Andrew White

I fear humans were a mistake

According to the Telegraph, Britain is perpetually at the edge of the abyss or at the beginning of the end ... When will the abyss be entered or the end come into being - perhaps the dreadful Allister Heath can tell us!

A humbling and thoughtful watch.

“And everywhere you looked were just, just signs, of just the blatant disregard for life."

Link bypasses X

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Though that hasn't stopped them in the past. You would think that a party that the BBC and others platforms at every opportunity threatening to deport hundreds of thousands on ILR would have made the news

It's almost impossible to find anything about this on the BBC and Sky News websites. This is unusual as they are always tripping over themselves to relay Farage's every utterance

Good morning to everyone who has stood against hate, racism and fascism over the weekend!

Solidarity is a verb. Let’s do more to build the migration justice movement, and society that protects us all.

Poster by @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social

#migrationislife
#nooneisillegal
#thesewallsmustfall

This is a serious and worrying failure by media - Reform need to be pressed on the core legal and moral issues at stake here

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls.

Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us?

My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My turn to explain the economy with biscuits!

The real economy isn’t abstract. It’s real people, work and communities. 🍪

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

A major problem in this country is the lazy ascription of genius/master strategist to people who in most other serious countries would not be taken seriously. Cummings and Mandelson immediately spring to mind, but Gove is also someone who cannot be taken seriously as a public intellectual

PRIVATE EYE NAMED IN EPSTEIN FILES

In the latest files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released by the US Justice Department, the Eye is denounced as “an absolute rag of a publication” by Epstein’s then lawyer, Paul Tweed…

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=Q ZUashington Examiner Subscribe Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the Right' By Steven Nelson August 17, 2017 4:00 am

From: Sent: To: Subject: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Monday, August 14, 2017 9:59 PM Valeria Chomsky Re: address of where to meet. ? it is not a ease, it is the condo purchase, in a corporate name. w=ll explain all tomrmorw On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto) › > wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Tomorrow at 1pm wor=s. We have a commitment around 4pm. |= will be great to see you. And please give us some advices. We=found out that the lease of the condo in Cambridge seems to have been put =nder one of the trusts without Noam's authorization or even his knowle=ge (there were lots of papers to sign when we closed the deal). Not =ure yet because the answers are too slow -- something that seems unreasona=le to me. Best, Valeria<=r> =/div> ----- Forwarded message -----F=om: jeffrey E. ‹jeevacation@gmail.c=m› Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:40 PM Subject: To:=Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto

From: Sent: To: Subject: Peter Thiel < Monday, August 14, 2017 3:38 AM jeffrey E. Re: Probably can't get there before Thursday... Ho= long are you in NYC? I may be there later this week... From: jettrey E. <jeevac=tion@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:16:47 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: Re: leave santa fe wed morning, see chomsky and fly to new yok. you should see santa fe, you will I=ke it. tues ? On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Peter Thiel < ‹mailto: > > wrote: Are you in Santa Fe until Thursday and then in=NYC? From:=jeffrey E. «=eevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:04:56 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: im going to meet chomsky in tucson wednesday. =ou are welcome.,

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.

On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.

In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

The label of "Rise" by Public Image Limited is blue with the band's logo (PiL) slanted across it.

ABC to XTC is next on @rtegold.bsky.social, with music from Buzzcocks, Style Council, PiL and more — listen via the RTÉ mobile app or stream the show at www.rte.ie/radio/gold/.

Every day is 1 April at the Daily Telegraph!

It is quite striking that Konstantin Kisin simply denied (falsely) on BBC1 that he had said what he said, word for word, on his podcast.

Bruce Springsteen has released a new winter of '26 song: "Streets of Minneapolis" to protest federal agents killing those protesting ICE deportations

Matt Goodwin and the end of England How one man's career explains our public life.

This is good. "Perhaps Goodwin was always like this… Or perhaps he… was gradually radicalised by the thing he was studying. Who knows? Who cares? Life is short and we must not squander it wandering in the psychological wastelands of deeply average people."
iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...

Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister [FREE TO READ] Lord Jason Stockwood had previously suggested that tech companies could pay a windfall levy to fund the payments

Increasingly think UBI is what tech bros say because they can’t face saying tax and welfare/benefits

as.ft.com/r/da40da05-4... Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister

Media Reform Coalition Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.

Public Media Ireland: a radical vision of PSM in a United Ireland
A new report asks: If Ireland was United, what Public Service Media system would it adopt? By Phil Ramsey and Roderick Flynn @mediareformuk.bsky.social

www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/psm-uni...

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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My new book — Clearing the Air — comes out in the US on February 19th 📚

Goodreads is running a giveaway, in case you want to enter and have a chance of getting a free copy!

@mitpress.bsky.social

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How Badenoch’s meeting with Mike Johnson led to Trump’s Chagos deal rant A brief encounter set off a chain of events that culminated in a public rebuff to the US president from Keir Starmer

So it was Badenoch *personally* who stabbed Britain in the back during the Greenland crisis! Simply unbelievable. Ought to be a resignation matter.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Like many 'journalists' at the Telegraph, he does a good line in infantile opinion pieces

We conclude that, though they do not strictly adhere to the impartiality framework to which they were bound at the BBC, Maitlis, Goodall and Sopel largely succeed in replicating the journalistic norms of their former workplace.
#NewsAgents
#BBC

We focus on the tension between the presenters’ attempt to adhere to professional journalistic norms and their desire to cultivate intimacy with their audience by revealing their personal views and humorous insights.

If you listen to news/political podcasts, you might be interested in this new article on the News Agents by Phil Ramsey and me.