It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas (this piece is five years old but sadly, it's still relevant today) niemanlab.org/2020/06/its-ti…

Here’s a cack-handed idea the BBC could do without (one of many it's pursuing at the moment, but this one is *particularly* clownshoes) ... uk.themedialeader.com/heres-a-cack-h…

America has built an actual concentration camp. And they're proud of it. They're selling MERCH, for fuxsake garbageday.email/p/trump-s-big-…

“Alligator Alcatraz”—a facility where undocumented immigrants who have not received due process will be sent— is a concentration camp. This is no mere hyperbole americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-all…

Can BBC Director-General Tim Davie survive the Glastonbury scandal? Davie's covered himself in mediocrity yet again. He and the top team around him should have gone years ago, before they damaged our national broadcaster beyond repair uk.themedialeader.com/can-tim-davie-…

Oh wow, this is mind-boggling. If you’re wondering why Linda Yaccarino quit X so abruptly, the answer’s probably in here Also: ‘MechaHitler’?! 😲 open.substack.com/pub/taylorlore…

Labour MP did not say victims of grooming gangs should ‘shut their mouths’ fullfact.org/politics/naz-s… via Full Fact

The country is not a reality TV show with cliffhangers and teasers: Either tell people what has “shocked you to your core” or hold your tongue until you can. Anything else breeds suspicion, mistrust, and cynicism.

'President Donald Trump over the weekend called for the prosecution of music superstar Beyoncé – based on something that did not actually happen' Tremendous fact-checking work here: cnn.com/2025/07/27/pol…

This man is crazy, and dangerous poynter.org/commentary/202…

UK press are normalising Trump’s crackdown on civil rights Britain’s right-wing press are offering uncritical support for Trump’s immigration policies, even as they infringe on civil liberties and the rule of law uk.themedialeader.com/uk-press-are-n… via The Media Leader UK

Lies, lunacy and exaggerations: Reform’s response to the anti-refugee protests hopenothate.org.uk/2025/07/29/ref…

Liberal England: When Davey met Davie over BBC bias liberalengland.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-d…

Refugee in Yorkshire determined to practise medicine again refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informed/…

End Wokeness and Other Overseas X accounts that fuelled 2024 riots still targeting UK Muslims hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/end… via Hyphen

Isabel Oakeshott, Richard Tice and Ant Middleton are in Dubai. Kirstie Allsop is in Switzerland, Andrew Neil is in France and Tommy is in Tenerife. Is it time we closed our borders?

Correction: A crowd of the most unfuckable men ever born congregate in Manchester for a National Front rally.

We Need To Talk About Sloppers todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to-t…

'What connects us is our airwaves' A powerful reminder of the vital importance - and vulnerability - of analogue linear public-service radio cnn.com/2025/07/29/med…

Today in What The Fuck Could Possibly Go Wrong Here? News: Meta exec Anjali Kapoor is joining BBC News in a newly-created director role for AI, Innovation and Growth (yeah, because those are the three qualities driving good journalism ...) deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-ne…