In an ideal world they really should have stood their ground here - admitted mistakes and moved on. But license fees and all that. Notable that both Tim Davie and Deborah Turness have advocated for more journalism recently. Dangerous times.... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

..delighted to have contributed to this report with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and a huge thanks to Polly Curtis and all @demos-uk.bsky.social for their help and support…..m/f

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account. A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

We need solutions - as local democracy is at stake. We have suggestions but really want to know what you think if you work in or around local media. If you are in Nottingham city centre next Thursday 5.30-7pm - DM us and we'll send you the details. DM too if you'd like a copy of the report. (ends)

The problem is a triple whammy of declining business model, increased information flow into newsrooms and via social media and a political class that does not tolerate scrutiny and without action this could lead to unchecked power and an information vacuum filled by unverified information....m/f

Are you concerned about the future of local news and democracy? Are the shenanigans at Notts - and other - County Councils ringing alarm bells VERY loudly? At CMPCR we've been doing research in this area and have findings to report - spoiler: the situation is not all bad - but it is not good....m/f

Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook: Assaults on academic freedoms in the US mirror those happening in Turkey for the past decade, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

We have just completed research on local news - and what journalists think of how it's going....We'll be discussing the results and ways forward in Nottingham on September 4th. Come join us if you work in/with local news. Dm us or email [email protected] for a link to register. ends

Labelling journalists as terrorists to justify their persecution, and murder, is an old trick and the grift of very illiberal governments. It “justifies” the action, besmirches reputations and deters others from continuing the vital work. RIP Anas al-Sharif 🙏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"What does the PKK disarming mean for Turkey and the Kurds?" by @galipdalay.bsky.social. [3/5]

We'll be discussing the results - and possible solutions in Nottingham on September 4th. If you work in, or with, local news and want to come along DM CMPCR or @drnataliemartin.bsky.social - and we'll send you a link. Come and have your say. This is too important to do nothing! ends

Our research on local news is finished. In a nutshell - the good news is that local journalists have a vocation and love their job. But the bad news? They don't have enough time to do it as well as they would like. This has consequences for local democracy..........m/f

We’re back with a new series of open source challenges! Bellingcat researcher @oldpete45.bsky.social created five exercises that allow you to uncover some dark secrets buried in time. Welcome to a world of forgotten files, and (confusing) historic maps! ➡️ challenge.bellingcat.com

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

To put it very bluntly, İmamoğlu is in prison for being more popular than Erdoğan. Even if he were a member of the AKP, I doubt they'd let such an offense stand.

Delighted to do this with @thebiaankara.bsky.social. The Turkish experience is a harbinger for elsewhere - including the UK….. @nottspolitics.bsky.social

Delighted to do this with @thebiaankara.bsky.social. The Turkish experience is a harbinger for elsewhere - including the UK….. @nottspolitics.bsky.social

🎧 The latest episode of Heritage Türkiye is out! ➖ 🎙️ Journalism, Academia and the ‘Securitisation of News’ with @drnataliemartin.bsky.social Links via biaa.ac.uk/publication/... ➖ #türkiyerelations #Politicaliscourse #misinformation #disinformation #malinformation

#Türkiye: journalist Hamza Kaan stands trial tomorrow at the 14th High Criminal Court of Istanbul. We urge his immediate and unconditional release. All charges against him must be dropped. www.pen-international.org/news/turkiye...

💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget. My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What we're doing in the uni sector is shutting off routes for kids with Bs and Cs to do key (and prestigious) subjects, and closing down the ability of young people to go to the local uni just when it becomes ruinous expensive to go way. Will have incalculable consequences for social mobility.

#aspirelaunch such a great group of people brought together to talk all things teaching track and the future of the network.

Things are about to get going! Fantastic to see so many colleagues here #aspirelaunch

www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary... Register here!

👇tomorrow!

#LSETürkiye has two events coming up this week. 1. Thu, 05/06 @selvademiralp.com lecture on inflation 2. Sat, 07/06 BATAS symposium on foreign policy & displacement Register to both events: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary... Keeping busy during #eid @lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social

x.com/ygursoy/stat... An event not to be missed by anyone interested in Turkish politics…..

🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI 🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux 📅7 June, Saturday 🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement 🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

Amazing speakers for this Symposium on Turkish Politics at the LSE on June 7th. All welcome. Full details and registration here: www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

🔴 KPMG being paid £8million to encourage English hospitals to adopt Palantir tech But government refusing to give us info about KPMG deal Labour MP and campaigners have decried secrecy and called on gov't to "ditch this dirty company” New on DfS: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/uk-governm...

🔜🎓34th @BATAStweets Symposium @LSEEI 🇹🇷Turkish Politics and Society in Flux 📅7 June, Saturday 🌍Foreign policy | 🏠Identity & Displacement 🎙️Incl @EmelAkcali777 @TugceBSyed @Basakkale @kndmrsl @mmkutlay @digdemsoyaltin @elftok @OZihnioglu www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary...

🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...

1) The PKK leadership has announced the organisation’s disarmament&dissolution. A couple of points stand out from the statement: i) Criticism of the Lausanne Treaty that marks the foundation of the Republic of Turkey&the 1924 Constitution as the landmarks of denying Kurdish existence as a people

or DM me directly.......or email me at the University of Nottingham.....

How to protect democracies from falsehoods? By empowering the young with open-source investigation skills, argue @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social in this piece reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-pro...

PEN Sweden (@pensweden.bsky.social) member Joakim Medin stands trial in Ankara tomorrow on spurious ‘insult to the president’ grounds. We urge #Türkiye to drop all charges and to release him immediately. Read more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/trkiye-... @etc.se

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social was interviewed on BBC Radio this morning about his upcoming speech at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit. Starts at 7:39: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@eliothiggins.bsky.social from #OSINT org @bellingcat.com and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social from @cmpcr.bsky.social argue in this article published on @reutersinstitute.bsky.social that anyone with a smartphone should also be able to verify digital content. Needs teaching at schools, colleges & unis

Fair point by Özgür Özel - this was a marked lean towards illiberal democracy/authoritarianism - ignoring it is not an option (or shouldn’t be, morally or politically)…. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Solidarity between journalists across the political spectrum: Using the hashtag #freemedin, @expressense.bsky.social, a Swedish center-right newspaper, has a daily ticker tracking how many days Joakim Medin, the Swedish journalist & author who mostly wrote for left-wing media, has been jailed in 🇹🇷.

This type of image is why Turkish pro-gov TV channels are airing cooking shows. Why independent TV stations got hit with broadcasting bans. Images of today’s rally belie the government’s narrative that demonstrators are “marginal” upstarts engaged in “street terror.”

Friend & journalism colleague Joakim Medin has been detained on arriving in Turkey www.etc.se/kommentar/da...

Authoritarianism in action www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social today analysing Turkey’s protests and why they’re happening.

Excellent photojournalists, well-known by Turkish and foreign colleagues as well as by Turkish authorities, Yasin Akgül and Bülent Kılıç were among 8 journalists formally arrested today for working in Turkey's anti-gov't demonstrations. #JournalismIsNotACrime www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

#BREAKING Turkish court orders jailing of seven journalists, including AFP photographer: NGO