a year is a long time in politics

Huge: BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested — on suspicion of misconduct in a public office (which would cover the sharing of confidential information and not any alleged sexual offences) #royals www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

thank u to my colleagues at wordle

Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the deportation of five student activists last year after receiving memos describing their participation in pro-Palestinian protests and their writings about the war in Gaza, according to government documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday.

While everyone is focused on Greenland, over in Canada: a wild @theglobeandmail.com scoop, even with the caveats, on how its armed forces are modelling a military response to a hypothetical US invasion. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

ICYMI: Your Sunday long-read on what went on inside the BBC this week during a crisis sparked by a Trump documentary.

SCOOP: Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1 billion dollars over Panorama documentary, according to a letter to the corporation obtained by the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Today on The Bunker, @zoegrunewald.bsky.social sits down with New York Times investigative journalist @bradleyjane.bsky.social to find out what could happen if this evangelical vision of “family values” takes hold here too. Listen here 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod #trump #donaldtrump

Scottish journalists & politicians are asking questions about Reform's connections to the ADF. “Reform and the ADF are trying to sow division and are treating essential healthcare as part of their narrow-minded culture war agenda.” -- @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/news/2554319...

"The ADF has chosen Nigel Farage to focus on, building up this ally who has the potential to be a JD Vance-like figure in the future." Can the Christian group that influenced the overturning of Roe v. Wade bring its extreme views to the UK? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...

ICYMI: Our investigation on the American Christian anti-abortion movement’s expansion to the UK is in today’s newspaper.

A conservative Christian group helped end the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. Now, it has taken its playbook to Britain. Here's how the Alliance Defending Freedom became an unlikely conduit between MAGA Republicans and the Reform U.K. party. nyti.ms/3KLqGol

A conservative Christian group that helped overturn the right to abortion in the US is now attacking UK abortion rights. With the same tactics used to overturn #RoevWade, they're attacking abortion clinic buffer zones and gestational limits. @bradleyjane.bsky.social & Elizabeth Dias report ⬇️

“Very often A.D.F. has operated under the radar, quite discreetly.” ICYMI: our story on how Reform UK has been quietly working with an influential American anti-abortion group.

Really good piece from Jane Bradley and co at NYT. Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K. Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that… democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

Come for the journalism, stay for the public service of teaching British swearwords to Americans

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Must-read piece by Jane and Elizabeth for anyone interested in the alt-right/Christian networks developing between the UK and US (etc)

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

In a debate on the Palestine Action ban on Monday, the security minister said it was based on "clear advice and intelligence", and people protesting against the ban "may not know the extent of its activities" Today, we are publishing some of that advice www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...

An FBI special agent had sex with prostitutes during overseas assignments and domestic travels and used an agency-issued device to pay for the encounters, the Justice Department’s watchdog said, committing policy violations that agency officials have said could expose agents to extortion.

The Spy Factory: How Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for its deep-cover operatives –– until an elite team of Brazilian cops hunted them down. New investigation with Michael Schwirtz. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

Big investigation incoming…

Fascinating story by my colleague @bradleyjane.bsky.social, on how H.R. Smith Group, a donor to Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, sold sensitive technology to a major supplier of Russia's blacklisted state weapons agency: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...