Moona S
@msmoona.bsky.social
Londoner with a waning optimism for humanity. Can we work past the madness
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We’ve got a significant publication out today - a review of how 10 countries around the world organise their public service media, and what lessons can be drawn for the renewal of the BBC Charter
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We’ve got a significant publication out today - a review of how 10 countries around the world organise their public service media, and what lessons can be drawn for the renewal of the BBC Charter
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...
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If you want to talk about a health scandal we will look back on in horror, consider the widespread online radicalisation of very powerful people
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you want to talk about a health scandal we will look back on in horror, consider the widespread online radicalisation of very powerful people
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Yeah I'm just assuming it's a distant announcement to cook the books that stresses out a load of CFOs and accountants but can be dropped on the eve of an election "because we improved the economy"
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Yeah I'm just assuming it's a distant announcement to cook the books that stresses out a load of CFOs and accountants but can be dropped on the eve of an election "because we improved the economy"
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Trump was working undercover for the FBI trying to take Epstein down and he had to get massages from teenage girls to maintain his cover.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump was working undercover for the FBI trying to take Epstein down and he had to get massages from teenage girls to maintain his cover.
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There has been a bad imbalance in the political classes thinking about what control means + how it combines with decency and fairness.
Labour did eventually challenge the Idi Amin Memorial Tribute of the Tory deportation bill - but why does the PM now think deporting refugees is "border control"?
Labour did eventually challenge the Idi Amin Memorial Tribute of the Tory deportation bill - but why does the PM now think deporting refugees is "border control"?
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
There has been a bad imbalance in the political classes thinking about what control means + how it combines with decency and fairness.
Labour did eventually challenge the Idi Amin Memorial Tribute of the Tory deportation bill - but why does the PM now think deporting refugees is "border control"?
Labour did eventually challenge the Idi Amin Memorial Tribute of the Tory deportation bill - but why does the PM now think deporting refugees is "border control"?
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In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
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Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Governments and voters are both reacting to algorithm-shaped “public opinion,” not grounded priorities. Immigration feels urgent because platforms amplify fear, pulling parties into hollow performances of toughness. The far right reads that drift as confirmation it’s winning.
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It’s profoundly worrying that so many politicians and journalists, continue to use this platform which is increasingly a space for hate speech and far right propaganda. It’s having a serious impact on the state of national discourse. Government should at the very least make X abide by the law.
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It’s profoundly worrying that so many politicians and journalists, continue to use this platform which is increasingly a space for hate speech and far right propaganda. It’s having a serious impact on the state of national discourse. Government should at the very least make X abide by the law.
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I made this meme 11 years ago today. knew it’d come in handy again.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I made this meme 11 years ago today. knew it’d come in handy again.
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If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour
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Everyone kind of knew that Musk was deliberately using X to amplify extreme right wing accounts, but seeing actual data confirming it is still shocking
news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Everyone kind of knew that Musk was deliberately using X to amplify extreme right wing accounts, but seeing actual data confirming it is still shocking
news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-effe...
Anyone shocked?
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology
More suspected far-right extremists were referred to the government’s anti-terrorism programme Prevent last year than those suspected of Islamist extremism, annual figures show.
In total, 8,778 referrals were made because of suspicions of extremist radicalisation in the year to March 2025, 27% more than the previous year and the highest number of referrals in a single year since records began 10 years ago. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Anyone shocked?
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In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In Great Britain, there are about 1.7 billion passenger rail journeys each year without serious incident (about 150 million a month). It's worth keeping perspective as news media discuss banning knives on trains or installing scanners at stations.
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...
dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...
Gove and Marshal are genuine danger to all Muslims and south east Asians in general. Why is this allowed?
Paul Marshall’s Spectator under the editorship of Michael Gove seems to have become a Musk like platform to boost bigotry
Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Gove and Marshal are genuine danger to all Muslims and south east Asians in general. Why is this allowed?
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How low will it go?
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
How low will it go?
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
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Well, there we go. All out in the open now, isn't it?
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Well, there we go. All out in the open now, isn't it?
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Why is racism in Britain getting worse? I did not want nor expect to be asking that in 2025. I'm used to making progress against racism in our country. So I write in The New World about how we understand what's going on + what needs to change to turn this around
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
Racism in Britain is getting worse
Racist abuse in the UK is becoming normalised - the government and social media platforms are doing nothing about it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Why is racism in Britain getting worse? I did not want nor expect to be asking that in 2025. I'm used to making progress against racism in our country. So I write in The New World about how we understand what's going on + what needs to change to turn this around
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...
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Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
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I don't personally have any interest in the police recording incidents that are not crimes.
What is essential is that the police + the government get much better at policing actual racist hate crimes, because the culture of impunity for online racial hatred is having corrosive offline impacts too
What is essential is that the police + the government get much better at policing actual racist hate crimes, because the culture of impunity for online racial hatred is having corrosive offline impacts too
October 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I don't personally have any interest in the police recording incidents that are not crimes.
What is essential is that the police + the government get much better at policing actual racist hate crimes, because the culture of impunity for online racial hatred is having corrosive offline impacts too
What is essential is that the police + the government get much better at policing actual racist hate crimes, because the culture of impunity for online racial hatred is having corrosive offline impacts too
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Labour encouraging xenophobia and the lump of labour fallacy. There are not a fixed number of jobs to be allocated between 'British workers' [nice dogwhistle there] and those who come here to work.
I'm not "home grown" but I'm British, should I fuck off?
'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Labour encouraging xenophobia and the lump of labour fallacy. There are not a fixed number of jobs to be allocated between 'British workers' [nice dogwhistle there] and those who come here to work.
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As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
www.nytimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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There is a good simple media story in doing a mystery shopping reporting exercise of 100 uses of p-word and n-word racism to get the snapshot % for Twitter protecting hate crimes , with pressure not just on the platform execs, but on ministers, police, ofcom, ehrc and select committees.
September 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
There is a good simple media story in doing a mystery shopping reporting exercise of 100 uses of p-word and n-word racism to get the snapshot % for Twitter protecting hate crimes , with pressure not just on the platform execs, but on ministers, police, ofcom, ehrc and select committees.
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Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025).
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?
Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space
www.easterneye.biz
September 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025).
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
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Many very serious people are doing the really hard thinking about what a sustainable economy on a heating planet with an ageing population has to look like.
The odds of triangulating any of it past a mass-media obsessed with faragism are slim.
The odds of triangulating any of it past a mass-media obsessed with faragism are slim.
September 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Many very serious people are doing the really hard thinking about what a sustainable economy on a heating planet with an ageing population has to look like.
The odds of triangulating any of it past a mass-media obsessed with faragism are slim.
The odds of triangulating any of it past a mass-media obsessed with faragism are slim.