Dylan Kerrigan

Really feels like Number 10 are dragging this out and making it agonising on themselves. Simons has a target on his back with journalists at multiple outlets. He appears to have engaged in some dubious spying and then to have issued a misleading statement about it. How does No 10 think this ends? • Cat Neilan O @catneilan.bsky.s... • 3m Sources saying Josh Simons is going to be referred to the PM's ethics adviser Laurie Magnus for an investigation No 10 not responding to queries but am told the UQ will confirm details

All good fun here: the press want a head on a stick, while Number 10 is keenly aware one admission of fault just raises a ton of very serious questions about conduct going back many years.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic "Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself... Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

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Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards

Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column

emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

Am told that Magnus won't have the powers to investigate Josh Simons' activities before he became a minister....

So another 'investigation' that isn't going to actual investigate what Simons and Labour Together did when they hired corporate intelligence to investigate journalists??

graduate unemployment is actually not the fault of graduates who are right to want the academic and social benefits of tertiary education. Govt should demonise themselves, not arts degrees. If there aren't enough jobs for graduates, what does that say about how these people have managed the country?

There's no money for anything else, but: 'UKRI committed a record £1.6 billion of funding directly targeted at the AI sector over the next four years. This is UKRI’s biggest single investment area for 2026 to 2030.' Growth, growth, growth, nothing about flourishing or a liveable society. Pathetic.

Yes. She could have had a mealy mouthed ceasefire, "stop the cycle of violence" approach. Instead she pledged the "most lethal" military in the world and repeated lies about rape in Oct. 7. These are not ideas ppl want to vote for. The race was hers to win or lose. bsky.app/profile/eric...

You're going to have a lot of people regurgitate a lot of Daily Mail lines to you over the next few years. Rather than get into the many, storied reasons the British Press hate progress, but it very simple

'The press are scared of being investigated and no one else is a threat to them'

Left to right - Zia Yusuf, Robert Jenrick, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Suella Braverman

Welcome to Reform’s front bench

Yusuf, Hampton School, £29,916 per year
Jenrick, Wolverhampton Grammar, £17,835 per year
Farage, Dulwich College, £30,618 per year
Tice, Uppingham School, £58,176 per year
Braverman, Heathfield School, defunct private school

The authentic voice of the working class

One thing about going through all this with Corbynism is that they're just preaching to the choir now, whipping themselves up into a fury, while everyone else knows better than to take any of this seriously.

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform

UK media fully supporting fascism with their lies and no push back from media regulator

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do

They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do

They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do.

Then they *lost* him.

www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

Where are the psychologically perfect individuals who variously passed judgement on Brown? Peter Mandelson - disgraced ( not the first time) revealed as dishonest, greedy, treacherous to his post and country.Tony Blair - war crimes aside, Board of Peace candidate, undermining UN for 💰7/

This leads me to reflect on how the press (my own paper at the time, The Observer, where I was business editor ) splashed on the ‘psychologically flawed’ briefing, given by a deeply morally dubious Blairite team. The story in some ways holed Brown’s leadership below the waterline 5/

And a reminder that in addition to Iran, the US is simultaneously using its military and other power to (1) strangle Cuba; (2) continue to repress daily life in Minneapolis; (3) illegally detain thousands across the country; and (4) implicitly aid Russia by using up/not giving Ukraine more hardware.

Rebuilding universities must be a priority in Gaza University lectures in Gaza are being held at wedding venues, but attendance has dropped due to financial and other hardships.

After Israel had largely reduced the Islamic University of Gaza to rubble, the university rented a wedding venue to serve as a makeshift lecture hall. #eiGazaDispatches

Think it’s time for billionaires to learn that their wealth being taxed is in fact the most moderate solution to society’s billionaire problem.

Trump's 'Board of Peace' aims to turn Gaza into a playground for investors A sweeping investment and reconstruction plan to transform Gaza's ruins into a playground for investors was unveiled at the first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" in Washington, D.C., this week. Here's what you need to know.

"[P]lan to transform the ruins of Gaza into a playground for investors was unveiled at the first meeting of [.] 'Board of Peace.'"

"[R]econstruction plan mirrors longstanding Israeli schemes for the gradual ethnic cleansing of Gaza."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Housing #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

New issue of the @lrb.co.uk has my piece on “Thought Control”—Trump’s censorial effort to deport pro-Palestinian protesters, disinformation researchers, fact-checkers, and anyone whom Marco Rubio thinks has a “hostile attitude” towards the United States. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges Israeli prison service and IDF reject allegations after research by Committee to Protect Journalists

Are we surprised mainstream Western liberal media have ignored the CPJ report on the torture of Palestinian journalists in Israeli captivity? Nope. Because the genocide has exposed the fundamental racism of Western liberal media
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations A landmark referral of UEFA and FIFA leaders to the International Criminal Court could set an important legal precedent.

The historic ICC case against the leaders of FIFA/UEFA aligns with @franceskalbs.bsky.social injunction that all leaders of corporate entities that have collaborated in Israel's crimes should no longer enjoy impunity.

It sets a vital precedent.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations A landmark referral of UEFA and FIFA leaders to the International Criminal Court could set an important legal precedent.

The ICC filing vs. the FIFA and UEFA Presidents is an opportunity to prove that international law still exists—and that collaborators in Israel’s grievous crimes will actually be held to account.

This complaint must just be the beginning.

We explain for @aljazeera.com.

George Monbiot @georgemonb... • 2d Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.

Indeed! But all of that shit is strictly off-topic and verboten. What’s happening here is a laser-focused attempt to remove exactly one individual for messing with the Times newspaper: frazzling him specifically, but leaving the structure and the system unaffected, to continue as normal.

Sparrow is a right wing stooge at the heart of the Guardians politics coverage and has been awful for decades. he spins their political coverage in such an anti people kinda way. and no one ever calls him on it. Or they do and I don't see it

The Guardian’s politics desk are pipe-hitting Labour right tribalists, and this seems to cause them no professional problems whatsoever. Quite the opposite, in fact.

One of the most toxic ideas is so-called ‘Gender Critical Ideology’. This false conspiracy theory believes that trans ppl are not real & should not have human rights*. To get an idea of how extreme this is, read the link in Lee’s post & replace the word trans with Jew. It’s disturbing.

‘They’re gaslighting us’: More disability homes close as state funding ends More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

84 disability group homes in Victoria have closed since the state government privatised their operation to five providers in 2019. These are highly specialised homes and staff are not easily replaced www.theage.com.au/national/vic...