Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Frightened children seeking safety in the UK are going missing. Many are likely to have been targeted by traffickers. Children who asked for our protection are being abandoned to exploitation - it's absolutely disgraceful.

Missed this last week, as was off for half term but Farage is now under investigation for registering his interests late ICYMI - it was updated earlier this month, to the tune of £190k, the day I went to his team for a response to this story observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

There was an arson attack in Drogheda, Ireland on asylum accommodation last night

Rob Jetten beats out Geert Wilders

If Shaheen is an activist, then Goodwin, whose whole twitter feed is extreme and inaccurate far right nonsense, is definitely an activist. If Goodwin is an academic, then Shaheen, who has done more recent and more credible academic work, is an academic.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

Tories confirm Chris Philp's bill proposing mass deportation of people with indefinite leave to remain no longer party policy - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

Musk is funding Tommy Robinson and now promotes his movement as a "hard man" vehicle for a civil war which Musk believes is inevitable, and imminent (+ which he has argued should be begun pre-emptively in self-defence) Robinson usually more careful/at least coded on violence than this from Musk

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

Paracetamol (Tylenol) is one of the most effective and safe painkillers ever discovered. Keep within the recommended dose. Take it in pregnancy if you need to. It has been shown in MANY studies not to cause autism. 🧪

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

She now notes an agent pointing a gun at somebody and saying "bang bang you're dead" would, "on the face of it" violate the TRO. Bovino says each situation is different and he would like to know about the specifics

Now she is patiently explaining what a necessary warning before using tear gas involves and noting that Bovino himself threw two grenades, one over a crowd, and that he seems from video not to have issued one

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

NEW: I’m pleased to announce a landmark partnership between the community foundations of London’s 17 football clubs and my @london-vru.bsky.social, helping to support young Londoners and see them thrive. www.london.gov.uk/major-landma...

Totally untrue garbage from @thetimes.com & @dailymail.co.uk today - smear dressed up as journalism. Some facts: - There is no “£900 desk” - my constituency office has Ikea desks/chairs - we significantly underspent the new MPs allowance to set up an office www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

A surprise bonus from COVID-19 vaccines: bolstering cancer treatment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

If we want to rebuild the defences against authoritarianism (as we should) we'd be better off using the instruments we already have. Dismantling Henry VIII powers, getting dirty money out of elections, even changing the electoral system could all be done more easily than writing a new constitution.

Why are the media focusing on *Nigel Farage’s* reaction to Hadush Kebatu’s mistaken release (which I agree is astonishing) instead of raising concerns about the impact this will have on race relations, and the vulnerability of any person of colour who resembles Kebatu? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: As of September 2025, there were over 59,000 people in immigration detention in the U.S. 71.5% of them had no criminal conviction. Get the new fact sheet on Trump's war on immigrants from IPS scholars @lindsaykosh.bsky.social, @karendolan.bsky.social, and @sarahanderson.bsky.social:

Hadn’t, in truth, really absorbed the scale of what the Conservatives are proposing on ILR and immigration more broadly until this week’s Sunday Times interviews. Some thoughts on that in today’s note:

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

While I was at Runnymede Trust this is exactly what we did to highlight the devastating impact of May’s govt policies on Windrush generation. Working with 4 other third sector organisations, media and MPs we brought people’s stories to life. Ordinary people and everyday lives being torn apart.

I wonder if this is partly about putting names and faces - relatives, workmates, celebrities - on the 'mass' they are proposing to deport. And drawing on what's going on in the US to dramatise exactly what this means in people's workplaces and neighbourhoods. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

V late to this (it’s a weekend, family stuff, etc) but..I agree with Ben. Both Katie Lam’s interview about deporting people with legal status (and the way STimes treated it) & the Christian Calgie business are disturbing egs of forgetting that ‘normal on X these days’ is very much not normal

Yeah this is BNP stuff pursued for BNP reasons, regardless of how much it costs.

Please, for the love of god, look at how much the ADF are investing in the UK.

Timeline Exchange began 632am on 17th Oct. Deportation exchange an hour or two later Sultana challenged it 3pm on 17/10 Bridget Phillipson did so at 645pm, and Mehdi Hasan 7pm At 730am on 18/10 Sultana noted no lobby journalist had challenged it in those first 24 hours Calgie apology 1pm 18/10

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Chicago - no kings

🗣️ "They're facing the disadvantage of their low-income and the potential challenges that brings, as well as having to navigate that SEND system." @charleyo.bsky.social touches on the double disadvantage facing low-income pupils with SEND on BBC Woman's Hour 📻

‘No Kings’ protest live updates: millions expected to gather across the US for anti-Trump protests. Organizers expect more than 2,500 demonstrations across country after high turnout at June protests as Robert De Niro urges Americans to ‘stand up and be counted’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is so poignant, quite painful to read

#BBCNews - War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged #Sudan city www.bbc.com/news/article... #RSF #elFasher

There has been a surge in the number of pupils being identified as having SEND in recent years. Our new report will take a more detailed at the SEND system, exploring differences in the support families are able to access. Out tomorrow.

Unbelievably, literally the day after I posted this, my son has come home clutching a letter for a £4,600 trip to Kenya. He’s pretty upset I have said no

“I think politicians are ignoring prices and bills and hoping we’ll forget about them and find something else to complain about…” My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over: