Manchester entrepreneur Chris Kenna says he’s built a network of data centres across the UK

Well we couldn’t find any

What we did find, though, is that his company has failed to pay its engineers and its crown jewel is an empty building...

Oh this is delightful

Danny Bones: the AI rapper funded by a far-right party Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

Full story👇

Hazel I'm gonna need you to recreate the March of Progress but with capes now

But at all parties you've been Arthur Dent, right?

Jonn, you weren't throwing the party at all, I was

this is BIG

Matt Goodwin’s Reform UK campaign manager said he ‘would never touch a Jewish woman’ - The Jewish Chronicle Adam Mitula, who is canvassing for the party in Gorton and Denton, also tweeted that the six million who died in the Holocaust only included ‘some Jews’

This is extremely ugly

www.thejc.com/news/uk/matt...

Presumably women who are infertile will face a third, somehow also awful, option.

if only there'd been some kind of long history we could extrapolate from. but unfortunately, the rookie jokes must continue

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

The image reads: “Privacy for your ‘guests’: Mandelson’s email to Epstein recommending exclusive villa”. The image includes a photo of Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein sitting at a table together.

BREAKING: An email sent by Peter Mandelson shows the former politician recommending a holiday home for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Read the full story now: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

Just saw this fascinating thread, which is both Gothic and profoundly heartwarming 🖤

You can take my em dashes from the hands currently around your throat

That's gorgeous

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

misty morning in Epping Forest

A heron flying over a gap in the treetops, Epping Forest

V-2 rocket crater, Epping Forest

There's always a moment in late January when the volume, variety & intensity of birdsong seems to have chipped up, and this year it seems to be today. Wren, goldfinch, redwing, song thrush, robin, all the tits, blackcap, nuthatch & more (the heron was flying over, silently & the V-2 crater is full)

NYT Games was rightfully a success case study on the NPA newsroom product course I completed last year, but today is another day where I must wonder if they've fully considered a British version where we could use our beloved 'U's in spelling bee properly

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Why would anyone trust a news organization that treats obvious truths as debatable? | Press Watch The ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good was the aggressor, not the victim. That’s not a hard one.

News organizations can gain or lose trust by either acknowledging what people have seen with their own eyes — or calling it a jump ball. From 2 weeks ago: presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...

Genuinely think this coverage is worthy of formal complaint – and if the BBC doesn’t take it seriously, it should be escalated to Ofcom.

The appearance of caving to the Trump White House, when the BBC is being sued, could be disastrous for public trust.

They did this with the last summary execution too - inviting government propagandists on for interviews and then concluding that because the government say one thing and independent analysts say another, we can never truly say what happened.

It’s an insane thing to witness.

PSA for anyone who needs it.
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

'Listen to women' NHS nurses say, after tribunal rules sharing changing room with trans woman 'violated dignity' However, the tribunal dismissed several other claims, finding that the trans woman had not harassed or victimised the nurses.

I find this sickening, tbh. The claim that simply being in the presence of a trans woman creates a “a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment” for cis women could not be more transphobic* if it tried.

*Literally: showing discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of, transgender people

This is so astoundingly misjudged it actually fixed the tension in my jaw for a moment

spending my day interviewing trans people for a piece (hopefully coming out next week!) and what a stupid, stupid, mean, absurd state of affairs

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".

It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".

The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

This is how to kill trust in journalism. Everyone can see the video footage, there is no need for 'both sides' to the story - certainly not in the opening paragraph (maybe it's OK to note the political disagreement right at the end).