Jonathan Kingham

Self-interested Q is whether UK govt will simultaneously announce any compensatory scheme to UK HEIs: guessing not, but budget will give some pointers about overall finances and intentions

Long expected concession on HE fees from UK, which might put youth mobility back on agenda for EU-UK summit next month www.thetimes.com/article/1b33...

sorry to ruin your fun but his whole stoner nice guy routine is an act. Scooby's not even his real name, it's Gideon, and the only reason he can doss about in a mystery van is because his family, the D'Oubay-Doux, made a fortune in the East India Company in the 1700s. educate yourself.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

This is objectively very very funny

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

"its [brexit] weakened our control of immigration" even in rejecting it's consequnces, we still affirm nativism's premises

French police sees children walking mere meters away, casually throws teargas right at the children. If you wanna understand why so many people hate the police x.com/tartarle/sta...

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

The National Theatre on the South Bank was opened OTD 50 years ago. Designed by Denys Lasdun with three separate theatre spaces, the building is constructed of board marked, reinforced concrete. Read more about this uncompromising building here buff.ly/24tsr6m

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

The BBC’s constant tendency to play down or ignore the true nature of the far right is a major contributor to its growth

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam opened up a Cheesecake Factory" Obama just spoke to an ELECTRIC audience in Ohio, skewering Trump & Hegseth and making the case that while we may be stuck with the same POTUS until 2029, we are not stuck with a spineless do-nothing Congress Highlights:

Barack Obama did not hold back today. “He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory."

New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff

I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @financialtimes.com including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/3b05eac8-c...

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

As in, corruption and treason of the highest order

Feel like dumping a whole load of charts from @ourworldindata.org here.

James Orr, former head of policy at Reform, steps back from his management roles at Cambridge University after “media scrutiny” — new from @financialtimes.com FREE for first 300 readers as.ft.com/r/48a445fd-6...

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

One. Bad. Apple.

"The Home Office has identified a new problem with migrant care workers. The people presented as a burden on Britain because they earn too little have become so indispensable that they must be prevented from finding a better or higher-paid job." ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's going to be a lot of this kind of shit in the next month and it's all going to fail, like all their Jan 6th court cases. Just shows how desperate they are.

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

Have now written about this at greater length ukandeu.ac.uk/unaffordable...

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

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Our Legal Director, Zoe Bantleman, gave evidence to Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Immigration & Asylum Bill. Weakening the right to family life could lead to more children being separated from their parents or forced out of their country of birth, she warned.

When immigration rules get tougher, British citizens pay the price too. On @lbc.co.uk, our Head of Policy Matteo Besana explains how earned settlement would hit British families, tax migrants twice and make a care worker’s child wait 15 years while a banker’s child waits 3.

Is that the veteran revolutionary socialist and queen of ideas Claire Fox at the end of the sofa champing at the bit to back up Andrew Mitchell?

The European Commission has asked member states to wait until after the November summit to pursue lower tuition fees for EU students at UK universities, according to the FT. Instead, the UK would be asked to commit to reaching an agreement on fees within six months. www.ft.com/content/4777...

Labour seem unable to learn that in some situations there is a right side and a wrong side. Sometimes a compromise is entirely inappropriate. There’s no balance to be found between racists and non-racists. No balance between climate change deniers and reality.

It had its issues before, but The Times under Gallagher has become a deeply bigoted publication It's bad for the public discourse, but also bad for the publication itself: talented reporters and journalists have their ethics and credibility undermined by this poison

We all know it doesn’t really mean you or your partner though, don’t we

In case anyone else wonders, this isn’t some bananas columnist, it’s the official Times editorial view. The official, racist, xenophobic, hatred-inciting, Times editorial view.