Richard Burnham
@eveningperson.bsky.social
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OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
Congrats to Specialist Journalism winners @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Jenna Corderoy and Lucas Amin of Democracy for Sale #BJA2025
December 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award
Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊
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It’s not that different to England, minus to social media bit. Was quizzed about family, parents, grandparents, jobs, income, did we own a property etc. It was over twenty years ago. My son recently visited and described a similar experience. So still an inquisition when entering the UK.
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It’s not that different to England, minus to social media bit. Was quizzed about family, parents, grandparents, jobs, income, did we own a property etc. It was over twenty years ago. My son recently visited and described a similar experience. So still an inquisition when entering the UK.
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Northern Ireland continues show off just how broken UK counter-terrorism law has become...
Judge Kerr said he accepted that this was not a terrorist case but that the pipe bombs had been left to "cause fear and distress and in order to achieve a sectarian aim of stopping the GAA using public pitches".
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
Pipe bombs not terrorism, holding signs in support of Palestine Action however, is.
A man who left pipe bombs at a Co Down sports ground in an attempt to intimidate a newly formed GAA club into leaving, has been given a three year sentence.
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Northern Ireland continues show off just how broken UK counter-terrorism law has become...
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The second debunk in the Brexit Benefits autopsy: CBAM. Turns out the big win is checks notes… running two overlapping carbon regimes and charging ourselves for EU top-ups.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit
In which a revenue simulation becomes a miracle, context vanishes, and Brexit gets another imaginary dividend.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The second debunk in the Brexit Benefits autopsy: CBAM. Turns out the big win is checks notes… running two overlapping carbon regimes and charging ourselves for EU top-ups.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Truly inspiring stuff.
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Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
A Scientific Pipeline to the Nobel Prize Fueled by Immigrants
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Stephen Miller said that the children of immigrants fail society.
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
Fun Fact:
Of the 6 American winners of science Nobels this year, 3 were born outside the US. The émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry & medicine now stands at 40 percent.
#Pinks
🧪 🎁🖇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...
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NEW | guest post from @writesbright.bsky.social:
Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Guest post: Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
NEW | guest post from @writesbright.bsky.social:
Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/guest-post...
Murdoch’s invisible hand
How News International funded one of the very right-wing think-tanks its outlets quote all the time...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit...
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
Kemi Badenoch cites Brexit as ‘shock’ to UK
Tory leader’s comments come amid debate on whether Britain should rejoin EU customs union
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
⚠️ Even the most ardent Brexiteers now accept the damage done by Brexit...
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
💷 £90 billion in lost tax revenue... EVERY YEAR!
❌ That is over £20 billion more than the entire education budget. Scandalous.
https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782
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Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right.
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"
notesfrompoland.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right.
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
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For friends in the U.S., this is about the same as if the EU decided to pull apart the United States by actively supporting every loon in California, Texas, and any other state with any interest of leaving the union. Both overtly and covertly.
It is what you do to enemies.
It is what you do to enemies.
Apparently it can always get worse. The full version of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, aptly named “NSC-1488” by the wags, calls for actively pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary and Italy from the #EU. And supporting far right.
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
US sides with Putin.
notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/f...
Fuller version of Trump security strategy reportedly calls for "pulling Poland away from EU"
notesfrompoland.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
For friends in the U.S., this is about the same as if the EU decided to pull apart the United States by actively supporting every loon in California, Texas, and any other state with any interest of leaving the union. Both overtly and covertly.
It is what you do to enemies.
It is what you do to enemies.
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Children given correct information at school SHOKKA.
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Children given correct information at school SHOKKA.
Suppose I want to visit trhe #US in the future.
Do I praise the country, and then be denied bc I will want to stay there?
Or do I criticise it, and then be denied bc I'm hostile to blah blah?
Do I praise the country, and then be denied bc I will want to stay there?
Or do I criticise it, and then be denied bc I'm hostile to blah blah?
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Suppose I want to visit trhe #US in the future.
Do I praise the country, and then be denied bc I will want to stay there?
Or do I criticise it, and then be denied bc I'm hostile to blah blah?
Do I praise the country, and then be denied bc I will want to stay there?
Or do I criticise it, and then be denied bc I'm hostile to blah blah?
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Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
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This is now out in front of @theverge.com paywall for 24 hours (cool experiment!).
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Delighted this piece is now live on @theverge.com: I've spent months investigating how a supposed war against the "censorship-industrial complex" has been used by the US right to wage war against misinformation research – and free speech itself – across the world. Please do give it a read.
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is now out in front of @theverge.com paywall for 24 hours (cool experiment!).
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
Please do give it a read: it’s the story of how the White House is leading a global crackdown on news outlets and disinfo research.
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SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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The "Mayor of Braintree" wrote a post on Facebook about flagshaggers, and everyone lost their minds... because most people don't take as much as a second to check the source they're reading
December 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The "Mayor of Braintree" wrote a post on Facebook about flagshaggers, and everyone lost their minds... because most people don't take as much as a second to check the source they're reading
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December 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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What we have never seen in the UK-EU relationship is the two sides treating this as a normal negotiation working with stakeholders on both sides to identify mutual benefits. That wasn't possible with previous UK governments - it is now, and time both sides updated their playbook accordingly.
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
What we have never seen in the UK-EU relationship is the two sides treating this as a normal negotiation working with stakeholders on both sides to identify mutual benefits. That wasn't possible with previous UK governments - it is now, and time both sides updated their playbook accordingly.
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Just to reassure everyone - the chapters are not particularly… thorough.
Or detailed.
Or in any way well cited.
I read three on a 15 minute bus ride - War and Peace this is most certainly not.
Or detailed.
Or in any way well cited.
I read three on a 15 minute bus ride - War and Peace this is most certainly not.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Just to reassure everyone - the chapters are not particularly… thorough.
Or detailed.
Or in any way well cited.
I read three on a 15 minute bus ride - War and Peace this is most certainly not.
Or detailed.
Or in any way well cited.
I read three on a 15 minute bus ride - War and Peace this is most certainly not.
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👏🏽"The President and the Brexiteers share a fear of strangers... Trade, in [Trump's] view, is other countries draining our wallets. Immigration is other people stealing our jobs. International treaties are handcuffs limiting sovereignty." 🎯~AA
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
👏🏽"The President and the Brexiteers share a fear of strangers... Trade, in [Trump's] view, is other countries draining our wallets. Immigration is other people stealing our jobs. International treaties are handcuffs limiting sovereignty." 🎯~AA
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/o...
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In August, a businessman from the far east gave Nigel Farage’s party a huge pile of cash. He loves Britain, but just not enough to actually live here
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Who is Reform’s £9m donor?
In August, a businessman from the far east gave Nigel Farage’s party a huge pile of cash. He loves Britain, but just not enough to actually live here
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In August, a businessman from the far east gave Nigel Farage’s party a huge pile of cash. He loves Britain, but just not enough to actually live here
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
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"Good Law Project said both rulings countered the argument that the supreme court ruling automatically resulted in a bathroom ban for trans people. “The tribunal was clear that the law does not now require banning trans people from single-sex spaces.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scottish nurse wins part of her tribunal in trans doctor changing room case
Sandie Peggie wins harassment claim but tribunal dismisses allegations of discrimination and victimisation
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Good Law Project said both rulings countered the argument that the supreme court ruling automatically resulted in a bathroom ban for trans people. “The tribunal was clear that the law does not now require banning trans people from single-sex spaces.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Everything is old is new again. Back in the day, Theodore Roosevelt called white women going to college "race suicide."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The rise of pronatalism: why Musk, Vance and the right want women to have more babies
The movement unites ‘family values’ conservatives and tech bro rightwingers. Will this incoherent coalition hold?
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Everything is old is new again. Back in the day, Theodore Roosevelt called white women going to college "race suicide."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...