Good piece by Giles Coren on Nando's and others deciding that, no, they don't want chickens to live OK lives after all www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Good piece by Giles Coren on Nando's and others deciding that, no, they don't want chickens to live OK lives after all www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
actually yes! We had a section on Saltaire in the piece but had to cut for wordcount sadly
Nearby Bradford, which Patrick Brontรซ visited often for church meetings, was a wealthy, fast-growing centre of textile manufacturing. Its decline reflects the hollowing-out of many postindustrial towns and cities in northern England over the 20th century.
Many people believe, incorrectly, that the Brontรซ siblings grew up in a remote, backward place.
But as Juliet Barker writes in โThe Brontรซs,โ Haworth was actually โa busy, industrial townshipโ with 13 small textile mills in the area when Patrick Brontรซ became curate in 1820.
As an English Lit graduate born in Bradford I couldn't resist sending our new chief U.K. correspondent @shearmds.bsky.social to gorgeous west Yorkshire, where the original Wuthering Heights was written, with our wonderful photographer Andrew Testa. Feast your eyes on this (gift article):
This is worth a read and highlights big questions about the structure of newsrooms and coverage. "Meanwhile the reporter working away on a benefit fraud or an eyewitness despatch about teachers in Birmingham being pressured not to talk about evolution can only deliver slowly, at greater expense..."
Very good Unhedged podcast on Venezuela and oil - with @jamiesmythft.bsky.social @robarmstrong.bsky.social @katie0martin.ft.com highly recommended podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...
Just a few more days left to apply for the Paul McLean graduate trainee programme at the FT. This is an amazing opportunity for any aspiring journalist job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
If you'd like a little break from the news, here's a happy story about bats (gift link ๐๐ฆ) via @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.
From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
I recommend reading the actual document in its entirety, especially to see the contrast between its approach to Europe and its policies in the Middle East, where it recommends "dropping Americaโs misguided experiment with hectoring these nations" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
The Trump administration's updated National Security Strategy is a really striking document that offers the clearest expression yet of what it is trying to do in Europe: "Cultivating resistance to Europeโs current trajectory within European nations" ๐
This is the Michael Prescott memo about BBC coverage (Telegraph).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
"On top of that, Iโd wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to three key people who themselves rejected journalism in order to enjoy lucrative careers in corporate and political communications."
This is worth a read:
Brogan Stewart liked to refer to himself as the โFรผhrerโ in his group chat with fellow neo-Nazis. At his home in Tingley, a swastika flag hung on his bedroom wall.
@lizziedearden.bsky.social reports from Sheffield where he went on trial with 2 co-conspirators (gift link)
"At one point, the police said at a news conference, they observed the men buying almost 1.5 milesโ worth of foil in Costco"
- is my favourite fact in @lizziedearden.bsky.social & @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social's story today. So much so I decided we'd make it a subheading
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
When Nigel Farage spoke to Congress on Sept. 3, it was thanks to the group that helped topple Roe v Wade.
Read more in this brilliant investigation by @bradleyjane.bsky.social and Elizabeth Dias: (gift link)
We found out theyโve been courting Reform since at least 2024, in an attempt to build their UK influence, and have brokered a string of meetings and briefings with Farage.
NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administrationย and Nigel Farageโs Reform UK.
Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.ย
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Been to the youngestโs harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like โthe apparatusโ.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.
โAll our tech businesses are turning awful,โ Doctorow writes... โAnd theyโre not dying. We remain trapped in their carcasses, unable to escape.โ
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you
As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester
I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism
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โค๏ธ this Q&A with the incredible Katrin Bennhold, host of a new global newsletter from @nytimes.com. She's German, lives in Wales & has reported from around the world, and she brings curiosity, empathy and humility to everything she does:
Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants Reform says mass deportation would save ยฃ234bn as it warns โBoriswaveโ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented ยฃ234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
A doctor who spoke with The New York Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday, as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher, reports @declanwalsh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/w...
Picture of graffiti Tax Evader Rayner
Graiffiti: Tax Evader
"Commentary *like this* about a deputy Prime Minister felt politically unsurvivable" - Chris Mason, BBC ten o'cฤฑock news.
This script over these pictures treats vandalism & criminal damage as a legitimate form of democratic voice. The BBC should avoid doing that, esp in broader current climate
Much of the current debate around speech, and the governmentโs response, misses the deeper issue: societyโs information systems have shifted. Epistemic judgements are now shaped by algorithmic visibility rather than through gatekeeping institutions.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...