The winner of this #masterchef looks like being the Antigua and Barbuda Tourist Board. It looks amazing.

Today, I’m launching a High Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok. I am just one of thousands of women and even children who have been the victim of abusive and sexualised AI deepfakes. This should never have happened – and xAI must be held accountable. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

So Mandelson tried to introduce Starmer to Peter Thiel. Blue Labour Maurice Glasman meets Thiel and Bannon and Vance at the same time, and consults with Farage. Both feeding their confidences, and confidence back to Morgan McSweeney Anyone remember how Labour reacted to Militant 'entryism'?

An absolutely insane story from @telliotter.bsky.social about a US government employee who exposed Elon Musk's DOGE for accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data. Days after he went public, he was driving his car and discovered his brakes had been cut.... www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

This, it can be argued, is what happened to the BBC - except that it happened by stealth, and no one had to buy it.

I am going mad. this case is so visibly not about police anti-racism policies and yet Farage can get the BBC to say it is by just lifting a finger

Katie Lam was on resignation watch until only recently - destination Farageland. #wato

I'm shaking my head in disbelief at the approach of this programme, and others. By asking Farage's unjustified questions, the BBC Is itself damaging trust in the police. #WATO

Sarah Montague and the BBC are clearly taking their editorial cues from Nigel Farage - it really is that bad. #wato

The fatal error here seems more about not prioritising assessing everyone at the scene for injury. #wato

The racists are trying to muddy the waters, @mrjamesob.bsky.social. It's the Russian playbook of throwing lots of different narratives into the public discourse so that no one can confidently identify the truth anymore. Once that happens, they can say whatever they like with almost no challenge*.

It’s the over 50’s that need protection from social media as much as the under 16’s( proposed UK law to ban under 16yr olds from having social media). The over 50’s have clearly been radicalised by the powerful right wing agitators

There's a fundraiser to support the charity that helped Henry Nowak's bereaved family. Let's all do something good and chip in to help them. 2wish.enthuse.com/pf/henry-nowak

Look at these figures and ask why the view has taken hold that Reform voting is driven by cost of living or "the left behind"

So refreshing to hear Cory Doctorow puncturing the AI balloon. Interview from 8:42 @doctorow.pluralistic.net www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Some of us spend a great deal of time wringing our hands over Elon Musk's Nazi propaganda site, but the real far right, race hate, cancer at the heart of our democracy is published every day in the form of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, & The Times. Regulate or watch our country burn. #r4today

This is a top booking, #r4today

The biggest question mark about Andy Burnham right now are reports that he may be thinking about promoting politicial nullity Lisa Nandy to Foreign Secretary. #r4today

Chris Mason obviously wasn't listening when Emma did her "arsehole" interview with Reform top arsehole Danny Kruger the other week. #r4today

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #R4Today

The Government has rightly identified that we're in the fight of our lives, for the soul of our nation. But thus far they don't seem to really appreciate that means we need to fight, in the same way our opponents are, with all the tools we have. Someone wake up the Culture Sec

The defences offered here are unconvincing. If all you want to do is report what is happening, why keep breathlessly speculating about what might be about to happen? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Just look at how BBC News & #r4today report that "two tier policing' is a real thing. They don't do any actual investigative journalism, but simply 'report' what is written on the front page of the Times and Mail as fact, & then ask others to prove otherwise. It's the opposite of journalism.

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemns Nigel Farage for "whipping up" division against the wishes of Henry Nowak's family

3. The "Cleared in Washington, Blocked in London" Blueprint Ellison’s team is trying to lobby the UK government, with Ellison conducting a personal "charm offensive" in London to meet with UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy.

Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it

The $1.75 Trillion Smash-and-Grab How Musk used the carcass of Twitter (and $291 million) to buy a presidency, fund a global genocide, and rig one of the greatest frauds in human history

Trump just named Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is a real estate developer whose grandfather is in the Epstein files for facilitating the laundering of Russian money to Donald Trump through a real estate deal apparently brokered by Epstein.

I expect Farage to ignore the wishes of a dead man’s family, he’s disgusting and has no regard for anything beyond stoking hatred. But why are media outlets giving him airtime? Henry Nowak’s family clearly said they didn’t want his death to be used this way. Our media is as much a problem as Reform

Farage looking to stoke another summer of 'Farage Riots'. He's now openly competing with Rupert Lowe for leadership of the Far Right.

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing: “You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this." @barakravid.bsky.social & I www.axios.com/2026/06/01/t...

I notice Farage's tactic now is hit & run communications. He wants to project with almost no time for questions, for the obvious reason that he's likely bang-to-rights on the largest cash for favours scandal that British politics has ever seen.

Where’s Farage? He’s not been seen in Parliament for weeks, doesn’t hold constituency surgeries, cancels big TV interviews last minute & hasn’t been campaigning in Makerfield. Oh look, there he is!! Popping up to spread more racism & use the tragic death of a young man to draw attention to himself.

He's achieved his goal though: #R4today is lapping it up and has adapted its content to amplify and have guests discuss Farage's views as legitimate concerns. I'm sure they won't be the only ones.

Telling that Farage's "address" his morning is just that. A one-way self-filmed speech with no journalists present and no questions taken.

Current reporting has Trump saying to Netanyahu "you're fucking crazy", #r4today, so we can only presume you're just dancing around the cuss word.

Well this explains a lot about Ofcom's approach to GB News in recent years www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

"I had a very good call with Hezbollah. They said, 'Congratulations, Sir, on bombing all those schoolgirls. As you Americans like to say, imitation is the highest form of flattery.'"

The American public suffers from diminishing access to quality journalism, and Fox "News" often hides the real news from its viewers. It's a crisis for democracy and a dream scenario for Republicans. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Video piece on PSG’s Champions League win, and Qatar showing we’re onto the next stage of sportswashing All of the criticisms of the 2022 World Cup apply, but there’s very little mention - all as Qatar exert immense influence in European football youtu.be/jWrHAhcZ5ww?...

Mandelson described the £750mn Palantir deal as “My Personal Pride and Joy”. But what do the just-released documents reveal about his role in the network of Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein? Basically that Mandelson acted as an agent for the Epstein tech bros, especially Thiel and Musk.

Well, well. The guy who's one of the masterminds behind this nightmare we're forced to deal with is quietly exploring an exit. 🤡 gave him free rein to grab ridiculous amts of $ via govt contracts, & f* up our society as much as he has, now this. 🤬 Selfish, destructive AH.

NEW: Freed from office, ex-Ofcom chair & Tory peer Michael Grade gives view on GB News. Other broadcasters “embarrassed” because it covers “the agenda of the majority”. Big intervention in debate over UK’s impartiality rules. He spoke to Politics Home. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Re-up! Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we misread When Mandelson was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. Years later, the Epstein files revealed the full picture By @professorshaw.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

The pod makes the very important point that, with media fragmentation, more and more public interest journalism is being done by freelance journalists, substackers, bloggers and citizen journalists - the very people least able to afford to fight a Slapp. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Still waiting for the Dickian moment (A Scammer Darkly?) when a transvestigator discovers that they're secretly trans.

Former TV executive Lord Grade on the struggles of leading Ofcom, the critics of GB News and why he is deeply worried about the future of British TV 📺 https://bit.ly/430kM8P

250 delegates representing Your Party branches and former ones in Britain met in an online conference on 31st May to launch the 'Socialist Federation' They've "comprehensively lost patience with Corbyn & his close-knit entourage who failed to build on the promise of the mass signups to a new party"