thank the government. Pity it slightly soured what should have been a positive event www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

“The new long-range missiles will carry both the Union flag and the German flag“ - last week I interviewed RUSI‘s Ed Arnold on Britain’s new close cooperation with Germany in the area of defence and security www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Imagine hosting an „EU reset“ summit without accrediting most of the EU member states‘ media who need to cover it. Yes, really. I guess we’re all supposed to watch it on GB News

NEW: Carney secures historic win. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre even lost his seat in Carleton. Trump‘s colossal ineptitude has saved the progressive movement in Canada & is close to reuniting the economies ties between the UK & Europe. Remind him every day. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺

Nine years ago the photographer Christian Sinibaldi gained unique access to the Vatican. His pictures of everyday life behind the holy walls reveal a rarely-seen humanity www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

WATCH — @carolecadwalla.bsky.social : “The Russian and American presidents are now speaking the same words. Telling the same lies. We are watching the collapse of the international world order in real time… it is already later than we think.”

Is Henry Blodget ok

Any Americans here having moved/planning to move to the UK to escape Trump’s US? If so I’d love to hear from you!

“The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner.” on.ft.com/3S0YA8I

As Trump cosies up to Russia while turning on the US’s former allies, here’s a great reminder by photojournalist Seamus Murphy of how similar the two former adversaries really are: www.stern.de/politik/ausl...

Chilling

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

You’d need to earn about 250K gross to live in a 1-bed flat in Covent Garden.

Tariffs still at historic high

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Spoke with the founders of the brilliant parent initiative #smartphonefreechildhood www.stern.de/politik/ausl...