I was opposed to ID cards but having lived in France for 16 years, I became a firm supporter. There is nothing to fear. Copy what France does.

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

The so-called 'free marketeer' response to a free market proposal.

The Global Cost of Vaccine Misinformation, from Dr Heidi Larson, author of STUCK, in The Lancet, 30 July 2025 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

When the President uses federal law enforcement for his personal revenge, it puts all of us in danger.

This is a great update and commentary from Lawrence. Enjoy! youtu.be/D2iYHh4jq68?...

In his own words - if the government shuts down, he is to blame. Please be sure to share this with Republicans. #TrumpShutdown #ResistFascism #Pinks

The upgraded Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht. This could be any high street in the UK. Your street isn’t too narrow - it’s your town planners imagination that is.

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

“Let’s have a trial.” A defiant Comey says he is heartbroken for the (corrupted) DOJ, but is innocent and has faith in the federal judicial system.

“The cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made him seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

How the government's new digital ID will work… and why I’ve changed my mind on ID cards (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-the-uk...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Well that’ll help

So right-wing now owns yet another propaganda tool they can use to further radicalize people. Oh good

In Belgium, another union, the ID card is known as the eID,. Just use that name instead of the idiotic, naff and divisive 'BritCard'. Boring names for humdrum, useful things, please.

1. I want to pick up on a point I made in yesterday’s edition, about how the president and his co-conspirators, inside and outside the regime, do not mean what they say. They do not care about the truth behind their words, only whether those words can achieve a desired outcome.

Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on Donald Trump’s UN speech #Trump #UNGeneralAssembly @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

On the pod @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is so good on Trump's UN speech: A "shallow reality show version" of global affairs where "he’s the main character and everybody is just reacting to him." But the international audience knows "that’s not how the world works." newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Which makes the reticence among many when it came to criticism of pro-Brexit campaigning in the mid- to late 2010s baffling. The creeping breakdown of politics and policy in the UK is anchored in how Brexit showed how irresponsible populism could be a path to victory

If permanence can be torn up by Reform for settled migrants, how long before it can be torn up for citizens? Read the Bear’s commentary ⤵️

Farage is a fully paid up Trump-groupie. He’s campaigned for him. Worn his cap. And models Reform policies on Trump’s anti-minority authoritarianism, fossil fuel fandom and dangerous anti-science quackery. He pretends to be on the saner side of the line. He isn’t. Vote for angry prejudice. Get chaos

Nexstar made a deal to acquire broadcast conglomerate Tegna in a $6.2 billion deal, which will require government approval. They’re continuing to refuse to air Kimmel.

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?

EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY: We have “reviewed a large amount of data from pregnant women who used paracetamol during pregnancy .. “.. there is no evidence that would require changes to the current EU recommendations.” @politico.com $KVUE www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Beyond batshit. A speech fuelled by grotesque vanity, resentment and prejudice. A foul mess of ignorance and self interest. A menace to the world But this is Farage’s role model. His ‘inspiration’. (Times and BBC)

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

Quick US summary: RFK Jr sacked all members of US independent vaccine committee in June. He replaced them with his own picks including known vaccine-sceptics. He sacked CDC chair after she refused to rubber-stamp his new committee's recommendations. Committee already making changes. 2/11

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

Can confirm this was our experience with both kids on our "good" health insurance that we also paid $500+ in monthly premiums for. Hospital actually wanted to collect payment before I gave birth! 🫠 They billed $15k-$20k per birth, we paid our out of pocket max of $3k per birth.

It is so messed up on so many levels. That this got through as something to be published in an, ostensibly, serious publication shows how far down the rabbit hole we are.

JFC the President of the USA, repeating debunked conspiracy nonsense from behind the seal, that even his crank conspirasist health advisors are not claiming, relayed live all around the world. People will fkn die, because this shitstain needs the stories about Homan and Epstein to go away.

I refuse to be told by a guy who has suggested all neurodivergent Individuals should be institutionalised, and another whose brain was eaten by a worm, that my being autistic is the problem, or a crisis. Autistic individuals aren't the problem, the way we are treated and minimised damn sure is.

Here’s last night’s story about Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, freedom of speech in the U.S., and why certain broadcast groups could learn a thing or two from Love Island. youtu.be/ohPToBog_-g

OLIVER: “I’d argue @disney & Bob Iger need to stand by @jimmykimmel and his staff — history is also going to remember the cowards who knew better. Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away, it just makes him come back hungrier each time.” 🎯

It cannot be that Russia “accidently” violates three times in two weeks European air space. Russia is testing European borders and probing our resolve. It will continue to provoke as long as we allow it. Extract of my statement at the UN Security Council ↓

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...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Nope. She didn't. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, took $50,000 in cash in a bag from undercover FBI agents as part of a bribery scheme. Trump’s DOJ dropped the investigation. The sleaze and corruption is mind-boggling. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/20/p...

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.

What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.