Andy Willhorns

Attention scum teenagers: It’s time to stop eating avocado toast, being and having genders, and do your patriotic duty (get obliterated to a fine mist by weapons that might as well be fired from outer space in a new, somehow even dumber war)

#OtD 27 Oct 1942 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener was beheaded by the Nazis in Berlin for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Learn more about working class youth resistance to Nazism in Germany in our podcast episode 72: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

“There is no such thing as an Amol Rajan fan.” Brutal but true (and as usual, insightful af) by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Using “fascist-style” as a descriptor instead of just “fascist” is choosing to downplay them literal fascists

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

And... it's election day in Israel. Here is your reminder that if the Jewish politicians opposing Netanyahu were willing to work together with their Arab peers we wouldn't be wondering whether or not Netanyahu can be beaten. It would be clear that he could www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Further and higher education are in crisis. The government can no longer afford to look away. This Budget must deliver fair pay, sustainable funding and a future for post-16 education. Education is a public good. It’s time to treat it like one.

Have you been questioned or stopped while using a gendered space like a bathroom or changing room? Let us know using our new and improved reporting tool! form.typeform.com/to/pIqLFJBV

Hi all a new blog post reflecting on the UK intersex communities open letter, the report from the call for evidence and the UK governments responsibilities. journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/interse... Featuring myself, Fae Garland, David Griffiths and Charlotte Jones.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.

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Still in shock that George Osborne, of all people, apparently appointed a communist to be Governor of the Bank of England.

Under the guise of ‘impartiality’, right-wing forces are increasingly focused on restricting which topics and perspectives young people have access to www.wearequeeraf.com/forcing-impa...

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

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“The Free Speech Union (FSU) is reeling from internal grievances involving allegations of racism, workplace discrimination and sexually inappropriate remarks by senior members of staff.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“The Tories haven’t changed since the days of Section 28: to them, LGBTQIA+ identities are ‘political’, while straight and cis ones are not.” @sophieperryportfolio.com 

so they invent this mythical figure of the trans activist—very radical, very powerful, utterly illiberal—sepeperate from 'ordinary' trans people they're the ones who went too far, who provoked all of this, left sensible centrists like them no choice but to speak out

parts of it's money—their network & subscribers are in the 'anti-woke' side part, i think, it's psychological—people can't admit to themselves that, for the sake of a few more clicks, they eagerly joined the persecution of a vulnerable minority

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful.

So, the real question: will HBO (part of Skydance) still stream Alex Gibney's "Musk" documentary, now that Musk is an investor in Skydance...

If your first thought when you hear about a serious crime, like a murder or a rape, is 'what nationality was the offender' then don't pretend you're bothered about the victim.

Absolute genius, sums up perfectly the current state of academia in the UK. 👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #AcademicLife #HigherEducation #Research h/t Andy Sewell

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is a huge story by Al Jazeera that deserves way more UK news coverage.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

Plaid are finding governing hard; and Labour is finding opposition hard too. My piece for @walesgovernance.bsky.social blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...

The AI buildout “is so intense, so frenetic and so redundant” that it risks causing a major economic crash akin to the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.

This happened. Wolverhampton. On the grounds that the bullshit Supreme Court ruling apparently meant Joelle couldn’t be placed in either a male or female ward. I’m assuming your question is in good faith and you just haven’t seen this horrible recent news.

Losers: People who breathe. Winners: The economy!

The CDC defines the ability to correctly point to a bear in a book when being asked “Where is the bear?” as a key language/communication milestone for a 2-year old child.

Senedd Members called for action on coal tip safety ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster

"Harvard spent ~$210m on legal expenses in 2026, 10 times what it spent just a few years ago" UK university legal bills are soaring too, but costs remain shrouded in secrecy Staff & students pay the price Senior managers & lawyers feast on public funds www.facultyleaks.com/p/university...

The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.

Uprising in France: Five moments you may have missed Fires, curfews, far-right marches—and a slogan unwittingly coined by undercover police freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/21/u...

ICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community

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