Esther Bintliff

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

I recommend reading the actual document in its entirety, especially to see the contrast between its approach to Europe and its policies in the Middle East, where it recommends "dropping America’s misguided experiment with hectoring these nations" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’

The Trump administration's updated National Security Strategy is a really striking document that offers the clearest expression yet of what it is trying to do in Europe: "Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" 👀

This is the Michael Prescott memo about BBC coverage (Telegraph).

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

"On top of that, I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications."
This is worth a read:

British Neo-Nazis Discussed Targeting Migrants, Mosques and Synagogues

Brogan Stewart liked to refer to himself as the “Führer” in his group chat with fellow neo-Nazis. At his home in Tingley, a swastika flag hung on his bedroom wall.
@lizziedearden.bsky.social reports from Sheffield where he went on trial with 2 co-conspirators (gift link)

London Became a Global Hub for Phone Theft. Now We Know Why.

"At one point, the police said at a news conference, they observed the men buying almost 1.5 miles’ worth of foil in Costco"
- is my favourite fact in @lizziedearden.bsky.social & @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social's story today. So much so I decided we'd make it a subheading

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

When Nigel Farage spoke to Congress on Sept. 3, it was thanks to the group that helped topple Roe v Wade.
Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)

We found out they’ve been courting Reform since at least 2024, in an attempt to build their UK influence, and have brokered a string of meetings and briefings with Farage.

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias. 
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

“All our tech businesses are turning awful,” Doctorow writes... “And they’re not dying. We remain trapped in their carcasses, unable to escape.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

Sign up for The World - The New York Times A guide to understanding the news without feeling overwhelmed, made for readers around the globe.

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Q&A: Our New Global Newsletter Host on Creating an ‘Antidote to the Overwhelm’

❤️ this Q&A with the incredible Katrin Bennhold, host of a new global newsletter from @nytimes.com. She's German, lives in Wales & has reported from around the world, and she brings curiosity, empathy and humility to everything she does:

Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan

A doctor who spoke with The New York Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday, as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher, reports @declanwalsh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...

Picture of graffiti Tax Evader Rayner

Graiffiti: Tax Evader

"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cıock news.

This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate

Streeting says hate speech laws are having ‘unintended consequences’ after arrest of Father Ted writer – UK politics live Health secretary says government needs to balance legislation so police are ‘not just policing tweets’ following detention of Graham Linehan over posts on transgender issues

Much of the current debate around speech, and the government’s response, misses the deeper issue: society’s information systems have shifted. Epistemic judgements are now shaped by algorithmic visibility rather than through gatekeeping institutions.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

The thing you don’t see about lengthy libel cases like this is the mental impact on witnesses - and on news outlets’ willingness to do similar stories.

Respect to all the women who chose to go to court to defend this story - plus Sirin Kale, Lucy Osborne, Paul Lewis and the Guardian team.

Opinion | When Is It Genocide?

If you listen to one thing this weekend, make it this incredibly insightful interview with @philippesands.bsky.social‬ on the history of genocide and its relevance to current conflicts

The unprecedented super injunction that banned reporting of the British government's Afghan data breach was in place for almost two years, and subject to numerous court hearings where the Ministry of Defence fought attempts to lift it

I asked how much it cost.

Story coming soon 🗞️

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

Well this by @jemima.bsky.social is fascinating on multiple levels...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them New AI regulations suggested by the White House mirror changes to environmental permitting suggested by Meta and a lobbying group representing firms like Google and Amazon Web Services.

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

The world is failing the Palestinian people As starvation stalks Gaza, western allies must press for an end to Israeli offensive

Full article here: www.ft.com/content/69d5...

Powerful FT editorial:
"The world is failing the Palestinian people... Unless the Israeli government agrees to an immediate end to the war and a surge of aid into Gaza, western countries should be sanctioning Netanyahu and his government. They should halt all arms sales to Israel"

How effective and safe are measles vaccines? Data from large meta-analyses show that measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, giving a 95% reduction in the risk of measles.

‘The data shows that just one dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95%, and two doses do even better.’

Timely review of the data on measles vaccines from @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Srebrenica, a Massacre Foretold, Still Casts Its Shadow

Full article here - gift link