Ali Messer

Attitudes in 2026 to free movement, to secure single market membership General public: 48-30 support (+18) Labour: 67-20 support (+47) LibDems: 65-21 support (+44) Green 64-20 support (+44) Conservatives 47-40 support (+7) (!) Reform: 39-46 opposed (-7) @britishfuture.bsky.social June 2026

Putin: “Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the US in the Arctic.” Just a reminder of Trump’s lies that he wanted Greenland to keep Russia out of the Arctic.

“This government cannot cherry-pick the bits of universities it likes, championing research and innovation on the one hand while pursuing policies that further destabilise university finances on the other,”..[Diana Beech] told RPN. “

Followers will know I'm far from an uncritical Andy Burnham or Labour fan. But as Prime Minister of an actual government, with a huge majority, I'd say he has more of a mandate than a part-time MP leading a bunch of racist malcontents forever falling out with each other! Wouldn't you?

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

This is objectively very very funny

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

There’s a lesson here for other parties around the world.

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There’s a photographer, Chris Porsz who did this for Peterborough too, some of my favourite pictures from where I grew up!

You can go see the exhibition at the Harris in Preston theharris.org.uk/product/alte...

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Netanyahu is sounding utterly desperate today. He's posting non-stop about high Arab voting turnout to create hysteria and fear. He also released a video statement claiming "They are trying to steal the election from us!" Arab Israelis make up 21% of the Israeli electorate.

Feeling that, by 2027, you might have heard enough about the Normans? This exhibition looks amazing and so timely after all the Bayeux Tapestry buzz. An opportunity to rediscover the rich and fascinating culture of early medieval England.

Completely understand why Prospect, Brian Cox, John Krebs and Steve Rotherham are campaigning with an STFC focus. But you could replace 'STFC' with 'UK universities' or 'UK HE research' for all these claims about skills losses. STFC is the tip of an iceberg, not the iceberg itself.

Not beating the "BBC RW bias" allegations

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

It’s no longer possible for Britain to wash its hands of its crime against humanity, to deflect to others, to trivialise & to disavow. If it wants some moral influence in the world, an apology, a TRC & meaningful negotiation of e.g. debt relief is now necessary. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

I don't understand why anyone thinks people want this awful AI slop. It's the same with companies using 'digital assistants' that never give you what you need. AI is making our lives worse in so many increasingly obvious ways.

Fellow archaeologists out there can we have a conversation about the use of AI in the materials we produce for the public. I know that a lot of us are increasingly frustrated by the use of AI in media and all the awful stereotypes that we have spent decades trying to challenge creeping back in

'Now entering its 21st week and with no end in sight, the current strike involving University and College Union (UCU) staff is the longest in living memory in British higher education, originating from a staff marking boycott in April over proposed job cuts.'

That perpetrating rape is not an impediment to power, in fact, people will reward you with even more power. I am filled with white hot rage.

'The Guardian has shown there is little realism behind announced plans to power these developments, and claims that they will use purpose-built renewables. In fact, different government departments appear to diverge on ... their environmental cost' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." Very Special Episode of no amnesty

it feels truly insane that it’s not

They forgot to mention that everyone whose publications were "used without permission" for training data is also "a part of that effort". We're all just one big, happy family!

'In a 2026 paper, Oliver Irvine and I explored how support for stammering in higher education remains poorly communicated and inconsistently implemented.'

R. I. P. Walter Koenig www.startrek.com/news/best-of...

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.

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Don't forget to sign up for "The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Caribbean" if you're keen to join the friendly & welcoming London Group of Historical Geographers in person or online for this Tuesday's Institute of Historical Research seminar.

“Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” 💯

Rupert Lowe MP was asking some surprisingly insightful questions about connection delays at last week's DESNZ committee meeting on the national grid. Then I realised he had declared a major interest in a battery storage development firm

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These superb essays indicate where the heritage sector stands - as a battleground in a right wing culture war backlash against Black lives mattering - but also document how it carries on truth-telling nonetheless. Writing the foreword was cathartic. www.routledge.com/Britains-Con...

💯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.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Solar is booming.

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