McSweeney story not new. It’s in Simon Kuper’s book Chums, for example. What is new is the media attention.

Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr. He went on to say “science is never settled”. Dangerous.

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

I have to acknowledge that this by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social does an excellent job of proving its own point, by being appallingly badly researched (mostly random and inaccurate/misleading snippets from X, I think). I blame the Times more than Oxford, though. archive.ph/kYfps

Secret service escalator crackdown.

Think the Tony Blair Institute looks sinister? You've not seen anything yet. Crucial investigation by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Why is everything Mango man says front page news in the UK?

Which are terrible

During the LBC phone-in Farage also said Reform’s plan to ban anyone who is not a UK citizen from claiming benefits would not apply to Ukrainians and Hongkongers. “No, because they come for different reasons,” Farage said. Unlike Afghans or Palestinians?

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Trump losing support in Mississippi as he & Republican Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith take away healthcare from ppl & destroy rural hospitals & the livelihoods of farmers in State & Meiselas interviews Dem Senate Candidate Scott Colom abt plans 2 flip Senate seat Blue

My piece on Trump's Fascism for Political Insight 'Authoritarianism, mass arrests, political violence – Donald Trump’s regime fits the historical pattern of fascism' journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Trump at the UN: "I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law." This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law. This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.

Jarred Gillett is set to referee Arsenal’s trip to Newcastle United this weekend, as the Premier League continue to use the Liverpool-supporting official for their rivals’ matches. dailycannon.com/2025/09/jarr...

There isn’t sharia law in London… that’s just racism and shame on any UK politicians who don’t call it out as such.

BOYCOTT SINCLAIR GROUP. Their 38 stations are listed below. www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

The worst speech ever made to the UN?

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Nobel prize to the person who sabotaged Trump's elevator.

Trump and his increasingly absurd explanations as to why he is doing nothing about Putin.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Yes, reader, he doesn't even mention Palestine.

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Time for the UN to leave the USA.

President Trump has told the UN that all the other countries apart from the US are shitholes and that he is the greatest person ever to walk the earth.

Lindsey Halligan is really qualified for that role.

In 1994 Berlusconi tried to make his lawyer Minister of Justice but the President of Italy stopped him. In subsequent years he got many of his lawyers elected to Parliament in his own party lists.

Banana Republic

If Enoch Powell made that speech today the BBC would broadcast it live and Chris Mason would say how interesting it was.

I've complained to the BBC about the Reform/Farage coverage... everyone should complain constantly - in theory they take notice...

Farage’s plans to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain would ruin lives and tear families apart. Rather than dismissing Reform’s xenophobic proposals as 'unrealistic' or 'unaffordable', our government should be clear that they are cruel and unjust. We must stand up for migrants' rights.

Even many of the marchers on the not at all racist or far right Tommy Robinson march said that they were ok with legal migration...

President Quack has 'cured autism' - remember this is the guy who advised that we 'inject bleach' during Covid.

The main 'problem' with the plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people with LEGAL STATUS (and to remove that status arbitrarily) is not that it is 'unworkable' - it is a moral and human abomination ... no 'debate' to be had.

The BBC didn't carry press conferences from Martin Webster of the National Front in the 1970s. What is going on?

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

Everyone needs to complain to the BBC about this abomination of journalism now...

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

Reform's ‘plan’ to revoke the legal status of millions of UK residents is morally abhorrent & economic madness The public believe in fairness & mutual respect, not this cruel Trumpian policy that would leave us all poorer. We are not America - we must resist this dangerous turn in British politics.

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

It’s such a moving tribute when the guy giving the eulogy starts talking nonsense about tariffs.

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Have Reform been asked if forcing all foreign nationals with settled status to apply for a new temporary status really does mean renewing on & tearing up the UK/EU citizens agreements after Brexit? I would exoect/hope they would quickly exempt EU settled status from this

Megyn Kelly stunned observers when she was confronted about a bribery scandal in involving border czar Homan accepting $50K from undercover FBI agents, and proudly declared, "We do not care. He's a national treasure " They no longer even pretend that laws apply to them.

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Caught today’s @arsenalfc.bsky.social match with Spike Lee in Fort Greene (not a sentence I ever thought I'd get to write).

People who have worked in the UK for years, pay taxes, send their children to schools. Although Farage trying to make out everyone is on benefits.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.