The great graduate job drought - www.ft.com/content/c894... brilliant piece, somewhat terrifying for this father of three

I'd like to see how this is broken down by media consumption habits and trusted sources for each group.

Wonderful date night with my wife at Hamnet, contemplating the death of our children and our terrifying inability to protect them.

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Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

Amongst all the other news and noise today, this is significant news about complicity of the United Kingdom state’s complicity in torture. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is absolutely basic, but it's a test the BBC, NYT and others keep failing. There is a verifiable (indeed in this case verified) version of events, and there are lies. It is not 'balance' to report the lies as equally valid.

ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.

Profoundly disturbing that Trump Regime released a video of a murderer: circling his victim who is exuding calm kindness to him, killing the victim as she tries to get away, calling her F*cking B*tch after he shoots her, and then Trump Regime loudly proclaiming how this exonerates murderer.

The NYT gets deserved flak for the both-sides-ing of fascism in its news pages, but has at least let Michelle Goldberg off the leash to describe what we witnessed here.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

Compare this admirably clear analysis with BBC News at Ten last night: "there are fears this may undermine international law" - not one but three weasel words. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Roz is absolutely correct. Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review). In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.

The original Whisky Galore is the best Christmas Day family movie.

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

If these people own your football club, pay extortionate fees to your favourite comedians, or have bought rights to international sports events you follow then protest, call them to account, ask questions.

Saudi Arabia used to execute an average of 71 people each year. Then MBS took over. Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.

Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them. This is glorious. 🔥

Christopher Anderson's pictures for @vanityfair.com are a piercing study in power and corruption. Kudos to him and to the team that ensured they would be published. If I were teaching a class in representation and resistance, this work and its entry into the public sphere would be front and center.

Superb bit of analysis, about a small, ageing country that desperately needs migrants, and what happens when the entire political class agrees that we must stop them coming, at all costs.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Así es como se comunica que España no participará en Eurovision. Bravo RTVE. Bravo Silvia Intxaurrondo. Una vez más.

This is fine! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Just finished shortlisting applications for Media Officer job at Reprieve. It was an exceptionally strong field and some very good candidates won't even get an interview. Feel bad for them, because it's a tough market in media and NGO sectors, and rejections can be dispiriting. Keep at it.

They were 8 and 11 years old

Britain's political and media establishment is still on X, pretending it's a news source and measure of public opinion. Our politics is deeply influenced by rage bait that is manufactured and amplified overseas, for profit. It is so broken and so damaging. Will the govt do anything about it?

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?

RIP Jimmy Cliff. Interviewing him was one of the great privileges of my time at BBC 6Music. Few have done "sweet but tough, tough but sweet" even half as well, and the songs on The Harder They Come will live forever.

"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus...the NHS is so heavily reliant on doctors from elsewhere – 42% of its entire medical workforce qualified overseas."

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Extremely thorough analysis of the BBC's distorted coverage of Israel's genocide in Gaza by @trillingual.bsky.social The piece is very well sourced, fair, nuanced, sympathetic to institutional pressures on the BBC - making the verdict on its biased output all the more damning.

Pressure on Robbie Gibb to stand down increasing. Well-deserved union.bectu.org.uk/resource/let...

Last punt for this. Applications close at midnight on Sunday. Come and work with me. It's a great job, varied and challenging, working with journalists at top tier media outlets every day and shaping stories that make a difference.

This is erudite, insightful, searching, funny - the antithesis of the ubiquitous, lazy 'both sides' journalism it elegantly tears to pieces.

Saudi authorities are executing hundreds of people a year, mostly for alleged drug crimes. This excellent Guardian article, reported with Reprieve's help, tells some of their stories. The cruelty of the MBS regime is unfathomable - and the bravery of these families speaking out.

Admirably clear take from the BBC's own Culture and Media Editor Katie Razzall. It's carefully worded, of course, but concludes that "some are asking" if "the BBC has been weaponised" by the right.

"All requested anonymity, fearing legal repercussions." In Mohammed bin Salman's Saudi Arabia you can be executed for saying the emperor has no clothes. The project will never be built but they've already sentenced some tribespeople to death for getting in the way.

The Times was always a conservative paper but it's startling how hard it's swung to the right under Tony Gallagher, with Labour in power. This is their top story today, splashed on front page of app.

We started working with the NYT on this story months ago, but it's worth the wait. Their journalists have dug into Saudi Arabia's record year of executions for drug offences, to tell the stories of some of the poor migrants targeted - often killed just for being in the wrong place at wrong time.