Interviewed in this week's 'The Listening Post' show on the crisis at the BBC. You can watch the full episode here ▶️ youtu.be/BNAPd_ur4-s

Very good commentary from Tom eschewing reduction to the palace coup framing without dodging the issues of who has the power to determine accountability.

Spoke to France 24 English about, you guessed it, the crisis at the BBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgkP...

With the BBC discourse still raging, here's my take. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-direct...

6/ Michael Prescott is an old friend of Robbie Gibb & was on the panel to choose the head of Ofcom when Boris Johnson was PM. Gibb tried to swing it for a Tory apparatchik but was overruled by (of all people) Nadine Dorries, who preferred another. bylinetimes.com/2023/11/21/d...

Delighted you all enjoyed Celebrity Traitors, & especially that the debate on the future of public media will focus on that fact.

Network of Reform donors who have donated to another 'regulated entity'. Basically the same methods as previous network I posted on Labour Together. £36,750,057 donated in this network.

Would the BBC stand up to a Farage government? Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podcast talks with @tommills.bsky.social Dr Tom Mills about the state of British media — press ownership, BBC independence, and what happens when funding cuts “smash morale.” 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

Over 3 million life-years lost in Gaza www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Thanks to Paul Holden’s ‘The Fraud’, the Labour Right’s vehicle Labour Together is in the spotlight again. Here’s the core of its funding network constructed from Electoral Commission data. Donors blue, ‘donees’ red.

‘Grudging acts are those activities in which we really would rather not participate but which we perform nonetheless’. Feel seen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.

This sweeping discussion is focused on the US, but there's so much that's directly relevant to the UK's dysfunctional political economy. Covers so much ill have to listen twice I think.

It was so clear to so many of us - ignored or ridiculed - the disastrous path we were on since 2008 (at the earliest). And here we are. We've arrived at our destination.

Still funny to me that academics have to organise 'retreats' to find time to write anything.

Interesting read on the roots of MAGA in early 90s conservatism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history. And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

We now go live to our Westminster correspondent who will explain with inordinate enthusiasm why keeping all the same people but changing their roles is in fact extremely interesting & important.

One of the things I enjoy the most in life is producing a highly detailed Gantt chart for a project that will never be funded.

Great initiative. Transformative politics needs its own media. Mad Corbyn never did this.

Missed this. Very clever and interesting paper.

'...the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies & actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide' t.co/HigtT0Ldrl

Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism theonion.com/israel-accus...

Quite. But if you understand terrorism as political actions - violent or peaceful - that threaten or disrupt the geopolitical interests of states, then it makes more sense.

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism" Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.

Ran a Multiple Correspondence Analysis and a Latent Class Analysis today. Admittedly neither are going to be any use for the paper, but pleased with myself and that's the main thing.

Palestinian lives mean nothing to the BBC.

Everything in the UK is punishingly expensive. But at least the politicians are cheap.

So much respect for Francesca Albanese. If only our politicians & journalists had even a fraction of her bravery & moral & intellectual clarity.

'All the decisions about our film were not taken by journalists, they were taken by [Director General] Tim Davie'. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Good interview from @declassifieduk.org. Mostly just the longstanding official FCO positions & statements of the obvious. But we've moved so far from that now. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-not-a...

New analysis of BBC reporting from @declassifieduk.org detailing how few reports mention Israel’s nuclear weapons (with a quote from me). www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...

Just listened to @tommills.bsky.social & Dan Hind from Common-Wealth talk about a model for mutual ownership of public media. They were discussing it through the lens of the BBC, but it made me start wondering if the model could be applied to CPR. www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Notice how BBC reporting on Israel/Palestine is shifting in line with the Foreign Office. Obviously more balanced position is welcome. But it's the same structural drivers that led to the woeful failures in the earlier phase.

New research article from the Danish elites powerhouse examining the power elite in Greenland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Network of organisations connected to the BBC's commercial boards via shared directors.

Sangita Myska currently giving the opening keynote at the Media Democracy Festival in London.

Husam Zomlot: "There is no war in Gaza. War happens between two armies.. for the last 600 days, the world has seen that this is a campaign of mass murder, mass destruction, mass starvation of an entire people. This must stop unconditionally"

Delighted to be giving the closing address tomorrow at the Media Reform Coalition. With the brilliant @sangitamyska.bsky.social who will be opening. It's now fully booked but @turnleftmedia.co.uk will be there during the day covering the action 👇🏽

'Dr Alaa al-Najjar watched with her own eyes as the charred bodies of her seven children were pulled from beneath the rubble – while two remain missing – all while she was on duty at Nasser medical complex.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

If you are a public intellectual you have a moral responsibility to bring clarity. Nothing but contempt for people who just throw up their hands.

Israel is starving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The UK must follow the EU in taking action on its existing trade deal with Israel. Anything less and the UK will remain complicit in genocide. Demand concrete action from the UK: secure.waronwant.org/page/145898/...

Ending trade talks is just one of a long list of demands made by the Palestinian justice movement. It shows that if the UK wants to act, it can. To ensure that the UK fulfils its legal obligations to stop Israel's genocide, it must take further concrete actions now.

The UK has finally suspended talks for a new trade deal with Israel. But this does nothing to stop the existing UK-Israel trade deal, which provides resources for Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

One objection to our proposal that the public should be actively & directly involved in the BBC is they, we, lack the necessary expertise to exercise such judgement. A few points from me on this.🧵 Report here for context: www.common-wealth.org/publications...

“The bigger risk actually is if the current governance system is maintained." @tommills.bsky.social Dr Tom Mills lays out what mutualising the BBC could really mean—and why it might protect journalism like Jeremy Bowen’s. 🎧 Beeb Watch podcast: podfollow.com/beebwatch #BBC #MediaReform

I thought I'd made my feelings on this perfectly clear.

This from @adambienkov.bsky.social, looking at Morgan McSweeny's actual record, is a really useful corrective to all the breathless profiles from establishment pundits. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

This report by Dan Hind, Tom Mills (@tommills.bsky.social) and Tom Chivers is a great, visionary piece of work that lays out how we could have a truly democratic, mutualised BBC. With charter renewal coming up in 2027, there is a chance to make this a reality. www.common-wealth.org/publications...