Senior Lecturer in Media. Research/teach gender & media & political communication. @DigiPolCentre She/Her
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Yesterday we launched our SaferPolitics toolkit and training resources which are designed to support politicians and their staff with online safety based on research by @rv_southern & I. Find out more 👇
saferpolitics.org
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When the Guardian went on strike to protest the Observer sale, I became a de facto spokesperson. Later a Tortoise employee I’d never met wrote to me to cancel my 20-year contract. No goodbye & no pay-off. This is how they now take credit for my work..but write me out of the story
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Nottingham was 6th for modern languages in the 2021 REF and is the only university in East Midlands providing language courses. The closure of an objectively brilliant department by a Russell Group university raises questions about the 2015 decision to uncap student numbers and leave UK HE provision entirely to market forces timeshighereducation.com/new…
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This morning at 7:30am, a group of men dressed in black, their faces covered by balaclavas, gathered around the Limekiln roundabout in Dover.
The men, members of the anti-migrant vigilante group Patriot Platform, proceeded to block the port of Dover and several roads nearby.
Our briefing:
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/0…
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You only have 2 weeks left to register to vote in the 7 May elections.
Register by 11:59pm on Monday 20 April. ⬇️
gov.uk/register-to-vote
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🔴 Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP
The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/r…
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has found more journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than any year since its records began 30 years ago (2024 was the previous record). Israel was responsible for two-thirds of deaths in both years cpj.org/special-reports/reco…
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Quick one @GoodwinMJ because I know you’re big on law and order: why are you sending out fake letters that pretend to be from a local woman but are printed by the London printers used by @reformparty_uk? They make no mention of being produced by your campaign, which is illegal.
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NEW: The Mandelson-Epstein scandal is also the Mandelson-Palantir scandal.
MP @alexburghart asks why Keir Starmer’s visit to Palantir’s office in Washington - arranged by Mandelson while his firm repped Palantir - was kept off books.
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Unbelievable that a man who spent US$75m on a film no-one wants to see about Melania Trump has just fired almost all the foreign correspondents on the newspaper he owns. You might think nothing was happening in this world. @JeffBezos @washingtonpost #SaveThePost
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I was in court for Nathan Gill’s sentencing, I’ve done 2 deep dives on his handler’s network, @thenerve_news has published the only comprehensive timeline & I’m in my 9th year of covering topic.
I haven’t been invited on @BBCNews but I do try & explain it here to @novaramedia
The Gill case is not an isolated incident. Far from it.
As @carolecadwalla explains on Novara Media, the network exposed in court reaches far beyond one man - and that should alarm all of us.
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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Nathan Gill, then a Brexit Party MEP, was paid to make pro-Russian media appearances and statements in the European Parliament
He organised a presentation on a Ukraine "peace plan" written by a politician who met Putin and praised the event the next day
nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world…
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BREAKING: Curtis Yarvin - anti-Black racist adored by Trump’s VP JD Vance & funder Peter Thiel - is being showcased at @HTLGIFestival this weekend, interviewed by Labour’s @campbellclaret. Why give him a loudspeaker? /1
🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨
The beginning of a new Byline Times Investigation - more very soon
🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour 🔴
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p…
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We have a new (open access) book out entitled 'Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy' with Maria Kyriakidou at @CardiffJomec @cardiffuni @: Thread with key features: 1/7 edinburghuniversitypress.com…
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Concerns about the far right should also be about mainstream politicians & media as they have played a key part in making the far right the threat it is today despite pretending to be bulwarks
You can't defeat the far right without changing a system that uses it as a distraction
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"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine.
It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.
Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine."
- @UNReliefChief
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A woman who tweeted this is being made a cause célèbre by sections of the mainstream press. We're in very dark and dangerous times
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More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined
