Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

On route to BBC for a BBC Newscast recording discussing our new work with @jrf-uk.bsky.social

I hadn’t realised that Lady Lancaster, aka culture media and sport committee chair Caroline Dinenage MP, once hosted a drinks reception in parliament for GB News.

🔶 🧡 Come on #Godalming! You know you want to ✊

Hope they do the same for young people 🤷‍♂️ uk.yahoo.com/finance/news...

There are no shortage of baffling things about Labour but their failure to tackle critical issues which do not require much resourcing to fix is right up there.

Donald Trump is gunning for the BBC, and Farage is cheering him on. Want to know why? Follow the money…

Vote Lib Dem 🔶 Robert Marshall, in this coming Tuesday's by-election, for Farncombe and Catteshall 🗳️

It's not only factual errors that are an issue with Telegraph journalism. It's also the choice of what to leave out from a story.

HUGE NEWS: Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles. A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

A-level lit exam board training today.. one area of study is immigrant experience, which asks students to link texts to context. Many students, this yr, linked immigrant tension to contemporary issues, incl. (quite often) Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech. Is that what they call 'cut through'?😬

Huge clods of snow falling in Surrey!! ❄️

Is Zoom down for anyone? It was fine for me earlier today and I seem to have been able to start a meeting (now) but the other attendee is nowhere to be seen 😔 Wondering if it's ok for some people but not for others...

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...

State-endorsed robbery is no way to fix the asylum system.

Rishi Sunak seemed to conjure the issue out of nowhere (perhaps inspired by its burgeoning political prominence in Europe e.g. Italy?) and no one's shut up about it since 😒

“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.”

Let's say for the sake of argument that his policies are "successful" (say in reducing the number of UK asylum applications). Does he think the press will simply sit back and applaud him? No chance. They'll just invent a new bogeyman – a new epidemic – that he's to blame for

Fighting a ghost while simultaneously feeding it. Till it haunts him out of office.

Farage doesn't even have to turn up to dominate the House of Commons. thecritic.co.uk/livi...

Increasingly convinced that what they dislike about Ed Miliband is 'his intellectual curiosity and basic decency towards other people', because it sure as shit isn't the policy agenda or the electoral results.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The i Paper signed up to the Tories... wouldn't expect anything other from a Daily Mail-owned title.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures Me, for @zeteo.com

Try and appease them and it's never, never going to work... have the courage to say, f**k them because otherwise we're pretty much lost.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Your periodic reminder that climate change means levels of migration will increase sharply in the coming years and we either find an effective and humane way to manage that or we invite ever more chaos and suffering.

Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods. Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.

There are over 1️⃣6️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ gas & oil lobbyists at COP30 👇 What a shocking failure. Would you allow tobacco lobbyists into a world health conference? There will be 0️⃣ lobbyists at the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis on 27th November. Is your MP attending? www.nebriefing.org

The road to hell is paved by Labour cosplay.

Ability-to-put-two-and-two-together bypass for Shabana here 🙄

There's a lesson here somewhere

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"Vote for radical right policies today or else you'll get a radical right government tomorrow" sounds like a great winning slogan all round.

The Home Secretary can try to dismiss her own MPs, but the problem for the govt is that the views expressed by @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social very likely resonate with Labour members and voters. And no-one can stop them from going elsewhere at the next election...

Climate change is already making it dangerous to work outdoors and in factories in India — and we’re not even st 1.5C yet. “Summers have gotten so much worse in the past five years that…she ends up losing a week’s worth of work each month because of dehydration and vomiting.”

The debate is now comprehensively framed by Farage. And whatever cruelties HM Govt comes up with will never be enough to sate the ‘dark forces’.

📱 "The fundamental problem is that most of the means of communication are owned by the very rich." 🔇 "Like the kings and empire-builders of the past, they use their platforms to project the claims that suit them and suppress the claims that don’t." https://bit.ly/49jRoi1

Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges

which nigel farage can apparently host because according to ofcom current affairs isn't "news"

Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job." nymag.com/intelligence...

Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced. Absolutely dead government.

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

I suppose FPTP/ tactical voting would go some way to mitigating an overwhelming, at least, Reform majority. But that I find the level of Ref support still shocking, makes me realise I need to 'get out more'. Problem is, I'm not massively inclined to get out into *this* 😞

This is interesting and contradicts the narrative that Labour isn't losing (significant) votes to Reform...