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Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:58 pm, August 20th, 2026
I always 'think stuff up for myself' since being raised Catholic in the 70s. That provided me with a great bullshit detector. I also learned then to champion the underdog. And a science education taught me about the importance of evidence.Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:40 pm, August 20th, 2026
Here's a good discussion about the UK media ecosystem with 'Mic Wright to discuss his new book Breaking: How the media works, when it doesn't and why it matters'. Interviewed by Scotland's The National, a UK paper that still does proper journalism, he ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:42 pm, August 20th, 2026
"such good legal and policy decision-making"Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:24 pm, August 20th, 2026
Just face it VS, The Guardian has clearly been shown up to be one of the UK media mobbers. I understand your antipathy to the GLP, who support many different minority legal challenges, against all sorts of iniquitous UK legal rulings and policy. Including ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:29 am, August 20th, 2026
I won't bother to read it, because this is the same Guardian that put up more than 20 items on the topic after the tabloids set the narrative. This was despite the editor being approached beforehand with serious concerns. It's butt-covering. "where the ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:30 am, August 20th, 2026
Yes, GWS I feel as if you have missed out on decades of workplace training in our society, as we have refined our ideas around what constitutes respectful language in formal settings. Have you heard the term 'microaggressions', for example? The simplest ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 4:47 am, August 20th, 2026
Because I think you have completely misunderstood the issue as reported. This is not about being hauled into a police station to be red-flagged about your hateful language, as per UK, after calling a random a racist or sexist term. Its about individual ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 9:22 pm, August 19th, 2026
And GWS, your point is what? I'd point out that transphobia is no longer considered hate speech. That you can say you think trans people should suffer harm all you want. That Starmer, when PM, used the phrase 'island of strangers' to condone hardline anti- ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:15 pm, August 19th, 2026
This clip shows the fiery Ms Nixon protesting Florida redistricting in the legislature. https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mtfuc6q2vc23Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:59 pm, August 19th, 2026
Can't resist a bit of Florida gossip. 1. Bookending you, Trump's pick for Governor, a black republican, won their nomination decisively. 2. One of Governor de Santis's political sidekicks just got charged with sexual abuse of his young grandson. Under law ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 4:17 pm, August 19th, 2026
That $9k's been well-surpassed by McKenzie Council's $29k investigation. 'A heated conversation in the council reception and later in the chief executive’s office with two other staff members led to what Hocken described as "brushing past" one staff member ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:47 pm, August 19th, 2026
Bike lane annihilation is written as a target in the Project 2025 manifesto. Luxon probably sleeps with the manifesto under his pillow, and its pervaded his dreams. 'Within a few months of Trump taking office, the Department of Transportation issued a memo ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:19 pm, August 19th, 2026
The "before" reel of key politicians in Trump's administration. https://bsky.app/profile/jeffrudd.bsky.social/post/3mtc3vluhjk2cWritten By: tWig - Date published: 2:54 pm, August 19th, 2026
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RE: My reply there to you on $9k being spent by Gore Council on such a complaint. It also got munched. In fact, I retracted that statement to say: However, what is this apparent 'woke-gone mad' reporting hiding? There's another $13k under the same ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:50 pm, August 19th, 2026
Snap, spotted this too, but I have an add-on. https://thestandard.nz/open-mike-18-08-2026/#comment-2070271 Plus more on Cofnas and his motivations. https://thestandard.nz/open-mike-18-08-2026/#comment-2070288Written By: tWig - Date published: 12:20 pm, August 19th, 2026
The nobility of the whistleblower... 'In an interview with conservative media personality Rob Montz, posted to YouTube on the day Arday died, Cofnas admitted what happened to Arday was not really about plagiarism, which he noted is common in academia, but ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:36 am, August 19th, 2026
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vT1BwherWOU Don't know much about economics, but House of El's update on the US money market and Trump's international demands sets out just how much the US financial market is under strain. Given all the cray-cray demands ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:13 am, August 19th, 2026
By the way, Arday's research area included quantifying the disadvantages and institutional hurdles faced by women and minorities in academia and the education sector.Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:38 am, August 19th, 2026
Now the can of worms is opened regarding the facts of Arday's 'sins', I feel honour-bound to follow through. Bylines news co-op offers the best journalism the UK has these days. This article is the best-detailed and -fact checked of those covering ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:33 pm, August 18th, 2026
Good one, ta. Again, I wish heartily that those who live by the smear get a really big taste of it themselves.Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:01 pm, August 18th, 2026
In a nutshell for me, why the disparagement of 'identity politics' and 'identitarianism' is generally a mask for racist or sexist, or anti-"DEI" positions, is set out in the last sentence of the second paragraph in the quote below. "Importantly, identity ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:48 pm, August 18th, 2026
My comment builds on joe90's post at TS the other day https://thestandard.nz/open-mike-16-08-2026/#comment-2069983, on the number of UK press articles associated wirh Arday's death. I did not open this topic, but am continuing it. This mobbing is very ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:17 pm, August 18th, 2026
From a vigil service organised by Stand Up to Racism with 30,000 attendees in London: 'The statement referenced Arday’s work setting up mentoring schemes and mental health support for students and academics of colour. It said: “He worked tirelessly to ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:54 pm, August 18th, 2026
I'd add Prince Harry to that list targetted by the UK Press as an example too. I have a lot of sympathy for Harry and Megan, as people under immense and malevolent scrutiny, after reading 'Spare'.Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 18th, 2026
No denying Arday's fantacism. And neurodiversity. But he was also respected and liked by those with whom he worked. His PhD university defended him against the plagarism charge, and Cambridge provided legal support to suppress an article in Higher ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:15 pm, August 18th, 2026
No denying Arday's fantacism. And neurodiversity. But he was also respected and liked by those with whom he worked. His PhD university defended him against the plagarism charge, and Cambridge provided legal support to suppress an article in Higher ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:41 am, August 18th, 2026
Here are two racist shits shown dancing on the grave of Jason Arday, the black Cambridge professor. He killed himself the other day after a UK media pile-on that amplified (since discredited) rumours of plagarism about his PhD. They were first 'leaked' on ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 12:09 am, August 18th, 2026
There's a simple solution: clone Heather Simpson.Written By: tWig - Date published: 12:05 am, August 18th, 2026
He and Willis, and Keir Starmer and his austerity finance lady seemed to almost resonate in sync. Both leaders rigidly convinced they are right, in actuality, charisma-less sock puppets unaware of their powerlessness. With two Thatcherite finance ministers ...
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