Great to see journalism on UK universities in crisis. But what still needs writing is an investigative piece on the 100s of millions spent by UK unis on private consultancies etc. Public money on corporate outsourcing is a key part of the picture. smh.com.au/education/they…

🚨🧵🚨 We are disappointed to report that we are in dispute with our employer, @Study_Group, +are currently holding a consultative ballot for strike action which will close soon. This is in response to 36 academic+student staff being placed at risk of compulsory redundancy /1

Shocking fire and rehire scheme at The Open University 🚨 Forcing 160 lectures to accept lower pay is unacceptable 👇 "It is a very serious situation because everyone is worried if they get away with it once, then they will do it again" Open University UCU bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

What could possibly go wrong 🤷‍♀️

As a new report finds disability benefit claimants are receiving “unacceptably poor service” from the DWP, I spoke to today’s First Edition newsletter about the crisis (and why fraud is not the same as error, even if ministers want to make you think it is) theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

The CDC has instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript being considered by any medical or scientific journal. The move aims to ensure that no “forbidden terms” appear in the work. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

1291 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 831 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

There is no principle, or indeed marginalised community, that Keir Starmer won’t throw under a bus.

"The balance here is off the scale" 📢 The government's proposed cuts to disability benefits will deepen poverty and hardship, and push many further from work. Watch Iain Porter give evidence to Work & Pensions Committee on the cuts.

On #WorldPressFreedomDay, CPJ’s call to protect the press is more urgent than ever. Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians killed by Israel.

Yesterday we attended the launch of Safer Politics. We're proud to support this project from DigiPol University of Liverpool @LivUni, which provides online safety toolkits for politicians, candidates and communication staff. 🔗saferpolitics.org

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine." - Tom Fletcher

A woman who tweeted this is being made a cause célèbre by sections of the mainstream press. We're in very dark and dangerous times

Concerns about the far right should also be about mainstream politicians & media as they have played a key part in making the far right the threat it is today despite pretending to be bulwarks You can't defeat the far right without changing a system that uses it as a distraction

We have a new (open access) book out entitled 'Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy' with Maria Kyriakidou at JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni Cardiff University @: Thread with key features: 1/7 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-counterin…

BREAKING: Curtis Yarvin - anti-Black racist adored by Trump’s VP JD Vance & funder Peter Thiel - is being showcased at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival this weekend, interviewed by Labour’s ALASTAIR CAMPBELL. Why give him a loudspeaker? /1

Nathan Gill, then a Brexit Party MEP, was paid to make pro-Russian media appearances and statements in the European Parliament He organised a presentation on a Ukraine "peace plan" written by a politician who met Putin and praised the event the next day nytimes.com/2025/09/26/wor…

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for THE NERVE in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?