‘At present, Andy Burnham is a retail product: someone who appears relaxed around ordinary people and on camera, and although he has spent plenty of time in Westminster, hasn’t (yet) become reassociated with that much loathed place.’ @will-davies.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

10 Jahre nach dem Brexit-Entscheid: die grosse Ernüchterung. Das Gespräch mit dem Journalisten @peterstb.bsky.social im „Echo der Zeit“.

A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

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.

‘One of the drivers of incidents such as Tuesday’s riots is social atomisation. Many far-right demonstrators are connected online and have parasocial relationships with their fellow travellers, but are socially isolated offline.’ Tom Williams on the Southampton riots. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

‘I thought I didn’t use ChatGPT because I was too clever. I thought that not using ChatGPT made me cleverer. It turns out, though, that it made me very bad at spotting when a text was written by or with the assistance of AI.’ Malin Hay on AI detection, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

In die inhaltsreiche @woz.ch passt @peterstb.bsky.social über die englischen #Greens bestens. In Europa ist's wie in der Schweiz: Die linksten Grünen sind die stärksten #Grünen! @gruenech.bsky.social @jungegruene-ch.bsky.social @europeangreens.eu @zoegarbett.bsky.social www.woz.ch/2619/linke-e...

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

‘This is not a healthy place for a representative democracy to end up. The need to stop Farage will occasionally work in Labour’s interest, but will hardly represent an affirmation of Labour or its politics.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on tactical voting. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

BBC seems obsessed with covering the murder of US citizens on its streets by a extra-ordinary police force as ‘conflicting narratives’ Did the same with Renee Good Feels like a general editorial decision

Worth remembering:

«Ich erinnere mich noch, als wir in Grossbritannien die Plakate der SVP sahen und alle dachten: ‹Holy fucking shit›.» Schriftsteller China Miéville über linke Alleswisserei, Tolkiens Unschuld und das rare Gut Hoffnung. Interview: Michael Boog und @simonmuster.bsky.social

Eigentümliche Definition von «Neutralität»: Wie der TV-Sender #Euronews nach ganz rechts driftet. Von @casparshaller.bsky.social

‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Anstatt sich zu verteidigen, wählt die #BBC demonstrative Unterwürfigkeit. Nigel Farage und Co. frohlocken. Von @peterstb.bsky.social

Beteiligt an einem gescheiterten Putsch gegen die Chavez-Regierung und Advokatin einer US-Intervention: Warum die venezolanische Oppositionspolitikerin María Corina Machado den Friedensnobelpreis nicht verdient hat.

Grossbritannien: Angesichts der rechten Massenmobilisierung war die neue linke «Your Party» zur grossen Hoffnungsträgerin geworden. Wegen einem gehässigen Streit in der Führungsetage droht sie aber bereits zu scheitern. Von @peterstb.bsky.social, London

England: Politik & rechte Gruppen machen Flüchtlinge zum Feindbild. Steven Martin baut am Ärmelkanal Überwachungstechnik auf – nicht um sie abzuschrecken, sondern um ihr Überleben zu sichern. @peterstb.bsky.social hat den Aktivisten dabei begleitet: #TagderDemokratie

Die ganze Serie im Überblick gibt's hier: www.riffreporter.de/de/klimaheld... Mit Texten von @soundslikerstin.bsky.social, @peterstb.bsky.social, @sarah81m.bsky.social, Agnes Fazekas, @ruehlbkf.bsky.social, @leoniemarch.bsky.social, Paul Flückiger, @lajuliabcn.bsky.social und @julicaj.bsky.social.

Die radikale Rechtsaußen-Partei Reform UK bekommt aktuell großen Rückenwind in #Großbritannien. Die Partei wächst immer weiter, nicht nur in Umfragen, sondern auch bei den Mitgliederzahlen. Peter Stäuber war bei einem Parteitreffen dabei. #Farage #Britain

This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.