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ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

Too tired to write these days because I’m up all night stressing about not having written…

X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform. Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported. A new thread documenting this.

No excuse for this

Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade

Brilliant study!

The Roman figure Trump most resembles is not Caeser of course. It's Marcus Licinius Crassus. Used his public position for mass extortion. Cared little about people, only his own wealth. Obsessed with precious metals. He did meet with a sticky end when forced to drink molten gold. Different times.

A whole lot of people are asking "why are billionaires and demagogues like this?", and it's just possible we've been overthinking it.

The thing which is so often glossed over about hostile anti-immigration policies is that they affect the whole country and not just migrants. Labour's ill-concieved, and inhumane, anti-immigration policies will inevitably just make everything worse for everyone. #r4today www.itv.com/news/2025-11...

Unfortunately still needs saying...

Global institutions where the US is the largest funding source can no longer be relied upon to present reality as they see it -- which is rather the point of the pressure, to destroy the credibility of those institutions.

This pic 😂

Apparently, these days, every single thing you can imagine is a way of transferring money from government coffers to private shareholders.

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

Eg the USA and the BBC

“If the BBC cannot or will not defend itself, and if it will not stand for fearlessly impartial journalism, not fearful management of impartiality, then it will fade away. And it’ll deserve to.” The whole piece is v good 👇

This feature length episode of W1A is a bit much isn't it

WHAT? There very much IS scientific consensus!

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What if we had no electricity and everything ran on fossil fuels? This ad keeps making me chuckle. Enjoy if you have not seen it or rewatch as it is just gold.

FRS

As I’ve seen this confused a few times, please note that Robin Gibb was a much-beloved member of the Bee Gees, whilst Robbie Gibb is the BBC board member who also, totally coincidentally, was editorial adviser in the set-up of GB News. I know, Bee Gees, GBeebies, a bit confusing…

“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.

Looking forward to jumping into this much needed book by @snellarthur.bsky.social

England homelessness grown by a fifth since 2022, now 300,000. Successive govts cut local authority funding in real terms, cut real wages/benefits, no curbs on profiteering, lack of social housing. Cheaper to build social housing than using temporary accommodation. Misery is a political choice.

Written before the BBC resignations but this by @arusbridger.bsky.social is really worth reading. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'

Well this is something!

Yes

Where would the people go? @wanderinggaia.bsky.social

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

That ambivalent feeling when someone you don't like resigns (yay) but for the wrong reason (gah) www.thetimes.com/article/b56c...

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

#RemembranceSunday - why do I wear three poppies?

My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...

I started a talk a few weeks ago by talking about how many of these otherwise healthy young men are ending up on my table with heart disease. The link is broadly anecdotal at the moment – no cardiovascular research exists with TRT in patients who DON’T have a pre existing proven deficiency

‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut

Of course they are

We should care about getting to the end of the month not things that might happen in a few decades time. Oh. www.theguardian.com/environment/...