"No one cares about climate change, you need to stop writing about it" - a newsroom editor. "You are too weak to be a journalist" - the same editor, the day I learned about my dad's cancer diagnosis.

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Thinking of all those EU development funds ...

“This isn’t journalism. It’s a channel working in its owner’s financial interests” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/06/gb-news-co-owner-cashing-in-on-climate-chaos-after-leap-in-fossil-fuel-investments-critics-say

'She holds a PhD in equality law'

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Just to remind ourselves, here are our initial @bylinetimes.bsky.social's investigations into Cottrell's role in helping Farage become a true 'Man of the Paypal' er.... checks notes... 7 years ago

Who’s filling Reform’s coffers?

As reported by The Telegraph- Russian dossier article- no surprise to anyone paying attention

Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Welcome to Scotland in 2026, where Blackshirts parade openly on the streets There’s now been two parades by far-right extremists clad in black in Scottish cities Parties like Reform have whipped up division to boiling point. Citizens need to wake up and take action In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

I saw people were talking about journalists whining about bluesky but then I saw it was Stephen Pollard and FFS that's not even a fucking journalist man. He's a right wing blowhard that repeatedly has had to pay fines or caused publications he works for to pay fines for right wing blowharding.

Great point well made

spectator.com/article/spec... Take a look at who attends the Spectator garden party. Plenty of Labour and other party bigwigs and henchpersons and journalists unembarrassed to compromise their integrity. It says: we are never too brutal, bigoted or dishonest to be beyond the pale.

The scandal here is people in the SNP were advising a homophobe on how to achieve power without revealing her true intentions and political inclinations.

The ARC conference where Kate Forbes appeared is a gathering of every far-right nutjob and bigot. The most poisonous people in politics, media, business and religion. Those are her peers and why she was a disastrous choice to lead the SNP and Scotland. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So, "And I would have gotten away with it except for the gays!" Her line saying the public backed her is a nice touch to further say the country is against LGBTQ people. Classy.

My MP hanging out with some of the vilest people in British politics and media at The Spectator’s annual garden party. You can understand why so many people are disillusioned with politics. spectator.com/article/spec...

Here it is, the cover of the paperback edition of my book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. Now featuring some snazzy quotes! It’s out on August 27. geni.us/BreakingMicWright

Palantir is paying 8% tax on its huge UK operations. Think of this - and the many corporations like them - the next time you hear a minister saying we can't afford tge NHS, social services, good pensions and decent benefits. www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...

This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes

OFSTED announces yet another plan - the fifth? - on unregistered (and thus not regulated or inspected) care homes for vulnerable and abandoned children. There are now 900+ of these - it's been a criminal offence to run one since 2000... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Of course he does. For years Farage took money from Putin-mouthpiece Russia Today. Harbourne is also a stakeholder in Tether, the cryptocurrency used to fill Russia's war chest, and Rumble, a 'free speech' video platform used by the Kremlin. Shockingly, he's also a shareholder in QinetiQ.

More evidence that readers of much of the UK press aren't getting news, they're getting propaganda. If we don't change, we are cooked.

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

“Over the last decade, the consensus over climate action has shattered and there’s been a 186% rise in hate crimes against trans people. Meanwhile, channels like TalkTV have been trampling over duties of impartiality with a flood of misinformation and hate.” https://goodlaw.social/0r9k

How many paedophiles and rapists in churches have said the same down the years? Enough to fill hell, I reckon

Debanked in Britain for journalism

Absolutely phenomenal work from The Juice on the endless horror that is Palantir. Brevity/soul/wit distilled into a global alarm call.

Labour really demonstrating how they are the cruelest, most anti-asylum, government in decades. That isn't to say Conservatives weren't hideous, but Labour are significantly worse on every measure. This is a policy rooted purely in cruelty over anything else. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.

with so much Manc focus today, if Kemi was a reworked Smiths cover, it would be There Is a Light That Never Goes On

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Of all the idiotic and irresponsible ideas this government has come up with this must take the cake. A self selecting group of people massively undertrained and under prepared to evaluate what are often nuanced and complex situations for asylum appeals. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Exposed: Reform Councillor Shared White Supremacist and Covid Conspiracy Posts Jamie Pullin's accounts shared a series of far-right videos and conspiracy theory posts... https://bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/exposed-reform-councillor-shared-white-supremacist-and-covid-conspiracy-posts/

Odyssesus's dad wants to chat Routes (This one is a print and I have four copies left of in the edition before it's sold out, ie never to be printed again! Shop link in my bio 👆) #odyssey

Lovely moment this morning for my mum, who is 95 and in the final stage of dementia, who for the first time in years asked for music and we listened together to Matt Monro. For a long time her illness and deafness has taken away her pleasure in music. Today, it relented.

I will never understand the narrative that Starmer lacked charisma but somehow embodied ' decency ' . Decent people do not spend their time in office defending a country that deliberately targets children & criminalising people who protest against genocide .

David was a great guy and great judge of character. The first to see through Mandelson and expose him for the charlatan he’s always been. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Everyone understands now that climate change is here and the consequences are severe and worsening. Floods in winter, heat and wildfires in summer. Everyone understands that, right? We aren't listening to deniers any more right? UK press, you're reporting facts, right. You're not? I see...

Today is a parade of the prejudices and priorities of our ruling class. Britain would be better off if we pulled the plug entirely.

I've yet to come across a take where the answer isn't "do what Dubs says" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

For my Scottish fam: There's been a ...

It’s less than a week since my radio was telling me that Britain needed to abandon net zero and drill baby drill because the Tories won a by election in Aberdeen Now it’s so hot the kids can’t sleep

Ten years ago today I wrote this on Brexit: A disaster for Britain, for Europe and for the world. I am sick to the soul. We - the UK electorate - have handed the keys to the isolationist, intolerant right. We are not liberated. Instead, we have just voluntarily put on the chains.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

I quite genuinely don't understand why people perceive the proposed Starmer to Burnham transition as a move to the left from where Labour is now. The same triangulation which gave us anti-immigrant appeasement and the lurch into the anti-trans agenda is *already there* in Burnham's platform.