Reposted by Ben StewartAlex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026On the scale of actions I've become used to through academic union contract enforcement, Arday's actions barely register in terms of harm caused. Rarely, our cases receive one (1) national news story. I can think of one case that received more than 3-5 articles*. None received 200+ articles. 220440
Reposted by Ben StewartPaul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There is a difference between scrutiny and entertainment. Jason Arday’s career posed questions, but they shouldn’t have become obsessional. Journalism should seek truth, but not public humiliation. 701021150
Reposted by Ben StewartKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455942065
Reposted by Ben StewartJay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 12/06/2026At the Nevill Holt festival in the grounds of the house owned by David Ross (co-founder of car phone warehouse), and look what I’ve found. Great plan, just a stupid way of advertising it. 2817629
Reposted by Ben StewartPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026How is this any better than Russia advertising building developments on the rubble of Mariupol? Keir Starmer Urged to Stop London Event ‘Promoting Land Grab’ in Occupied Palestine – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/k...bylinetimes.comKeir Starmer Urged to Stop London Event ‘Promoting Land Grab’ in Occupied PalestineHuman rights groups urge ministers to shut down 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event', promoting sales in illegally occupied West Bank settlements 715968
Reposted by Ben StewartSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force. 19343331513
Reposted by Ben StewartJon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I have questions. 471148170
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026The horror at what is being done to Palestinians comes from the same place as the horror at what is being done, yet again, to Jews. Does the government really want us to stop standing in solidarity with the victims of atrocities? If so, it will make the country less safe for everyone. 181448185
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026All of us have a duty to fight antisemitism wherever we see it, and confront anyone expressing antisemitic sentiments. If people in any movement express such sentiments, they should immediately be expelled, as many have already been. No excuses, no hesitation. 91137110
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Jews are not collectively responsible for Israeli government policy. People demonstrating peacefully for Palestine are not collectively responsible for the attacks on British Jews. Collective punishment for other people's crimes is not justice. 141936322
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5 8264381782
Reposted by Ben StewartMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026“It is understandable that some progressives, who are rightly eager to end America’s support for Israel’s human rights abuses, might be tempted to see figures like Mr. Carlson as allies. But the struggle for Palestinian freedom should not indulge bigotry of any kind.” - Peter Beinartnytimes.comOpinion | What Tucker Carlson Means When He Talks About Israel 32720121
Reposted by Ben StewartLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 28/04/2026Take a look at a State Dept design for new American passports. Banana republic stuff. Genuinely tragic to see. 114898246
Reposted by Ben StewartJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026If you’re going to complain that the call “From the river to the sea…” is a call for Israeli Jewish genocide because it means one state only, which is Hillel’s position, you should maybe not depict the state of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as one single state, either. 1151999
Reposted by Ben StewartHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21/04/2026Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today 34967422
Reposted by Ben StewartMohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 19/04/2026This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon 5216051037
Reposted by Ben StewartJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/04/2026useful reminder from Private Eye 8444141
Reposted by Ben StewartSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 31/03/2026OOPS! GB News owner Paul Marshall tried to rebut Christian leaders, who criticised his channel's dodgy climate coverage…but in the process he made 25 dodgy claims of his own 🫠 Impressively, he packed the 25 dodgy claims into just 340 words 👏 Receipts: docs.google.com/docu... 9442145
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵 1101881785
Reposted by Ben StewartMarina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 16/03/2026A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful. 581016464
Ben Stewart @benstewart999.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org 100
Reposted by Ben StewartTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I mean it appears to be a lost battle but literally every credible source says that the Iranian regime was surprised by October 7th, so how the fuck they “masterminded” the attack is beyond me 48312
Reposted by Ben StewartGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/01/2026When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit. 1501747337
Reposted by Ben StewartJames Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Graham's all about 'protecting women' 50805147
Reposted by Ben StewartMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/12/2025🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself. 47081773863
Reposted by Ben StewartSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Just got back from buying Hanukkah doughnuts to read about the Bondi Beach attacks. Numbing. 1444310
Reposted by Ben StewartJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this. 351173189
Reposted by Ben StewartRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Neil is a big believer in free markets where reducing trade barriers & red tape improves prosperity. But here he is saying that *raising* trade barriers & red tape has no effect. So why believe in free markets if there's no difference with constrained markets? The libertarian Brexiter's paradox. 55510
Reposted by Ben StewartPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025OMG we only went and bloody won!! 🎉🎉 In barely two years Democracy for Sale has gone from nothing to winning a British journalism award Am absolutely blown away!! Thanks to everyone who reads D4S and supports us. Couldn’t do it without you all 😊 661313193
Reposted by Ben StewartPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Now 20k views on our video and counting 18244
Reposted by Ben StewartDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/12/2025In which the columnist's "I reckon" collides with the reporter's actual facts 47418
Reposted by Ben StewartDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I'll never tire of reposting this headline 1412024
Reposted by Ben StewartNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025If you want British Jews who are pro-Palestine and anti-Occupation, Naamod is right there I know a lot of fellow Jews personally who set up and/or organise with Naamod and they are very much part of the community and are very much not extremists naamod.org.uk @naamoduk.bsky.socialnaamod.org.ukHome - Na'amodWe are British Jews seeking to end our community’s support for the occupation in the struggle for freedom and justice for all Palestinians and Israelis 14410
Reposted by Ben StewartGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10/09/2025The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form. 2045183232909
Reposted by Ben StewartJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/09/2025if you want to observe LIz Truss being intellectually owned, this is worth your time via @tobyn.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/30e5...ft.comLiz explains the coupAn Odd Lot 811634
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do. 641305333
Reposted by Ben StewartDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness. 801636303
Reposted by Ben StewartMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them. 24196773027
Reposted by Ben StewartRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Good piece from the editor-in-chief of @businessgreen.bsky.social. It's odd how little environmental policy (whether good or bad) has featured in assessments of Labour's first year. If we're serious about making climate a major issue, we can't then ignore it when assessing the government's record. 38526
Reposted by Ben StewartArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/07/2025500 killed trying to get aid. The system is set up to make that a likely outcome. 23016
Reposted by Ben StewartGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Every day a new atrocity in #Gaza. And still the UK supplies lethal weaponry to the Israeli government. There is a term for this: complicity in genocide. 291013319
Reposted by Ben StewartTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw. 0469
Reposted by Ben StewartThomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The decline of UK political discourse in a nutshell. 640178
Reposted by Ben StewartJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/03/2025bravo for the Mail which gets that this isn’t left v right, it’s an existential moment for all true western values 2856449