Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Nigel Farage on Russia Today.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

…but with a whimper This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

Banged newsletter out a couple of hours early because I'm busy all afternoon and don't want to be overtaken by Events.

This week: the Tories are dying, and it’s less fun than I’d imagined? Also: a new way of mapping urban UK; and some anti-car propaganda from the Walt Disney Corporation.

Not how I remember it

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

One day everyone will accept Netanyahu to be pure evil. It will be a mainstream consensus. At that point he will be used as a convenient sponge for all the crimes against humanity that have been perpetrated in his time. As if it all started and ended with him. Always remember - it was never just him

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

White american evangelicals want slavery back so bad this guy actually did it

According to the Israeli far right the Board of Deputies is pro-Palestinian. Absolute lunatics

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Not for the first time Netanyahu prefers the global far right to the Jewish diaspora

He’ll never be prosecuted for the things he should be prosecuted for (war crimes etc) but I’m putting my faith in Israel’s pretty good track record at imprisoning senior politicians in the hope that he’ll at least rot in jail for corruption.

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Only piece of evidence the piece offers for its contention is that at present, only 34% of people think Farage is a racist.

Any chance that could that be because every major figure in British public life desperately avoids calling him that and instead waxes poetic about his 'legitimate concerns?'

And so it begins… or continues. The New Statesman’s Blue Labour appeasement of populism goes hand in hand with their constant courtship of corporate sponsors at Labour Party events. Opportunism dressed as reason

Seen so many pieces written by white people about racism in last couple of days. Can the British media not employ people of colour to write about this topic? I mean the glaring lack of Black and Asian faces looks a lil bit racist!

we should bring back shame actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

In all honesty, it’s not rhetoric any more. It’s not narrative. I’ve experienced more racism in the last 4 months than I can ever remember. The wheels are off in the UK and it’s being led by 3 political parties.

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.

It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".

Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

I’ve never seen an article that is quite so clear and articulate about how damaging polls, pollsters and focus groups are for moral leadership.

Reform whining about incitement against Farage is another misstep (just looks pathetic).

After a summer where they got to control the narrative they're flailing around a bit now.

BBC’s Americast - reporting on the rise of American fascism with a chuckle and a ‘what is he like!?’

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

A wildly racist and utterly dishonest choice of picture

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...