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Tell Ofcom to stop climate misinformation TalkTV regularly spouts misinformation about the climate crisis, claiming that “CO2 is not a threat to the planet” and that the science behind it “doesn’t add up to a row of beans”. The rightwing news...

Ofcom’s broadcasting standards state that all news must be “reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality” – so why is it letting TalkTV's rampant climate misinformation go unchecked? 🤔

Tell Ofcom to take their job seriously 👇
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Over 120 editors, lawyers, academics, journalists, publishers and civil society representatives call on the Government to give parliamentary time to stamp out SLAPPs. - UK Anti-Slapp Coalition On 28 January 2026, 127 representatives called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to include anti-SLAPP provisions in the next King’s Speech.

We're calling on the Government to give parliamentary time to stamp out SLAPPs and make sure our courts can no longer be abused by those seeking to avoid the sort of scrutiny that sustains democracy

antislapp.uk/2026/01/28/m...

Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls

If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

After bringing together 70,000 people to make complaints, Good Law Project has joined forces with LGBTQ+ orgs to make further submissions to Ofcom on why GB News’ must be sanctioned for repeating the damaging trope that the LGBTQ+ community includes “paedos” 🚨 @goodlawproject.bsky.social

Political think tanks shouldn’t benefit from charitable status. We asked the Charity Commission to investigate right wing think-tank the IEA. It refused. We pushed and it’s now launched an investigation into “the trustees’ management of perceptions of potential political bias” 🎉🎉

Laurence Fox only raises £5 as he tries to crowdfund legal fees

God bless the person who donated a fiver, because somehow it makes this even funnier than if he has raised nothing.

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Government loses legal battle over Covid ‘VIP Lane’ Exclusive: Judge slams “most unsatisfactory” Cabinet Office and orders release of names of 'VIP' firms to Democracy for Sale reporter - after *four year* wait.

🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts

Now a judge has ordered them to.

Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
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Far-Left campaigners accused of attacking GB News TV channel says pressure groups are threatening free speech as Ofcom investigates

"GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. It’s clearly illegal to stir up hatred by broadcasting a poisonous myth." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

MPs’ watchdog urged to investigate free support Trump official gave Farage Commissioner asked to examine whether Farage should have declared help on 100 days in 2024, shown in US filings

"Good Law Project, a campaign group, wrote to the Commons standards commissioner this week asking why the support was not registered with parliament as a benefit on Farage’s register of interests." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Check out these guides I created at @goodlawproject.bsky.social with @thegeminiproject.bsky.social. They provide guidance for survivors of sexual violence on how to speak about their experiences and minimise legal risk

63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows Some 26.1% of Ukrainians said they completely approve Zelensky, while another 36.9% said they tend to approve him. The overall figure is higher than in polls conducted years before Russia's full-scale...

⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

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On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful.

Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇

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UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition criticises the SRA’s closure of Higgins’ SLAPP complaint and points to need for universal SLAPP protections - UK Anti-Slapp Coalition The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition is highly critical of the decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to close the complaint brought by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins against Discreet Law, the...

UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition criticises the SRA’s closure of Higgins’ SLAPP complaint and points to need for universal SLAPP protections
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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲

Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.

You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

Journalistic freedom must be respected. If journalists handover their materials to the police, trust in journalists will be diminished and important stories won’t get told. I’m delighted we @goodlawproject.bsky.social were able to support Joel Goodman @pixel8foto.bsky.social and win this case!

Will get this framed. Thrilled that my piece honouring Madame Pelicot is the cover.

I was in the House of Commons yesterday to support this backbench session on lawsuits that suppress free speech. Thanks to @tbij.bsky.social, @indexoncensorship.org, and others, MPs shared stories previously untold due to legal threats. Labour must urgently bring forward anti-SLAPP legislation

That's up by more than 1,100%.
And NB these aren't just ANY goods. They're precisely the machinery/car imports we can no longer send to Russia. All going to Kyrgyzstan. And then almost certainly onwards to Russia (tho the paper trail tends to end when goods leave UK)
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