Excellent thread I'm amazed that some still defend the idea that having fascists in the room is essential to a healthy democratic debate and yet here we still are...

Regulation of election campaigns is way behind the curve.

A long BBC piece about the hypothesis of "two-tier policing": key context penultimate paragraph: this is a view held by 16-20% of people, (though half of the 14% who voted Reform) could have come earlier. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scotland being 4-0 up before half time is something I would be very happy to get used to!

Sorry but this is just flat out racism. One of the main things which Refugee Week activities do is break down barriers in communities to help reduce tensions, that's good for everyone. Cancelling funding for Refugee Week doesn't "put British people first" in any way. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ask yourself the question ‘what function does it serve to debate whether someone is English?’ Nationality is a social convention. Nations don’t exist. People fabricated the identity relatively recently then enforced that social reality on us. The function is to exclude certain types of people.

Honestly incredible stuff but this made me gasp: "For $100 million a year we can get clean oceans,” he said. This is less than the annual marketing budget of most major consumer goods companies that produce the plastic The Ocean Cleanup is pulling from the sea. techfixated.com/young-invent...

Having Michael Gove on HIGNFY during my teenagers GCSEs is about as triggering as it gets.

the way to fix it would be the bullshitters running these programmes actually taking guest selection/booking seriously, rather than having it as this bums-on-seats logistical task and that's in the best case scenario, where producers aren't deliberately trying to get traction by booking loudmouths

This is a pretty awesome graph - uselessness of #GenAI

With the passing of Raul Pacheco-Vega, I want to appreciate those academics who have been blogging, who keep blogging despite it all, and generate public resources. Today, I am reading through Alana Lentin's site, which is an incredible gift: www.alanalentin.net Send me your blogs.

When you seek the opinion of public majorities around issues such as trans people or those seeking asylum, it highlights how gobsmackingly out of touch media and politicians are with normal people who just see humans rather than minorities who should be hounded and persecuted for being themselves.

Watching the UK collapse into frothing far right conspiracism is the real decadence. Too many people letting it happen

People are having a go at social media but the traditional media reporting of this story has been disgusting. Even the BBC have been legitimising these talking points. It's hard to push back against online cranks when 'objective' media do this

My most recent article “A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life” (co-authored with Bev Skeggs) open access @antipodeonline.bsky.social #necroeconomics #asset-classstruggle #socialsuffocation #housing #mould onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am so angry that the press in this country are rending their garments to accommodate racist agitators whilst vulnerable people are having their rights removed. This is not deliberate distraction its systemic. There is no room for anything else whilst the far right consume our every thought.

Terrible story with the now normalised backdrop of watered down environmental protections.

I am so angry that the press in this country are rending their garments to accommodate racist agitators whilst vulnerable people are having their rights removed. This is not deliberate distraction its systemic. There is no room for anything else whilst the far right consume our every thought.

You might not think that the Cheshire West rollback today affects you, but it only takes a stroke, a head injury, dementia or a mental health episode to make you vulnerable to the kind of abuses the framewpark sought to prevent. Very scary: www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

This is a crystal-clear analysis explaining why the UKSC decision yesterday that overturned Cheshire West is appalling (add it to the list). Thanks to @droliverlewis.bsky.social for this public service

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Oh, BBC. How far you have fallen. ‘Political activist Tommy Robinson spoke to the crowd…’ Political activist? Abominable dereliction of journalistic integrity. Yet again. Almost as though there’s an agenda here of normalising the far right.

This is not "legitimate grievances", this is not about "anti-white racism" or "two-tier policing", this is not about "protesting" This is fascists having been emboldened by decades of mainstreaming We can keep pretending it's not and encourage them or we can do something about it

Been feeling a bit under the weather as I’ve had a flair up of a painful eye problem over the weekend. Just got a gift box sent to me from my friend Danaidh with the note 'If the eye is making you feel a bit piratey, just lean into it..' Its contents are below.

(screams into the void about publishing being over consolidated and also this AI BS) newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

Taking this seriously & avoiding the critical DS decoys is also partly 🧩🧩🧩@alex-taylor.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @cyberlyra.bsky.social @beshestakofsky.bsky.social are driving at arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

The UK does not have a "Constitution" that the Supreme Court is the guardian of. It's not its job to invalidate standing statute law. Allowing it to do so is a slippage toward some kind of juridical swamp where nobody knows who's sovereign any more.

Remember folks, the people who've now got the Labour Party to completely abandon the rights of trans people have ALREADY pivoted to abortion, and their real hardcore have got contraception and divorce in their sights next. Transphobia is misogyny.

Imagine if politicians cared as much about the 90% of the electorate that doesn't vote for the far right as they do for those who are willing to remove rights to entire communities, spread hatred, foster authoritarianism etc... Pathetic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An ERC-funded philosopher at Ghent University appears to be openly adopting Richard Lynn’s strategy of “hav[ing] a go at the rehabilitation of eugenics”

How many times do we need to “discover” that, if you spend real resources on personal support for young people, you can help them build better lives? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The very same tactics the Lib Dems used in my constituency at the last election. Polling in 4th place they said only they could beat the Tories in the seat. Instead they took votes from Labour keeping the Tory incumbent in place and came 4th as predicted behind Reform.

In positions of power the Right maligns & makes no concessions to anyone outside its constituency. Everyone else has to understand, reach out, look for common ground, appease & concede. Bigotry gets a special license & sympathy, denying its exponents any agency & relieving them of responsibility.

Sigh. We gave a paper at FaccT in 2020 on this and surprise! Seems little has changed. I wonder if anyone buying these systems or similar in EU has noticed yet that most of this is illegal under the AI Act - assessing the emotional state of candidate specifically banned & this prov already in force.

The BBC have finally found a topic they don't need to both-sides, apparently

If our phone is out to get us, to compel us to pick them up, to extract attention and value, and make us stupid, then they are weapons used against us. The answer to this is to turn a weapon into a tool. www.bishuk.com/relationship...

Love this.

Would like to see this as an on screen sidebar on every financial news segment, show and channel for the foreseeable future.

I think this is a central point. One technology makes life better for everyone and everything; Blair only endorses the one that doesn’t.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

As a working-class child with a 1970s/80s education, nobody EVER said to me that I shouldn't aspire to better things through study. Two Tory PMs were kind enough to fund my degrees, in full, with free money to eat & pay rent with. This is how it should be, for everyone, & I will die on that hill.

NEW | Cor! What a scorcher! And here I am to pour cold water on coverage of the UK heatwave… MURDOCH’S RED HOT LEGACY OF CLIMATE DENIAL. There’s a focus on the fantasy of sun-seekers heading to the beach over the reality of an overheated future. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/murdochs-r...

They will NEVER be happy archive.is/2026.05.25-2...

Tfw you have reply marked on your post but bluesky hides it from you - what’s that all about?

I cannot imagine a more on-the-nose metaphor than tech companies filling their offices with free drugs that supposedly enhance your productivity but are more addictive than heroin. fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

gonna be wild when I'm in my station eleven style acting troupe post climate apocalypse and I dramatise what we did during the peak years before 2°C and I have to explain ehrc bathroom guidance