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mathildamall.bsky.social
Journalist. I write columns & record podcasts critiquing news and platforming the voices missing from the mainstream. 📝 @bylinetimes.bsky.social 🎙️Media Storm podcast
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Sadly think we’re playing a fool’s game throwing moral words like ‘appals’ and ‘shameful’ at Trump. His currency is ego. So mock the idiot swallowing what Putin shoves down his throat. Laugh cos the US chose a gullible child. Say this man is thick as fuck.‘Stuns the world’ is praise to him.

💥 Latest episode ❓Why does asexuality make the media so angry? 🎙️ Featuring @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2Hr4...

Today’s NEWS WATCH: 🗞️ Trump’s “war” on women’s sport 🗞️ Hostage handovers are delayed: why? 🗞️ Is Labour Reform-ing? 🎙️ Hosted by @helenawadia.bsky.social & @mathildamall.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2S5g...

There are (a small but loud number of) people who used Somali women’s testimonies of FGM as a ‘cultural’ case against taking in refugees, after it appeared on C4’s #gobacktowhereyoucamefrom We invited those women to respond directly on @mediastormpod.bsky.social

🔴FGM: How Can We Achieve Zero Tolerance With Zero Coverage? 230m girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation – yet it rarely ever makes the news @mathildamall.bsky.social & @helenawadia.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/f...

On Monday, I appeared on @channel4tv.bsky.social’s wildly controversial #GoBack To Where You Came From. Lots to say on this. But first, the most important. In ep 1, we learned about FGM, one of the biggest killer of girls. This week marked the UN day to fight FGM. I couldn’t find a single headline.

Musk’s only redeeming feature is he brings out a Starmer with a spine

‘SHOOTINGS AT/AROUND/NEAR MIGRANT CAMP’ These headlines clearly imply violence by migrants, when migrants were actually targeted by a French national. Deliberately ambiguous clickbait? Surely not.

Friends, fellas, democracy defenders, fighters for freedom, We need your support, Georgia’s freedom needs your support!🇬🇪🇪🇺 “THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE REGIME IS INFORMATION” Let the world see this!👇 THANK YOU!🙏💛 #TerrorInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests #NAFO #Fellas #NAFOarticle5 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sad to see Mishal Husain leave BBC Today, imo their best and lest egotistical interviewer. I once worked with her producer to get more refugee and asylum seeker voices into Radio 4 coverage - not a lasting legacy, but I witnessed Husain give more minutes than she has to delivering meaningful news.

Why Georgia’s protest matters to the West but the West still looks away - my words in @bylinetimes.bsky.social

The Media Must Report On #Georgia Violence Pro-European protesters are raging against the #Putin-aligned Georgian Government’s decision to scrap the country’s bid to join the #EU @mathildamall.bsky.social @helenawadia.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

The UK & EU still label Syria’s new rebel government a ‘terrorist’ group. Yet one day in, it’s safe for Syrians to go home? Two ideas that make no logical sense together - except in being as stupidly Western as each other.

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Few have done more to bring Georgia’s story to the world recently than Tbilisi photographer Ezz Gaber. These are his photos. Disgracefully, Facebook appears to have just BANNED his account, accusing him of spreading fake info & inciting violence. Looks like state intervention. #GeorgiaProtests🇬🇪

Violence in Syria committed by the Assad regime and its allies Iran and Russia are consistently underreported in Western media. I am a Syrian journalist on the ground trying to fill in the coverage gap, please consider supporting my work: ko-fi.com/faredalmahlool

Western media ignore the human motives of any action by groups dubbed ‘terrorist’. This includes HTS, Syria’s core rebel force. Western officials have criticised HTS’ use of violence, without apologising for their failed & abandoned diplomatic alternatives. Rebels have their reasons: report them.

The UK Govt must move swiftly and legislate to cap donations or make foreign donations via a British-based entity illegal. Musk’s business incited race riots in the UK & spread racist disinformation. He is a state-level threat to the UK & his interference and money need blocked. Now.

Police accused of ‘discriminatory’ and ‘heavy-handed’ approach towards children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities ‘Our Whole Existence Is Illegal’ @mathildamall.bsky.social @helenawadia.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Relieved and joyful about the UK’s assisted dying vote— these brave people are why. For some, a legacy they never lived to see.

The Telegraph’s legitimisation of a second general election would be a lot more credible if it’s commentators hadn’t called the second Brexit referendum “a gross betrayal of our democracy,” “a disaster for Britain,” and a “delusion” by “‘People’s Vote’ zealots” 🤷🏼‍♀️

My podcast wife @helenawadia.bsky.social and our podcast baby @mediastormpod.bsky.social have officially migrated to blue skies! Give them a follow 🦋

WEEKLY COLUMN @bylinetimes.bsky.social 1/ Amsterdam’s mayor regrets comparing Ajax-Maccabi violence to a “pogrom”, saying the phrase, plastered across the mainstream media, has been “turned into propaganda”. Well done her for setting the record straight. Now where is the media’s mea culpa?

For all the non-news The Telegraph publishes about transgender people, where is their headline on this? 350 transgender people murdered in the last year. 93% were people of colour. #TransgenderAwarenessWeek

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds