Washington has asked Brussels to scrap requirements for non-EU companies to provide “climate transition plans” and to change supply chain legislation to exclude US companies “with high-quality corporate due diligence”, according to a document seen by @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/46Ijpye

The new front cover of The New World magazine. A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.

Thank goodness we have the FPC to tell us these things

Ducks for cover....

The Tories will not return to government until they wear Union flag trousers to match the jacket. At the moment it's like they don't even love our country.

Conservative and Unionist Party, you say?

CBI welcomes Tory shadow chancellor's calls for fiscal prudence but adds: “Business will however be concerned by reactionary proposals to scrap key pieces of legislation, like the Climate Change Act, that have done much to boost confidence and underpin investment in high growth sectors."

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Love this image by @nixonsimon.bsky.social: what Europe needs is a drone wall for economic security and reducing dependencies. (As we currently don't have clarity on what a drone wall would actually entail, the comparison perhaps works a little too well) From: nixons.substack.com/p/brave-new-...

Europe's future in a world of weaponised interdependence, counting the cost of Chinese involution and how the coming robot revolution will allow us all to live like Kings - my latest

Looks like Lecornu's government may be stillborn. And Macron may find it impossible to name a 6th prime minister in less than three years

This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation. Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!

Why the Democrats were right to force the Republicans hand on the gov't shutdown. Trump is freaking out because the GOP will be blamed for bankrupting many Americans over healthcare. The Democrats should force a full and humiliating climb down on Trump and the GOP.

Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

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This is why they want all human rights restraints removed. #ECHR

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

Yeah, I know fact-checking will convince no-one on her side of the argument, but kudos to the Grauniad for doing it anyway.

Here we have the Treasury secretary saying explicitly that economic policy is being made based on who voted for Trump. So now all of us will be paying for a farm bailout caused by Trump's idiotic trade war. Congrats, America! I wrote about this here: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-farm...

Very interesting piece.

Gold investors have lost faith in fiat currencies, Trump has lost faith in American clean energy technology, but Europe may have just discovered enough self-belief to do something game-changing. My latest

So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?

Amazing.

In Smolensk region, Russia, a truck collided with a freight train at a railway crossing, causing 18 gasoline tankers to derail. A massive fire broke out as 12 of the cars were loaded with fuel, according to Moscow Railway. Emergency crews are working at the scene.

Russian forces have reportedly fallen into three simultaneous encirclements. Ukrainian troops cut off retreat routes while drones track reinforcements. Ukraine’s Dnipro command confirms advances, saying Russian logistics near Dobropillia are collapsing and retreating troops are trapped under fire.

The sheer hypocrisy of this. You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election. I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis. I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers". The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland

Soybeans were the single largest U.S. export to China by value. Now it’s zero. U.S. agriculture secretary says farmers need to stop relying “on a country that isn’t aligned with our values.” (Trump proposed sending tariff proceeds to farmers) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Some may be wondering whether he hasn't already marched into DC 🙃

Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Starting to look like a coordinated shakedown...

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There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Why are stock markets soaring when all the news is so bleak? My latest on why the AI bubble may not burst for a while yet

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Always something interesting in @nixonsimon.bsky.social's newsletter (nixons.substack.com/p/revolution...) but that figure for revenue forgone at the end of the para: what an eye-opener!

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So Trump tells Europeans to increase their defence budgets & buy more US kit, & the Pentagon tells them they can’t have it. Maybe it’s time for Europe to stop thinking it can rely on the US, & start investing in a rapid build-up of domestic arms production, even if it’s slightly lower quality.

Wrote about the spectre haunting British politics: The Nonce. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Tricky argument. The is a peace project, but was originally created to establish 'security from each other', so that countries like France and Germany never go to war against each other again. It does not (yet) provide 'security from others'.

What a time to be alive.

The Reparation Loan is a test of European resolve - my latest for @euractiv.com www.euractiv.com/opinion/euro...

Over on X, Viktor Orban and Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson are having a twitter fight. Worth reading Kristersson's thoughtful reply in full, though I doubt Orban will be swayed by it. It is more an effect of the politicisation of EU-internal politics, where PMs treat each other as political opponents.

My most centrist dad take is that most governing politicians deserve sympathy because almost every policy that's actually any good for the country is unpopular, and almost every popular policy is probably bad. Johnson's Brexit approach was far worse than Chequers IMHO but 20ppts more popular 1/

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Trump sets up impossible preconditions as an excuse to do nothing on Russia, including a requirement that every NATO member first join his trade war against China with massive tariffs.

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van. “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!” What has America become?

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