Reaction to China's announcement that it will not seek special treatment as a developing country in future agreements. www.wto.org/english/news...

would be huge if India did it. China promising not to do something it wasn't going to do is nice but only as a signal to other large emerging economies to get with the program

How many times does this shite have to get debunked?

The logical culmination of Gove’s ‘we don’t trust experts’. Now it’s ’we don’t know anything’.

A hugely underreported scandal. Those responsible still not adequately held to account. An important, but infuriating watch.

Excellent by @stellacreasy.bsky.social here on Reform's xenophobic and half-baked plans on ILR.

Well it's really very simple: if he doesn't know, he should just refer to the clinical trials/studies that show there is no link. Otherwise like Trump, he should provide the incontrovertible evidence that there is a link. When they can't, they should STFU.

Research, Nige. There's something called research.

Trump at the UN : "I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor" Spokesperson for Mayor of London : "We’re delighted to welcome a record number of US citizens moving here" A 50% increase since Trump won the US election 🤷 Sadiq Khan has been elected Mayor 3 times

BBC World Service reporter, on the EU-Indonesia trade agreement: All trade deals take a long time, because they're so complicated. Trump "trade deals", on the other hand, are simple - do his bidding, and he'll hurt you, but less than he might have done. #r4today

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

Trump lashes out as Jimmy Kimmel's talk show returns to the air, insulting the host, and threatening to "test ABC". "I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million dollars," Trump wrote on social media u.afp.com/SWcQ

You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad? Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK. Superb thread.

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

now in a substack post too, with links. christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-vulner...

Macron www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

He has a library?

People came from all over the world. They have serious problems to solve.

I think I get it. There's a bit of criticism of the UN, and a tiny bit about the Europeans and others. But it's overwhelmingly about Donald Trump MD. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

🇺🇸 Who are Antifa? Why was it designated as a "domestic terrorist organization" by US President Donald Trump? ➡️ u.afp.com/SWUU

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

“We’re uncertain as to why this press conference is being held today. ... There was no new data that were uncovered, no new studies published,” said Alison Singer, president of the Autism Science Foundation. Simple: Trump MD must be centre of attention everyday. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

The opening is hilarious. The rest is sobering.

Yes. To the point. Cites up-to-date research, whereas Donald Trump MD apparently cited his "feeling".

Governments' interventions in rice markets do tend to result in "suboptimal rice management", to quote the article.

Kennedy’s staff warn that he is dismantling US public health. Health secretary is undermining decades of effective vaccine and prevention systems. Read more: https://bit.ly/4mqrQ5H

The difficulty of conveying data to the general public. News headlines highlight specific incidents eg knife crime, and that's what they see.

Top news item: Trump has said something false again. We'll point out that it's extraordinary, controversial, unevidenced, but we won't quite say it's wrong. #r4today

C'mon #bbcR4news you don't rebut Trump's dangerous announcement by quoting the maker of Tylenol

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression".

Europe strikes sweeping trade pact with Indonesia

They cited the lack of evidence supporting the White House's guidance — and the harms of untreated fevers during pregnancy.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists hits back at linking of key painkiller, known widely as Tylenol or paracetamol, to autism – key US politics stories from 22 September 2025 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump rails against Tylenol but autism claims not supported by science

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

Putting all this together, @lgilbert.co find the following. It's not that Farage is (just) exaggerating/overstating - he is simply lying about migrants, jobs, wages and benefits. Media should be very clear about this. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

The CPS' own website now admits they got the numbers wrong and should not be used. Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Scrapping indefinite leave to remain and settled status whether based on accurate or disputed numbers would be practically and morally a disaster.

America plunges headlong into Onion territory Oklahoma lawmakers introduce legislation requiring every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader" Or get fined www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Young liberals challenged Kirk’s conservative views on the viral YouTube series Surrounded - an ‘unnerving’ spectacle, according to a rhetoric expert www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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#r4Today You had me fooled there. Thought it was the real Trump.

This is extraordinary. "Alleging only two simple counts of defamation, the complaint consumes eighty-five pages,” Merryday wrote. “Count I appears on page eighty, and Count II appears on page eighty-three …" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Diogo’s winner against our next opponents ❤️

The end is nigh

What's more, if Fish 2 is not concluded by Sep 15, 2029, Fish 1 self-destructs