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Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace A man with no experience of government is to prepare the party … to govern. What could possibly go wrong?

Reform wheels out Danny Kruger, the ‘brains’ of Nigel Farage’s operation | John Crace

What the Liverpool incident tells us about the new culture war Forty-seven people were injured. The facts were clear. But the far-right had already written the script

The Liverpool attack wasn’t terrorism. But the far-right didn’t wait for facts – they had a script ready.

This piece by The Bear cuts through the noise to show how outrage is manufactured.

Read how this works ⤵️

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Putin comes against Le Pen ruling. Authoritarians hates any possibility of legal restraint on their leadership. Trump will doubtless do the same. Journalists do not have to follow this framing. There is zero reason for them to start a report by questioning whether the ruling is democratic.

It’s an interesting article. There isn’t a magic bullet or easy answer to this issue.

Spring statement. Fierce atmosphere in the Commons. Reeves ploughs on regardless, seemingly barely noticing the noise around her.

If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee Social media is lurching to the right like a tapeworm scenting offal – and X’s algorithms make it hard to find opposing opinion

If you’re reading this column, Elon Musk has messed up | Stewart Lee

‘Truly jaw-dropping’: astonishing true-crime show Devil in the Family is next-level TV The shocking tale of a Mormon family YouTuber who was imprisoned for child abuse distils thousands of hours of footage to genuinely push the story forward. It’s as sensitive as it is out-there

‘Truly jaw-dropping’: astonishing true-crime show Devil in the Family is next-level TV

That’ll appear in some bonkers conspiracy theory soon enough :)

Some thoughts on the European response to the chaos now emanating from the White House - on Ukraine and more broadly, based on chats with senior European policymakers directly or indirectly involved in formulating the bloc's response 1/

Haven’t plants been doing that already for a while now?

A really fascinating story, well worth a read.

Quite the list, how many did you know about?

Absolutely true and really terrifying

A short, devastating analysis of modern journalism that I recommend reading and sharing.

You had me at ‘1000’s of bugs’, already booked.

The answer to all of those is ‘yes’ sadly.

Starmer's best moment as PM And the Powellisation of conservative thought

Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk.

It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.

She should have gone for the cyclist’s snot rocket. Over in second :)

This is fantastic news and such positive environmental action. The Woodland Trust donate tree packs for small, medium and large planting projects if you have a bit of land that would benefit. We’ve planted 200 on our site at Astrea Woodfields.
#woodlandtrust #treeplanting #astreaacademytrust

It looks pretty amazing! We’ve followed the @nigella.bsky.social cola ham recipe and my goodness does it look impressive.

That’s awesome, thank you :)

We’re having a go at the Coke recipe tomorrow, fingers crossed :)

And we’re done! 200 trees planted at Astrea Woodfields. A sapling absorbs approx 10kg of CO2 per year which makes 2 metric tonnes absorbed per year!

Brilliant, well worth a Google :)

Brilliant film, it’s a lot more acceptable than Love Actually :)

Love Actually is bloody awful. I watched it once years ago and I’m still irritated by how bad it was.

A great film if you haven’t seen it :)

Absolutely

I teach this resource by @johnfocook.bsky.social in all my classes. Highly recommended, as it applies to many topics in addition to climate change. ⬇️