Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Quite why is unclear at this point. Clearly this place is a bit of an echo chamber. It’s just an echo chamber full of people previously inclined to support Labour and half the journalists and think tankers in the country.

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

I miss the old days when we would all agree that a drunken former Fox News host should not be allowed to unilaterally bomb boats in international waters. I miss the days when folks would agree that without proof, that is a war crime. 4 more boats bombed today. More than 50 people dead.

Obviously this is self-interested on my part but this drives me nuts - come on guys, why are you planning on doing world class science without world class scientists?

I implore everyone to donate to Wikipedia. Just think how often you use it. It's packed with reliable information. It's run by passionate volunteers. There are no ads on it. It's free.

Can someone explain to me how the 'federal shutdown' preventing salaries being paid to hundreds of thousands of federal employees, doesn't include paying senators their salaries and benefits?

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

Last week: -Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm -Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm -Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation" We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

Houston, Texas ICE GOONS hospitalized a 16-year-old U.S. citizen on his way to school. The teen, a star football and soccer player, was violently detained alongside his father. Despite his cries for help, “I’m underage!” the agents tackled him, resulting in severe neck and back injuries.

They have emergency funds for SNAP. The GOP is letting it expire. So Netanyahu-like: to hold hostage food funds & use starvation as a political tool to blackmail enemies. “At least one expert now predicting this could trigger the greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”

What did people do before SNAP?” They died. Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival. They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

Ummm, the rise in the state pension age to 67 was introduced by the Coalition Government in 2014, not Labour, and paying inheritance tax when you die doesn't affect your retirement income when you're alive.

I don't really know what to think about this... except it reinforces my view that I live amongst idiots and arseholes...

We gotta find the crack in the Earth that RFK Jr crawled out of and lure him back into it

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

ICE leadership doesn’t get purged at midnight by accident. Someone needed the field cleared...fast. My article breaks down the who...why...and what comes next.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Honestly, I admit being *somewhat* partial but “how I would deal with the mess me and Jeremy deliberately left you” feels more than a little taking the piss

We must make racism disgraceful again. This kind of shameless ugly inadequacy from Pochin should be career-ending, not career-enhancing. Honestly… the Little England nastiness is repulsive.

First Circuit Judges Strike down Israel Lobby Suit against MIT for Permitting Gaza Protests

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Further to this - and once again I am doing the basic research that political journalists should have done six months ago - Lam said on the record in Parliament that this *does* apply to pensions/pensioners.

Farage’s big weakness, as I’ve often written, is that 60%+ of voters don’t want him to become Prime Minister. For a populist he’s not that popular. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...

Our paper on fertility timing and women's earnings is now out in the Journal of Family Research (with replication file!) 👇 Short summary in the thread below: 1/8

How did we get here?

Look at them... they think they're storm troopers... repulsive

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Conservative education activists such as Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice have access to the top levers of the government. “If America’s public schools cease to exist tomorrow, America would be a better place,” Justice told ProPublica. @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Third party funds must be deposited in the U.S. Treasury and appropriated by Congress and apart from that I believe service members aren’t allowed to accept outside compensation so

If Joffrey Baratheon grew up to be an American president, this is pretty much what it would look like.

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Cuts to social protection for people living in poverty have created “fertile ground” for far-right movements around the world, according to a United Nations report. https://cnn.it/3JlsNyN

US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

The one place I thought i was safe...grrrr

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

41 million people (including 20 million kids) will lose access to food in a few days while a new 90,000 square foot ballroom is being added to the White House. This political moment is profoundly disgusting.

The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

He's robbing the US public purse... and the media stand by watching... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Johnson: I will administer the oath to Rep-elect Adelita Grivalva, I hope, on the first day we come back in session. In the meantime, she should be serving her constituents (She cannot serve her constituents until Speaker Johnson swears her in)

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister on October 21, shattering the nation's glass ceiling and setting it up for a forceful turn to the right.

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BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5... BBC Verify Live: Debunking claims US 'No Kings' crowd video is old footage - BBC News

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Wildly illegal trade policy violating both US and international law, on top of wildly illegal murder of civilians in international & foreign waters, violating both US and international law.

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...