Findings like these are produced regularly but readers will never see them in the nyt.🧵

Ok, I admit it. My first thought was ‘what’s reticent bowling?’ followed by ‘and where is the bowling alley in the Fitz?” (Image in ad for an event about the renowned artist Frank Bowling at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Do go)

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

If you don’t have time to read what I wrote today about the Far Right — and particularly Loyalist — exploitation of the Belfast knife attack, just keep this section in mind when you consume media coverage… brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/radio-elon...

Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

Every so often a new story pops up and everyone remembers that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer who foments violence on his Nazi website. Then everyone forgets again.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

This.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the paramilitaries in the Berlin street below going from house to house carrying out a pogrom before our eyes.

Half-expect the Prime Minister to issue an ultimatum to those carrying out the pogroms: if they happen again they will face a potential ban. This will show just how “unacceptable“ he finds them.

Puntcon 2026 will be on the 16th August with @billt.bsky.social www.disruptiveproactivity.com/2026/06/punt...

Fascinated by the concept of a left-wing digital rights group that only does X and Insta for socials... linktr.ee/labourdigita...

Just because a piece of technology is being rolled out in a not-for-profit or public-service context, it doesn't mean it's "tech for good" or "responsible technology". It can still be extractive, janky as hell, and basically no good at all.

Delighted to unveil the schedule for The Cultures of Early Television, a conference on 2 + 3 July in London. The gathering focuses on television before the Second World War in Britain, continental Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/the-cultures...

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Why did none of you chain me down and force me to watch One Battle After Another before now? I am going to have to take a while to process.

Here's the video:

Wholly correct. What I'd add is: don't despair, most people, when you say 'his brother had made the 999 call' go 'oh, right, I understand now'.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Lads next time the woke progressive left successfully captures all the elite institutions we have got to be better at it cos this time it clearly didn't work at all.

This is really important. There is a concerted effort to undermine anything which creates a more inclusive and fairer society. We see it in anti-trans rhetoric and its success in the UK and this is the same playbook, amplified by complicit media.

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/aa94...

love that vertiginous drop in stress on a big deadline day as I start actually working and go from "I am paralysed with fear about this thing I'm about to do as I assume I have forgotten how to write" to "oh yes right, I in fact know how to do the thing I have been doing professionally for 13 years"

TO BE FAIR, the modern day "idk they seem to be suspiciously prolific, are they using AI?" is perfectly compatible with the historical "idk they seem to be suspiciously prolific, surely it is because they are a genius and not for example taking the work of their wife or other women + passing it off"

PSA: Puntcon will be on August 16 this year. Emails going out soon.

When did John Roberts move from the US Supreme Court to the UK? This ruling about the rights of disabled people is contrary to human rights law and common sense. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig... And remember that the ‘supreme’ court really isn’t and that Parliament can legislate to correct it.

A reminder that the UK government can't even stop using X so there is no chance that they will confront the racists and far right.

Morning moon on Kingston st (image shows a residential street with rows of Victorian worker’s cottages either side, early morning. At the end can be seen a bigger road. The moon, slightly waning, is centred over the street. There are two pubs. Of course)

Hey journos, here's a story opportunity:

Farage is obviously trying to stoke up race riots and exploiting a man’s murder to achieve that. Henry Nowak’s dad said outside court that he does not “want the murder used to create further hatred, division or tension. This is not about racism this is a case about murder." Farage doesn’t care.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

thinking about this a lot today

Labour seems to have internalised the Supreme Court judgment as though it was a damning referendum loss that saw the public reject its position, rather than a plainly incorrect reading of a single point of law

1/🧵 As a historian, I’m 100% behind this statement, “UK Government has completely failed trans people, taking cover behind the Supreme Court decision, even though the drafting history of the Equality Act makes it clear that trans people were meant to be protected according to their gender identity.”

It’s Pride Month in the UK. Not sure we’ve ever needed it more. Here’s a documentary I made for Radio 4 on the history, history-makers and future of Pride. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

the BBC has agreed I can post some of the full interviews from my program, Human Intelligence. These interviews are so rich & fascinating, & we only get to use maybe 5 minutes out of an hour. Here is a brilliant one about Simone Weil and the power of attention. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Stephanie was a great training data provider and we would definitely hire her to clean our apartment again.

I've just emerged from the confessional and have some thoughts about the recent Encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas. I've called it "Doin the Vatican RAG" because I can. https://astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/magnifica-humanitas-doin-the-vatican-rag/

This is a political choice. By @fruitypy.bsky.social today. Please share widely for those who don’t understand the scale of the problem ❤️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yeah, just do some stuff and tackle those hard problems, not quite sure what the desired outcome is, but yeah do some stuff *waves hands in direction of doing some stuff*

Paging @genmon.fyi - just look what I have on my desk, a gorgeous Poem/1 (the image shows a grey plastic rectangle enclosing an eink screen sayig "in cosmic halls time flies free / it's now two twenty-three" Bill is very happy behind the camera, and full of admiration for the device's creator.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

So many reasons national football associations should withdraw from the world cup. Unsafe for fans, unfair to some participants

Actually one thing I've noticed about all the liberal media is that they now just ignore Labour's grim immigration policy proposals. At best there will be some mutterings about the economic costs. The human and moral costs? Completely ignored.