Jon Dean
@jondeanstuff.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher.
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
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New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Woke up to find that the US Senate is a terrible institution and the BBC is in thrall to the hate preachers of the right wing press. Neither is a surprise but it’s a reminder of how rotten the power structures are.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Woke up to find that the US Senate is a terrible institution and the BBC is in thrall to the hate preachers of the right wing press. Neither is a surprise but it’s a reminder of how rotten the power structures are.
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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"And then she looked at me! With her transgender eyes! It was terrifying :("
Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
![Several nurses alleged Rose gave them "evil looks" or "hard stares", which Rose denied, telling the tribunal she did not know who the nurses were.
"I'm not in the business of levelling evil looks at anyone or hard staring," Rose said, adding people could think whatever they wanted about her but that did not influence her view of colleagues "as professionals".
One of the lead nurses, Bethany Hutchison, said Rose had smirked at her as they passed in a corridor, which she took to be an attempt at intimidation.
Mr Fetto asked Rose if she had "displayed amusement" towards nurse Bethany Hutchison.
Rose said she was talking to another colleague at the time about something they found funny, "but it wasn't [Ms Hutchison's] presence which I found amusing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cau5eglmhacxw6jpnxtbvpgz/bafkreig7pvrv2m7cfxkxllicenzp5jsdsi3lamqhigkhf7a4eepsfsirj4@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"And then she looked at me! With her transgender eyes! It was terrifying :("
Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
Absolutely pathetic, desperate shit from obvious bigots.
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
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Another amazing piece of journalism from the Sheffield Tribune here. Plus I hope this guy gets what's coming to him.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Another amazing piece of journalism from the Sheffield Tribune here. Plus I hope this guy gets what's coming to him.
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Absolute marmalade-dropper, this. Well worth a read.
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Absolute marmalade-dropper, this. Well worth a read.
Another shameful episode from our glorious leadership
Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Another shameful episode from our glorious leadership
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British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.
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From National Treasure to National Scandal
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortni...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight.
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...
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"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.
October 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.
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I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
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October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.
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There are art history classes about this and, spoiler alert, this type of rhetoric doesn't usually end well
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are art history classes about this and, spoiler alert, this type of rhetoric doesn't usually end well
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Chris Mason once again writing like he’s narrating a children’s book where the protagonist is a bear wearing a little hat.
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Chris Mason once again writing like he’s narrating a children’s book where the protagonist is a bear wearing a little hat.
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons.
And Lemon, it's Tuesday.
And Lemon, it's Tuesday.
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
people voted for a guy who in the last couple of days posted a video fantasy of himself shitting on americans, torn down the fucking east wing, and declared that the treasury has to pay him $230 million for reasons.
And Lemon, it's Tuesday.
And Lemon, it's Tuesday.
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On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
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There’s been no effort to prove they were drug traffickers, some were demonstrably innocent fishermen, and the strikes are illegal either way, but please do go on
US strikes on drug traffickers play well at home but the threats to topple Nicolás Maduro are a response to Beijing’s fast-growing influence in Latin America | ✍️ Katy Balls
War on drugs or regime change? Trump’s gamble over Venezuela
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October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There’s been no effort to prove they were drug traffickers, some were demonstrably innocent fishermen, and the strikes are illegal either way, but please do go on
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Orr sneered at British people who support a democratic ally invaded by fascists as suffering from 'Ukraine brain'. And he did so in autocratic Hungary, whose approach to the war he praised.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/j...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Orr sneered at British people who support a democratic ally invaded by fascists as suffering from 'Ukraine brain'. And he did so in autocratic Hungary, whose approach to the war he praised.
www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/j...
www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/j...
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Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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In the end, it's Jenrick's deep inauthenticity that is so striking. Literally no-one who went to football matches in the 1980s will recognise what he describes. They know only a total charlatan would have said it.
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
In the end, it's Jenrick's deep inauthenticity that is so striking. Literally no-one who went to football matches in the 1980s will recognise what he describes. They know only a total charlatan would have said it.
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A *Conservative Party politician* calling 80s hooliganism “largely good natured fun” is absolutely fucking incredible
October 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A *Conservative Party politician* calling 80s hooliganism “largely good natured fun” is absolutely fucking incredible
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I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.
So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.
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New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
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Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New Topic Collection for @bmj.com journal, Medical Humanities, on 'Charity and children's hospitals', is live:
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259
mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...
Join myself, authors, and editors (Francesca Vaghi and @profellenstu.bsky.social) to discuss at a launch next week. . .
bmj.zoom.us/j/89920901259