The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

I fear that the grumbling, background sound on the air throughout the day is the BBC gearing up to throw trans people under the bus. No bother that this was the weakest, most poorly evidenced Prescott claim. Just, like, trans people: always the easy meat to toss to the rabid dogs of the right.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

same people who deny the validity of trans identities insist on calling boats “she” this is known as “assigned female at berth”

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

Please read this statement by Anne Health. Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned. This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.

The BBC’s in a mess, but it’s not the mess you think www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

England today - people having their ongoing medical treatment unilaterally withdrawn, without appeal, because that treatment, agreed with their doctors, makes some bigots uncomfortable.

Not her worst interview of the morning, but Emma Barnett asking a Russian dissident, twice, how she feels ‘willing her country to lose’ in Ukraine is just odd. It’s not a bloody football match, Emma. #r4today

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Might it be worth asking why so many people are so sick? 🤷‍♂️ #r4today

‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’ www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social

Very poor headlineby Guardian, making it seem she was guilty of something. What she actually did, was try to maintain a last shred of respect for human rights in Israel. More evidence of grotesque abuse of Palestinians. Israel long ago lost its legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

An extraordinary riposte from @racheltaylormp.bsky.social to the transphobia of the EHRC. Labour will spend decades atoning for how it utterly betrayed LGBT+ people, not least because Ms Taylor shows here how *very easy* it is to defend us when you bother to try. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Looks like extraordinary cowardice. "...following pressure from the Chinese state and a separate defamation law suit against the university, Sheffield Hallam decided not to publish a final piece of research by Prof Murphy and her team into forced labour." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lewis is absolutely right here

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt. There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There aren’t many arguments for TEF, and even fewer for linking TEF results to fee-levels, but one reason Edinburgh is playing fast and loose with teaching quality & development is because they’re not affected by all of that. thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...

‘The CBI and Universities UK… said universities already subsidised research by £5.4 billion a year, largely through international student income. A levy would "accelerate contraction" in research and innovation, they warned.’ www.thetimes.com/article/95f2...

Really detailed and thorough reporting but dismayed by the “bothsideism” about the flags. *Very few* people - even people without criminal records or neo-Nazi affiliations - who put up flags this summer did so innocently regardless of their stated motivations.

We in the UK will work out far too late that this is a bad thing.

Where Tory grandee Michael Heseltine is absolutely right: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Juries can be better than governments. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are already helping several employees sue employers for enforcing the EHRC Interim Guidance, which *we think* is unlawful. Should the High Court agree, we plan to make available in generic form, for free, and in a usable state, all the legal materials a trans employee needs to sue their employer.

You'll have to ignore the buckets of anti-trans campaigning commentary in the piece, but the basic news is quite simple. The EHRC has failed to get the government to accept its anti-guidance in haste. Something is holding it up, perhaps for another a year www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Ooh Shabana's gonna be pissed about this. She's gonna change protest laws again so police can just gun down the transes and the climate protestors and those who disapprove of genocide, isn't she? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not sure how supporting equal rights for LGBT people (which most Brits do) equates with backing Hamas. Thought Kruger was supposed to be the new “brains”in Reform. These people want to turn the clock back decades,if not centuries.

Yeah, felt a bit like that last time I opened the peer reviews on a grant application tbh.

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago. Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Private Eye nailing it.

If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Justin Webb and some rabid Tory MP are pushing very hard on the supposed dangers posed by asylum seekers this morning. Just a baked-in assumption at this point. #r4today

‘What I'm saying is, these PhDs are not a new sign confirming the decline of civilisation. They are civilisation. This is at the core of what civilisations do.’ Delightful from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social where she shares her excitement about humanities research www.thetimes.com/article/09da...

So warehousing people seeking safety in conditions shown to cause more people to take their own lives, more mental and physical health issues etc, at greater cost, is better than confronting racist and xenophobic misinformation? Gotcha! Thanks for clarifying. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Just landed back in UK and immediately see Labour trying to house asylum seekers in barracks. A strategy that was horrendous under the Tories and opposed by Labour at the time. Labour aren't in charge of themselves at this point, Reform are. There's more than these options but they won't listen.

Oh my, this Janice Turner piece really hasn't aged well. Hat-tip: ‪@sianushka.bsky.social‬

I don't know who to credit this image to, but anyway, they got the price wrong. That 2/9d should read £122 million

One of the most curious things about this is the allegation that advertisers - famously woke folk - are driven by a secret EDI agenda. What if diversity in advertising actually works? Maybe that’s what really terrifies Reform. #r4today