Last yr an NHS doctor was struck off for harassment of other professionals, but his online abuse continued & police failed to act leaving victims in despair. My latest for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

Absolutely delighted to have won an Orwell prize for reporting homelessness and come runner-up for exposing Britain’s social evils! London Centric is a tiny team, so seeing our stories get recognition is wonderful and wild. Thanks as always to my truly wonderful editor @jim.londoncentric.media

Big thanks to @nasuwt-official.bsky.social for inviting me to speak at the Exeter women's conference today. Lots of good discussion about Incels, the manosphere and protecting/challenging our boys.

Great night for @londoncentric.media at the @orwellprize.bsky.social . Runner up for Exposing Britain's Social Evils and @jim.londoncentric.media & @pollysmythe.bsky.social won the prize for Reporting Homelessness 😁

The man funding the network is also one of Christian Concern's few named donors. national.thelead.uk/p/christian-...

NEW: The UK plans to use AI face scans to determine the age of asylum seekers at the border from next year. However, a leaked report shows the government has known the tech isn’t accurate for more than a year. In some cases, the technology could predict a 13.5-year-old to be an adult

Please send me any and all stock images you've seen which are just nebulously newsy words clumsily rendered as a key on a computer keyboard. Feel like I've seen thousands of them over the years, and this is a beautifully stupid example of the genre.

A Restore Britain spokesperson went viral claiming a London school left a pupil in tears after her ham sandwich was confiscated due to the school's ban on park. She challenged doubters to phone the school. So @kdenkwrites.com did. This is what she found: www.londoncentric.media/i/193542671/...

Wtaf. This is effectively legalising neglect. I've worked with people who had profound cognitive impairments and they may not be able to say (e.g) "take me to the park", but you can see from their reactions/expressions once there how much they enjoy it. They know the diff btwn free & shut in.

Over the weekend, Restore spokesperson Orla Minihane claimed that a London school banned pork products, but what really happened? My latest for @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...

Lots of serious political things to be concerned with, but also new tiny octopuses!

What would make Bellingcat an organisation you’d like to support? We want to hear from you. Help us build the Bellingcat of tomorrow by filling out this quick survey: bellingcat.questionpro.eu/t/AB3vDHmZB3...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

🔴NEW: Reform UK Councillor Shares Racist and Islamophobic Content and Backs Tommy Robinson The newly-elected Wakefield councillor repeatedly shared extreme and racist content, and backed multiple far-right figures bylinetimes.com/2026/05/20/r...

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...