Joe Mitchell

Morning all. We're looking for a freelancer to produce a research report on the best examples of local news funders from outside the UK. 🌍 🗞️ 📈 20 days, £250/day. Do share with anyone you think might be keen: tiny.cc/PINFfreelance

Life as a Govanhill Community group admin — Greater Govanhill Running a local Facebook group in Govanhill means more than sharing events – it’s about challenging stigma. In this article, we speak to Marian McSeveney and Fatima Uygun, the people behind Govanhill ...

Love this @greatergovanhill.com piece on FB Group admins.

"“It’s just like – I’m not your mother, what are you telling me for? Just behave.”"

www.greatergovanhill.com/latest/life-...

An excellent campaign, this, and an opportunity to for government to show that it's serious about building Community Britain @coopparty.party.coop cohousing.org.uk/news/redirec...

We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Future of Technology Institute | EU Institutions Senior Lead Job Opening: Future of Technology Institute | EU Institutions Senior Lead at Meliore Foundation (FUP) in Europe.

💥NEW💥: Come work with us!

Future of Tech Institute is hiring *three* senior advocacy roles to run advocacy with EU institutions, Germany, and France. (Roles in thread)

EU:

tinyurl.com/5n6awzdw

Revealed: 500 Palestine Action activists plan to be arrested Hundreds of Palestine Action supporters plan to get arrested in a mass summer demonstration, planning documents reveal.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

If you’re not one of the many hundreds already signed up for action on August 9th - this hilarious Daily Mail article ought to do the trick!

Sign up for action here: www.defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban

Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar In Dubai.

This is good (and short) on Dubai newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Final week of our Climate Action Scorecard Crowdfunder! Please donate by the 21st July to have your contribution match funded by the Aviva Community Fund! Follow the link here:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/council-cl...

The publication of this report comes alongside the establishment by the Constitution Society of a new Campaign for Compulsory Voting - which you can follow here at @compulsoryvoting.bsky.social

It would be nice to, among other things, get an answer from the UK government about why they still feel comfortable using this as one of their primary communication channels

To celebrate a year since the general election, I looked into where all the MPs who lost their seats are now…

Public affairs is by far their most popular career move, but here are a couple of my other favourites 👇

Full story: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Happy World Porcupine Day! For those wondering what a baby porcupine is called, it’s a porcupette. For those wondering what a group of porcupines is called, it’s a prickle. And for those wondering what porcupines sound like, turn up your volume for this smol guy called Kemosabe nomming on a banana…

Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.

Sensible ideas in this future-of-BBC piece: jury-style selection of a citizen council and panels to shape BBC's work. And participatory budgeting with options to move some of budget outside of BBC. "Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age" www.common-wealth.org/publications...

We have new opinion polling on House of Lords reform!

There is overwhelming public support to go beyond the government's current plans to remove hereditary peers (due to be debated in the Lords on Wednesday), including to limit prime ministerial appointments and cap the chamber's size.

A thread 👇

Interesting. Via MP pay body IPSA today: "Members of the public are being given the chance to be included in a select group of people who will form a Citizens’ Forum on the future of MPs’ pay and how their parliamentary duties are funded". They're working with the Sortition Foundation on it

The 2 Young Lords Totnes Pulse Magazine

Some good stories in today's @totnespulse.bsky.social email, esp on the 100th anniversary of Dartington — with a special piece by Michael Young's daughter. www.totnespulse.co.uk/the-young-co...

Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides!

Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland?

Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐

❓ Since the 1980s, @natcen.bsky.social has been asking people whether we should change the voting system we use for general elections - or keep it as it is

🚀 In recent years, support for a fairer system has surged, overtaking First Past the Post - & going higher and higher every year

2/3

Guess which one the US is going to choose. The answer may surprise you! www.ft.com/content/0beb...

Starting at 0945 - join us!

Labour leaflet from 1951 c/o @markpackuk.bsky.social

Happy Birthday to us! 🎂🎂🎂

The UCL Constitution Unit is 30 years old today. And what a period that has been in British politics.

To reflect on the latest constitutional developments, do sign up to our annual conference, taking place on line next week - follow the thread below for a link.

This Indie News Week we are running a crowdfunder to help keep our independent local journalism going. Donate here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-th...

Join the PIRC team… – PIRC We've got a lot happening! Team Vacancies: Deadline to apply: 9.00am 30th June 2025 Head of Operations Your main role is to be a senior member of the PIRC team,

WE'RE HIRING!
PIRC are looking for *new* Team Heads and a Freelance Fundraiser. Could one of these be you, or could you help us find people interested in the roles?
publicinterest.org.uk/join/

Report Launch: 🚀 2025 Survey of independent news providers...and their audiences. 📊 · Zoom · Luma The Public Interest News Foundation is pleased to invite you to join us for the launch of this year’s report on the state of independent news providers... and…

In advance of #IndieNewsWeek from 9-15 June, @publicinterestnews.org.uk will launch the latest findings from two surveys this Weds lunchtime. One reviews the state of the UK's indie news providers and one takes the temperature of audiences. Join us online on Weds: lu.ma/nqzgdjvc

Unzoomed Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.

Unzoomed is getting harder and harder.
Daily game, guess a city from aerial photos with more context given after each guess.

www.unzoomed.com/en

Photo for a story — "Letters to the editor - are chemtrails vegan?"

Meanwhile in Totnes (via @totnespulse.bsky.social)

cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows: [Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them] 1 TOWER FAN 1: Right lads, get ready. 2 TOWER FAN 1: This is our time. 3 TOWER FAN 1: The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here. 4 TOWER FAN 1: We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft, and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever. 5 TOWER FAN 1: I know what you’re thinking, lads: 6 TOWER FAN 1: Surely this will be the year they finally replace us? 7 TOWER FAN 1: Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018... 8 TOWER FAN 1: Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh… TOWER FAN 2: Cheers mate 9 TOWER FAN 1: But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists. By the time they remember, new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon. 10 TOWER FAN 1: So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out... 11 TOWER FAN 1: ...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than. 12 [The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder] PERSON: APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA

british fan chat

Day 4 of Lois asking Steve Reed to join her at the football. ⚽

University of Greenwich research shows public ownership of water could save us over £3 billion a year! 🤯

Come on Steve, listen to the evidence and the 82% of us who want water in public hands. 💧
#LoisvSteve

Good to see Bill Gates call out Elon Musk. But this doesn’t have to be a conversation limited to billionaires! We can all do something about unnecessary deaths as a result of aid cuts. Saloni says it better than I could…