The BBC is apologising for its Panorama edit. It shouldn’t. First, the narrative is true: Donald Trump *did* incite the Capitol riot. Second, the apology won’t appease those attacking it. So why not at least stand for something? Wrote this on it earlier this week: inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

My new series - Empire With David Olusoga - starts 9pm on BBC Two. Whole series on @bbciplayer.bsky.social from tonight.

I've just finished listening to a massive 11-part series on the history of Gaza (it starts with the Philistines!) on @empirepoduk.bsky.social with @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social and I have to say it's extraordinary. Start here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

"Historian William Dalrymple: British politicians bear responsibility for the destruction of Palestinian lives. In this country, no one is taught anything about Palestine” “History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten." #NZPol

Agreed, probably the best source for a detailed but easily digestible background on the history & nuances of this region. Anyone commenting on Gaza at this point who hasn’t listened to it needs to sit themselves down & take the plunge.

I see Jason Cowley is now claiming Gareth Southgate for Blue Labour. Can't say I see any connection between a nostalgic view for imagined white working class communities of the 1950s and building a successful team in the image of a multicultural country...

This is an outstanding post on the criminal justice system. Do read.

Far from “cancelling Christmas”, the move away from a 1 hour, one off event to a whole season of events is quite the opposite. Shall we have a look at what’s happening you *can* do in Sheffield this Christmas… 7/15

He makes out it’s about stopping people coming riskily on small boats, but he’s changed skilled worker visa rules affecting people who have studied here, done grad visa work expecting to move on to jobs that he’s abruptly said are no longer eligible. bsky.app/profile/caro... 🤯

30 years working in IT here. (plus occasional work delivering parcels) Maybe when I'm too old to work, I'll self deport so I don't drain the British state. With the ambient xenophobia since Brexit, when I lost my job in Autumn 2024, I just couldn't stand the prospect of visiting the job centre.

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:

Been speaking to Lisa Nandy for my Sunday show this morning Had lots to say…join us from 10 @lbc.co.uk

UK electricity bills up 163% since 2008. Wages haven't. 6.1m households in fuel poverty, £4.43bn debt Profiteering: Energy sector average profit margin 23%, grid sector 38%, gas extraction 58%. Profit last year £30bn. 128,000 a year die in fuel poverty. No govt checks profiteering.

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago. Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE. He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

There’s also Quinn Harberl, a blind protester in Portland who they dragged by his feet. Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground bsky.app/profile/broa...

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

President Trump says that President Biden pushed for the Russia-Ukraine war to happen -Surreal to see the current US president sat in The White House blame the former US president for Russia invading Ukraine

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Ukraine accuses Russia of luring recruits from Africa into 'suicidal' military contracts to bolster its war efforts.

First Man to Monetise Hate Gets Trillion-Dollar Payday In the most exciting development of late-stage capitalism since $12 bottles of artisanal water, doughy fear-harvester Elon Musk has been rewarded with one trillion dollars. Click for more! open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Inflation and tariffs are raising the price of shelf-stable food just when the most vulnerable Americans need to stock up, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.

🚨 Here’s what Farage Doesn’t Want You To See…👇 him and Nathan Gill saying the same statements about Russia 🇷🇺 #Brexit #putin

NOVEMBER DATES 5/11 - Farages girlfriend receives verdict on her fraud case. 20/11 COVID Inquiry Report 21/11 - Nathan Gill, Farage’s buddy gets sentenced for taking bribes from Russia 27/11- we will find out what’s in the Budget No news on who bought Farage’s house though

Previously on Bylines Scotland. “Nathan Gill acted not in the interests of the people who had voted for him, or in those of the British and European taxpayers he was paid to represent, but in the interests of Russia.” @cluthaman.bsky.social

only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have “earnings over £125,140” I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

The easiest way to get a right-wing Brexiter rattled is point out their shady links to Russia. Just wondering if anyone involved in Vote Leave/Leave.EU didn't have strong links to the Kremlin? The top 5 were all up to their necks in it.

Joey Barton has been prosecuted for social media posts on X that crossed the legal line. It is unusual for things to get prosecuted in court. The X platform has no serious or even tokenistic effort to prevent much stronger stuff that is clearly highly unlawful www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Elon Musk is now the highest paid CEO on the planet his $100bn a year for 10 years deal is 2,500,000x the wage of his average employee In fact it's 20x the entire wage bill for all 125,000 of Tesla's other employees For comparison World Hunger could be cured for $37-50bn a year

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Seoul and Tokyo say North Korea fired a ballistic missile https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/north-korea-tensions/seoul-and-tokyo-say-north-korea-fired-a-ballistic-missile

Someone collapses live in a White House briefing and everybody rushes over to help. RFK jr, runs off.

Let it unleash a thousand memes. I call this one: "Donald Trump stands idly by while the American economy passes out in a corner."

Musk is a pantomime villain. Zuckerberg is every bit as dangerous.

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Sudan war: Life-saving community kitchens on verge of collapse

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

I can’t recall the mass hysteria of the far right media and their assorted sycophantic lap dogs over these shocking accidental releases. I wonder why that is?

An Afghan man who has been detained for nearly four months, despite being charged with no crime, will remain behind bars indefinitely after his asylum case was delayed once again. If he’s deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

We need more reporting of local government. This is quite a thread...

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

24,000+ of us are saying NO to the Government’s tax breaks for oil & gas giants 💸 We need thousands more to make them listen. Join me by adding your name today: 38d.gs/djdv

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad! share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...