The focus should be on this crime wave in DC.

Why would you not want to have the sort of country people want to come to and live in? Why would you not want an economy so robust it's crying out for more people to come and work in it? Why would you want to live in a country that people want to leave?

It's often the case politicos, including me, will explain away growing support for Reform due to people facing deprivation and struggling. Maybe that was the case, but now? If you support Reform with policies like this you have zero "legitimate concerns". You're a far right ethno-nationalist racist.

As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed). migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

I opened a draft I need to read and give feedback on for a PhD student and my university software suggested I just use Copilot to summarise it. This is not a good strategy for universities. Does your university put Copilot front and centre in your workflow? Where are the debates about this?

What a terrible take. As someone who engaged at a policy level with the ePrivacy Directive (& its predecessor 97/66EC), the ePD didn’t ’plaster the online world with pop-ups’. Privacy invading & eroding business models are responsible for that - biz could have chosen a different path

We know who made this number up - it was the Centre for Policy Studies. However, after I pointed out two major errors, they have admitted it is completely wrong and have withdrawn it - see note on their webpage here. cps.org.uk/research/her...

Can we assume @eddavey.libdems.org.uk that you will conduct a robust human rights impact assessment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We do not need a national digital ID

WTAH! Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

Sorry for your loss @nickstapleton.tv Really enjoyed your dad’s presence on our screens over the decades

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

TV tonight: an essential record of the Covid contracts scandal

Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him

‘As Americans are learning to their cost, you cannot delay – otherwise the freedoms you thought would last for ever can vanish, in the blink of an eye.’ 👏 @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

70+ worshippers at the Al-Safiya Mosque in El Fasher were killed in an RSF drone strike today, Friday, when Jumah services means mosques are full. The UAE, which backs the RSF despite it being accused of genocide, continues to face no scrutiny from its western security partners, including the US.

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

Just nope.

Oh my god lol This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how

I have a short open access piece out in the new journal, Dialogues on Digital Society, which looks at the right-wing politics of the Praxis Network State... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is part of an excellent special issue of almost 50 short pieces on digital authoritarianism.

CANADA ARE IN THE FINAL🏆 Next match: FRA v ENG (15:30, 20.9.25) #RWC2025 Canad were superb in their game against NZ 👏👏 I can’t believe they had to crowdfund to help cover their costs

Scarborough beach getting some banksy inspired sand art. By Fred Brown.

🚨🇪🇺 EU cash💰 and taxpayer money in countries such as 🇮🇹Italy and 🇪🇸Spain are flowing to commercial #spyware firms, yet this public funding is not well-known or analysed. 🧵My investigation for @ftm.eu. 👇👇👇 www.ftm.eu/articles/spy...

Unbridled authoritarianism now. They aren't even attempting a pretext.

Oxford people - tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 11.30 there is a gathering at the Holiday Inn Express near the Kassam Stadium to counter anti-refugee protesters.

The United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence agency launched a darkweb portal on Friday to recruit spies “anywhere in the world with access to sensitive information relating to terrorism or hostile intelligence activity.”

Thus in SABAM v Netlog, the generality of the proposed filtering system lay in its application to substantially all files of all users; it didn’t matter that the system was intended to detect specific works contained in SABAM’s repertoire.

I, too, got a call, purporting to be from a big bank, asking me to verify transactions I hadn't made, on a card I hadn't opened. I caught on to the scam pretty quickly--but be careful out there! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Ireland. RTÉ Prime Time investigation uncovers location data of thousands of smartphones in Ireland for sale.
Individual phones could be tracked back to specific residential addresses
Individuals allegedly gave ‘permission’ via T&Cs. That ain’t permission or consent … about.rte.ie/2025/09/18/r...

I am utterly disgusted that Trump was feted as he was and given a platform to spew more intolerance and division.

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

Surveillance & Society has published a great new issue—w/ articles on data leaks, ceasefire monitoring, campus #protests, & much more! The journal is always fully #openaccess. Check it out, and please spread the word: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

I see right wing UK based accounts on FB asserting that flags aren’t racist 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷‍♂️🙇‍♂️ (in response to alarm & distress over the England flag & the Union Jack being illegally attached to public lampposts) Flags may not be but their context of use may well be.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

A groundbreaking decision from Spain’s Supreme Court on transparency of algorithms and FOI.

“A bit of fun” captures a historic amount of corruption.

Every single country needs to disentangle itself from the US. The old order is dead .. Trump’s merica has seen to that

🚨🚨 "Keir Starmer is betting everything on an America that doesn’t exist any more". Great column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social on the gamble of British foreign policy

The enshittification of everything continues. "Samsung brings ads to US fridges. Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere." www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Trump: "We'll have more than $17 trillion invested in our country this year ... no country has ever had anything like that." (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion so yes, no country has ever had anything like that.)

And this @skynewsrss.bsky.social interview with Dermot Murnaghan is important esp wrt a need for men in at risk groups to proactively ask for a PSA test .. so men aged 50+, or with a history of prostate cancer in the family, black men - see prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-inf... A test could save or

🔴GB News Ramps Up Migrant ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric as Channel Veers Far Right Analysis reveals surging use of rhetoric about refugees being of “fighting age”, “scavengers”, “dirty foreigners” and part of an “invasion”, as campaigners warn of channel’s radicalising effect bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/g...

An advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was taken away from the scene by police after travelling around Windsor as President Trump stayed with King Charles at Windsor Castle Latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...

Trump being taken for a golden carriage ride to nowhere around the grounds of Windsor Castle, like humouring a massive toddler.

Why Maga’s next project is to fix ‘Broken Britain‘. V good analysis.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

the list of national media institutions not owned by fascist billionaires is getting shorter and shorter talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/top-t...