Today's newsletter is about this www.readtpa.com/p/trump-hono...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

You can do it folks! I believe in you!

Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes - By Elizabeth Warren

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

thoughts and prayers to the cloudflare SREs today

this is some wild analysis. Like I am in the _super privledged_ position to have a mortgage on a nice flat in London and reasonably comfortable means as it goes. Labour has spent their time in power doing a very good job pushing me to the Greens. So apparently I'm an 'insecure radical'?

A specific urgent useful thing to do - I hope Liz Kendall, Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer will consider - is for our elected government to prod + wake up regulators (Ofcom, EHRC) who are letting a mainstream platform X protect + defend the racial slur "paki" unlawfully bsky.app/profile/sund...

A more legitimate proposal to reduce racism against Shabana Mahmood, other men + women in public life + all other people across society would be for a Labour Government to have a strategy about hate crime, causes of racism + how to reduce them [Last strategy: 2016-20] www.gov.uk/government/p...

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“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.” Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM. “Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”

they're going after holocaust survivors

Courage Doesn’t Scale It has been frustrating, to say the least, to watch many of the big Silicon Valley tech firms bow down to Trump and do his bidding, especially when it directly contradicts things they’ve said and done in the past. I’ve tried to explain to tech company execs why this doesn’t…

Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment. In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

wtaf is this tone from The Post. Just pure uncut bootlicking.

The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

In a similar vein, a we did a MaxDiff. MaxDiff asks people to pick the most and least important issue from small sets. It reveals a large group who mark immigration as “least important,” even while its overall salience stays high. In relative terms, the Cost of Living is much more important here.

We then stuck with open-ends but changed the question a little. Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country. When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different. Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

The problem with having no politics is that you sooner or later lead your party into a moral void.

Punchy last question to Alex Norris on R4 by Nick Robinson: "You're sending a message to the rest of the population to look at those people with suspicion, to regard them as not welcome, as cheats, as illegals, as people who should be hounded out of their accommodation. Do you worry about that?"

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Starmer is fucking this up so bad the US is noticing

Uh, is it the home secretary? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

More of this please. Public pressure from the back bench might actually get the government to change this terrible course. Think I need to write to my mp...

The Christian right for decades has fear-mongered that federal agents (under Dem presidents) would "criminalize" Christianity and literally prevent them from worshipping. Now that Trump's stormtroopers are doing it ... crickets

I'm very grateful to Ashley for this detailed summary of the hearing in GLP v EHRC. Largely for my own edification, I'm going to try to summarise the basic issues raised in plain English. I'm going to try to be as neutral as possible.🧵

Also, the implication here is that the right time to resist fascism is when you have lost most of the ability to do so and the wrong time is I guess the time before that. which, uh, has some problems...

America can't be fascist because I'm not doing anything about it

Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

They must be proud with this endorsement, they worked hard for it.

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In Sept 2020 Home Office said its own research + external evidence was asylum seekers rarely knew much about asylum rules, about welfare systems, and that there was no clear link between grant rates + where people apply. Those who'd heard something did not perceive UK more generous than France

1. Does UK offer a "golden ticket" to asylum seekers? 2. Is that why asylum seekers pick the UK? 1. This is over-spun. Some aspects UK rules are more open. (Family rights) In several aspects, less generous. (On money paid: less than France or Denmark 2. Gvt has produced no evidence for this claim

This government has said the UK is "the destination of choice" for asylum seekers in Europe. That is simply untrue. Now saying: claims in the UK are rising, while they are falling across Europe. Accurate of Germany (the destination of choice), of France (still more claims than UK), but not Spain

The Labour government has released to the media more details of its asylum reforms - to be released on Monday. Their premise: UK attracts asylum seekers because it is too generous + reducing pull factors will change that. There is a lot of overspinning from this govt www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

If you know anyone reasonable who has fallen victim to the trans panic, this is worth the time.

"Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative." ✊