But until Ofcom do so, government will still prioritise the deepfake porn site as their favourite social medium on which to communicate.

2025 has set a low bar.

It’s important to be at the Nazi Nonce club to provide a counter-narrative to all the nazis and nonces.

Should have tried a bit harder to find a picture that matches the headline.

Few stunners have been this stunning.

Headline on Breitbart. Are the US attacking graves now?

I don't think anybody has ever established facts by speaking to Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump must be livid.

As soon as Blair resigned, the British lost the will to drink.

Short new post from me about Bloc Politics. A lot of commentators have argued, with evidence from @profjanegreen.bsky.social, @robfordmancs.bsky.social and others, that British politics has split into blocs. So what does that mean for electoral strategy? 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/bloc-parties

I know there are bigger issues, but one thing Brexit has also ruined is Christmas markets. They basically popped up around the UK because Germans moved their stalls over here and imported the thing. Now they have all disappeared and what we left with is the 5% dirge that counts here as mulled wine

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

It's the thought that counts #AcademicChatter

Hard to overstate the moral bankruptcy of the main organisations for British Jews www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year. Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is going to be another show confirming locations and kick off times tomorrow evening. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we are on the edges of our seats.

Can anyone explain why Uzbekistan were moved to the Portugal group? They should have gone into the France group and Norway into the Portugal group.

Young people clearly haven't been f*cked over enough by policy-makers over recent years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

National interest demands that a PM is allowed to be corrupt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

VAR is going fully "Where's Wally".

A German Team is live on the BBC iPlayer in a few minutes. Just so you know. Against one of those Red Bull creatures.

Not sure what the standard here is, but I am quite certain the Scottish Premier League is sub that, too. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/256585...

Ideas to devalue your £2m home: Install an outdoors glass cubicle toilet on your front drive and make sure you use it regularly. Keep eye contact with anyone who sees you using it.

This is a generally good read about a genuinely and enjoyably weird character in the history of philosophy. It also contains a great take-down of the genre "literary and intellectual biography, a form beloved of the British", and of its audiences.

Anyone angry about their income taxes rising due to frozen thresholds, can recommend a career in academia

This hex-map breaks down the share of 15-24 year-olds in Germany and the regional contrast is hard to miss. Eastern Germany shows much lower shares except for larger cities, while many western and southern areas have noticeably more young people. #30DayMapChallenge Day 25: Hexagons #ggplot2

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Precisely the same. Everything aside from 9, 13 and 20. Also for very much then same reasons.

Typically entertaining piece with a review of the research set out here: bsky.app/profile/turn...

I hope I never forget the revolting feeling of standing at the front of a classroom, warning students that they should carry evidence of immigration status or citizenship, and helping them understand how to respond if federal agents try to kidnap them or their friends off the street. #ICE

Voting in Denmark is difficult, as it requires you to fold these gigantic ballot papers (up to nearly 1 meter long) and somehow stuff them into the ballot box www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.

Con-Lab tribalism 2025: "you can come for a drink but I won't let you use the bathroom." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.

Empires will come and go, mountains will become dust, great cities will rise from ruins… but British voters will always want Scandinavian public services for American tax rates.

This is someone who the BBC labels an academic when inviting him onto their programmes.

First Glühwein of the season. It's not all bad.

Disabled children are having to wait for nearly four months to receive benefit payments due to government delays, with hardly any applications being processed on time according to the latest figures. By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Wikipedia says Shaheen is an academic. BBCQT implies you can’t trust what she says b/c she’s an ‘activist’. Someone who Wikipedia calls ‘a former academic’ who now campaigns for Reform & wants to be its first Home Secretary is an ‘academic & author’ who you can trust. Maybe they use Grokipedia now.

Imagine being the most despised party in the country and winning a stonking majority with only just over a quarter of the vote. There is only one ingenious electoral system that could make that happen.

My first (forced) foray onto Instragram. And somehow I look like I have blond highlights in my hair, which I don't. Grey patches, more likely. Also, yes, do come and study Political Communication with us at @strathpolir.bsky.social www.instagram.com/strathclydeh...

Napoleon’s assault and retreat is immortalized in the greatest data visualization of all time (h/t Edward Tufte). Minard’s map shows the march on Moscow in brown, and the retreat in black. The width of these lines is the size of the army. They were already decimated before they reached Moscow.

"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

Dispiriting stuff. But also enjoyable read. 89-year old with strong energy, opinions and language. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Neither Putin nor Hamas will probably even take note of their small victory today.

If you want to understand why the not always but sometimes smart Bavarians call what you know to be red cabbage "Blaukraut", just shred it, salt it and later wash it in the sink and look at the quite undeniable colour of the water that comes out.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

If you have just learned how to pronounce Heidenheim. Next on your list could be Paderborn and/or Elversberg. The former is the trickier one. Goes something like Pudder-Bourne. And just like Heidenheim or Hoffenheim, you don't ever want to go there.