Dr Bethany Usher
@bethanyusher.bsky.social
Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette
So excited we are finally at True Crime Forum! And I got to bring my Mam to work day!
July 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
So excited we are finally at True Crime Forum! And I got to bring my Mam to work day!
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This is very good news and will help to stop the Far Right getting elected on marginal votes.
Now do parliamentary elections.
Now do parliamentary elections.
🚨🗳️ | New Guidance in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill confirms that Mayoral and PCC elections will return to the Supplementary Vote system.
July 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is very good news and will help to stop the Far Right getting elected on marginal votes.
Now do parliamentary elections.
Now do parliamentary elections.
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Researchers at Newcastle University are bringing ancient Roman maths into the 21st century 🧮📜
Find out how this work aims to support the teaching of modern maths in schools >> bit.ly/4kxDfQs
Find out how this work aims to support the teaching of modern maths in schools >> bit.ly/4kxDfQs
Researchers bring ancient Roman maths up to date
Ancient mathematical texts that played a key role in constructing the Roman empire will be transformed for the 21st century by researchers at Newcastle University.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Researchers at Newcastle University are bringing ancient Roman maths into the 21st century 🧮📜
Find out how this work aims to support the teaching of modern maths in schools >> bit.ly/4kxDfQs
Find out how this work aims to support the teaching of modern maths in schools >> bit.ly/4kxDfQs
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Controversial muscians making huge hits, when has that ever happened?
Oh wait...
Oh wait...
July 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Controversial muscians making huge hits, when has that ever happened?
Oh wait...
Oh wait...
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🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED
A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.
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A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.
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July 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED
A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.
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A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone.
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Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?
Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?
Rachel Reeves’s distress may help destigmatise emotional response to stress or professional frustration
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Crying in the Commons: why are women’s workplace tears a source of shame?
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The USA shows you what is happening all over the world.
They are blaming immigrants while the billionaires are looting and destroying everything.
They are blaming immigrants while the billionaires are looting and destroying everything.
July 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The USA shows you what is happening all over the world.
They are blaming immigrants while the billionaires are looting and destroying everything.
They are blaming immigrants while the billionaires are looting and destroying everything.
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Want to play your part in uncovering our local past?
Discover the hidden histories of a Newcastle burial ground in this new article from Dr @myragiesen.bsky.social and find out how you can get involved>> bit.ly/44rJz5R
Discover the hidden histories of a Newcastle burial ground in this new article from Dr @myragiesen.bsky.social and find out how you can get involved>> bit.ly/44rJz5R
Hidden histories: the story of Ballast Hills Burial Ground
Explore Newcastle University's work uncovering hidden histories at Ballast Hills Burial Ground, revealing forgotten lives and reshaping heritage.
bit.ly
July 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Want to play your part in uncovering our local past?
Discover the hidden histories of a Newcastle burial ground in this new article from Dr @myragiesen.bsky.social and find out how you can get involved>> bit.ly/44rJz5R
Discover the hidden histories of a Newcastle burial ground in this new article from Dr @myragiesen.bsky.social and find out how you can get involved>> bit.ly/44rJz5R
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Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr.
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
July 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr.
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
What has Rachel Reeves tears done to my older lady friends at the gym, who did not like her before.
They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas
Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?
They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas
Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?
July 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What has Rachel Reeves tears done to my older lady friends at the gym, who did not like her before.
They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas
Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?
They now hate Kemi Badenoch for bullying her during PMQs and said Reeves is getting picked on because she has good ideas
Great Britain. We love an underdog don't we?
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very good
Is she as weak as you think she is?
Today's column is on m'Substack:
fleetstreetfox.substack.com/i/167427356/...
Today's column is on m'Substack:
fleetstreetfox.substack.com/i/167427356/...
Why Rachel Reeves' tears are not the weakness you think they are
She sat in power on that green bench
fleetstreetfox.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
very good
Trump is going to say Obama is an illegal immigrant isn't he.
July 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trump is going to say Obama is an illegal immigrant isn't he.
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The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Ah, the golden age.
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ah, the golden age.
Okay developing severe anxiety about sending and receiving emails isn't going to go well in a job where the main communication is email.
What's this all about then?!
What's this all about then?!
July 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Okay developing severe anxiety about sending and receiving emails isn't going to go well in a job where the main communication is email.
What's this all about then?!
What's this all about then?!
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Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?
Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?
newrepublic.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966—nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.
Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...
Anyone watched 24/7 in police custody tonight? What an important storyline about law and legal perception, sexual and cultural differences, race and religion, consent, hard lines and what moments might mean. A difficult story told carefully.
Love to the victims
Love to the victims
June 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Anyone watched 24/7 in police custody tonight? What an important storyline about law and legal perception, sexual and cultural differences, race and religion, consent, hard lines and what moments might mean. A difficult story told carefully.
Love to the victims
Love to the victims
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Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle theonion.com/bezos-w...
Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle
VENICE, ITALY—Smiling at the couple’s lighthearted twist on a traditional ring bearer, guests at the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez were reportedly delighted this week by the sight of an Amazon worker with a ring tied to his collar crawling down the aisle. “Oh my gosh, my heart is melting—such a good boy,” […]
theonion.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bezos Wedding Guests Delighted By Amazon Worker With Ring Tied To Collar Crawling Down Aisle theonion.com/bezos-w...
Watching The Prodigy without Keith and Leroy is like pretending we'd be watching The Beatles without George and John. It's not really and shouldn't happen.
June 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Watching The Prodigy without Keith and Leroy is like pretending we'd be watching The Beatles without George and John. It's not really and shouldn't happen.
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Apparently he's got form...
"I think Enoch Powell is the man”, proclaimed Rod Stewart. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.”
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/r...
"I think Enoch Powell is the man”, proclaimed Rod Stewart. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.”
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/r...
REVIEW: White Riot - Why We Need a New Rock Against Racism
Chris Sullivan remembers Rock Against Racism and reviews the new documentary: White Riot, directed by Rubika Shah and finds it especially relevant today.
bylinetimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Apparently he's got form...
"I think Enoch Powell is the man”, proclaimed Rod Stewart. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.”
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/r...
"I think Enoch Powell is the man”, proclaimed Rod Stewart. “I’m all for him. This country is overcrowded. The immigrants should be sent home.”
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/r...
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Bowie. He knew everything.
Rod Stewart has always been a twat. Bowie used to talk about it from time to time.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
June 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Bowie. He knew everything.
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He also dresses like a nan.
June 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
He also dresses like a nan.
Rod Stewart has always been a twat. Bowie used to talk about it from time to time.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
June 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Rod Stewart has always been a twat. Bowie used to talk about it from time to time.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
Also in the early 70s he got my Mam booted from first class on a train when she'd snuck in because he wanted the whole carriage. She didn't know he was even there she was just looking for a seat. Bellend.
So there's now a fence for the rich at Glasto pyramid stage???
June 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
So there's now a fence for the rich at Glasto pyramid stage???