Wes Streeting's puberty blockers decision came days after the general election. We had brought a High Court challenge to the decision which was in Court like, a week, after the GE. So we knew his attitude to it was going to be the first big political call he made. /1

Let me help you, Tim. "By not writing a pile of dogwhistling, race-baiting crap for the newspaper". OK, got that? Glad to help.

This week has provided a perfect example of how effective propaganda can plant ideas that aren’t just false but plainly absurd, stupid, laughable if it weren’t so serious. WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT BEING VICTIMISED BECAUSE OF A SENTENCE IN A PREVIOUSLY OBSCURE POLICE GUIDANCE DOCUMENT.

The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?

Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

This is the most pathetic crash-out I’ve seen from a politician, and it happened because a journalist wouldn’t huff from the exhaust pipe of lies Trump’s political machine spews daily There’s not a SCRAP of evidence of ANYTHING Trump is saying and—this is where I differ from some others—he KNOWS it

The BBC's flagship politics show devoting the whole programme this morning to 'two tier policing'. May as well hand the entire schedule directly over to Elon Musk www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbcs-t...

If I told a class that ‘nobody knows’ what happens at the end of Hamlet, because I couldn’t be arsed to read that far the night before, I’d expect some consequences.

An unusual way to cover the international recruitment crisis facing all but a very, very small number of universities.

You have to admit, D Day from the Nazis point of view was a novel twist for an American anniversary speech.

This seems… bad

How you can you write the first sentence here without realising that it completely nullifies the second?

Does politics have to be like this? 1. A very bad thing happens. 2. People blame the bad thing on whatever their go-to theory is (say 2-tier policing, or an invasion of migrants). 3. Evidence is produced showing that the go-to theory is false. 4. That makes no difference at all.

I just don't understand this stuff. Labour isn't in opposition. It's not writing for an essay competition. So don't whine, legislate: "X com has become a tool by which malignant foreign actors spread disinformation and we will bring before Parliament legislation to block it."

What did a young Venetian named Luigi Ferdinando Marsili find in the year 1680? And how does it relate to #AMOC, the Atlantic Ocean current system that scientists are increasingly worried about? Must-watch video from the Howtown team! youtu.be/dqLM65HfVEw?...

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Today: My 5 departing colleagues gave talks summarising their research lives so far. Kamilla Elliott Alison Findlay Lynne Pearce Sharon Ruston John Schad You've been amazing co-workers, and I will miss you

It’s impossible to see how our current ‘problems could be tackled without the skills that the arts and humanities offer: rigorous critical reflection, creative problem solving, the capacity to dwell in complexity and ambiguity, and the historical long-view’. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Farage and Badenoch have succeeded in shifting the media and much of our politics to assuming there are questions about race to be asked in the Henry Nowak case. I still can't see it. #R4Today

If the Nobel committee won’t give Trump the Peace Prize for ending the most number of wars… maybe they’ll give it to him for ending one war the most number of times.

if only the Today Programme could get half as worked up about the threat to all life on earth as it does about the threat from Russia, and the need for more money for guns and drones.

For some reason, we seem to be turning Gareth Southgate into a philosopher king.

Just circling back to this odious individual who was at the racist riots yesterday. Someone who for years after she called for all trans men to be sterilised, as well as reams of other violent repulsive transphobia was praised and fawned over by JK Rowling, the NS and other 'centre left feminists'

In one sense I guess it’s a real vote of self-confidence in your product to feel able to dismiss an entire generation of potential readers as naive and/or stupid.

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

the far-right X-ecosystem is digusting and evil

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

I probably need to close this browser window and try and focus on writing my book. As someone who grew up in Bradford in the 1980s and 1990s I cannot believe we are where we are right now with pandering to racists in this country...

The Government has rightly identified that we're in the fight of our lives, for the soul of our nation. But thus far they don't seem to really appreciate that means we need to fight, in the same way our opponents are, with all the tools we have. Someone wake up the Culture Sec

This is not "legitimate grievances", this is not about "anti-white racism" or "two-tier policing", this is not about "protesting" This is fascists having been emboldened by decades of mainstreaming We can keep pretending it's not and encourage them or we can do something about it

Farage has spent years trying to avoid associating his parties with coked up racist thugs and Restore have panicked him into forgetting why.

Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk #R4Today

Yesterday #r4today and Webb amplified Farage's racist rubbish, later in the day the BBC gave Goodwin air time to spew his own rubbish. Now Today is wondering why there were riots in Southampton last night... it is long past time the BBC recognised it is complicit in what is happening

#EnglishCreates: Futures We conclude our series on 'Lifelong Learning' with some final reflections from its curator, Dr Richard Jones (The Open University), by way of Samuel Johnson: universityenglish.ac.uk/reflections-...

The pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity no less. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Govt has published their updated guidance following the Supreme Court judgment. As I have set out before, this new code will still lead to confusion for businesses & contains multiple legal contradictions which will see some of the worse elements of transphobia continue being aided and abetted 1/7

It was overshadowed by Mandelson, but the Commons debated the EHRC gender guidance yesterday. It mainly involved MPs saying they had been contacted by trans constituents deeply worried about being excluded from public life and/or challenged over how they look. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

🚨 BREAKING: A federal appeals court has ruled, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump-Hegseth transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional, finding that the policy appears to be driven by a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” and is “both arbitrary and based upon animus.” 1/3

Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation. For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition. With significant negative impacts. 1/2

You can’t just throw the phrase “dignity for trans people” like a magic spell into the end of your diatribe about how trans women aren’t women. It is fundamentally undignifying to tell trans women they aren’t women! This isn’t difficult.

I wonder whether, in BBC News editorial meetings, anyone suggests things like the leader of Raise the Colours - something that initiated a major national conversation - being charged with murder? Or Farage not reporting his Russian hack claim? And if they do, who shuts them down?

Yes, but Webb has won, hasn’t he? One more Labour minister meekly lay down his inclusive credentials at Webb’s feet. Shame on the lot of them. #r4today

I don't, but if you are that worried about "getting caught" maybe don't tell the Times?

The right is desperate for a solution to falling birthrates. Who’s going to tell them that the answer is immigration? | John Harris

Absolutely shocking. No clue. No idea. No respect for workers rights - doesn't affect him so he doesn't seem to care...

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

This week: my English Literature team is holding a seminar featuring - my 4 colleagues taking voluntary redundancy this summer - my 1 colleague leaving to join another University Sad doesn't cover it

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer