A Glastonbury chant caused a national meltdown, but the Bear’s incisive analysis reveals the real story.

Don't miss this insightful dive into Britain's moral panic.

The question we would all like an answer to

Erdogan’s main political rival jailed, days after being barred from running for political office. Yet more rapid democratic backsliding and authoritarian moves in Turkey.

"Farage couldn’t be more disconnected from the lives of his voters without changing his surname to Antoinette."

My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on this week's spatter of omnidirectional bullshit from Nigel Farage, Trump's final friend in Europe

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

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Musk likes to say X is “citizen journalism”…

…it’s anything but.

REAL citizen journalism is the Bylines Network of 10 local publications that edit & publish real articles written by citizens - all IMPRESS regulated.

Follow us — and these other investigative & “for public good” media sources. 🙏🏻

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is unutterably stupid. Political donations should have been reformed YEARS ago.

We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk.

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Richard Tice, whose Reform Party may be about to be funded by Elon Musk, condemning interference in British politics by foreign billionaires

BBC’s Chris Mason calls Farage a “master of storytelling”
Maybe the BBC could stop helping him out and tell another story.One about a grifting prejudiced conman who’s wrecked our country with his ‘Breaking Point’ Brexit but has never been held to account for the lies he’s told, the damage he’s done.

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”

Challenge assumptions
Ask unexpected questions
Move when you need to
Explore the world and
Listen with curiosity. Other people could be right or wrong.

Forget SLANT, when a school has CAMEL on their walls, I will be impressed. 9/

Nothing too controversial, it seems. So why does it make me feel so uncomfortable? 3/

I visited a school recently which had SLANT posters up. I asked about it. The teacher was casual. ‘It’s just behaviours to help learning’. Behaviours to help students say engaged, says one school website. Another school says that using SLANT helps students to ensure they are focused on learning.1/