RIP Dave Ball, who told stories with synthesizers. When I was a kid I thought this what London at night sounded like: sad, sleazy, wounded, majestic youtu.be/y9KgEs3Zksg?...

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan mymodernmet.com/daniel-korda...

Like many who take this path, Murphy revels in cruelty. Gets a kick out of it. A natural bully

I do hope that if they do choose to become immigrants in another country they plan to fully assimilate, abandon any home culture, become fluent in the new language, make no claim on state services or pensions, and fulfil all the other demands they make of people choosing to live here.

Disappointed in Labour (again) but very relieved to see this scandal gathering pace when it felt like hardly anyone had noticed it on Monday. Fair play to @sundersays.bsky.social for highlighting it tirelessly.

I'm at Gare Du Nord. Guy in front of me is way overdressed. Dripping with jewels, wearing three crowns, a diamond ring on every finger. He's sweating loads too. Looks kinda nervous. Pretty sure his moustache is fake too. Takes all sorts.

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

Just a reminder that raging against injustice is a great thing especially today, especially now and forever.

Yep!

Finished #RiotWomen. Loved it!

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

Protect Celia at all costs. If she gets murdered or banished, I’ll …tut very loudly #Traitors

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

Mainstream media orgs are incapable of covering the depravity of this administration because the truth sounds like bias. Impartiality doesn’t sound like impartiality when the reality is morally obscene

I kind of miss the days when fascists felt obliged to pretend they weren’t fascist instead of looking and sounding like they’re in V for Vendetta

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

GOP: "Do as I say, not as I do"'

Had the best time at @selfesteem.music-social.com’s fantastic show last night at Brixton

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

I hear many people thought Trump should get the Nobel peace prize. Unfortunately none of those people were the ones who actually decided 😄

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

Today’s famous relative is Salem “witch” Rebecca Nurse, and it turns out I’ve got some actual famous rellies 😱

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career. Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV. My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Why are they calling Connect 4, 4 in a row? #gbbo

Kemi Badenoch is being given what you’d think is an open goal in her #r4today interview: a chance to distance herself from rival Robert Jenrick’s dubious comments on skin colour. Yet we’ve reached a point in our politics where she, the party’s first Black leader, thinks it necessary to defend ‘Rob’.

Badenoch’s law: Racism aimed at Badenoch by someone she thinks is on the left: very bad Racism aimed at literally anybody else: fine

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

Because of course in the world according to Robert Jenrick there are only two groups of people - white people and 'other' people who need to integrate.

Great time tonight at #TwelfthNight at #TheGlobe with Paula and Steve

Political reporters continue to cover the centre-left according to the old standards of honesty and legality while shrugging at the right: "Ah well, you know what these guys are like. What can you do?"

Ancestry do a new thing now, they tell you “famous” people you are (very distantly) related too. Apparently I’m a half-6th cousin 5x removed of Betsy Ross (who may have made the 2nd ever official US flag) and I’m also a half-8th cousin 3x removed of Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein.

Are there still people who think the Trump administration isn’t fascist I wonder? Is that still a debate in October 2025?

Alex’s goddaughter has flown all the way from America, but she’s not staying #CoatsOn #Strictly

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

"I am sick and tired of watching people with decent, compassionate values constantly be told to accommodate the views of people who lack decency or compassion...."

President Trump has posted this AI video of him and JD Vance in band, while the US gov is shut down Good luck America, its bonkers there!

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC www.assignedmedia.or... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Never say 'The last time I checked' if you have never, ever checked.

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

No you haven’t

PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

Thanks for letting us know, Kemz.

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...