Not exactly a Labour stronghold. But still. 👀

The knives are out.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

In a bit of black comedy, someone nicknamed “The Duke” gets involved in one of the most ominous email chains that could possibly land in a person’s inbox—about a forthcoming British tabloid exposé—and pleads with Maxwell to get him out of it somehow. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this

Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.

tl;dr: why are your taxes about to go up? Brexit!

My favourite bit of the Noah Smith story is that on top of everything else, he bought a ticket he didn’t need for a free train transfer between terminals.

Lucky for Trump that Democrats in the Senate jumped in to stop the decline!

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

I don't think the biggest problem is that this relief exists. The total allowance is 60k. That's just mad. You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid. A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

Go flurries! I assume this is a sportsball reference?

This week I have written about whether the government's proposed changes to school accountability - Progress 8 - make sense (£/free trial). timleunig.substack.com/p/school-sta... @daisychristo.bsky.social @branwenjeffreys.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social

OTD - November 10, 1969 Sesame Street airs for the first time on National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Corporation, with a goal to "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them".

BREAKING: Trump just got loudly booed at the Commanders game.

*smiles in CIA*

There are allies and then there is Nancy Pelosi. 🫡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

We sent the presidencies of Harding and Nixon straight to hell for a fraction of the corruption that happens every hour of every day on camera in this regime

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Since Trump took office: - Job cuts up 65% - Hiring down 35% It’s the economy, stupid.

Jake Tapper show yourself, you duplicitous charlatan

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

New reaction GIF just dropped.

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

You don't end up potentially nuking your career under Corbyn, ending up where he has in the party or on trans rights if the only thing you want is to be leader

It’s past bonfire night and we have the weather of a disappointing summer’s day. Crazy!

When I was working for a Chinese government contractor in 2019, my mainland colleagues insisted that Trump was a fellow traveler who was just doing Chinese communism very badly, and would fail because of the US’ public’s independent streak. FWIW, I think they’re completely correct now.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

One of my favourite things to do as homework is get students to find a poem they think should be studied is lessons. Today, a student brought this poem and the class loved exploring it. Things I Have Stolen by Caleb Femi

Classic Leopard Partyism.

Emma Barnett: “[Trump] has also called him an antisemite. What is he saying to those who didn’t support him?” That question is not journalism. That is Donald Trump level “some people are saying”-type smearing. Barnett is an absolute disgrace.

Someone who in European terms is a normie leftie wins in NYC. Emma Barnett describes him as “radical leftwing” - just coincidentally the pejorative favoured by Fox News and the Trump White House. This follows after Justin Webb blaming universities for turning British young people into victims.

BBC’s Sarah Smith on R4: “In California voters passed Prop. 50, a proposal designed to give Democrats 5 more House seats.” What’s the context, Sarah?

Great to publish the Curriculum and Assessment Review this morning

Trump won in 2024 by 1.5%pts and the press acted like he got a mandate to be god-emperor, can’t wait for them to be dismissive of victories in places the Democratic Party hasn’t won in 20 years

Boom!

Driving from Didcot to Jing Jing on Cowley Road you wouldn’t pass a Congestion Charge location.

Abigail Spanberger is on track to get the biggest vote share since Bob McDonnell won in 2009, and the biggest share for a Democrat governor since Albertis Harrison in 1961. #VAgov

The photo is from Sunday 60 Minutes. Yep. He's had a stroke, folks.

An even bigger tragedy was averted not because of “quick thinking” but because lots of people with very boring job titles spent a lot of time thinking about what should be done in this sort of horrible scenario and then put in place programmes so that drivers knew exactly what they needed to do.

The driver of the knife attack train deserves praise. But, I find it annoying that the correct actions he took, which were the product of good policies and good training, are reduced to “quick thinking” by an individual. The emergency protocols worked. This was not an individual moment of heroism.

Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

Anyone who will lie unapologetically about mass violent attacks to push their own profile and political cause is beneath contempt. There’s no need to book such people, to platform them, or to listen to them. That’s not because of their politics, or their views: it’s because of their dishonesty.