that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them

Sadiq Khan says integration matters. But making refugee status temporary "will leave people in a precarious state, suspended in limbo for years, their lives overshadowed with uncertainty” Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

A big thank you to all our speakers, attendees, and organisers for such an insightful event. More content will be available soon, capturing all the great discussions from today. In the meantime, please do stay in touch, and let's keep the conversation going! #FWD50

If you see it you have to stop and watch it.

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This is a wonderful, and important piece of writing. As the granddaughter of immigrants I find the current rhetoric horrific and terrifying. This is not the country my grandparents came to and this next stage of fear driven policy making is so disheartening.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

Moving organisations along is hard. I did a talk on it last year and now it's here in blog form. public.digital/pd-insights/...

If you or someone you know can't afford an Internet connection, get in touch with the National Databank. They provide free SIMs for people who are eligible. https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services/national-databank

Just excellent and all they deserve. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

My colleague @juliacushion.bsky.social made a “sunlight optimism” spreadsheet, my colleague @zarino.co.uk said there should be a postcode lookup version, I have the day off, the kid has gone swimming, and so, I present: The Sunlight Optimism Calculator: dracos.co.uk/made/sunligh...

2025 was the year AI turbocharged online misinformation, while Reform UK vs Labour is becoming a key battleground for political claims. But what else have our fact checkers learned in the last 12 months - and what lessons will we be taking into 2026?

My final Monkey Cage is broadcast on Radio 4 on Christmas Day - I hope you have enjoyed the latest series - I am proud of what we created www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

A big warm hug of a thread, plus amazing artwork, cats, cultural history and a happy ending. 🧑‍🍳’s kiss.

Watch our Business Development Lead, Jack Hughes, reflect on some of PD's 2025 highlights in our video Year Note. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZu7...

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

In memory of Rob Reiner, please enjoy my favourite Wikipedia entry of all time, which is Former Members of Spinal Tap. Any time I need a laugh, I pull it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Been trying to figure out what group of reasonable people might actually give a shit about digital sovereignty/control other than people already radicalized and I think it might be parents.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

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Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.

People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"

This Thursday we're hosting a PD Sessions event on Finding Opportunities for Radical Transformation in Local Public Services. Book your place to attend in person or online ⬇️ public.digital/events/pd-se...

As well as our monthly round-up of internet era ways of working and technology news, Public Digital newsletter #101 explores examples of change and innovation in local government. Read it on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/public...

More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We need better monetisation and transparency regulations. Governments should put some tough proposals out there and watch the platforms self-regulate to avoid the full fat version.

Superman might be the perfect movie for Mikey’s lens of optimism youtu.be/ZHF3vCXApkA?...

The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing." “Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit. That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

New post just out: Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list". No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks. It desperately needs a new approach. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

New post just out: "Never again?" On how the radical right are trying to change our collective memory about World War Two as part of their assault on the postwar order. And why that memory remains a critical defence against nationalism. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/n...

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

Iterate, if you can. A new post from me on the long struggle to create shorter feedback cycles in government: medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public

Looking forward to the columnists and right wing women calling out Farage like they did when Corbyn "hated women journalists" - here he is responding to *Michal Husain* in language last (barely) tolerated in professional settings since the 80s.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇