X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform. Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported. A new thread documenting this.

excellent work by @jamesrball.com …

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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

A Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact for the 2020s?

It’s probably worth white men with parking tickets asking Trump to intervene now he’s run out of violent insurrectionists to pardon.

Streeting speaking to the NHS Providers conference. Could this be his David Brent moment? “Um Well, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is some of you will lose your jobs. I know. Gutting. Gutting. On a more positive note, the good news is I’ve been promoted*. So every cloud!” *allegedly

PM joins Health Secretary in recognising return of racism ("that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago" - a slightly detached tone) My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Unlike Alice Thompson’s attack on Zack Polanski and the Greens, The Times appears to have closed Finkelstein’s piece to comments. I guess they know their readers!

Yes. This ludicrous phrase 'woke right' seems a fairly blatant attempt by people on the actual right to somehow associate the blatant & hideous racism they have ushered in - whether through complacency, incompetence or malice - with the people who warned it was happening.

If Truth Social AI has a name, Trump will sue her.

I hope the BBC ensure the film is made. It is up to Reform whether they take part but this is an important story. We can make up our own minds about Reforms constant dodging of media scrutiny and refusal to answer difficult questions.

“Middle class progressives” v upper class reactionaries? www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

1/x Fascinating piece by @lewisgoodall.com Real insider knowledge and very depressing. For me this was the most intellectually coherent critique of the BBC’s constant platforming of the right. Until now I have had little time for this argument… open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Shuab Ganote and Peter Hyman write for Demos on their conversations with 16 yesr olds on their experiences of society, technology, gender shifts, role models & their views of the future demos.co.uk/research/ins...

Does the BBC Charter mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?

1/2 Charles Moore on the Today Programme alleges consistent BBC bias towards metropolitan progressive views. This is a consistent line from a well coordinated group on the right who are hostile to the BBC. In the memo Prescott even cites “History Reclaimed” an ideological reactionary campaign.

Predictably the Trump White House is claiming credit for Davie’s resignation. Whatever you think of Davie this is shameful for the UK and its government.

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

The private company Restore Trust’s attempt to take over the @nationaltrust.org.uk failed again. Will they stop now? No, because they are part of the well-funded nexus of right wing activist organisations that’s determined to control national institutions. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

The frightening appeasement and complacency about democracy in America from Baker is scary. Let’s see what happens in the midterms and then in three years time…. The big Democratic poll winner is… Gavin Newsom www.thetimes.com/article/c9db...

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It’s so sad, reading social media posts about the train atrocity, that the first thought many seem to express is whether the perpetrators match their preferred narrative: that they are black, or white, immigrants, refugees and/or British or foreign, Muslim or Christian …. not about the victims, sad.

NHS STAFF SURVEY. The annual NHS staff survey is open till November 20th. Contrary to rumours it is entirely confidential and can be very important in identifying key issues that need addressing Please complete it.

All credit to the changed leadership of the Trust for being so direct about the issues

Note (according to The Times headline), stripping Mountbatten-Windsor’s title was right to save the monarchy. Not because it was morally the least the King could do to respect the victims.

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

Please make sure you vote in the National Trust AGM election by midnight tonight. If you want to keep Restore Trust candidates as figures of fun (see below) and not elect them as reactionary, historical revisionist decision-makers, use the quick vote mechanism to vote (which will doubly annoy them!)

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

In the all-conquering media/politics ecosystem that brought you Brexit, Boris Johnson, austerity, Liz Truss & the recent revival of weapons grade racism, she really is the Newcomer of the Year. Hands down. And the Spectator is now owned by a man who basked in the ugliest depths of far right Twitter.

This is a powerful & scary piece setting out 12 characteristics of governments which move from democracy to autocracy. Trump is shifting on all 12. Based on their rhetoric, how many would Reform deploy should they be elected in the UK? Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Paul Marshall’s Spectator under the editorship of Michael Gove seems to have become a Musk like platform to boost bigotry

More confusion from the hapless Philp/Lam team “It is now our formal announced policy to restrict benefits to anyone who is not a British citizen. That is policy.". Obviously, that would mean tearing up the Conservatives' own Brexit deal with the EU. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Lam took a bunch of X posts from far-right racists and so-called "thinktanks" and turned them into a policy that collapsed as soon as anyone actually read it/understood it. Would have been an absolute travesty if she hadn't won!

Oh I think it can be. And will be.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The Farage Factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m sure the Free Speech Union will be all over this one!……..Oh!

I hope @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social sees the NYT Connections grid today. There is a direct message for her!

I would hope that one of the many MPs who benefits from Sunder's tireless work would take up this case - the defamatory video needs removing urgently, and the person responsible needs to be found and held accountable

This by Stewart Lee is spot on. And, as he reminds, if you’re of the National Trust member, remember to do you annual duty of voting worn the reactionary loons at Restore Trust who want to take over…. again!

Solidarity with @sundersays.bsky.social tonight. He campaigns relentlessly on the lack of regulatory mechanism to tackle obvious, nasty racism on X/Twitter on behalf of all of us. His calm, considered responses make it appear that there is little personal impact; but this must be deeply upsetting.

A very worrying escalation of online harassment. Somebody has used a video of me saying "racism in football is a game of two halves" + put a fake voiceover on it saying "what I would say to the girls of Rotherham is it is a game of two halves" x.com/EuropaIneffa...

Building a large ballroom for the White House seems a sensible idea to me. Where else is he going to store the balls that he seems to have removed from multiple members of Congress and the media?

The Thiel Effect - with @nafeez.bsky.social on the lead stories on this edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=7OaS...

Let me guess. Instructing Trump to demolish the White House?

So, hold on. If you don’t get your democratic way, you’re proposing to become refugees in some other benighted country?

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

I suggest it may be useful to run some real time tests on how the police now get on with "focusing on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations"