Hugh Morris
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Writer on music—NYT Guardian VAN Magazine and more.
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Gaby Hinsliff
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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
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Fiona Maddocks
3 days ago
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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Daniel Trilling
3 days ago
I spoke to two dozen BBC journalists, from frontline reporters to senior staff, about how the BBC came to symbolise the West's failure to prevent genocide in Gaza - and how the row over its coverage fed directly into its current meltdown.
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Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-the-bbc-s-gaza-fiasco
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BBC in crisis — hearing the copy editors have gone on strike
6 days ago
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Tom Phillips
7 days ago
Objectivity, impartiality and balance are all *different things*, and the lazy tendency to treat them as synonyms, and to use partisan balance alone as a proxy for the others, is the root cause of a vast amount of nonsense.
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flyingrodent
7 days ago
It’s suddenly an outrage and a travesty when it’s *you* that’s getting your balls kicked, isn’t it. Everything being captured by roaring crackpots was just fine, when it was only small people who don’t matter getting stomped by them.
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Gabrielle Cornish
14 days ago
feat. my all-time favorite footnote I've ever written
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Caitlin Gilbert
19 days ago
I’m crying
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regret to inform you all that yes, it's happened again
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Adam Macqueen
26 days ago
Slightly obsessed with this picture of the Telegraph's fashion team in this morning's paper, which was presumably the best one they could choose from the entire photoshoot.
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Rebecca Franks
24 days ago
Katie Mitchell: ‘I’m retiring from opera because of the misogyny’.
www.thetimes.com/article/9d2c...
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Katie Mitchell: ‘I’m retiring from opera because of the misogyny’
After 30 years, the distinguished director is bowing out. She talks about feeling unsafe, being screamed at — and having furniture thrown at her
https://www.thetimes.com/article/9d2c553b-5db2-40af-9639-f1afff5be1d7?shareToken=18fc1dde6a33f87ba1fa073a73334027
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Stephen Bush
25 days ago
Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:
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Tory deportation plan would upend Britain
Proposing such a radical bill with little public support is a gift to Nigel Farage
https://www.ft.com/content/9a1d3c1f-ebe8-4a0b-8ad9-e5bb188c00c0
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Peter Geoghegan
26 days ago
Britain is in a really, really dark place. It also shows that once you start deporting people, you very quickly get to this place
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Sam Cunningham
28 days ago
After eight years as The i Paper's Chief Football Correspondent, my role has been made redundant. I'm currently freelancing. I source news and write in-depth features, interviews and analysis. Open to any opportunities so please get in touch. Email
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John Townley
28 days ago
Maccabi Tel Aviv say in a statement that they will "decline any allocation offered on behalf of away fans" for next month's Europa League match against Aston Villa at Villa Park, adding that "the wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount."
#AVFC
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Ian Carrillo
28 days ago
In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools. AI is another version of colonial extraction.
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This.
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about 1 month ago
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Keith W. Dickinson
about 1 month ago
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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The Fence
about 2 months ago
This article cost thousands of pounds to clear and months of time to report, and gave voice to a number of victims who had been hitherto ignored. We are a tiny publication with just one full-time member of staff. If you'd like to support us, please subscribe today.
www.the-fence.com/shop
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
about 2 months ago
Last year,
@thefence.bsky.social
published the only in-depth piece on new Archbishop Sarah Mullally's time as Bishop of London. On the man who stole £5million from the diocese before making lurid allegations against fellow clerics - some with fatal consequences.
www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...
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In the Shadow of St Paul’s
A taste for the finer things in life.
https://www.the-fence.com/in-the-shadow-of-st-pauls/
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Sara Gibbs
about 2 months ago
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan
about 2 months ago
Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/stop-blaming-migrants-and-tackle-uks-real-problems-100-charities-tell-home-secretary
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Ian Dunt
about 2 months ago
These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.
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Liam Thorp
about 2 months ago
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
about 2 months ago
Begging people to educate themselves on Neuteri Karta, absolutely wild the Observer has used this photo These people are not friends of the Palestinians, they are extremists
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this is really great
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about 2 months ago
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massive
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about 2 months ago
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yeah this is really bad
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about 2 months ago
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Joel Morris
about 2 months ago
Remember
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explaining the star system they used at Mojo. * Awful for everyone ** Disappointing for fans *** Fans will like it **** Non fans will like this one ***** Career-best work, remarkable Most things will therefore get three stars in a sane world.
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Henry Mance
about 2 months ago
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking.
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How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ln7mzd5ro
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Stephen Bush
about 2 months ago
Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Those curious can read Ian’s piece here:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno
At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n17/ian-penman/infinite-wibble
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Jonathan Liew
2 months ago
wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew
Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/18/vuelta-chaos-shows-selling-sport-as-a-tool-for-peace-can-create-its-own-battlefield
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Mark Harris
about 2 months ago
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."
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Marie Le Conte
2 months ago
you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be
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Marie Le Conte
2 months ago
think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)
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Ian Boudreau
2 months ago
Now that the UN commission has confirmed what we have all been able to see perfectly clearly for the past two years, I just want to say that one of the most reprehensible denial arguments I heard again and again was "if Israel was intent on committing genocide, there would be no Palestinians left"
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"the words are Hitler's, but"
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15 Irresistible Old Photos of Robert Redford
https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/15-irresistible-old-photos-robert-redford
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Ed Morrish
2 months ago
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
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‘Did he really play on Petula Clark’s Downtown?’ Stewart Lee on his guitar hero Derek Bailey
He was a genius of improvised music, a performer who abandoned composition – and wondered why anyone would buy his records. Comedian Stewart Lee celebrates the eccentric life of his great inspiration
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/15/petula-clarks-downtown-stewart-lee-improv-guitar-hero-derek-bailey
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Duncan Robinson
2 months ago
Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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Chai Patel
2 months ago
Ah yes if black and brown people throw a party we need to scan their faces. White supremacists organising a hate march do not need to worry about their privacy. The police have them covered. This btw is also why everyone arguing for digital id in this country is either naive or dangerous.
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Joel S.
2 months ago
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler.
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UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-gives-160-names-antisemitism-probe-21043760.php
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Tom Usher
2 months ago
Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists
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Welp - Flanders Festival Ghent have cancelled the Munich Philharmonic’s upcoming appearance - here are both statements
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now over a month after they said it would be with me - great stuff x
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