This xenophobic nonsense illustrates why the government's proposals to restrict settlement rights is not only wrong but politically self-defeating. Has just encouraged Reform to become even more extreme.

I wrote for @theguardian.com about the “Unite the Kingdom” rally. High time to pull head out of the sand and learn from other countries — if only on what NOT to do!

Irony of liberal “populism whisperers” is that, stuck in their coastal liberal bubble, they let far right define “the heartland”, because it is very much in line with their own prejudices (ie white, racist, uneducated, poor). The only thing they change is the connotation: from bad to “left behind”.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

Labour would find it easy to campaign against this rank homophobia if they weren’t in the middle of enacting and enforcing a bathroom ban for trans people

This is as good as everyone is saying it is.

Not going to pretend today wasn't depressing but the far right has been stronger in the UK before. Mosley packed out Earls Court and was backed by several large newspapers. Enoch Powell had the support of 74% of the population. Musk has a net popularity rating of -52%

How Charlie Kirk practiced politics

This is incredible reporting from @jasonleopold.bsky.social @dmehro.bsky.social and the Bloomberg team.

Hackney is Hackneying really hard today.

The Chinese governments committed crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and is trying to cover up. My father included, hundreds and thousands of Uyghurs remain unjustly imprisoned. The UN and others should press for accountability. My op-ed @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/inte...

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Almost every newspaper and broadcaster in Britain is now waging a racist 24/7 campaign of hatred against migrants on behalf of the ultra rich. In response to this, one small thing you can do is donate to the NGOs supporting refugees.

NEW: Saudi is holding internal discussions about having China or South Korea hold the 2029 Asian Winter Games as it struggles to deliver its desert defying ski resort in Neom. on.ft.com/45qlxtK

Delays to Saudi Arabia’s snow mountain put 2029 Asian Winter Games at risk. ‘Kingdom eyes alternative countries to host event after falling behind on construction of desert ski resort.’ ⁦‪ by @alisonkilling.bsky.social ‬⁩the FT team. www.ft.com/content/6dfc...

NEW: Ski resort in the Saudi mountains? This animation shows how the huge Trojena project which is set to host the Asian winter games in 2029 is falling behind schedule Great reporting from @alisonkilling.bsky.social Andrew England Joe Leahy and Ahmed Al Omran www.ft.com/content/6dfc... #dataviz

NEW: Saudi is holding internal discussions about having China or South Korea hold the 2029 Asian Winter Games as it struggles to deliver its desert defying ski resort in Neom. on.ft.com/45qlxtK

large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that. Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

Tankies are incredibly western centric, even as they use their support for non-western states which do things the US opposes as cover for this. It's why so many of them deny the genocide of the Uyghurs.

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

NEW: Inside the race for AI capacity. The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army. Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police. ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.

I have said this before but I find the constant British catastrophizing really quite worrying. Yes there are big problems. But Terminal decline? Everything falling apart? Hopelessly broken? I find this attitude frightening.

This is a really good beginners' guide to how LLMs work, why they churn out hallucinations, and some of the techniques being used to reduce those hallucinations.

Just a reminder that there is a little time left for our open call to put on group architecture themed exhibitions in No.1 Poultry www.e-flux.com/announcement...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Any questions? Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

Maybe the real question we should be asking ourselves is what is anyone doing to unite them? - Labour says Reform UK ‘trying to divide communities’ ahead of Farage speech on crime - UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

The leap from this to the systems Chinese police use for social engineering in Xinjiang and Tibet is exceedingly small

My report following the killings of two young Palestinian men (one a US citizen) by Israeli settlers in the West Bank last Friday. Their families believe both could have lived if they received medical attention on time, they also believe there'll be no justice: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry. The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold. 👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry

NEW: Inside US’s booming immigration detention industry where increasing levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives and detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

New: Inside Gaza’s 'death traps'. A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. First-hand testimony, satellite imagery and verified video shed light on the dangerous journey from which many never return. on.ft.com/4lKG6Go

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

NEW: Illegal fuel in Mexico has evolved from pipeline tapping to a more sophisticated cross-border smuggling operation that is funding Mexico's powerful cartels. By @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me Christine Murray @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

NEW: Illegal fuel in Mexico has evolved from pipeline tapping to a more sophisticated cross-border smuggling operation that is funding Mexico's powerful cartels. By @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me Christine Murray @samjoiner.bsky.social and me. ig.ft.com/mexico-fuel-...

My colleagues Harlo Holmes and Kevin O'Gorman are doing an AMA! Come ask questions about how to more safely share information with the press: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

🦫🇩🇪 Just learned that the German word for that cheap plywood mixture — the stuff of lots of IKEA furniture — is called Bieberkotz: “beaver’s vomit.”

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Gonna try to be nuanced here and speak broadly: There are several reasons to be skeptical of driverless cars, but the biggest one is the fact that they need to record everything in order to function. And then police see them as an extension of the surveillance state and act accordingly

Amazing to win two @amnesty.org awards for our visual investigations into Ukrainian children on Russian adoption websites and settler-soldiers in the West Bank. @christopherjm.ft.com @jamesshotter.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me @samjoiner.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social

Hello from SXSW where @chriscook.news‬, ‪@samjoiner.bsky.social‬, @alisonkilling.bsky.social‬ & I looked at computational reporting in the news, the new possibilities it opens up, the skills it requires and how AI is not solving everything on this front Bonus: Almost collided with ABBA's Björn

Our harrowing report on life in Kherson exposed an unprecedented Russian military strategy: the systematic use of drones to terrorise and depopulate a city. @christopherjm.ft.com @inari-ta.bsky.social on.ft.com/3SF3h8x

Inside Mariupol: Russia’s new Potemkin village exposed appalling conditions endured by locals under occupation — and the oligarchs profiting from the sham rebuild. @alisonkilling.bsky.social Polina Ivanova @peter.andringa.me @digitalcampbell.ft.com @carolinenevitt.bsky.social ig.ft.com/mariupol/