This is a deliberate and sickening choice. Where is ofcom?

We need more in-depth reporting on UK university finances like this. Research , research funding and their relation to teaching and teaching funding could do with a similar level of detail. Here's a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3ImSMWa

People can make excuses for Reform voters all they like - maybe some are confused rather than racist, maybe some just want to feel pride in their country, yadda yadda - but anyone supporting this grotesque parade of cruelty should be allowed no hiding place

Letting asylum-seekers work after six months would align Britain with the rest of Europe. It would be unlikely to lure more small boats, but it would cut costs and lift growth—a rare win-win econ.st/421vYSn Photo: Getty Images

This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

British media pumps out daily propaganda pieces for Farage, fails to offer *any scrutiny* and basically legitimises rampant racism, then puts on its ‘innocent face’ and clutches its pearls at the rise of the far right… What a grim betrayal of our democracy. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

I've been saying it forever. People voting to erode their own rights in order to hurt people they don't like seem to forget how the firing squad can be turned against them.

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

So what? Man does his job. Shock, horror!

The irony ... the BBC bears its share of blame for stoking racist violence.

We’ve seen social media posts claiming 70% of those arrested at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march were counter-protesters. There’s no evidence for this. The Met Police said only one of the 24 arrests was someone believed to be involved in the counter-protest.

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

My son is studying engineering at university and living in student accommodation away from home. I expected the normal student problems of too much weed, alcohol and women. He has become vegetarian, found god and given up alcohol. I'm actually a disappointed parent.

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening. @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

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multiculturalism has been a success for the UK. Austerity should be blamed for failing the country. It's not a hard message to communicate

I'm not holding my breath ... sadly.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Reform UK further enhance their image as the party of ordinary people by welcoming Danny Kruger, the Eton/Oxford educated son of multi millionaire parents.

Why what is happening in the United States shows the need for the United Kingdom to repair its own constitution Our polity is there for the taking Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-pointl... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

In all the talk about Charlie Kirk, there’s not been nearly enough discussion about murders and suicides of LGBTQIA+ people—especially youth. Kirk and his allies targeted that community, stoking hate, misunderstanding, and radicalization.

Thou shalt not claim to be a champion of free speech out of one side of your mouth whilst crushing free speech out the other.

The reason we’re here is the obsessive political fixation on gaining the votes of an unreasonable minority while counting on the notion that the reasonable (silent) majority have no choice but to keep voting the same way. So it’s absolutely in our hands to shake this belief in taking us for granted.

This is exciting. I was expecting to add maybe 4 or 5 titles to my list. But there are loads (see responses). We're seeing a renaissance of proper local journalism, not among the big companies, which mostly remain dire, but among independent publications founded by local people. Hope lies here ⬇️

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

... and hastening Reform's takeover is seriously off putting to business.

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world. 👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/xneDGxV

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.

Unsurprisingly, it is white commentators who seem blind to the moral imperative.

Reform UK's own "one in, one out" policy. ~AA July 2024: 4 MPs July 2024: 5 MPs March 2025: 4 MPs May 2025: 5 MPs July 2025: 4 MPs Sept 2025: 5 MPs

One issue over Kirk was that for LGBTQ ppl, he was a terrorist inciting hate & violence. For cis straight politicos/journos he was a ‘polite’ debater. That ‘debate’ is whether LGBTQ ppl have the right to exist. Such a debate is ‘fascism’ & was resolved at the Nuremberg Trials.

Every word.

Can't wait to see all the defenders of women and girls sharing this message.

The Starmer Labour government is to blame for normalising the degree of vile racism we're seeing enacted on our streets. How about standing up for solid British values like calmness, logic, reason, respect, fairness, dignity, tolerance ... yes, and anti-racism as part of all that instead?

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Toxic masculinity, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, vaccine denial and all manner of nutjobs dwell within ... 👇🏽

Anyone who researches pop culture (esp. toxic geek spaces, gaming, fandom, etc.) is having a bit of a "told you so" moment as they see mainstream media outlets fall all over themselves to understand stuff we've been screaming about for literally a decade (or more). Y'all didn't wanna listen.

Always important to keep things in perspective. So here is in an article on 500-year-old whales and what we human medicine could learn from them. www.ft.com/content/72fe...

I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.

They must be able to criticise Tommy Robinson fascism or we're completely lost. This isn't even Farage we're talking about here. Goddamn them for even needing to hear that.

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“To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer,” warns the president of the Signal Foundation in a guest essay