In a nutshell (as usual with @casmudde.bsky.social 's observations)

This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news

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Totally, absolutely this

More hey ho

Hey ho

Free speech latest www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Very, very classy reply from Swedish pm Ulf Kristersson to Orban's crass posturing

This is very good

Spot on

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The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

STOP APPEASING FASCISTS. Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.

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Trump sets up impossible preconditions as an excuse to do nothing on Russia, including a requirement that every NATO member first join his trade war against China with massive tariffs.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Good grief

Nobody has free speech like America has free speech latest

Mandy runs out of road www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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If you read one article today, etc ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imminent announcement of France’s next PM. Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu? A man appreciated by all parties…

Pretty fine sunset from my window as France descends into ever deeper political chaos

Ah, the travails of the translator ... On the irresistible rise of "they", the third person singular pronoun that actually, er, plural. Love this thoroughly expert discussion by @john-emdall.bsky.social www.ataa.fr/blog/article...

Smart!

Your heartwarming read of the day www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Nate Silver seems to have become exactly the kind of evidence-free opinion merchant he once aimed to drive out of business

Jeez

Resistance growing in France against the Bayeux tapestry going to London: it's too fragile to travel, experts say, and Emmanuel Macron favoured the big political gesture over decades of expert advice (by me) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ah, the Conservatives have given the keys to the social media accounts to the 12-year-old again

Is nobody at Number 10 aware that not all illegal immigrants to the UK are black...? Because this is really quite unfortunate.

Underrated point! Collapse of written news into traffic chasing via a small number of algorithms (Facebook, Google homepage, whatever bollocks your browser is pushing) rewards super-simple clicky headlines. If you’re under pressure to hit a click target, the Reform narrative keeps your boss happy.

Obviously it's my paper, but this is more like how Farage's delusional fantasy immigration plans should be reported, no? Not the abject copy-paste bollox of some who shall remain nameless but should know better www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a horrifying story

We're doomed (journalists, I mean)

Tout ça pour ça www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

They just did

Trump fires the head of US employment statistics because he doesn't like the numbers

Sorry what

Just sayin'

This is a very entertaining read www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

America is basically sabotaging itself

i dno, maybe time to let it go

Une joie absolue du début à la fin ce documentaire et non seulement parce que c'est TOTALEMENT MA JEUNESSE bravo encore @christopheconte.bsky.social www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

✅ described as an academic & broadcaster ✅ links ‘exodus’ of super rich to welfare ✅ makes false claim about no. of claimants (it’s 1.735 not 10m) ✅ makes projection from 5 to 35bn & calls it doubling ✅ twists the issue to immigration All in a good day’s work for a professional propagandist.

One of the great contests in world affairs is now between the attention span of the US president and the attention spans of those following the news.

Short but smart @nvondarza.bsky.social thread on the ninth anniversary of the Brexit referendum