Chris Hale

Kate Heard · Expertest Artificers: Tudor Art Art in Tudor England was more than just decoration. Occupants of a precarious throne, passed down through a series of...

‘Occupants of a precarious throne, English monarchs of the 16th century had continuous need of burnishing. They commissioned artists to produce pieces that projected a glorious heritage and irrefutable authority.’

Kate Heard on Tudor art.

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‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

The Axis of Evil

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds

www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Reporting from Tehran Why dispatches from 'the other side' are so vital

A necessary report from Mark Urban open.substack.com/pub/markurba...

Yes what an obnoxious post from Tobias Huch

Ethiopia Revokes Reuters Journalists’ Accreditation After Expose Ethiopia has canceled accreditation for three Reuters journalists, days after the news agency reported that rebel fighters from neighboring Sudan were training at a secret military camp in the Horn of...

Ethiopia has bases in which Abu Dhabi pays for RSF fighters (some Ethiopian) to train and to be shipped to Sudan to commit genocide.

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Überwachungstechnologie: Wie hartnäckig Palantir die Schweiz umwarb Das umstrittene Tech-Unternehmen blitzte wieder und wieder ab. Teil 1 unserer Recherche.

The Swiss consider Palantir a security risk. In UK Mandelson takes Starmer to Palantir, and they hire MOD officials to hand over British intel over to the US.
p.s. Palantir sued the newspaper Republik for publishing this news.

www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/w...

www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-...

This is remarkable - in its own right.

This is such a powerful review of books we must read…

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

‘It’s a bully’s charter’

The Trade Union Congress’s Paul Nowak calls Reform’s plans to repeal the Equality Act a ‘blank cheque for bad employers'.

He’s absolutely right!

Teetotal vegetarianism is the answer

Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas

It is… puzzling 🤔

FREE TO READ 🔓 Editor-at-large @arusbridger.bsky.social
on Jeff Bezos and the decline of the Washington Post

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Trump v the BBC: it's not hard (except for Liz Truss) to know which side to take. But there are bigger obstacles to overcome to secure the future of the BBC, and time is short. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media

Trump’s suit against the BBC should be seen for what it is: an attempt to rewrite history. It’s also a bid to fill his own pockets, discredit the work of professional journalists and chill news organisations, writes Alan Rusbridger

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

An inside job? Robbie Gibb’s campaign to rewire the BBC The ‘proper Thatcherite Conservative’ who Boris Johnson installed on the board has form as an editorial meddler, and the signs are he’s not done yet

The enemies of the BBC are the enemies of us all… Thank you Alan Rusbridger observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I think I’m going to go in a different direction for health advice.

Trump’s attack on the BBC is a harbinger of much worse to come The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to the American billionaires who control much of US media

Rusbridger very good here… www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Thousands Rally for Iran Regime Change in Cities Around the World

Thousands Rally for Iran Regime Change in Cities Around the World www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

We must defend the BBC against this mobster

PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland

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Imagine a President bulldozing 1/3 of our Historic White House pocketing $300 million and that doesn’t even crack the top 100 most destructive, vile, disgusting things he’s done, yet here we are

I can't think of an attorney general ever showing this much open contempt for Congress before.

Not only would most of them think this kind of conduct was beneath them, they'd have known that the Judiciary Committee chair, whatever the party, would never stand for clownish antics like this.