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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 7d

This article cost thousands of pounds to clear and months of time to report, and gave voice to a number of victims who had been hitherto ignored. We are a tiny publication with just one full-time member of staff. If you'd like to support us, please subscribe today.

www.the-fence.com/shop

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 7d

Last year, @thefence.bsky.social published the only in-depth piece on new Archbishop Sarah Mullally's time as Bishop of London.

On the man who stole £5million from the diocese before making lurid allegations against fellow clerics - some with fatal consequences.

www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...

In the Shadow of St Paul’s

A taste for the finer things in life.

www.the-fence.com

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Sarcophagus Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 8d

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 10d

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11d

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 11d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 11d

Begging people to educate themselves on Neuteri Karta, absolutely wild the Observer has used this photo

These people are not friends of the Palestinians, they are extremists

Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social · 12d

“The battle against antisemitism has become as much about policing speech as about protecting Jews.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Reframing criticism of Israel as antisemitism fails Jews ...

The sense of what defines anti-Jewish bigotry has changed radically since the 70s

observer.co.uk

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 14d

this is really great

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 15d

very fun "work" to share - i got to talk to the inimitable Cécile McLorin Salvant for the Big Ears Podcast and she was just the coolest and kindest as you would hope podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Podcast Episode · Big Ears: Conversations About Music · 09/25/2025 · 59m

podcasts.apple.com

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 14d

guardian football writers gonna have a field day with this

Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 14d

massive

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15d

Huh - I really was not expecting Haaland's taste in both modern and canonical classical music to be this good.

Beats Solo 4 | Erling Haaland on Apple Music

Playlist · 25 Songs

music.apple.com

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 15d

v excited to listen to this

Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 15d

hell yeah

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 16d

yeah this is really bad

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17d

I have to acknowledge that this by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social does an excellent job of proving its own point, by being appallingly badly researched (mostly random and inaccurate/misleading snippets from X, I think).

I blame the Times more than Oxford, though.

archive.ph/kYfps

Universities are failing in their most basic functions
Our institutions should be the last redoubts of intelligence — instead they dumb down, silence debate and stifle academic

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 16d

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 16d

Hello Jonathan. Former Times night editor here.
Yes, there appears to be no interest or effort made anymore to fact-check columnists or for that matter news and features. It's not the subs, it's political. The Times has not been a newspaper for some time.
Murdoch gained editorial control in 2022.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 16d

Remember @andrewmale.bsky.social explaining the star system they used at Mojo.

* Awful for everyone
** Disappointing for fans
*** Fans will like it
**** Non fans will like this one
***** Career-best work, remarkable

Most things will therefore get three stars in a sane world.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17d

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point

How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20d

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

A paragraph that patronisingly describes what a party conference is.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21d

Those curious can read Ian’s piece here:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno

At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 22d

wrote a column about the vuelta protests, the india v pakistan stand-off, and how the sporting battlefield has increasingly come to resemble the real thing

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Vuelta chaos shows selling sport as a tool for peace can create its own battlefield | Jonathan Liew

Once teams promote a country, are owned by states or have to reflect government policy, sport becomes a playground for power

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22d

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22d

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 23d

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23d

Now that the UN commission has confirmed what we have all been able to see perfectly clearly for the past two years, I just want to say that one of the most reprehensible denial arguments I heard again and again was "if Israel was intent on committing genocide, there would be no Palestinians left"

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Hugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 23d

"the words are Hitler's, but"

Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 23d

“Words are not violence”

- proceeds to quote Hitler’s words

Jk Rowling quoting Hitler for a second time and comparing him to trans people - one of the groups of people he and the Nazis specifically targeted

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