🚨 Earth's vital signs are flashing red. 🌡️ 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history. Read the latest Climate report from @williamripple.bsky.social and Christopher Wolf's team, published in BioScience. oxford.ly/47i6K5j

Net migration to the UK is falling rapidly. But how far will it fall? A new, detailed estimate by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social projects net migration in 2026 will be 70K to 170K. This will have significant consequences, both economic and political. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Intense but inspiring event yesterday @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social celebrating 10 years of this brilliant online resource for teachers (and everyone interested in UK's long history of migration) www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk Needed more now than ever.

Well worth a listen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Delve into the rich tapestry of South Asian experiences in the UK through our 13 theme pages. Each theme offers a blend of context, timelines and stories, linking individual lives and events across generations and geographies. southasianbritain.org/themes/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick. At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division. The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

It's happening www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sad to have to walk past the Far right march near Russell Square to reach Noor Inayat khan's memorial statue where we meet every September to celebrate the birthday of this war heroine.

There's a lot wrong with British democracy, but three things we should defend with iron determination: - no party involvement in appointing judges; - non-partisan drawing of constituency boundaries; - limited party spending by comparison with the US - though this is now very much at risk.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights warns that countries are becoming bolder in attacking dissidents in the UK. Russia, China & Iran are the worst, but Bahrain, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, & the UAE have all attacked people here.

Happy South Asian Heritage Month! To mark the start of SAHM, we are excited to share that on Tuesday 22 July our landmark educational website, South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, will launch. To learn more, visit: project.southasianbritain.org #southasianheritagemonth #RootsToRoutes

Highlands Rewilding founder and CEO wins top environmental prize. Our founder and CEO Jeremy Leggett has been awarded one of the world’s two top environmental prizes and its half million USD prize money. Past winners have included Jim Hansen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, and James Lovelock.

BBC News - Bygone photos show life in Wales' oldest multi-ethnic community www.bbc.com/news/article... #berthardy #tigerbay

@nandosigona.bsky.social and I have come off our podcast hiatus to talk about the new immigration white paper and the Brexit-sized elephant in the room (as well as the dogwhistle politics) Listen wherever you get your podcasts or visit our website: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...

This is terrific - moving and at the same time enraging that the Government want to make it harder for refugees to gain citizenship. MPs should read this before voting on that!

Are you working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or projects featuring migration history? Join us for the first event in the Migration Network series, focused on how digital tools are being used to document and share migration stories through collections work.

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

Every family has a migration story. What ONE object represents your family story? And why? We’d love for you to share in the comments to help us think about a future collection.

Ritu Kapur, Quint: Two facts can be true but contradict each other when presented without rigorous arguments. Just puts off audiences, may not distinguish bet. reliability of content from journalists/influencers. How to build trust & make impact in era of fast-scrolling content consumption? #ijf25

Matt Wells CNN: People on their smartphones now struggle to discern what is true, even on traditional media. People living in parallel universes of facts, this creates an existential crisis of identity for news media. Our job is to report on what is consequential and follow it through #ijf25

Natalia Antelava: The piping for distributing facts is broken. Plethora of social media platforms are driving this. Mostly now full of sewage, so even if you add pure water, people are still drinking sewage. Journalism needs to not ally with tech platforms who do not serve public interest. #ijf25

"A tidal wave of comment but less primacy of facts." Published comments, not rooted in facts, are flooding out fact-based truth, sometimes deliberately. Is truth-based journalism still possible or affordable? - Alan Rusbridger, Editor of Prospect magazine and former editor of The Guardian #ijf25

Trump's attacks on press "worse than anything I've seen before" - Betsy Reed, Guardian US. Abuse of regulatory powers, using criminal law to jeopardise confidential sources, limiting access, refusing to comply with FOI requests, immigration visa status & threat of MAGA vigilante violence. #ijf25

Next up, Trump and the Press. Betsy Reed, Editor in Chief of the Guardian,US say challenge to press is the Trump strategy (according to Steve Bannon) to "flood the zone" ie overwhelm newsrooms. With limited resources, have to pick stories we can do in depth eg student visas being removed. #ijf25.

Chris Wylie lays down a challenge to journalists: Framing it as a tech story is the problem. This is not about widgets, it's a fascist movement. Journalists need to report what the tech bros are saying about the future and challenge it. Report the cult it really is. #ijf25

Find out more about the battle for the future of humanity that Isobel Cockerell and Christopher Wylie are discussing now at #ijf25 #Captured

What is God? Omnipresent, omniscient, lives forever, can't be seen but exists because people of faith believe. That is the superhuman future the cult of super-rich tech bros are working towards with AI - says tech whistleblower Chris Wylie (Cambridge Analytica) of the podcast #Captured #ijf25

Gavin Rees of Dart Centre: it's always the absolute right of a traumatised person whether or not to share their story. Journalists always need to seek meaningful consent. Everyone is different & may change with time.Telling story can help build connectedness & may contribute to justice #ijf25

Nataliya Gumenyuk of The Reckoning Project: Old ways of covering human rights abuse in war no longer work with audiences. Compassion fatigue & sense of powerlessness. Focus on v. practical skills journalists can bring: documenting, verification. Can facilitate community to deal with trauma #ijf25

Montaser Marai of Al Jazeera Media Insitute despairs of dominant media, concentrated in hands of very few in America and Europe since 19thC. Today digital hegemony of same global minority continues to flood world with its opinions & narratives that drown those of global majority. #ijf25

How do journalists represent the "global south"? How do colonial legacies still shape media narratives? Dr Yafa El Masri of UEA describes growing up in Palestinian refugee camp,always surrounded by foreign cameras. #ijf25

A bracing gallop through the history of globalisation by historian Tara Zahra with perceptive insights on where we might be headed. Worth your time.

Lovely closing party for @migrationmuseum.org as it migrates from its Lewisham shopping mall home after 5 yrs. Congratulations on all the amazing exhibitions creative collaborations, opening hearts & minds to the centrality of migration to our national story. Can't wait to see your next incarnation.

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

“We know it’s a tough time to be a journalist, but I think what strengthens all of us is that there is probably no better time to be a journalist because this is when we live our values and we live our mission.” — Maria Ressa Support fact-based journalism. @mariaressa.bsky.social

Aaron Nager, London Yiddish comedian, wrote this music hall song in 1903 about a feisty East End woman living it up in the West End. In Episode 4 shows.acast.com/the-cockney-... we explore Cockney Yiddish comedy in fiction and music with special guest @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa tells us about losing democracy

Join us for our final Late in Lewisham! It is just a week away — you'll get to explore our exhibitions after hours, get creative, and enjoy great food & drinks. Plus, hear all about our exciting future plans! 🌙🍹✨🕺🏽 #MuseumLate 📅 Thurs 13 March | 6 – 8pm Book your free ticket here: bit.ly/3EM3H9x

A sobering reminder from John Harris of the consequences of the decimation of robust and reputable local news outlets www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/12/tech-barons-bbc-plymouth-truth-misinformation Well done @davidlloydradio.bsky.social for your complaint to BBC

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