This is a really dark column and rings 100% true.

I'm old enough to remember waves of moral outrage at horror films and computer games and rap music for supposed connections to violence. Now we have the world's richest man and multiple leaders of right-wing movements actively and openly calling for rage and violence on our streets and... Nothing.

@royalsociety.org I hear you’re blocking people calling on you to cancel Elon Musk’s fellowship. His presence besmirches your name. He’s a danger to British democracy. Reconsider.

This is excellent reporting. An essential read if you have any interest in how Britain is run, who profits, and the political and social consequences of rampant outsourcing of essential services. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

...plus the mainstream media, including the BBC, treating X as if it is representative of public opinion and repeating far right narratives unchecked.

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

A simple reporting idea, beautifully executed. Helps that the guy sleeping rough outside the mansion is funny and self-aware and has had a very interesting life.

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

Struggling with the cognitive dissonance of knowing all this, hating it with a passion, but still being excited for the matches to kick off. The World Cup is a special, unique event no matter how hard corrupt and hateful men try to ruin it.

The "most inclusive World Cup ever", update on the update of the update.

“It was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive” when ICE killed multiple people including Alex Pretti such as him kicking out a taillight and “an officer being hit in the head with a snowball” not hard to understand why people think journalism is cooked

I don't doubt they are sincere racists, but these people are also, without exception, grifters. Hate is monetised on X and Youtube, with an assist from traditional media, and the government does nothing.

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

Even the simple use of ‘DEI’ - not a term used in the UK - shows the extent to which this shameful position has been imported from America’s far right.

It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Huh. Grade could say that impartiality rules are outdated. But he's chosen to say GB News is impartial instead, which is obvious bollocks

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2026 are... Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife of Democracy for Sale.

🚨 THIS COULD NOT BE MORE IMPORTANT 🚨 One man (a single human being) has decided to tilt this country towards fascism, has the power to do so and the Government is doing nothing. IT WIILL SOON BE TOO LATE

They’re going to start arresting attorneys who defend immigrants.

You’re delirious from heat. You haven’t had a break from it in days. You haven’t slept. You can’t remember how much water you’ve drunk. Your clothes cling to your skin in a sweaty melange. You don’t know what is real and what is delusion. Tony Blair drops a long read.

Tony Blair has timed his assault on Labour’s climate policy perfectly. Who needs net zero? Everything is fine.

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

Reprieve is today's featured BBC Radio 4 appeal charity. Writing the script was a fascinating challenge: tell a single death row story, broaden out to cover everything we do, within strict BBC constraints, in under four minutes. AA is an absolute pro - 90% of what you'll hear was her first take.

The new Reprieve website is live today. Have a look. It's been an interesting process, discussing what we do, why it's important now, and how to tell that story. With rule of law under attack, at home and abroad, we're needed more than ever.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Made a birthday card for our eldest teen with an AI image generator and our youngest teen tells me it has "Charlie Kirk-ified" his face. Looked it up and... it is a thing

Just another day for our Israeli allies.

cc #journalism

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

This is some proper gilded age madness. Pitchforks for the lot of 'em. www.thetimes.com/article/8397...

Israel says it will sue @nytimes.com over Nicholas Kristof's reporting on the horrible torture of Palestinian prisoners. It's an absurd attack on press freedom meant to further shield any accountability. Watch us count the ways this lawsuit threat is both frivolous and outrageous.

Here's our updated story -- with a much better photo! -- on Richard Glossip's release from jail. His fight isn't over. But it's pretty amazing to see. (With @jordansmith.bsky.social for @theintercept.com)

By my count this is the seventh Reform councillor suspended after being elected just one week ago*, mostly for expressing direct support for Nazism or other forms of racism.

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

That'll do it

“It is essential that the world sees this rebranding for what it is – a flimsy attempt to disguise brutal abuses of human rights,” Exclusive with @theguardian.com on the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia’s culture washing while they continue to execute record numbers for drug offences: tinyurl.com/3wazjwy4

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

This is staggering. Although of a piece with longstanding legislative and media efforts to make it almost impossible to prosecute British soldiers who commit war crimes.

We now live in a two tier political ecosystem: Can you imagine the outcry if Keir Starmer had been “gifted” £5 million by a businessman whose particular interests then happened to shape his policies? Elections watchdog considers looking into £5m gift to Farage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

This won't feature much in reports of what is already, by some distance, the best game played in Europe this season: close to zero shithousery, play-acting or "gamesmanship". Those two teams are too busy playing actual football for that. PSG is still PSG, I know.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

Many people in Britain will be forced to suffer slow, painful, humiliating deaths as a result of this undemocratic blocking. Assisted dying gives people in terrible pain the agency to leave on their own terms. The safeguards work: in Canada, Australia and across Europe.

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