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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 21h

"The decision was not about ensuring a trustworthy man was in DC; it was about putting in action a player who knew how to network, trade favours and shore up a closed circle back home with his aptitude for cultivating connections across influential domains without qualms or scruples"

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 21h

"The gut-twisting way that casual references to body parts would come up in correspondence is part of a whole language of signalling. Referring to women as “pussy” – or just “P” – is to flash your exclusive club membership card."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 21h

"The gut-twisting way that casual references to body parts would come up in correspondence is part of a whole language of signalling. Referring to women as “pussy” – or just “P” – is to flash your exclusive club membership card."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What links Jeffrey Epstein and Keir Starmer’s government? A thick seam of contempt | Nesrine Malik

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 21h

Thanks for sharing; impressive stuff.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d

hahaha I wonder who's at all surprised. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37%

NFU warn it could take years to restore Brexit losses despite efforts to smooth negotiations on farming and other elements of UK-EU reset

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d

(So if you are a bloke with a platform who still empathises with, relativises or justifies in any way "Epstein's associates", take a hard look at yourself, and read more extensively and carefully).

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 3d

Amelia Gentleman sums it up: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club

Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

In spite of all my precautions and mitigations I did not reach the end of the second week of teaching without getting a nasty bug that has my brain deprived of precious oxygen. Yay.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

How could anyone with a moral compass and knowledge of the available evidence possibly feel even remotely "bad for Jeffrey Epstein's associates"? [Unless this was a joke and I just didn't get it].

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

It's important for media outlets and universities to have intellectual diversity, including both people who feel bad for Jeffrey Epstein's victims and people who feel bad for Jeffrey Epstein's associates. Don't be biased.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 4d

This is cool.

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 8d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

It's important for media outlets and universities to have intellectual diversity, including both people who feel bad for Jeffrey Epstein's victims and people who feel bad for Jeffrey Epstein's associates. Don't be biased.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

I mean come on, team, this is when all our years and years spent reading and watching dystopian fiction (and history, and critical theory, etc.) need to be put to good use... these are the days!

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Wow.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Kristi Noem: "Most of all we thank President Trump for the guts and the love of this country to do the right thing ... he told the American people we needed a wall, and we have a wall. A big beautiful wall that President Trump also wanted painted black so that it would endure."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Kristi Noem: "Most of all we thank President Trump for the guts and the love of this country to do the right thing ... he told the American people we needed a wall, and we have a wall. A big beautiful wall that President Trump also wanted painted black so that it would endure."

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

"[...] the mass migration of human activity online is an epoch-defining political event and the default settings on the tools and platforms involved may not be designed with citizens’ best interests in mind." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #DesignJustice

When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr

Moves to ban under-16s from social media should raise deeper questions about who controls democracy’s digital infrastructure, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Lessons here for academics and the whole Higher Education sector too

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

A combination of capitalism, corporate media failures, and anti-journalism propaganda has convinced a lot of people that journalists exist to turn a profit. They no longer seem to realize that the purpose of journalism is for them, the people.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5d

A combination of capitalism, corporate media failures, and anti-journalism propaganda has convinced a lot of people that journalists exist to turn a profit. They no longer seem to realize that the purpose of journalism is for them, the people.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

Democracy dies in plain sight, y'all

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

To think "Democracy dies in darkness", was WaPo's motto before Bezos acquired it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

And that would not be the first time Epstein and Mandelson join forces to out a Labour PM... even post mortem Epstein is pulling strings

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 5d

The procession towards authoritarianism in the United States continues apace. Faster even than expected. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post undergoing significant layoffs as part of ‘strategic reset’

Employees were told Wednesday that the paper’s sports desk would close among other cuts and restructures

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

[Obvious Questions Dept.: Even if Mandelson lied to the PM and everyone else, wasn't knowing he had kept ties with Epstein after conviction enough?]

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 5d

PM says he knew when giving Mandelson US job he had kept ties with Epstein after conviction www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PM says he knew when giving Mandelson US job he had kept ties with Epstein after conviction

Starmer defends ambassador appointment, saying he was lied to ‘repeatedly’ about extent of contact between pair

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

This is so wonderful- if only I'd come across something like this when I was doing my PhD!

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.

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The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 6d

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.

Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

I fail to remember @theguardian.com covering the City and St George's merger (if the article exists, could someone share with me please? thanks). Maybe 'PA Media' was not used.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

It is amazing how this thiking is so monodimensional- a single axis: country of birth. Only a fully intersectional approach could begin to address the effects of migration on a country's finances.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

So symptomatic Caswell seems to suggest that migrants' contributions could be somehow replaced by new UK-born people, as if our contributions were only a question of replacing the children not being born in the country. Certainly any skills gap cannot be solely explained by low fertility rates.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

"Caswell said that unless the fertility rate picked up, then zero net migration “would not be fiscally sustainable for the UK unless there were significant tax rises, and significant tax rises could potentially choke off economic growth”.

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 6d

Current policy of pandering to xenophobes just not sustainable. But then we knew that.

Zero net migration would shrink UK economy by 3.6%, says thinktank

Jump of £37bn in budget deficit by 2040 would force government to increase taxes, NIESR predicts

www.theguardian.com

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 6d

Go, read.

Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 7d

Many people have wondered why the Chien-Shiung Wu never won the Nobel Prize for Physics. New findings from the Nobel archives, exclusively revealed in Physics World, show she was nominated 23 times by 18 different physicists - and yet was still left empty-handed. 🧪⚛️
physicsworld.com/a/twenty-thr...

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World

Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal why Chien-Shiung Wu never won a Nobel prize

physicsworld.com

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