STV News need to stop calling these “protests”. What exactly are they protesting? They are a mob of wannabe vigilantes targeting people of colour youtu.be/HNNP0XPvIhQ?...

I would have loved for even one of these Lindsay Graham obituary pieces to tell us who funded him

This is so enjoyable. How can we keep it going? Fake some dossier that "proves" binface is funded by EU grants? Or that the bins in refugee charity offices have been given little capes in solidarity?

Sports stars can get away with saying that they don’t do politics, but that’s shot to pieces when they decide to go for a round of golf with Donald Trump

If entertainment and sticking it to politics-as-usual is what you’re after, you may as well vote Binface

Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.

I unpack the rise of private markets, the shrinking role of public investing, and why companies including OpenAI and SpaceX may enter your retirement account faster than ever before.

Hopefully Count Binface will stand. If the public want comedy candidates, he may have what it takes to pull off a win

“Who do you believe? Them… or Benjamin Netanyahu?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social names the UN officials, human rights and aid groups, prominent Israelis and medical orgs that have accused Israel of committing war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and starvation - all in 60 seconds. zeteo.com/subscribe

An unaccountable extra three minutes of injury time played for Portugal to find an equaliser against Spain aka FIFA-mandated Ronaldo time

Uefa complaining about Trump circumventing FIFA’s rules seems too late. First he came for the referees, then he came for the Iranian team, and now there’s nobody left to speak for you. This is why it’s important to stand out for principle when it doesn’t seem important to you.

I can’t get enough of the Norwegians rowing. I also can’t help seeing it as part of the same nostalgia that has Western European men daydreaming about the Romans several times a day and Muslims cosplaying as Ottomans

Please stop calling them strongmen! The likes of Trump and Putin can’t even take a little bit of criticism. They are as weak as they come

Seriously, we need to stop talking up Farage. He’s just lost a by-election after another pants campaign and is facing questions about the normality of receiving a £5m gift

As the World Cup kicks off, I caught up with my old boss @osamabhutta.bsky.social to reflect on human rights strategy, #Qatar2022 and alternatives to "name and shame" hopebased.substack.com/p/world-cup-...

That Keir Starmer has met this predictable moment with passivity and no plan to take the initiative says everything about his leadership and why he’s in this predicament

Trying to get into the Scottish election results really shows up the lack of investment in journalism in this country. It’s sad.

Comms in 2026 is all about how to handle AI and the political environment. Hope you find this useful to your thinking www.linkedin.com/pulse/comms-...

PSG vs Bayern was so good that I suggest UEFA ditches two legs for them and moves to a cricket-style 5 test format

This seems like a job for the Board of Peace

A good development. Now we would like the UK govt to do the same for all the other Gazan students in the same situation, including ours at Manchester www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Good advice

Yep on.ft.com/3ULeZzu

London, Berlin, Paris, and Manchester to host NBA games www-skysports-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.skys...

Nearly two years into the war, international law has been broken www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Turns out those anti-migrant men suddenly worried about the safety of women would be better off protesting closer to home www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Bold and transparent work by colleagues at Edinburgh www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thankful this has been openly published, after careful research be expert colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. Hoping that management now actually deliver. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A must-watch/listen

Some might say…. It’s graduation and Oasis fever in Manchester this week! Well done to all our grads and stay in touch 😎🎓🎸

Cute, they switched ties again

Congrats to colleagues at Manchester Museum for being European Museum of the Year! It is by design such a welcoming and thoughtful place. Get along there if you haven’t already! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Proud to run the Manchester 10k as part of the @uniofmanchester.bsky.social Purple Wave. And I hit a new PB!🥇 🙌🏽😎

Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

It’s got to be hurting Zuckerberg that despite all his cosying up to Trump, the secret war chats are happening on Signal, not WhatsApp

Solidarity with colleagues at Harvard ✊🏽

Donald Trump may have made April Fools’ Day a two-day event from now on

She’s running for president

If Le Pen has committed a crime she should be punished. This does however fit a pattern of holding back the far right through the courts. If we want to beat the haters it needs to be by defeating their politics through better politics

All you need to know about Twitter

Zuckerberg was recently telling us all that we had reached a cultural tipping point prioritising free speech 🤷🏽‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From where in the world do Rangers fans think “woke” is coming?

Manchester’s scientific research — from innovation at globally renowned institutions such as the Christie cancer hospital to the fizzing ecosystem of spinouts and start-ups on the Oxford Road corridor linking its universities — is “of a quality that would match anywhere in the world”

I've seen this mistake from human rights advocates so many times. If your critique, catastrophising, or comedy is something the object of your ire would quite like you to say, or it helps them go even further with their dastardly plans, go back and instead devise something that would irritate them

Ah Spotify, you know me so well

Trump and anti-vaxxer RFKjr are cutting science and health measures just when bird flu is really becoming endemic in America. Not good 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Vodafone just served me an advert promising a new phone every year. Nobody needs a new phone every year. What a waste!

Hasan Minhaj had Steve Bannon’s number a long time ago - from his 2017 WHCA speech

ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

Prof Olga Onuch of Manchester Uni tells CNN that “63% of Ukrainians either approve fully or tend to approve of Zelensky’s actions as president www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...