London synagogues targeted in antisemitic arson attacks | Searchlight Police investigate an arson attack on Kenton United Synagogue Three Jewish sites in London have been attacked in less than a week in what counter-terrorism ...

Jewish synagogues and institutions have been targeted in a series of antisemitic arson attacks in London.

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I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Police debunk rumours as Danny Tommo whips up disorder in Epsom | Searchlight Danny Tommo in Epsom April 2026 Danny Tommo - aka the former kidnapper and drug dealer Daniel Thomas - has had quite a fortnight. Banned from Dover, strippe ...

Recently banned from Dover, convicted drug dealer, kidnapper, and now itinerant racist agitator Danny Tommo turned up in Epsom this week whipping up disorder over "migrant rape" allegations that police say are baseless.

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Out in the summer, the book is about the fiction anti-fascists have written, menippean satires, feminist dystopia, Communist-modernist-activism, Judas allegories, love letters to David Bowie, detectives under Hitler, queer fantasia, and much else besides.

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Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

Boomerslop, nostalgia and the rightwards lurch of older people. This is a sobering read.
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The Criminal Past of the Far-Right Anti-Migrant ‘Auditors’ Going Viral on YouTube Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as 'citizen journalists', have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals

The Criminal Past of the Far-Right Anti-Migrant ‘Auditors’ Going Viral on YouTube. Streamers who generate millions of views on Youtube, while posing as ‘citizen journalists’, have a record of abusive behaviour towards women and sexual offences, a Byline Times investigation reveals

the Mandelson Russia links alone should have triggered more curiosity before his appointment

Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startup

How is the UK Govt investing in an AI company that doesn't have a name? That, logically, isn't even registered with Companies House? How did they learn about it? Who owns it? How is the procurement process robust?
This is corruption. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

Really dismal news. Profits over the actual viability of life on the planet. Capitalism is a death cult. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Mad that the eliminationist drive in Israel is such that politicians can't justify a ceasefire by arguing "we killed enough of Them". If it isn't "all of Them" it amounts to a humiliating climb down.

I guess it's sad because journalists are losing their jobs? Who do you think writes the copy you read on your phone?

Desperately sad report from Press Gazette:

"The Evening Standard had 346 staff members when Lebedev first bought it in 2009."

Under the new structure it reportedly has just 6 news reporters

Bloody hell that is insane

A tax on luxury vacation homes is ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS SHE’S EVER SEEN

Call for papers for Law, race and empire conference: By popular request, we are pleased to offer an extended deadline of Tuesday 28th April for proposals for this exciting event. The law and its authority has always been a contested space. From the adversarial trial and debates on legal reform to discretionary decision making on who was tried, and pleas for clemency, the way people have navigated legal landscapes has always been both fraught and multi-faceted. This complexity is exacerbated in the imperial context, where the law could be both a symbol of the metropole’s control and, conversely, a safeguard against oppression. Over the last half century studies of legal practice, race relations and the maintenance of empires have flourished, deepening our understanding of these aspects of 18th and 19th century life. Yet this was an age where the abolitionist movement ensured that race and the law were a key part of the social agenda. Simultaneously, European militaries engaged in imperial expansion and policing, often forming racialist attitudes in the process which were both adopted, and influenced, by the metropole. Race, law and empire, therefore, should not be considered in isolation. This conference, which forms part of the Leverhulme Trust Funded ‘Sepoys and Slave Soldiers’ Research Fellowship, aims to take a holistic view of the intersections between race, law, armed forces and imperialist projects. In doing so, it seeks to widen our understanding of constructions of race, the rule of law and the operation of empires. This international, hybrid conference welcomes proposals for 20 minute papers, or full panels of three papers, which explore any two of the conference’s three core themes of race, empire and law between 1750 and 1850. 300 word paper proposals, with a 150 word biography and a stated preference for in person or online attendance, should be submitted to Dr Zack White (zack.white@port.ac.uk).

Race, Law and Empire, 1750-1850 Conference
University of Southampton AND online
17th - 18th July 2026

Call for Papers extended by popular request.

Full details below. Please share widely.

Established, emerging researchers are very welcome.

Supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk

It's now three years since Sky showed a women's international contest that either didn't involve England or wasn't an ICC event.

In recent times, TNT have only been showing matches from New Zealand (whose rights deal has just ended), Australia and India.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go? Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

Some of the best journalism on party finance and organisational structure I've seen in a long time. Much of it aligning with a known pattern over decades, but still interesting to see - and adds to my suspicion of PHON as a lasting force.
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The bell of Liverpool Town Hall chimes 97 times for each of the Liverpool fans unlawfully killed in the Hillsborough Disaster, 37-years-ago today

Howard was photoshopped as Dracula by the tabloids around 2001 too, which felt really borderline to me.

Help?! How to get my 0_coast to receive a midi signal? YouTube video by John Richardson

Does anyone know anything about midi keyboards? I could do with a bit of help... #arturia #0_coast #midi
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I cross it out in every draft I read and insert “germinal” and then we discuss Why Entrenched Power Structures in Language Matter #laughOfTheMedusa

Just looking at English recipients of the award since 2020 is quite striking in terms of eligibility:

Jofra Archer, Zak Crawley, Dom Sibley, Darren Stevens, Ollie Robinson, Ben Foakes, Matthew Potts, Harry Brook, Mark Wood, Gus Atkinson, Liam Dawson, Jamie Smith, Haseeb Hameed

Sophie Ecclestone

Really disappointing that BBC’s Today programme failed to even ask Lawrence Booth about the lack of a woman in the Wisden Five. Deepti Sharma also not mentioned as the Leading Female Cricketer. If you listened to that segment you might well come away thinking women don’t play cricket at all.

Or foundational, or central, or transformative, or (highly) influential, or frankly anything other than that word.

Oh yes, definitely. Especially when referencing feminist scholars 🙃

And of course the trains are totally cooperating by cancelling the service between Crewe and Liverpool...

Love the Star & Shadow, such a great place

Definite "work? What, again??" energy this morning.

🌈 Very excited to share my new article with @barrieshannon.com in the Australian Journal of Political Science

‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’

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