'Amid increasing attacks on EDI in the UK and across the Atlantic, the thinktank More in Common, along with researchers from the University of Oxford and UCL set out to discover whether attitudes among the public had changed since a similar study was published in March 2024.' 1/3

He literally called Trump Hitler back in 2016. 👇 #cdnpoli

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

ladies if he’s a matador that is a huge red flag

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

“.. levels not seen since 1992.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

A random thought this morning. If you could bring somebody from the 1920s back to London and they saw the incredible diversity of the city, sure they might be racist and horrified. But I also wonder if some might think, "well of course, London is the capital of the world's largest empire"

The good news is that we'll never know the truth about anything ever again

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

"A few months before the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, Donald Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease. His war on speech is no drill." @edwardluce.bsky.social America’s accelerating exit from itself - on.ft.com/3W3jtlI via @FT

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

There is a good simple media story in doing a mystery shopping reporting exercise of 100 uses of p-word and n-word racism to get the snapshot % for Twitter protecting hate crimes , with pressure not just on the platform execs, but on ministers, police, ofcom, ehrc and select committees.

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

The BBC: "many experts disagree". Ffs

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

Nigel Farage roundly condemned over plan to abolish indefinite leave to remain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Tomorrow night will be Jimmy Kimmel's most watched show in history - and MAGA are inadvertently responsible for that. But most importantly, Kimmel's First Amendment rights triumphed because of public pressure against Disney. Civic resistance matters. It delivers results. Keep it up, America.

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

Can't work out from this piece whether it's the coke, the fraud or the kicking of a police officer in the head that Liz thinks he's been unfairly demonised for. So I'll presume it's all of it.

Absolutely. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

America plunges headlong into Onion territory Oklahoma lawmakers introduce legislation requiring every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader" Or get fined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This letter to The Economist makes a decent point. The case for robo taxis probably feels overwhelming in a country where the urban design means you're utterly screwed without a car. It's like how higher crime rates presumably boost the car for security solutions. Not entirely enviable

Interviewed James Dyson for @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

A plagiarism on both your houses!

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spot on. If media organisations and journalists don't stand up now, it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to stand up later.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration  - on.ft.com/4gud1hb via @FT

Truth from @iandunt.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DOn2Riz...

The algos reckon it's time I bought.... a gilet? WTF

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I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

It's publication day for Journeys of Empire, my second book for kids, through which I tell the story of British empire through some of the epic and monumental journeys that shaped it. Followup to Stolen History innit. www.sathnam.com/journeys-of-...

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It's almost like young people are interested in institutions facing up to their history in a frank and nuanced way www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...