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FOURTH JOB! We're hiring a 2-year Early Career Development Fellow in Jazz and Popular Music! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140186-...

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Sir Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Arthur Dron to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion 💙💛

Presently watching Brief Encounter, the story of one woman's attempt to escape the shackles of her two unbelievably annoying British children

Are people aware of how for gone you have to be to be too far gone for the freaking Legatum Institute www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Commuters to UK Train System: so how does this all work then UK Train System:

🇵🇱⚖️I promised a banger on the rule-of-law crisis in Poland, so... here it is. A group of PiS MPs have lodged a case with the Constitutional Tribunal, asking it to find the rules of electing the judges of the same Tribunal, introduced in 2016 by a PiS majority, to be unconstitutional. 1/

"They have these big gaming chairs with the back sweat, they drink Monster, they can't get a credit rating. They're weird people" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yb0...

If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files Their toxic immigration plans must go with them. NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!

Is it ok that the thing I am still most angry at Mandelson for is causing British chocolate to taste like a butcher's bottom

Ceding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.

Ukrainian intelligence warns:Russia is preparing new massive strikes. In -20°C This is not about military objectives,but about breaking people. They are trying to provoke fear, exhaustion, despair to force submission through cold. The world should call it what it is: terrorism

can any theorists tell me whether enshittification can technically occur in a service that has never not been shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

"For if you forgive others their debts, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their debts, neither will your Father forgive your debts." inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

"Greens were on course to win when these elections were first cancelled and our support has grown rapidly since. Democracy isn't optional, and this should alarm everyone" Green co-deputy leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social on the postponement of up to 30 council elections until 2027.

Hello, historian of empire speaking: this is colonialism. All those recent scholarly apologists for historical colonialism lie unmasked: they really do believe colonialism was ethically good, and they think powerful countries should be colonising again.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

⚡️/1. For the first time, Ukraine’s Security Service has struck a tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The SSU’s elite Alpha unit targeted the tanker QENDIL (IMO 9310525) using aerial drones while it was sailing in international waters.

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative www.politico.eu/article/get-... #digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität

The United States is poised to recognize Crimea and other occupied territories as Russian in order to strike a deal to end hostilities, The Telegraph reports Guarantors of the territorial integrity of Ukraine are just "amazing," all of them.

Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today

The transcript of the call between Yuri Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev, released by Bloomberg. How awkward it must be for some who denied that the plan was russian...

🇺🇦🇺🇳 Ukrainians representative at UN Security Council: ▪️ There will never be any recognition, formal or otherwise, of Ukrainian territory temporarily occupied by Russia as Russian. Our land is not for sale. ▪️Ukraine will not accept any limits on its right to self-defense or on the size of AFU.

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

Remember, always, that the post-Brexit-vote Tory government, and specifically Home Secretary Sajid Javid, deliberately and with malice aforethought reduced to almost zero the timely processing of asylum claims in the UK. They literally created the "overwhelming backlog" that traps people in hotels.

So we probably won't take your wedding rings from you, but we might place you into indentured servitude

RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

Pavlo Kazarin,a well-known journalist and military officer, wrote today: "I was once convinced that my generation was destined to live in post-history. It seemed that all the events had already happened and the rules were set.Empires had collapsed, independence had been gained, and wars were over.

Announcing Ethnomusicology Vol. 69.2, with 6 new articles, plus Frank Gunderson's review of the film "The Beatles: Get Back" and his case for why we might watch the film as ethnomusicologists. cc: @sem-office.bsky.social @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...

I won't be impressed by Rosalía until she releases a full album singing only in Polish, in collaboration with Grabaż

this is rather terrible news. "All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx 'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.' Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.

Nigel Farage, whose own adviser was convicted of fraud after admitting to advertising money laundering services on the dark web, is now complaining about banks having to implement "money laundering directives"

Greens growing. Reform ratttled. PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor