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Great job opening at The Economist: we're looking for an economics correspondent to cover Britain. No journalistic experience necessary. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Excellent, empathetic reporting as always from Sirin Kale in this shocking story about cannabis farms www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Proper mad king stuff how Trump is essentially taking a hammer to the international order all while saying the maddest shit imaginable, and other world leaders are like “Trump is absolutely correct to raise this issue”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating - I’m genuinely very surprised by how low these percentages are.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Truly terrible analysis from Badenoch here. She seems to think “they’re not on Twitter but they are in local communities” makes the Lib Dems LESS of a threat? Famously voters don’t care about things being fixed in their local communities

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Once again absolutely mystified about who Badenoch thinks she’s appealing to. Clearly she can’t think beyond her Twitter likes to envisage something as abstract as “the electorate” but WHO is advising her?!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A functioning opposition would be taking cases like these and shouting about them from the rooftops.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is really interesting - I hadn't realised Spain has been moving against the tide on immigration in Europe.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How did we end up with the biggest per capita prison population in Western Europe? My latest for the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Pleased to see our paper 'Sentence inflation: a judicial critique' cited in @samirashackle.bsky.social's piece 'The punishment doesn’t fit the crime in Britain. That’s why our jails are overflowing'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

submitted 11 days ago • 486 comments

Good thread that clearly explains something I've been finding really annoying in political coverage and struggling to put my finger on - namely, why is there so much coverage about polls/the next election, when it's not happening until 2029?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The racial exclusions of the border regime have malfunctioned. Somehow the British state extended a minimal act of kindness to a family of the wrong sort of humans. Bipartisan resolve that this will never happen again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

This piece from @samirashackle.bsky.social in @theguardian.com explores issues of trust, consent, and medical ethics within vulnerable communities. “The only mention of the women’s perspectives is the single sentence saying two of them did not recall giving consent.”

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Such a privilege to have my research be a small part of this work by @samirashackle.bsky.social . This really centres the voices at the heart of the Coventry Experiment and is an astonishing read.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? Today's Guardian Long Read by @samirashackle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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Truly, who does she think this appeals to? She can’t seem to conceive of an audience other than her Twitter followers.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

My latest for the Guardian Long Read is a strange story of human experimentation, informed consent and radioactive chapatis. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 13 days ago • 402 comments

Musk is rehiring the DOGE employee who was sacked for insanely racist posts last week www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/e...

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Once upon a time a pseudo-hillbilly went to an Ivy League law school. Later in the story he pretended he didn't know any of the things they teach you there about the law, which had become inconvenient to his oligarchs and sordid ambitions.

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

Some really interesting findings in here. One reason why Gen Z think the UK is more racist than my cohort did is simply that social media is more racist than the British street, and also, IMO as a direct result of that, they are more racist themselves. (See charts)

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

I do think the quickest way to deal with Musk is for every paper to do variants of this until Trump cracks.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

The US centrist position seems to be, "Infinite respect for the voters we lost because they found us insufficiently racist. Infinite contempt for the voters we lost because we facilitated a genocide".

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

submitted 19 days ago • 106 comments

Good account here of Elon Musk's seizure of control over the US government. It's terrifying and unprecedented and I think not getting as much coverage as it warrants, here in the UK at least www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

being on bluesky

submitted 46 days ago • 191 comments

Of all the stupid "anti-woke" stuff, I can't understand the objection to the term "pregnant person". I am pregnant and I am a person?? Firstly, it's a myth that the word "woman" is somehow forbidden from maternity services, secondly I can't imagine taking offence at being described as a person.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This list includes words like “historically”, “biased” and “systemic” - all completely normal words for scientific research. Apart from being academically illiterate this is an extraordinarily overt clampdown on free speech and academic freedom.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

submitted 20 days ago • 78 comments

Just got an email from Thames Water warning me that my bill will go up (again) this year - infuriating given that the bill already jumped around £100 last year. Nationalise water!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Experienced a real cognitive dissonance earlier listening to a NYT Daily podcast where reporters discussed the elimination of checks and balances and whether it’s the end of “American-style democracy”, in the same casual, chatty tone as politicos use to discuss the latest polls or spats.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Every bit of news coming from the US is more apocalyptic than the last.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing exactly what he said he would?

submitted 22 days ago • 500 comments

Feeling this in my bones today.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinated by how inept the Tory party's 'we are celebrating five years of Brexit' is. Fronted by their most unpopular frontbencher. Suggests the EU-UK security pact is bad. Has a typo in the press release.

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 24 days ago • 2306 comments

Last night I went to see a dear friend’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery. It was SO good, if you’re in London you should try to go. Her name is Christina Kimeze and it’s free entry.

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Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

submitted 24 days ago • 1079 comments

Braverman should be driven out of public life for saying something as bigoted, conspiratorial, ridiculous, and dumb as this but she won’t be, of course, because anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobic fearmongering has been normalized in British public life.

submitted 25 days ago • 161 comments