Sheridan Flynn
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Filmmaker. Space traveller. Proud democratic republican. 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🇵🇸
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Do we need airbags and crumple zones for online safety? Me on the violence of the unregulated tech industry.
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US geopolitics is just an endless WWE storyline now.
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Eliot Higgins
5 days ago
The platform architecture forces convergence: authentic conviction expressed through the same escalating, performative patterns. Which isn't great for functional democracy.
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Ed Davey
7 days ago
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
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Carole Cadwalladr
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Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from
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A wee film I shot with the great
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Chasing Farage: John Sweeney in Clacton on the trail of the elusive MP
YouTube video by The Nerve
https://youtu.be/y5OwzvIOFEM?si=0JNKOZ1fpvxJKrOu
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The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
https://www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-davie-crisis-robbie-gibb-deborah-turness-panorama-trump
12 days ago
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Eliot Higgins
12 days ago
How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice
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How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice
London and Moscow’s rivalry stretches back to the imperial era, but the Ukraine war has brought relations to a new low
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/how-britain-became-russia-villain-us-ukraine?CMP=share_btn_url
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Hardeep Matharu
14 days ago
When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse New Byline Times print edition available in shops /
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This a make or break for Starmer. If he doesn’t clearly stand up for the British tax payer, for British institutions, British culture, and free speech he’s done for.
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Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology
US president tells reporters he will sue the corporation for ‘anywhere between a billion and $5bn’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/15/trump-says-he-will-take-legal-action-against-bbc-despite-its-apology
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Kashana
15 days ago
Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world
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Katherine Denkinson
18 days ago
✨Actual copies of my first ever actual book! If you would also like to hold a copy, they will be on sale from Friday this week! ✨
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Hopefully everyone is adequately appeased by now and we can all just casually move on.
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19 days ago
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George Monbiot
23 days ago
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
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Fucking hell.
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29 days ago
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Adam Bienkov
about 1 month ago
Why the Caerphilly by-election result shows Nigel Farage's party is much weaker than most of the coverage of Reform suggests
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The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/the-reform-backlash-caerphilly-by-election-result-shows-nigel-farages-party-is-much-weaker-than-it-looks/
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Got to watch the first 2 episodes of Marco Bellocchio’s new HBO drama Portobello at the Carson Soho. Going out on a limb here and say it might be in the same league as 2019 Chernobyl.
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about 2 months ago
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Every accusation is an admission.
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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues
Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/09/nigel-farage-says-uk-teachers-are-poisoning-our-kids-and-predicts-strikes-as-pm
about 2 months ago
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James O’Brien
about 2 months ago
Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.
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about 2 months ago
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Got to see the brilliant and inspirational Power Station film last night in Hackney. A beautiful toolkit for activism and people power ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
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Peter Jukes
about 2 months ago
It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)
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Carole Cadwalladr
about 2 months ago
REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
https://www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair-institute-big-tech-messiahs-larry-david-ellison-murdoch-israel
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Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says
Eliza Manningham-Buller points to extent of cyber-attacks and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/britain-may-already-be-at-war-with-russia-former-head-of-mi5-says
2 months ago
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Finally hit middle age, middle class, and middle England all on the same night.
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Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/sep/28/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
2 months ago
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Odd that this isn’t top of the news headlines like every other Reform story.
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Scott Lemieux
2 months ago
Some discourse on the other site led me to this typically outstanding Emily Witt essay, which is both worth your time and IMHO not why Trump won
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
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Gil Durán
2 months ago
3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!
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MidCenturyCinema
2 months ago
9/24/45: Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City From back when everybody understood that fascism was bad More:
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Rome, Open City review – Rossellini’s blazingly urgent masterpiece from a city in ruins
Roberto Rossellini’s 1945 neorealist drama is unsparing in its depiction of the heavy price of both resistance and collaboration with the Nazi occupation
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/15/rome-open-city-review-rossellinis-blazingly-urgent-masterpiece-from-a-city-in-ruins
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Being a trust fund baby can unleash incredible superpowers in adulthood.
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Yes 👇🏼
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Massive Attack remove music from Spotify to protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in AI military
The band cited a ‘moral and ethical burden’ placed on artists by revenue from their work ultimately funding lethal technologies
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/18/massive-attack-remove-music-from-spotify-to-protest-ceo-daniel-eks-investment-in-ai-military
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Peter Geoghegan
3 months ago
Seriously if Labour - *Labour* - is going to tacit condone the far right what is the point of them? No wonder the worst people feel emboldened
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Alice Roberts
3 months ago
Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Mark Chadbourn
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Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s defence committee: “Denmark yesterday announced our biggest defence investment ever. We will buy air defence for 8 billion euros, and it will all come from European producers. It has been a strong political desire to buy from reliable and non-threatening partners.”
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.
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Ian Dunt
3 months ago
The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.
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Andy Carvin
3 months ago
Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage. Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.
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Ukraine 'just the start' of Putin's conquest plans - Merz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin's "imperialist plan wouldn't end with the conquest of Ukraine but would rather be just the start".
https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2025/0908/1532324-ukraine-russia-war/
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Peter Geoghegan
3 months ago
While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data.
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
http://theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/08/revealed-how-boris-johnson-traded-pm-contacts-for-global-business-deals
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Peter Jukes
3 months ago
Some journos need to understand the difference between ‘revenue’ and ‘investment’. Byline Times runs at a profit on revenue. A lot of the media, including Press Gazette, only functions because some oligarch burns money on them
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Odd that Tice isn’t subject to the same scrutiny.
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
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Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-green-party-leader-badenoch-devolution-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04#block-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
Social media algorithms prioritise engagement, not accuracy. That means the most aggravating and divisive content dominates public discourse. Politics is filtered through this distorted lens, not through truth.
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Adam Schwarz
3 months ago
Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.
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‘Our name is dirt’: how stigma of kneecapping haunts one Northern Ireland family
Rap trio Kneecap may be subverting the word, but the psychological wounds are still raw for victims of shootings and their families
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/31/stigma-kneecapping-northern-ireland
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Odd that the media is never interested in Richard Tice’s vast wealth.
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Leah McElrath
3 months ago
Former IDF undercover special ops officer and now media personality Aaron Cohen leveraged the mass shooting of children at a church to tout his AI mass surveillance and threat detection product. Cohen previously infiltrated and disrupted the pro-Palestinian anti-genocide encampment at UCLA in 2024.
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Establishment media casually priming the population for mass deportations.
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