Why was Galloway in Moscow? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I can’t imagine that even one single asylum-seeker, in the entire history of humankind, has decided to come to this country because there is no ID card. The whole suggestion is nonsensical and an insult to our intelligence.

UK passport holders can live and work in Ireland with no minimum £savings requirement or funding. Note: Healthcare is still free. If you can show proof of living in Ireland for 5 years you can then apply for naturalisation and get an Irish (EU) passport. 👉 www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to-becom...

A senior Reform member who was their leader in Wales has pleaded guilty to 8 charges of bribery. He took money from someone connected with the Russian Secret Service to make positive statements about Russia in the EU Parliament when an MEP. So it's clear: Vote Reform. Get Putin. Become a traitor.

2. I was cycling into town, downhill, when I hit a pothole, one of many that the local authority cannot afford to fix. A common enough story! The front wheel folded up like an infinity sign. I went over the handblebars and landed on my face (luckily I was wearing my helmet).

And yet - nothing about this is on the BBC main app. It’s hidden under Welsh news. Nothing in the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun, The Times. Seems like Farage’s opinions on everything make front page news EXCEPT when one of his guys admits to taking Russian bribes….🤷🏼‍♀️ 13/14

And the bribes Gill has admitted to? 6th Dec 2018 to 18th Jul 2019 6th Dec 2018 - the same day he followed Farage out of UKIP He joined the Brexit Party with Farage in February 2019 and remained a Brexit party MEP until we left the EU. In March 2021 he became Reform UK’s leader in Wales 10/14

“Ben Hodges, the former commanding general of US Army Europe, wrote on X that in “July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer.”

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epstein was connected to Thiel through their co-investments in Valar Ventures, the value of which, at $170 million, makes them the Epstein estate’s largest asset. Mandelson’s lobbying company, Global Counsel, advised Palantir during the procurement process bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Police say teenager arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving following "unusual and worrying set of incidents", but "are keeping an open mind about the exact events" road.cc/content/news...

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK 2024 KSI data now published: 1,602 killed 29,467 seriously injured 128,272 casualties of all severities www.gov.uk/government/s...

Michael Crick, journalist: “It depresses me how much fellow political journalists are down-playing this - a dranatic story not just about Russia corrupting a British politician - as they've done in Germany & France - but also about the character judgement+relationships of Reform leaders Farage+Tice”

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

For a large proportion of the Northern Irish population being required to have a document which identifies you as a UK citizen is impossible. So you need a compatible Irish ID card system. Which means you need the Irish govt to introduce one. And share the info. And that's not going to happen.

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

And this is why: From Palestinian photojournalist Fadi A. Thabet in Gaza_

The community note has it right.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

For those wondering how a "Must Stop Boats" ID card will impact the common travel area between Ireland & GB, this plenary session report from 2006 provides some insight: TL;DR: "LOLs". Full doc: tinyurl.com/cta-issues quick 🧵

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

'You just earned your brit card' to become biggest insult in Ireland

In 1880, the alien concept of a passport was repugnant to British freedom-lovingness.

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

Labour have wanted to introduce ID cards for decades. I have to grudgingly admit they've played a blinder linking them to migrants. Even the 'freemen of the land' and 15 minute city conspiracy nuts won't dare oppose them if they are anti-foreigner.

A convicted criminal has become the first person to be jailed in a landmark case for online posts which risked identifying asylum seekers in Ireland

In France an ex-president is facing jail time for similar.

The "Brit Card". Could they make it any more dogwhistly? Also, fundamentally ignores that undocumented workers already, drum roll please, lack documents. Adding another one makes little difference, but does make it harder for people to escape exploitation. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

As mentioned earlier by @seatsixtyone.bsky.social the Paris-Berlin/Vienna night train might be axed from December What's happening, and why SNCF never really cared about this train, but why alternatives are tricky, explained on my blog 👇 jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

The evidence in favour of 20 mph speed limits is overwhelming, cheaper insurance, less emissions, less car crashes, it saves the NHS, Police and councils money. But Gary from Port Talbot's commute now takes 42 minutes instead of 40 so it simply must go.

Utter genius

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Ryanair to boost emissions and worsen health impacts this winter.

Air pollution has been identified as a meaningful and modifiable risk factor for childhood myopia: "Improving air quality could be a valuable strategic intervention to protect children’s eyesight". #AirPollution #Health

Is it time for a British ship to be sent to aid the Flotilla and protect the British citizens on board? RT if is.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

I've had enough of listening. Time for action on low traffic. My letter in the Oxford Times today

Good morning. A quarter of Reform UK MPs are convicted wife beaters. news.sky.com/story/domest...

Cyber attack at Heathrow means Virgin Atlantic is using a laptop and checking each boarding pass manually. Lotta peering at numbers and putting on/taking off glasses.

We have a serious problem with cars in Ireland.

“Reform is adopting a policy of ‘national preference’ - the sinister policy of the far right in France. It starts with citizenship. Who counts as a citizen? It then shifts to dual citizens. Suggests they have divided loyalties. It ends up in very dark places, all about having the ‘right’ ancestry.”

seat prediction alongside vote prediction in the UK now. Coalition Against Fascism (CAF) 46% Coalition For Fascism (CFF) 48% (CFF) RFM : 28% (-3) (CAF) LAB: 25% (+3) (CFF) CON: 20% (+2) (CAF) LDM: 13% (-1) (CAF) GRN: 8% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Others: 3% (-1) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=)

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

"Some of this appeal is simply a tribute to the way great phrase-making acquires a timeless quality. But Yeats made lots of great non-doomy phrases too. The grim ones ring especially true right now because he lived through such turbulent times ..." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fint...

The UK polio immunisation program began in 1955. Oral vaccine was introduced 1960. Look what happened next.

Mandate car helmets now. 🙃