Pritesh Mistry

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Been watching Dirty Business dramatisation of the water industry pumping sewage onto beaches. Struck by the lackadaisical portrayal of Environmental Agency. And yet they also prevent lots of national infrastructure being built!

Doesn’t make sense does it? A cynic would ask where is the money made?

Thanks! Any thoughts on anything similar happening in U.K. & Europe?

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Can you expand? What sorting are you seeing and where? I suspect house prices reduce ownership and make geographical mobility more likely.

It’s true when you look at those figures it gives you hope for the progressive parties. But then you think back to the marches in summer and the airtime their agenda gets and I’m just not sure this one example gives me much confidence.

This is what happens when you appease, tolerate, and generally enable the xenophobes and racists.

Both Labour and the Tories have a whole pile of soul searching to do over their part in this by chasing after the racist and xenophobe votes since the last general election.

To clarify-she has just said 'it's no wonder Labour are being called the paedo protection party'

Which is exactly the language the extreme far right are using at Labour MPs - often alongside threats of violence. She is backing that up, from the dispatch box

Over 95% of UK adults are online, but this varies by age and income.

The biggest shift has been more over 60s now regularly using the internet.

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I am so ANGRY watching this Reform press conference. How can we just let them get away with saying they will deport "hundreds of thousands" of people here "illegally" and in the same breath say that they will make it illegal to simply be here. These policies are horrifically racist and DANGEROUS.

We need to go back to a situation where racism is shameful rather than electorally advantageous.

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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READ MORE Green councillors are making North London housing even more expensive

"The Green Party has a habit of supporting things in principle and opposing them in practice. It wants environmentally friendly transport, then opposes HS2. It wants clean energy, but opposes wind farms locally. It supports affordable housing, but opposes almost every building project it sees."

I’m pretty confident in calling this fake. The user who posted it seems to be part of a substantial network of accounts with similar usernames all posting and commenting on each other’s content. Ironically it’s a great example of an AI agent making stuff up to tell you what you want to hear

The whole missions approach seems to have disappeared without trace despite all the engagement with leaders like Mariana et al.

The gov made lots of noises on doing things differently but have quickly got bogged down by the day to day chaos esp of the world today.

Such a good point! BBC could do so much to shift the dial. Again guess it says a lot about what institutions are willing to tolerate - unfortunately…

X: Why are so many organisations leaving? Many organisation have recently announced that they will no longer be posting on their X accounts.

Taken long enough, guess we know what some institutions believe to be tolerable.

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Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city Plus: Victoria Park battle over All Points East, the Hackney school war that wasn't, the AI-generated parking appeal mess, and wild swimming in the River Thames.

London’s got a global viral video malaise www.londoncentric.media/p/london-cri...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Been a while since I saw those films! Was surprised how alike the two naming conventions are.

Antidepressants or Tolkien's character?

I never knew how similar they are!

Tolkien character name or antidepressant drug?

antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app

The discourse takes experience from one sector & projects it to all sectors with vast assumptions which don’t necessarily hold. The tech sector impact is going to be massively different to the hospitality sector which itself will differ from the healthcare sector etc.

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

Oh great. The World at One has begun its coverage of Jim Ratcliffe's remarks with two "vox pops" - one for, and one against. Just such an awful, cop-out model of reporting.

Coming to the view that perhaps we do need age limits on social media, say banning its use for men over the age of 65?

Completely agree. Don’t know what the evidence base is on the increased knowledge work to mental health. Digital has erroded historic work/life balance. AI potentially increases workload. Current mindfulness approaches are not sufficient.

Seriously though lots of mixed signals on the value and impact of AI right now. There’s definitely a need to create trusted information on unintended consequences.

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

AI isn’t going to take your job people using AI are going to…burn out?

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Seems to be different views on the value of this ie see Topol post below. Would be interested to learn more on how to reconcile the difference.

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