Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

EXCLUSIVE: Syrian families speak out amid fear of being deported by Labour Government

I am so tired of rich people refusing to build anything new and just burning everything that exists as a public good to the ground instead. They have decimated journalism this way. Remember when they used to be scared enough to build public libraries and parks?

1/2 The "Community Right to Buy" theme is one of the richest (and possibly the only coherent) thread in this government's programme. They should be making much more of community ownership & democratic business models (for community assets like shops & pubs, but also energy, water, & social care).

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) & nutrition agencies warn that acute malnutrition in Sudan is set to get significantly worse in 2026: ▪️ Acute malnutrition among children under 5 & pregnant/breastfeeding women is forecast to rise about **13.5 % — from roughly 3.7 million in...

Here's your first look at tomorrow's front page 📰 'One of the most formidable public figures of her generation': Tributes pour in as Jeane Freeman dies aged 72

‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’ Donald MacKenzie on AI. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

“We are crones, hags, witches. Because we’re a threat. Because we see these men for who they are. Because, except for rare exceptions - the monstrosity that is Ghislaine Maxwell - we are protectors. Of children. Of society. Of a world in which rich men don’t get to act with impunity.” Brilliance.

In Common column repost Common Weal celebrates the Scottish Government’s support for our policy of creating a National Housing Agency. We will now campaign to make sure that it is done properly.

The background to Dr Abu Sitta’s 11th litigation brought by the GMC under Wes Streeting’s oversight:

Wealthy use loophole to conceal value of £300m in Scottish land sales

MLK’s daughter.

The first Palestinians returned to Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing this week, after being stuck outside Gaza for two years or more. They described grueling interrogations, intimidation, and threats by Israeli soldiers at the crossing. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/hand... #Palestine #Israel

Gaza doctors say Israel delivered mutilated corpses and bags of human remains to al-Shifa. Surgical cuts in the skulls and organ theft www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

I want more people to be able to put down roots in Scotland’s rural and island communities. That’s why today I have launched a new Rural and Island Housing Grant, helping more first-time buyers and families afford a home.

Deepening starvation in Sudan - Joint NGO statement following IPC alert on Sudan (5 February 2026) #Refugees

Yes, of course Epstein had extensive Israeli connections, but the Russian ones are just evidentially more extensive — that was where the money and trafficable women were

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Scotland moves one step closer to making history as MSPs vote to advance the #Ecocide (Scotland) Bill! The bill would make Scotland the first UK nation to introduce #EcocideLaw. Learn more: www.stopecocide.earth/bn-2025/scot... #StopEcocide

Now available on pre-order Wild Goose publications have surpassed themselves with their gorgeous production values for our second poetry collection based on our work with Cultures of Sustainable Peace www.ionabooks.com/product/fold...

Morning.

Hospicing Gaza ( غزة ) - A piece we should never have had to write. Scholarship when every hope is gone and out of the failure of our disciplines We invite you to read our piece again @khawlabadwan.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social

We invite you again to this urgent yet daunting work which introduces a scholarship of heartbreak through stunned languaging. The most read piece in Language & Intercultural Communication. A beginning, a trouble. A call, a response. A rethinking www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Six Palestine Action activists have declared victory after being cleared of committing aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

❗️BREAKING -- Palestine Action protesters found not guilty of burglary at Elbit weapons factory in Bristol. The six activists were also not convicted of other charges, having spent 18 months in jail awaiting trial. realmedia.press/filton-verdi...

Israel suspends evacuation of patients via Rafah crossing: Red Crescent https://aje.news/qx8xy1

Heartbreaking piece here on the closure of the University of Essex’s Southend campus. Unlike much that’s written about universities, it really captures the deep emotional connection between university and place, and what it means when that’s lost: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You guys literally will believe a dead pedophiles emails before you believe the women who survived him.

1000s of women gave repeated testimony of how a wealthy group of predators raped and abused them. And when the files to prove it come out, society gives all the credit to conspiracy theorists “for being right.”

Al-Shifa Hospital director says blocking medical evacuations through Rafah crossing could be 'death sentence' for many https://aje.news/s1x9ou

Every other “reporter” in that room that doesn’t walk out immediately when Trump does this should never be seen as professional or credible again. I’d say they should be ashamed of themselves, but appropriate shame seems to be one of the casualties of the Trump era in the United States.

This is heartbreaking. "Dr. Hossam’s lawyer warns: his heart is exhausted, his body shattered from continuous torture, and the freezing temperatures in his cell are worsening his suffering. Between cold walls, the doctor who saved hundreds of children and the wounded is left with no adequate food,

Medical evacuees from Gaza entered Egypt on Monday as the Rafah border crossing reopened, marking a key step in the weak Israel-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic one

JUST IN | Israeli forces detonated & destroyed the Morag Water Station in Rafah today, a facility that supplied water to roughly one-third of the city’s residents before the war, Palestinian investigative journalist Younis Tirawi Reuters w/ footage purportedly circulated by Israeli soldiers. The...

Calling all researchers and practitioners in multilingual education. RJME would love to see your work! Check out Rjme.org to see the range of pieces we're interested in (we accept a variety of formats). Feel free to reach out to me or the other co-editors with questions! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

Rough translation: "Too many powerful people are suspects - including my bosses - so, we're not going to investigate. To hell with the victims. To hell with justice." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Our statement on the Government’s immigration proposals @uofgunescoriela www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Israel has murdered more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza since it signed the so called ceasefire. One of the latest is a 3 year old child.

"Israel has set the initial daily limit for individuals leaving Gaza through the crossing at about 150 people, but around 22,000 sick and wounded Palestinians are still in desperate need of treatment abroad"

What do we want? Care or fascism? That's the economic choice we now face youtu.be/eBEahWrzEr0?...

A clergyperson who needs to be asked to promote antiracism isn't doing their job properly

Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.