I’m getting so sick of other, irresponsible media platforming people who spout far right myths about “two tier policing” without citing the data that shows they are baseless.

“Two tier policing”: a far right, racist slogan that inverts the reality of anti-Black discrimination. Catastrophically mainstreamed by former Tory ministers, Farage and the right wing media: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

About time www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Henry Nowak’s murder is being politicised despite the family’s wishes because billionaire-funded propaganda is promoting the perverse idea of white victimhood to support far right populists. This anomalous incident is too good an opportunity for men like Farage & Vance to waste.

It’s not that complicated. Until the Conservative Party explicitly distances itself from the idea of English belonging involving “blood”, “race”, “DNA” or any other biologically-determined factor, it will remain an extremist, far right party like Reform. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When you qualify your own entitlement to be considered English on the grounds of “blood” Kemi, you are hardly helping to resist destructive identity politics. Conflict over identity politics could lead to civil war in long term, says Badenoch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Off the chart hypocrisy from someone who labels efforts at anti-racist inclusion “woke” and whose party fuelled ethnonationalism in response to Black Lives Matter. Conflict over identity politics could lead to civil war in long term, says Badenoch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/3 Believe it or not, this is in Trump's National Security Strategy: “America will always have core interests in ensuring that … the Strait of Hormuz remain open”. Also, Trump hits back at 'unpatriotic' vote after House rebukes him over Iran www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/3 With report after report indicating structurally racist policing, a number of forces introduced inclusion & diversity training. With the media now following far right prompts & blaming EDI for any failure to protect white people, we’ll see lots more abuse of data like this:

NEW On Monday, the father of murdered teenager Henry Nowak asked for restraint: " We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension.” Hours later, Elon Musk and America's far-right were exploiting the death to push anti-white racism www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

What an inspiring contrast from the “let’s return to fascism despite all the lessons of history” prescription. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Calm and clear refutation of Farage & the far right’s absurd, inverted reality lie of two tier policing - a lie they see the family tragedy of the other day simply as an opportunity to reiterate. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just out: Trump has completely misunderstood the lessons about global power offered by the British Empire: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you @channel4news.bsky.social for making it clear that Farage is whipping up rage directly contrary to the family’s wishes. Unlike the BBC News.

I remember a time when the BBC News would have respected a grieving father’s wishes to prevent his son’s death being used to promote “hatred, division or tension”. Now it seems more concerned to allow Farage to come briefly out of hiding to do precisely that before sneaking away from scrutiny again.

1/6 This is how I've been trying to explain to the author of this 'Demographic Replacement' guff in The Spectator why it's so unacceptable. Of course he and The Spectator won't care but I think it's useful to articulate anyway.

Spot on from @adambienkov.bsky.social Nigel Farage’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Speech Is a Sign of Reform’s Growing Desperation – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

It’s an indication of how successfully Paul Marshall & others have radicalised our politics that far right propaganda like this, promoting “remigration” of ethnic minorities, is now on sale in supermarkets.

1/2 The Spectator has long given intellectual cover to the far right more or less subtly, but publishing this, with its explicit promotion of demographic replacement, white nationalist and remigration ideas, puts this once venerable magazine firmly in the extremist, fascistic camp.

With the World Cup approaching can I suggest that a UK manufacturer create a St George’s Cross flag with “Supporting England’s Football Team” on it, to distinguish from the cheap Chinese-made ones that proclaim “I’m a racist”?

Lloyds of London have sponsored a requiem acknowledging the harms of its underwriting much of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

When future historians try to figure out what the hell happened to propel far right movements to prominence across the West during the 2010s-20s, the Trump-Epstein-Bannon-Farage-Johnson nexus that toppled Theresa May & brought us “hard” Brexit will be a key factor: bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

The West’s self-obsession often leads us to think that humanitarianism began here and extended outwards hand in hand with colonisation. Great blog from ICRC here that broadens the scope. blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...

When the BBC won’t engage with the story of a major politician’s phone allegedly having been hacked by Russia, and that politician declining to allow the authorities to investigate, it’s enough to make you suspicious that our national broadcaster has been infiltrated & corrupted.

'Educational retention is critical....In the UK in 2024, 43% of 18- to 24-year-olds were in education, compared with 67% in the Netherlands. Among 18-year-olds, the figures are 66% and 80%. By age 24, twice as many young people are in education in the Netherlands (43%) as in the UK (21%).' 1/3

What’s so disturbing about Farage’s lie that Russia hacked his phone is not just that it’s a deflection from the £5m bribe. It’s that he obviously didn’t expect any media scrutiny, even of such a wild claim. It’s as if as if he’s been assured of exemption from scrutiny. That’s incredibly worrying.

Neither of these stories, which are very much in the public's interest are anywhere to be seen on the BBCs website.

I wonder whether, in BBC News editorial meetings, anyone suggests things like the leader of Raise the Colours - something that initiated a major national conversation - being charged with murder? Or Farage not reporting his Russian hack claim? And if they do, who shuts them down?

Imagine my surprise as I check the BBC website & can’t find anything about this.

France finally abolishes the law rendering Black people property. In 2026. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The politicians that backed these people and their grift should be ashamed. The fact we can't speak truth in this country for fear of nationalism is so sad. "Legitimate concerns".

Looking forward to the BBC investigating the support for Farage of these people Wonder how long that will take @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcdomc.bsky.social @evanhd.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

4 of Raise the Colours charged: 1x murder + GBH with intent in Lichfield 24 May (Allison) 2x wounding: hit and run with their cherry picker on a local deflagger in Stirchley 14 May (Ryan Bridge + 1) 1x racial / religiously aggravated harassment Oxford 1 Apr (RB) 1x assault Oxford Apr 15 (Ben Cullen)

In Sept last year The Times columnist Matthew Syed wrote that “Operation Raise the Colours” was a sign that “we live in a great nation”. Any second thoughts now that the organisers have been arrested for violent crimes including murder?

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

Netanyahu has already made a mockery of the rules - based international system. He, Putin & Trump are demolishing any pretence of Western moral ascendancy. Is there anything he could do that would finally prompt serious sanctions from Israel’s Western allies? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Really looking forward to meeting what looks like a very interesting group signed up for this online workshop. Still places available too: onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Insightful: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage has got himself all tangled up in his own web of lies. Shame. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK should be seizing net zero as the vision enabling us to be at the forefront of the green technological revolution. Instead its powerful opponents are intent on dragging us to the back of the race again. The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Max Hastings exemplifies the double standards applied to antisemitism and Islamophobia. Even when condemning Israel’s use of excessive violence he cannot help denigrating the entire Arab people (and by the way Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Lit 1988). www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Superb set of articles in the current @jich.bsky.social, ranging from earliest antislavery activism through Britain's financial deal with India upon independence to the migrated archive and the handover of Hong Kong: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

The far right always claim to be protecting women and girls but the question is "from what" and "for whom". In reality they protect women and girls in the same way as they protect their car, their phone and any other item they consider their "property". They are protecting women from freedom.

So much for the argument that the far right are protecting women and girls. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform are trying to dismiss their candidate’s disgusting online behaviour as his having authentic “rough edges”. Bollocks. Rough edges means you don’t observe the trivial niceties of middle class polite convention, not that you’re a misogynistic racist. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

1/2 The full story of the Office for Students bizarre culture war against the University of Sussex and the damage it has inflicted on responsible notions of free speech. Part One: inforrm.org/2026/05/21/t...

I disagree with @pratinavanil.bsky.social about Brexit (how could you vote leave?!) and class trumping race through most of the imperial period (settlers became classless as they became white in most colonies outside India). But on ethnonationalism he’s dead right. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Did he really think he could just casually throw it out that Russia leaked his £5M bung without anyone asking for at least one tiny shred of evidence? He seems to have got so used to his lies being swallowed whole that he’s become complacent. Keep digging Nigel. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Especially important to read as immigration falls and Reform pivots in line with Tommy Robinson & the global far right, from scapegoating immigrants to targeting Muslim communities- however long established in Britain. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

1/2 Trump’s attack on Iran is a major humiliation & catastrophic for his strongman image. When Obama negotiated his deal in 2015 Iran had less enriched uranium & less demonstrable power to close the Strait of Hormuz. Trump now has to begin again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...