Jon Dean

You'll be simply AMAZED to discover that the secret ingredient you need to add to any story about inter-generational grievance in modern Britain is... drumroll please... HOUSING COSTS!

the lads who chopped down that tree got FOUR YEARS

Arwa, do any memories stand out from your times in Gaza?

Arwa Damon: "A mother said I don't know what to do about my son. He's 5 & every night he screams.. & he rocks back & forth pulling his hair out & he's been doing this ever since he saw his baby sisters head blown off"

My parents went to see it. They said it was terrific, and thrilled the audience was easily the most diverse they’d be seen in decades of going to the Rep. many congratulations on a great run.

About 40 striking academics posing by a banner: “Knowledge is Power, Unity is Strength, University of Lincoln UCU”

Beautiful morning to stand up for quality education, opportunity for our communities, and our jobs ✊

This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count.

(this is from the Cass report)

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Live Methods was partly responding to the ‘crisis in empirical sociology’. Writing this special issue we were in another crisis- the brutal destruction of the social sciences– inc Goldsmiths, the intellectual home of the collection. It makes Live Methods, its spirit and aims more important than ever

92 things I learned by visiting all 92 football league clubs this season From remarkable fans to terrible trains and an unrivalled pie, my odyssey to all four corners of this footballing nation has been an exhausting, exhilarating experience

It was all building to this massive, hopefully entertaining (and helpful?) piece:

The 92 things I learned from visiting every Football League club in a season

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you'd think that "the man we are giving complete and total power to on every other subject cannot be trusted not to immediately cause a depression if we give him this power over this one last thing" might prompt some introspection, but no

Sometimes I do feel like messaging is a lot simpler than people make it out to be.

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I’ve seen so many attempts to explain exactly why this is but the only explanatory framework that works is that the media has an extremely strong conservative bias

If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

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Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

“Linking housework, digital & platform society, self-help, & feminist theory, the book is a wide-ranging critical blueprint for a new domestic revolution”. I really enjoyed discussing digital housewifery with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

To achieve legal and/or medical transition in the UK, people are REQUIRED to live IN PUBLIC in their preferred gender, FOR A PERIOD OF YEARS. Or they will be refused support.

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL?

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?

I feel sick again

I will always keep using the womens bathroom like i have for the past decade, and my entire adult life, in this country

Arrest me, beat me, kill me, you will never get me to surrender my womanhood

A reminder of the harm the two-child limit is doing, day in day out. It has to go. There is no alternative.

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Stock said this sort of thing was completely acceptable collateral damage. They actually don’t care and never have.

While blaming Zelenskyy and abandoning Ukraine to Russia, as was always the plan

As a random cis person, well duh i'm chill with trans people who isn't.