Paul Pudney

Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

'Universities are central to the UK’s innovation ambitions, yet the way government measures and supports innovation often overlooks some of the fastest-growing areas of university-generated enterprise.'

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

🔬Two funded PhD studentships in my new lab at Warwick Chemistry! Build single-molecule optical tools and use spectroscopy + statistics to understand self-assembly in biophysical systems. One via MIBTP, one departmental. Details: jsbeckwith-lab.com/join-us.html Reposts appreciated, DMs open! #Chemsky

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

“Crime is spiralling out of control under Labour” says Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp. It’s a lie. According to the new Crime Survey: -violent crime DOWN -knife crime DOWN -robbery DOWN -overall crime DOWN -shoplifting DOWN Yet Tory/Reform liars say it’s surging…

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

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.

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

Are you a Labour MP (or office staff for same)? Have you been contacted by GB News & asked about my estimates of how (2024) constituencies voted in the EU referendum? Please remember: that was 10 years ago. Some people die, some turn eighteen—& most importantly, some change their mind!

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Elon Musk not only controls the satellite systems that the Ukrainian army - and other European armies - rely upon, he also controls the algorithms that govern a large swathe of the European information space. Europe needs to decouple from this clear and present threat to their security. My latest

A shout out to our friend @camposmello.bsky.social and her colleagues at Folha - who broke the stories about Meta’s throttling of Lula’s campaign in Brazil, and other critical stories about corruption. All this despite the impending threat to their own freedom to report .

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

High streets are an important part of modern Britain. It's where afternoon drinkers go to get interviewed by news reporters for their views about immigration.

A Democratic lawmaker sounded the alarm Friday over at least 18 rural Alaska polling places that were advertised online but hadn’t opened, all in villages the New York Times described as “key to Democratic hopes.”

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

So, Musk lied when he accused Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service. What a surprise. NOT.

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

The world is getting more of its electricity from renewables but less from nuclear power. If the world is to reduce its carbon emissions and tackle climate change, it needs to move away from fossil fuels to low-carbon power.

🔴 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...

This story is all about the Defence Industrial Joint Council, set up last year with Palantir on it At the council's first meeting, MoD's industrial strategy director Barney Kistruck said there would be an 'emphasis on procurement reform' Three months later, Kistruck left the MoD - for Palantir

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Great to see on the front of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun.* 'The no. of young people admitted to London hospitals after knife attacks is down 55% since Sadiq Khan launched a Violence Reduction Unit, with London falling faster than the rest of England.' *Joke www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/y...

I am beginning to think that “superpower suicide” understates the case.

Was listening to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social about the antivaxx movement, and how once vaccinations do their job people forget why we ever introduced them. The thought occurs there's a parallel with the infrastructure that gave us modern living standards.

New attribution study from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social supported by the @wwattribution.bsky.social team. 50.000 excess deaths across Europe during Summer 2026. 65% of the mortality burden is attributable to man-made climate change, ie our fossil emissions! www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

"He won't spend more on defense" You wouldn't know from any of the coverage that defence spending is now higher than at any point under the last Conservative government, and is due to continue rising every year under Burnham

'A Cambridge study found that of the 86 scientists named by UK exam boards, the English chemist [Rosalind Franklin], whose work in the 1950s helped reveal the structure of DNA, was the only woman.'

Some good news (from the National Crime Survey, h/t frasernelson.substack.com/p/lawless-br...)

First, have bank profits gone up? Various claims are made. But we've tried to compare like-with-like. UK profits only. Real terms (after inflation). And yes they have. About 25% in the last ten years.

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

I'm quoted in this. I'm very worried about the damage being done to excellent research teams in universities that are suffering financial distress (which is most of them). The bureaucratic mess of cross subsidy is ineffective, makes strategy impossible and accountability unclear.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Is net zero the main reason electricity bills have risen? No, it's still rising gas costs. We ran the numbers on how energy bills have changed in real terms in the last 6 years for Carbon Brief... www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-exp...

Not just militaries: anything important. Trains. Hospitals and GP surgeries. Digital public services of any kind.

🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 PM: "Have they had the time to read the COVID inquiry report yesterday about the appalling state of social care as it went into the pandemic, the hundreds of thousands of British people who suffered as a result of that, the lives that were lost." "I need no lectures."

❗Deadline for application extended to the 2nd of November 2026! There is still time to apply. @ukbiofilms.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social

Also found it a bit odd, when listening to the 6PM news on BBC Radio 4, that they repeatedly referred to 'the government' rather than, say, 'the Johnson government'. #Accountability

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Musk is a traitor. Nobody should be using his website.

Musk lied, people died — again.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Can't help thinking if this was a car factory, a gas field or even a data centre it would be seen as a much bigger story. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537511...

Nonsense from Trump. No immigrants were involved. The ultra left who attacked police and public buildings are almost all white French. The looters who exploited the chaos were very young kids from the poor suburbs, brown and black in many cases but almost certainly French