Ian Dunt

Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.

This is CNN, a channel I really enjoy when I'm in the US. I wonder if American journalists are aware of how completely insane they look to the rest of the world. How utterly detached their narrative is from everyone else's. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Interesting. It's almost as if focused outrage and the conscious maintenance of social norms works.

This year's Batman annual still remembers who the heroes and villains are, even if everyone else has forgotten

Robinson, Musk and Badenoch are all part of an industry of grievance, a machine designed to spread hate which now operates across the British right – from respectable print outlets to wild-eyed online fascists inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

This was so witty and human. What an absolute hero. open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

This was joyous. Just a mad ray of sunshine in an otherwise desolate landscape

This, from the leader of the opposition, seems like a pretty clear case of contempt of court to me

Really important piece

He's very right about this obvs

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.