New: Essex 'flag man' and Epping hotel protest organiser pleads guilty to assaulting a woman. bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

As a former social care worker, I challenge any MP to work in elderly care, SEMH facilities or similar for a week. Then tell us how "unskilled" it is and whether they feel minimum wage is appropriate.

Tenconi and Ross are doubly linked to Reform, as seen last year when they attended a conference with the Erdington Reform candidate and the Romanian far right AUR party. bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/r...

BBC are a bit late to the party on this one. We covered this issue in The Lead in November last year. open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

V exciting news today. The work that Jim, Polly & I did for @londoncentric.media got shortlisted for an Orwell Prize 😁 www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-p...

The conspiratorial thinking that fuels hard/far right politics in action. There's no secret pot of money and no nefarious other keeping it from the Ordinary People, but convincing working people that The Man is misusing their taxes is what keeps the whole machine running. :/

Meet the Reform candidate with ties to a sanctioned Bosnian Serb leader, the Romanian far right, and a transnational far right political network. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/04/22/r...

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa share.google/aBxZYPCAw6fz...

Somehow managed not to hear this until today. It's a bit good. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyej...

Seems like a job for the Big Bad...

from a little publication to PMQs and BBC homepage in a month, London Centric stories get coverage. The issue now is whether coverage is enough for the people who are stuck in limbo at the hands of Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital despite doing nothing wrong. Government quote at end of this is telling.

Further proof that the ultimate goal of the manosphere/hustle culture is male separatism.

It's not the first time he's actively ignored the involvement of the far right in violent protest. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...

This is really well put. I see so much "they're taking over" rhetoric from right-wing voters, wholly ignorant of the fact that they've been conditioned to see extremist beliefs as common sense.

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

Re Louis Theroux's manosphere doc. If you're new to the mysogynist-industrial complex it's an ok place to start. One thing it didn't show were the great people working to challenge misogyny in young men. Luckily I interviewed some in my book: www.aurorametro.com/product/ince...

Court cases, think-tank connections and opaque funding streams reveal how a Christian pressure group has become a central player in the UK’s culture-war politics. @kdenkwrites.com investigates.

This is a beaver I'm choosing to call Gary. He doesn't care that he might be on a banknote, he hasn't even posted about it. Be more like Gary.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Reuters states that a "senior Israeli official" claims Khamenei is dead. No official confirmation from Iran, who state that he is still "commanding the field". Live coverage here: www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...

Charlie Downes of Restore Britain dislikes being called a nazi. He's also incapable of admitting that Nana Akua is English, thinks the country is "defined by its indigenous ancestry", & has not reacted to the revelation that an actual nazi was welcomed into the party bylinetimes.com/2026/02/26/r...

Trump's given up on his bid for the next Nobel Peace Prize then... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Having failed to gain votes with islamophobia, Goodwin is learning hard into conspiracy. The people have spoken Matt, they don't want it.

Goodwin (deliberately?) failing to comprehend that life is hard, money is tight, people voted for the party offering them hope not more reasons to feel angry/helpless.

Trump style. Note the insistence that Goodwin, who was absolutely rejected by voters in Gorton and Denton tonight, was a "great candidate"

🚨 Rupert Lowe posed with & praised the self-identified Nazi who's been promoting Restore Britain. My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/26/r...

This is terrible news ☹️. RIP Rob Grant www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-beloved-creator-legendary-90s-33498863

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

ICE officers appear to be getting paid per capture. Completely horrendous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

Well there's a bit of positive news... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Really pleased to be included in the spring issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social where I take a deep dive into the manosphere influencers using religion to promote misogyny. Out now! share.google/cmPDskHeuRCM...

An underground site is using facial recognition to unmask camgirls. Claims to have a database of more than 2 billion faces from 7 million people. Verified it works. Upload photo, shows other sites they stream on. Could be used with social media photos to find them www.404media.co/underground-...

“This is more confirmation that Reform and Goodwin are not just part of an extremist anti-British project...but are also enriching themselves on foreign far-right money.” Thanks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for the quote ✊ Pls share it far + wide (beyond Bluesky!) goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

Big thanks to @annieknk.bsky.social for having me on the QAA Podcast to chat about the @londoncentric.media investigation into anti-immigrant TikToks and why London hasn't "fallen". Listen now on all podcast platforms podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

We just had a strong geomagnetic substorm here in Iceland. My cat and I watched from the balcony. Sometimes the show is strong enough to see inside the city limits easily. #northernlights #aurora #iceland

A recording of the TikToker purportedly behind the fake anti-migrant videos reveals his motivation... open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

I had a great chat last week with @cward1e.bsky.social, looking back at the growth of open source investigation from when it was just a small bunch of people trying to figure stuff out, how the counter-disinformation community formed out of that, and why it's causing us all so many headaches now.

Jeffrey Epstein’s London. Lots of previously unreported details: *the proposal for Epstein to buy a hotel near Green Park and put a London “playroom” in the penthouse *the mansions he considered buying *a proposed London meeting between Woody Allen and “PA” www.londoncentric.media/p/jeffrey-ep...

Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli factory

the problem with this newfound “bursary” argument aired in the Times is this: twhen we first heard about these payments in September a person close to Mandelson said it couldn’t possibly be the case and, er, threatened to sue us

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Representatives of Portsmouth's far right National Rebirth Party. The lad on the left is Josh (aka Harry) a former member of Youth Alliance, whose early activities were spurred on by Turning Point UK. 👉🏻 www.thenewworld.co.uk/britains-far...

A reminder for #holocaustmemorialday that (in the words of @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social ) Fascism arrives as your friend.

If you want to hear more about our insane investigation and the impact it is having, tune into @lbc.co.uk at 12:30 to hear @jim.londoncentric.media in conversation with @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Always nice when your work is appreciated 😳

@eliothiggins.bsky.social @bellingcat.com I never thought I'd see Bellingcat research skills being used to expose a toxic estate agent