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Jonathan McHugh

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Editorial illustrator, mostly. Financial Times. New Statesman...

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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners
Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The most fundamental question in politics is: whose support do you need to win and hold power? Is it warlords, aristocrats, empires or "the demos"? If the answer is "billionaires", you are not a democracy but a plutocracy. That's why democracies *must* erect barricades against capture by the rich
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Trillion Dollar Bribe JonathanPie.com youtube.com/watch?v=5Arr...
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The Trillion Dollor Bribe
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
Martin Rowson on Trump and the consequences of the climate crisis – cartoon
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Martin Rowson on Trump and the consequences of the climate crisis – cartoon
Experts say unusual heat this year has melted the ice that holds Himalayan glaciers in place – which is thought to have led to the floods in Nepal and Tibet
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
love them or loathe them, there's one thing you can't deny about the Argentinian football team: they're a bunch of cunts
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Anti-fash counter-protests outnumber fash marches all the time and it would be cool if the press made a big deal about it.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Donald Trump just stole $1.7B from us — and he's creating a slush fund to reward his political allies. I've never seen anything like this in my 50 years in politics. It makes Nixon look like a boy scout. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/t...
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U.S. creates $1.7B 'lawfare' fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit
Trump sued the IRS in late January over the leak of his tax information by an IRS employee Charles
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org · 18/05/2026
On the SLAPP trap, legal intimidation, and our alumnus Cormac Kehoe: great piece by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Jenna Corderoy in the New Statesman www.newstatesman.com/investigatio...
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The Slapp trap
As media lawyers battle to keep Britain’s libel industry lucrative, hopes for reform are fading
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Why do we still have oppressive defamation laws? Because of highly effective lobbying by a handful of libel lawyers, and a Government that broke its promise to act. Important investigation from Peter Geoghegan and Jenna Corderoy: www.newstatesman.com/investigatio...
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The Slapp trap
As media lawyers battle to keep Britain’s libel industry lucrative, hopes for reform are fading
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/05/2026
World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor
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World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor
Editor-in-chief of Wall Street Journal says those with deep pockets launching legal challenges as a PR strategy Powerful figures are increasingly suing media outlets before they have even published a story, the editor of the Wall Street Journal has said. Emma Tucker, whose title is being sued by Donald Trump over its reporting of his relationship with the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said the act of reporting itself was now under threat from the use of “lawfare”. Continue reading...
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
We are quite literally in the last few days where an immediate reopening can stop the pain, and even then the pain will be material as all these inventories especially seaborne almost mechanically have to rebuild and people will pay a risk premium for that.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/04/2026
‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right
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‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right
It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Nigel Farage earns over a million pounds a year. Still claims £160,900 in expenses (benefits) Moans about people abusing benefits. But not himself, of course.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Trump comparing himself to Jesus while Vance tries to lecture the actual Pope on matters theological proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘Christian’ element of their support is, morally & doctrinally, about as Christian as a hula hoop. Their conduct is literally unconscionable.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.
The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Weird war, where the winner gets skyrocketing gas prices, inflation and market crashes while the loser gets control over 20% of global oil flow.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/04/2026
Royal balm will not rescue the Anglo-American relationship ft.trib.al/MIq3eaq | opinion
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Royal balm will not rescue the Anglo-American relationship
The King’s upcoming visit to the court of Donald Trump has too much riding on it
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump is calling for a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of this spending will go to private contractors, many of whom routinely price-gouge the government. Reminder that Don Jr. and Eric Trump are big investors in drone companies looking to obtain defense contracts. See the problem?
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Tony Benn would have been 101 today. His "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Russia and Iran are allies. Trump started a war and the price of oil shot up. Trump then eased sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil. Russia is now able to finance its spring offensive against Ukraine. The United States is isolated. Trump served Putin well.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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James Mellor @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pleased to have a couple of cartoons in the new edition of Private Eye. Here's my attempt to bring world peace from the previous issue.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 03/03/2026
“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”. Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US... But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.
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Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I’m teaching a class on lobbying for future policymakers on Monday. Hard to do better than this sensational oped from @nickmacpherson.bsky.social about money in UK politics and the transition from big banks to big tech—but the song remains the same. And the loser is public trust in government.
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Maeve Walsh @maevewalsh.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
💯 this from @nickmacpherson.bsky.social
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Theia Chatelle's amazing photograph of Greg Ketter, owner of DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis...emerging from a cloud of tear gas. Signed there a couple of times, great SF/Fantasy bookstore.
Seventy-year old man with white beard in dark wool hat and dark glove walks from the right out of a concentrated cloud of smoke, with a stark bare branch young tree in front of him and two red decorative pavement markers to either side.
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Britain's place in the post-American world. My thoughts in the FT www.ft.com/content/6956...
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Starmer’s dilemma: America or Europe?
Trump has laid waste to the Atlantic alliance — the Greenland crisis shows what needs to be done
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief
Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Watching people defect from the Conservatives to Reform is like watching rats leave a sinking ship and forming a raft by mushing together round a buoyant rotting turd. Anyway, good luck to Suella Braverman there.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
John Gray - “Trump has not only shattered free trade. He has made American capitalism into a dirigiste enterprise ruled by himself & his friends. He is undermining the dollar. As a functioning system, neoliberalism remains semi-intact only in the European Union” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
John Gray: We are living through regime change
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Life after the West
The old, postwar world is being dismantled by its American overlord
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Wanderscotwild @wanderscotwild.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Russia created the massive flow of migrants from Syria pre-2016, in order to flood the EU, while Farage told naive Brits, that the only way to stop them, was to leave the EU And now the UK is f*cked
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 09/01/2026
SHOCK CELL PHONE VIDEO: Renee Good's final words to her murderer: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” ICE agent Jonathan Ross after shooting and killing her seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.” Via Alpha News
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