No one saw a footballer getting these scores! What a night #Strictly

How has Nikita not got a Tesco clubcard yet? #Strictly

The most important piece on the rise of the Alt-Right that I've read in a long time. At the end, like me, you may find yourself thinking 'if it talks like a nazi and walks like a nazi...' and 'eugenics? again?'

I love that we have Tree of the Year in the UK ♥️

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Labour made 76 key pledges. 15 delivered, 16 on track, 20 in progress. Only 9 “not kept.” That’s not nothing. But media storms about a few issues dominate attention. Stephen McNair reports

This is an excellent example of timely crisis communications and top-notch science communication. The team should be congratulated for this. Hopefully their comms and social teams will be supported to handle what comes their way. Customer-facing digital roles need tangible support.

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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

For a monthly fee, this AI company promises to bring your dead relatives back to life through digital recreations. Is it comforting way to preserve family memories – or a dangerous exploitation of human loss? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/woul...

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Obama on Charlie Kirk:

Why can't we afford our own housing?

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight. David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach. British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Go on then #thesummeriturnedpretty

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In London, hate will never win.

Interesting! Another piece of evidence supporting the effectiveness of a prosocial approach to moderation and community management

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

1/ Researchers on populism have a tendency to replicate populist narratives of “a decent if misunderstood ordinary folk” ignored by “arrogant elites”. But what if the motivations of some of these folks are fundamentally indecent?

No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals. I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

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When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Yup. 110,000 attending. Not 1 million. All that money thrown at this, and that's all they could muster up. Meanwhile, here are the attendance figures of some real UK protests (without financial incentives thrown in) 1/2

Is Substack now hiding its Nazi problem? Still promoting questionable content to users who are not subscribed? It happened to me this weekend... 1/3

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Double decker baking day Lemon drizzle cake and fruity flapjack, two British baking classics 🍽️🍜

At least as written here, a textbook example of a young man becoming dangerously isolated via digital: How the Gunman Who Killed Charlie Kirk Got on Campus and Escaped www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Funny how ‘unite the kingdom’ is all about creating division.

It has begun. Two selection boxes of chocolates, for 'Christmas' - one for the postman and one for TBC Quality Street and Cadbury Heroes

So, this is the weekend that I learned about emotional support bananas And how funny it is to tell someone the plot of a TV show as if it happened to your friend #MitreStudios 🍌👓

Feels like I'm out of the #kdrama loop on here (away in London at events and locking myself away to write) Just finished Death's Game that had a brilliant premise, some strong acting and was a solid 8/10 for me. Started Her Private Life. I am LOVING the fun, silly plot and the leads' chemistry

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

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Remember the moral panic around the gypsy and traveller communities for several years? The front pages. The hysteria. The voyeuristic reports. The protests outside their settlements. The "legitimate concerns" by locals. Weren't they expressed in precisely the same terms as anti-refugee bigotry now?

Interesting piece. “I can’t say the Whitehall mandarins ever liked my role but I felt Rayner understood advocacy. At one tense meeting I asked if I should leave and she came over to me at the end, held both my hands and said: “Don’t ever leave the room.”

If only the British media held Nigel Farage to the same standards as they do Angela Rayner…

Tip for the Mail, Telegraph, etc - imagine how you’d report this if this was Angela Rayner

This is a huge story. Don't let him get away with it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Legendary behaviour. THIS is how you use your platform.