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Josh White

@jtwhitenoise.bsky.social
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Journalist. Author of Goodbye United Kingdom. Specialties: international tax policy, UK politics, media criticism.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
After Arday resigned from Cambridge and said he could take no more, the press wrote another 188 articles about him newscord.org/editorials/j...
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼
Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake
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The Battleground @battlegroundeu.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Byline Times has developed a prefigurative model for centre-left journalism outside the traditional press and its illusions. Josh White, on the ever more relevant politics magazine, and the state of British media today.
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Britain's New Centre-Left Journalism
The Byline Times Experience
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Byline Times has developed a prefigurative model for centre-left journalism outside the traditional press and its illusions. Josh White, on the ever more relevant politics magazine, and the state of British media today.
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Britain's New Centre-Left Journalism
The Byline Times Experience
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If we were to list the guilty leaders of the Tory years, Liz Truss would be near the top, along with Boris Johnson, despite her brief tenure. Josh White, on Truss’s rebranding as a far-right podcaster and why no one should forget her disastrous premiership.
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National Populist Makeover
The Undead Liz Truss
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It’s almost two years into the first Labour government elected since 2007, and we’ve witnessed a massive collapse in support for Starmer. The Tories’ well-earned defeat might end up being a soft version of the fate awaiting Labour.  Josh White, from his brand new Battleground book, Tories Are Dead.
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The End for Starmer
Introduction, Tories Are Dead
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The Battleground is proud to announce the publication of Josh White's Tories Are Dead: 2024 UK Election Diary. Reviewers, get in touch. Battleground eBooks are distributed worldwide by London's Faber Factory. Get your copy from Apple Books.
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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
No surprises, surely? Candidate is arrogant charmless TV presenter & hates everything: lose. Campaign is entitled technocracy + smearing left-liberalism: lose. Candidate is local & can make OK speech about how a good job should lead to a good life: win. Normal politics is trying to be born.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
EU Tax Policy To Watch in 2026 www.law360.co.uk/tax-authorit... #cbam #public #cbcr #taxavoidance
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European Tax Policy To Watch In 2026 - Law360 Tax Authority
The European Union may have to take a more independent line on international tax in 2026 as it tackles policies such as the minimum corporate tax, but its success will likely depend on how it deals wi...
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'll be posting much more on here from now on!
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The Telegraph has focused so relentlessly on combating Antisemitism that it is making the problem worse. Josh White, on the UK's most respected right-wing newspaper, and how it's capitalising on racism. The third article in a series for his forthcoming Battleground book on British media.
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Failing British Jews
The Telegraph on Antisemitism
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
How is it that you had your self-awareness surgically removed?
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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
On Twitter I once had a long conversation with an American about Smethwick in Birmingham being a "no-go zone for whites". He was insistent, despite the fact that I lived in Smethwick and he'd never set foot on the same continent.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 09/06/2025
As the Tories promise to review the UK’s commitment to the ECHR, lawyer @davidallengreen.bsky.social says, “Oh no, not again!” www.prospectmagazine...
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The ECHR needs practical reform
Conservatives who say the UK should withdraw from the ECHR have the wrong solution to a political problem
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 20/05/2025
To be clear this is a proposition by the insanely corrupt and broken EHRC. It's not law, it's not guidance, it would lose in court. Don't panic, don't do it
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What Novara has achieved without corporate backing is a testament to technological change and the decline of traditional news. It’s a millennial left response to status quo media, made possible by YouTube and other platforms. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, for @battlegroundeu.bsky.social .
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Leftist Success Story
The Case of Novara
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Todd Buell @toddbuell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If you're interested in Pope Francis's legacy when it comes to tax policy, I recommend this piece by my Law360 colleague @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social
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Pope Francis Leaves Behind Tax Justice Legacy - Law360 Tax Authority
Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, helped advance calls for tax justice by speaking out against the social costs of tax avoidance and raised awareness of the need for tax reform, according to pr...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social I want you to explain to me why I should suddenly turn my life upsidedown and stop using public spaces - that I need for work and participating in public life - when I've used them every day for the last 10 years. Have you ever even spoken to a trans person before?
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Something to watch.
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Todd Buell @toddbuell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Germany Forms New Gov't With Plans To Cut Corporate Taxes www.law360.com/tax-authorit... @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social
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Germany Forms New Gov't With Plans To Cut Corporate Taxes - Law360 Tax Authority
German political parties the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats reached a coalition government agreement, including terms for corporate tax cuts and support for the global minimum corporate ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A narrative is recited almost everywhere: that Rachel Reeves is being "forced" to cut benefits, and is faced with "hard choices" or "no choice". This story, a staple of neoliberal doctrine, is completely false, as @richardjmurphy.bsky.social explains: www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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Is Rachel Reeves constrained by the City?
Is the City really stopping Rachel Reeves from doing what Labour wants, or is she just using it as a convenient excuse for her neoliberal austerity? This is the audio version: This is the transc...
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The Battleground @battlegroundeu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"Even the interviews with the far-right were Hussain’s attempt to de-mystify the men and women who demonised his community. Perhaps this endeavour revealed more about those individuals than 5Pillars." @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social thebattleground.eu/2025/02/24/n...
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News for British Muslims
5Pillars and the Far Right
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The Battleground @battlegroundeu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Britain is more broken than ever. Josh White, on the rise of Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK party and how a negligent, neoliberal Labour government opened the door for them. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social thebattleground.eu/podcast/nati...
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Nationalism is Back
The New British Right
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Life is a series of disappointments.
Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice
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Chris Prosser @caprosser.com · 27/01/2025
We've asked the 'Strong Leader' question eight times in the British Election Study Internet panel since 2016. Not only is the % of Gen Z supporting dictators much lower than reported by the Times (13% in 2024 vs 52%). Gen Z are the *least* likely generation to support a strong leader.
Line plot showing percent agreeing that the best way to run the country would be to have a strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament or elections. The data show that Gen Z are the least likely to agree with the statement.
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Shannon Drake 🌒🌕🌘🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @shannondrake.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Welcome to Hearing Aid, the new Battleground column dedicated to field recording and found political sounds. Every fortnight, I'll explore new ways of using original audio in political commentary. The first edition focuses on Turkey's troubled relationship with the Kurds.
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The Erdoğan Effect
From Gezi Park to Rojava
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Joe Stanley-Smith @joestanleysmith.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Saw @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social remark that the UK grooming gangs scandal could be Starmer's equivalent to Corbyn's Labour antisemitism scandal. No matter how much he does/has done to remedy it, it will never be enough for his opponents.
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
If the Tories were a vegetable, they would’ve been composted years ago. Not in UK politics, where rotten parties stick around long after they’re past due. Announcing Josh White's Tories Are Dead spoken word LP, and why Nigel Farage got the most out of the 2024 election.
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Tories Are Dead
2024 UK Election Diary
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
To many Italians, Gaza and Giorgia Meloni are increasingly indistinguishable. Even if Italy isn’t involved in the war in the same ways as the United States, it doesn’t have to be. Yours truly on Israel/Palestine protest politics in Torino.
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Same War Everywhere
Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #25
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Right-wing critics will claim the platform is unrepresentative of British Jews, but this misses the point: conservative media does not speak for Jews who oppose this war of annihilation. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on why Vashti Media has a growing following.
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Jewish Left Media
Why Vashti Matters
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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Israeli and American denials ring hollow in the face of the overwhelming evidence Amnesty presents supporting the case for genocide charges Amnesty International Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza open.substack.com/pub/mitchell...
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Amnesty International Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
Israeli and American denials ring hollow in the face of the overwhelming evidence Amnesty presents supporting the case for genocide charges
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Anti-Assad protest. Berlin, August 2018.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
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Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It's the biggest newspaper in Britain. If you could call it one. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on the peculiar Metro, and why the freesheet tabloid puts its politics in the background.
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The Disposable Newspaper
Why Metro Thrived
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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DougBlueWahoo 🦋💙✌️🌈🌊 @dougbluewahoo2.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Christo Nationalism…..
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
NEW | Considering press coverage of the farmers' protests... FARM OFFENSIVE Look at how the newspapers describe the farmers' marches and you'll notice a very different attitude to their usual reports on protests. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/farm-offen...
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Farm Offensive
Look at how the newspapers describe the farmers' marches and you'll notice a very different attitude to their usual reports on protests.
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@mzc.bsky.social Follow back!
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Follow back!
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
How surprising.
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@pieuler.bsky.social Follow back, comrade!
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Joel Schalit @jschalit.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It's the biggest fascist media in the world. @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social, on Elon Musk's X, and why there's no distinguishing the platform from its politics.
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Unsocial Media
Elon Musk's X
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Josh White @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The next UK election is still a long way off, but there is a clear shift in public opinion just a few months into Labour's new reign.
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The Battleground @battlegroundeu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
"If anything, Elon Musk has shown us the reality of social media: Twitter was never a public square but a wall to graffiti. What matters more is how it’s used to promote fascism." @jtwhitenoise.bsky.social @jschalit.bsky.social thebattleground.eu/2024/11/18/u...
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Unsocial Media
Elon Musk's X
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
'Farmers' protest. Without any farmers.
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