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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

When I studied in Penn State I had to write an essay after I got told off by the RA for drunkenly playing the piano in the common room. That this is the same "punishment" given to 7 men who allegedly drugged & gang raped a Cornell student is utterly shameful www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Séamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, pays tribute to Martin O'Hagan and explains why the union continues to call for justice 25 years after his murder. NUJ members will gather for a vigil in Writer's Square, Belfast, at 12pm today. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/tri...

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Tribute to Martin O’Hagan

Séamus Dooley, NUJ assistant general secretary, recalls the murder of Martin O’Hagan 25 years ago today.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The US is the only country in the world that hasn't turned its capital city into the Death Star. Outrageous!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 18/09/2026

That far-right goons were able to close down a community run library and language school in Glasgow was bad enough. And now this. Extraordinary that RNLI and their volunteers get so little support from authorities they need to close a life boat station.

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Foreign Policy Centre @fpcthinktank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 Attending #LibDemConference this weekend? Join FPC Executive Director Susan Coughtrie on Saturday for a fringe discussion on Anti-SLAPP Law, alongside Jess Brown-Fuller MP and Edward Lucas. 📅 19 Sept | 2pm 📍 St Paul’s Church, West Street #SLAPPs #MediaFreedom

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I respected Watson a lot for his stance against Murdoch, News International and the phone hacking scandal (granted a long time ago but still). I have no respect for this decision www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As someone of mixed race heritage and the son of a migrant, this vile, bigoted barely-contained glee cuts deep. While they bask in their cruelty we must demand better.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regular reminder that JG Ballard’s final novel, “Kingdom Come” (2006), is about a far-right English town which creates their own militarised breakaway state in a shopping mall, where they worship the gods of St George and consumerism. Old JG wrote it as tongue-in-cheek satire. At the time.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In a world drowning in bad news, we must hold on to the good. Today, our former @indexoncensorship.org colleague Andrei Aliaksandrau and his wife Irina Zlobina were released from a Belarusian prison after 2073 days. While they never should have been imprisoned we celebrate their release

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How states respond to journalism and critical scrutiny defines their principles and what they value. That the Israeli regime calls a documentary an act of treason and threatens to render the filmmakers stateless tells us quite a lot, and none of it good.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Awkward on a number of fronts, especially for terminology in political response and media coverage, but proclaiming not to be a protest movement doesn't actually change police obligations They are based on the rights of freedom of assembly and expression, rather than any definition of protest

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/09/2026

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” has decided against broadcasting an interview on Thursday with James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, and will instead post it on YouTube. Kimmel said that the show made the decision because the FCC had “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.”

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Jimmy Kimmel Moves Talarico Interview to YouTube Because of F.C.C. ‘Threat’

In a monologue on Wednesday, Mr. Kimmel said that the show made the decision because the F.C.C. had “threatened” ABC over “traditional editorial decisions.”

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A reminder that a previous elite-led panic stirred up lynch mobs in the UK with one mistaking a paediatrician for a paedophile. We are in a dark place www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel

Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/09/2026

Paramount is using a fake public interest group named "Neighbors For Strong Communities" to create bogus, AI-generated support for the company's $111 billion merger

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I Typed ‘Block the Merger.’ AI Revised it to ‘Drop Your Opposition.’

An AI assisted generator dramatically altered my statement before my own eyes.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For a party led by a politician who whinged after having a milkshake poured over this head, the sycophant Jenrick should be careful when downplaying a political assault with "boo hoo"

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is this the two-tier policing we have heard so much about? If this was environmentalists they would have been arrested. The clampdowns on all protest are illiberal & not human rights compliant but now we know they are ALSO partially deployed. The worst mixture www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So Reform UK have in the past few days - been embroiled in YET ANOTHER funding scandal involving allegedly foreign funding - had their supporters ASSAULT a protester as Farage smirks on approvingly - promised a STATE OF EMERGENCY to bypass judges And we can't call them a far-right party?!

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not that many years since a popular position in right-wing British politics was calling for the police to use significant force to remove protesters blocking roads Of course, that was when environmentalists were doing it

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The situation is desperate." Sending love to everyone who knew #Daphne and was touched by her incisive writing and rage to a system that facilitated her hounding and assassination and continues to hinder justice.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honoured to have my first byline in the @bigissue.com with an op-ed about the scourge of SLAPPs. Pick one up if you can!

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Experts are asked to visit a sanctuary to assuage the concerns of multinational's insurance company. The company was right to be concerned

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"It worked for Vance, so why won't it work for us?" A reminder that repressive practices cross borders and perpetrators learn from each other but also that opposition somewhere could also be opposition everywhere.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Have written this obit for the courageous and gloriously mischievous Thai journalist and campaigner, Chutima Sidasathian. Was wrenching to write and I hope I did her justice. A remarkable person who always fought for others. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/08/a-co... @mediadefence.bsky.social

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A courageous Thai journalist and advocate for marginalised communities - Index on Censorship

Index remembers Chutima Sidasathian who was criminalised in Thailand for her reporting and who died last weekend

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am immensely saddened by the news that the courageous Thai community advocate & journalist, Chutima Sidasathian has passed away. Someone who had faced an onslaught of legal threats & criminal charges, yet could never stop giggling and thinking of others. We need more of her mischief and courage.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Far-right activists are drawing up lists of suspected asylum seeker HMOs across Britain HMO use is increasing as hotels close, and the attacks in Thetford and Belfast have raised concern that they will become a target for mobs elsewhere inews.co.uk/news/vigilan...

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How far-right vigilantes are targeting asylum seekers as HMO attacks rise

Experts said the targeting of asylum seekers in houses 'represented a new escalation of anti-migrant harassment and violence'

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This attempt to forcefully spreed racist propaganda via the public broadcaster is just a small piece of the threats to a free press that makes democracy possible. It is increasingly being normalised yet must be vocally and loudly called out www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

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Racist stormed BBC Glasgow studios demanding interview on migrants

A racist broke into the BBC studios to demand an interview about migrants.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Does Reform UK think these threats to journalists and their sources, as well as the baseless justifications project strength? Feels like the veneer is cracking as they whine and whine

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We have vigilante street patrols, far-right attacks on people of colour and a party leader being investigated by the police due to crypto donations. The rule of law in the UK feels incredibly fragile right now

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My two cents is that Polanski was an idiot to share that Instagram post but I cannot see a universe where the t-shirt approaches the standard of incitement. Reform would be weakening its stance on free speech advocating for a lowering of the threshold. But that would assume principled consistency

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/07/2026

Thousands of protesters gathered in New Delhi to march to Parliament on Monday, demanding the resignation of India’s education minister after botched college entrance exams disrupted the lives of millions of students. nyti.ms/3RKR9pO

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So not only was the Trump administration trying to get the phone records of the NY Times reporters who reported on Trump's Qatari jet -- but also tried to obtain records from those reporters' relatives, including one journalist's mother. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

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Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Wondering whether the UK Government sent a representative and if so who? And if so what did they say?

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/07/2026

Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com

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Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One | CNN Politics

Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet repor...

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So if Belgium win tonight what is the World Cup version of Jan 6th?

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Loving those talking about whether Balogun should have received a red card TOTALLY missing the point. This is not a story about a referee's decision in the moment but allegations of blatant abuses of power between Trump and Infantino to override a decision unilaterally

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Nik Sunil Williams @nikwilliams.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Is there a dubious Crypto-fucker NOT funding or supporting #Farage?

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 30/06/2026

“We need scrutiny not speed when considering such significant provisions.” Index's @nikwilliams.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com on the risks the National Security (State threats) Bill, currently being rushed through Parliament, poses to journalists ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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UK state threats bill could pull British journalists into terror prosecutions, experts say

Two independent reviewers of terrorism legislation call for safeguards for NGOs and journalists before bill becomes law this week

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