A humbling and thoughtful watch. “And everywhere you looked were just, just signs, of just the blatant disregard for life." Link bypasses X xcancel.com/OzKaterji/st...

Good morning to everyone who has stood against hate, racism and fascism over the weekend! Solidarity is a verb. Let’s do more to build the migration justice movement, and society that protects us all. Poster by @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social #migrationislife #nooneisillegal #thesewallsmustfall

This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls. Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us? My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My turn to explain the economy with biscuits! The real economy isn’t abstract. It’s real people, work and communities. 🍪

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed… 🧵1/5

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

ABC to XTC is next on @rtegold.bsky.social, with music from Buzzcocks, Style Council, PiL and more — listen via the RTÉ mobile app or stream the show at www.rte.ie/radio/gold/.

It is quite striking that Konstantin Kisin simply denied (falsely) on BBC1 that he had said what he said, word for word, on his podcast.

Bruce Springsteen has released a new winter of '26 song: "Streets of Minneapolis" to protest federal agents killing those protesting ICE deportations

This is good. "Perhaps Goodwin was always like this… Or perhaps he… was gradually radicalised by the thing he was studying. Who knows? Who cares? Life is short and we must not squander it wandering in the psychological wastelands of deeply average people." iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...

Increasingly think UBI is what tech bros say because they can’t face saying tax and welfare/benefits as.ft.com/r/da40da05-4... Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister

Public Media Ireland: a radical vision of PSM in a United Ireland A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

My new book — Clearing the Air — comes out in the US on February 19th 📚 Goodreads is running a giveaway, in case you want to enter and have a chance of getting a free copy! @mitpress.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Northern lights over Dartmoor tonight

One, tho only one, strand of all our recent strife has its roots in this mix of performative Krusty the Klown stupidity. It's rooted in Late Capitalist repartee, the extreme wealth of the elites, the nihilism of 'top' educational institutions and the performative irony of our culture. (2/2)

When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.

How it started ... How it's going

Some BIG news for the UBI community: "Following a review of international travel conditions and visa accessibility for participants, a decision has reluctantly been reached to relocate the 2026 BIEN Congress from University of Pennsylvania, USA, to Toronto Metropolitan University Toronto, Canada."

Hi, have I mentioned that my book on New Labour and the Blair years is coming out in UNDER FOUR WEEKS? Any journalists who'd like a proof copy for review, do DM or email and I'll fix it right up... 👍 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

This is correct and it’s part of the era we’re in of cutprice luxury snf exorbitant necessity:

Must read from @stephenbaker.bsky.social and Phil Ramsey on public service media in a reunified Ireland. We need ‘a media capable of contributing to a rich, participatory democracy… truthful and as culturally creative and convivial as the people who live here’. www.irishnews.com/opinion/what...

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

What more could a woman ask for on her birthday than to be taken to her favourite Scottish swim spot on such a lovely day? Happy birthday Fiona and thanks for putting up with me

uh holy SHIT?

This year’s highlight: the publication of the coedited book (with Daniel Mutibwa) about media and cultural encounters between Africa and China. www.routledge.com/Entanglement...

Well done — thank you!

Basic Income in Canada is closer than you think Basic Income isn’t a utopian dream. It is a real policy initiative that is working its way through Parliament right now. #cdnpoli #canada #UBI rabble.ca/columnists/b...

AI wants to get to know you better, and then sell to you.

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

The new documentary ’Bowie: The Final Act’ will be broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK on 3rd January at 9.30pm, it‘s 90 minutes long. Watch the trailer: www.davidbowienews.com/.../bowie-th...

“In Axiang, I saw the 1970s. Or rather, I saw the remnants of the youthful ideals of that generation… They clung to their dreams even as they lived ramshackle lives in cramped, damp shacks.” Zheng Xiaoqiong’s oral history of life in Guangdong’s factories @Equatormag: www.equator.org/articles/the...

Ireland is one of the few countries where a basic income scheme has been extended beyond the pilot stage. Artists and writers reflect on why the basic income scheme for artists worked and how it could be better in my report on @theworld.org Listen and read here: theworld.org/stories/2025...

In 2022, the Irish government launched a basic income scheme for artists. It randomly selected 2,000 artists and paid them about $1,500 a month so they could focus on their creative work. The government is now planning to make the program permanent.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

The Home Office continues to use language that its own data refutes

Really thrilled to be working with @joannegh.bsky.social, Anamika Saha, Sanjay Sharma, @cimethods.bsky.social and our industry partners on this. Have a research project that can shape the future of the screen industries? Come and join us! 👇👇

Great piece updating the critique of culture industries for the age of the platform mega-rentier www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Many newspapers and politicians have been calling yesterday's fiscal statement a 'Budget for Benefits Street'. Here's three reasons why that is not accurate 🧵

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.