Becky Barnicoat

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

Oh, wow, thank you for this.

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power.

"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭

Morgan McSweeney happened to him – but the fact that he's let that happen to him is damning. "Morgan TOLD me to make flags, patriotism, and far-right apologism my brand, Miss".

Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.

My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.

Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡

the law of brown-nosing

Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?

How is that not terrorism but holding a palestine action placard is? We're living through the looking glass

Jim Waterson's
@londoncentric.media

Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police

THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Reassuring to see Keir Starmer posting on X about something entirely unrelated, the morning after Elon Musk incites violent insurrection in the UK. Love our PM, true patriot 🥰

Bonkers hearing a Labour minister put a positive spin on Elon Musk calling for the violent overthrowing of UK govt 🙃

So grateful for all your reporting on this, Martin. I still find people aren’t aware what’s going on, and that this is where an awful lot of public money disappears to.

Still waiting for a govt that will crack down on gross private wealth extraction from the public sector

Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years

The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Joe Sacco's The Angel Laughs - The Comics Journal A comic from Joe Sacco originally commissioned by Le Monde Diplomatique about the ongoing genocide.

Joe Sacco on the genocide in Gaza
www.tcj.com/the-angel-la...

Labour’s charm offensive continues. Really building that sweet rapport with the public 🥰

For as long as they bang on about the boats and immigration, they feed Reform. Should have gone for a 'reclaim the flag, national pride in our diversity, Olympics 2012'-esque offensive. There's still space for that version of national identity. They've followed Farage down a blind alley.

There seems to be a very lacklustre, resigned energy from the left/liberals. Like, "*Sigh* I guess fascism isn't great but what can we do?" I think naming the movement as fascism is a good start.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

Towards

I know it’s naive still to be amazed at what you are apparently *allowed* to do as a social media company that as a broadcaster would get you taken off air by Ofcom pretty much overnight but, you know what, I still am

IG post from writer Padraig Kenny dismantling claims that ai could ever translate books as well as a human

Post from the great Padraig Kenny over on IG