Happy Grand Final Day to all those who celebrate! m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxM8...

Happy Grand Final Day to all those who celebrate! m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxM8...

Can only be one Friday song today. The biggest day of all is tomorrow… m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxM8...

Iconic, even if you were never an AFL fan.

Can only be one Friday song today. The biggest day of all is tomorrow… m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxM8...

Just saw the front page coverage from the Mirror in the #UK yesterday of Donald #Trump’s UN speech. “World’s Most Powerful Man-Baby… Deranged…”. #US #USA.

A drug that provides near-perfect protection against HIV with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope for ending the HIV epidemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Such sad news to hear of Jerome Cohen’s death. No foreigner knew the law in #China like he did. Apart from having a brilliant intellect, and an adventurous spirit - which led him to practice law inside China then go on to defend dissidents here etc - he was a funny, giving person who will be missed.

Hear, hear! Cohen was such an important part of my early reading and listening on China. A thoroughly decent and honest man who did not speak about human rights self-righteously, but from the heart. I had no idea he was 95, I must say. He was always so lucid. RIP, Jerome Cohen

Such sad news to hear of Jerome Cohen’s death. No foreigner knew the law in #China like he did. Apart from having a brilliant intellect, and an adventurous spirit - which led him to practice law inside China then go on to defend dissidents here etc - he was a funny, giving person who will be missed.

"The ABC let down the Australian public badly when it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee Ms Lattouf to appease a lobby group." Justice Rangiah said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

Summary of Trump’s speech to the UN today: 1. Your countries all suck. 2. None of you know what you are doing. 3. The US is better at everything. 4. All because of me. 5. I’m right about everything. 6. You should listen to me & do what I say. 7. And give me lots of awards.

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out” Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc

A Mongolian couple on horseback near Peitzumiao, Inner Mongolia, c.1928

Australian health experts warn Trump’s unfounded autism claims about paracetamol may harm pregnant women

Beijing airport terminal 3 finally has a bar! And it’s not bad. (It’s only 2.5 years since the end of Covid Zero)

More than anything else, I object to this president stealing our time and attention. We can’t even have a Sunday morning without hearing about some insane thing he said and wondering if that insane thing will become real because he’s insane.

So unifying

I’m a British MP, a doctor and Jewish. This is what happened when I tried to pass through Israel, on my way to the West Bank.. As parliamentarians, we have a responsibility to be as informed as possible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

It seems clean, orderly and hectic.

#Beijing right now. #China

Damn! Sad news! www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

It's pretty crazy that Hitler specifically usurped the words, colors, & even the name "socialist" itself from actual socialists of the era, all as a 1920s trolling game to trick idiots who'd never read past the headline. And it worked. Hell, it worked so well that it still fools idiots to this day.

But are workers from #SouthKorea who were grabbed and placed in squalid confinement worthy of a third world dictatorship (for doing nothing at all) really going to “re-enter” the #US?

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

Honestly this is not getting as much coverage as it should. Korean auto workers in the US kidnapped by ICE and kept in inhumane conditions for over a week.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

That’s roughly 5 times more people than died of all causes last year, worldwide?

Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.

here's a great example from @nbcnews.com of how the media cleans up the weirdness from donald trump cc @atrupar.com

BREAKING: At least 59 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn today, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kz2du2

Things I come across during research for Living History: Bob Hope recorded an NBC Special from China in 1979. It's as thoroughly cringe-worthy as one might expect from Hope but it's also an incredible time capsule. I'd love to speak with someone who worked on this project...

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Merz vowed to make it a priority for Germany to reduce its dependence on China for raw materials, warning that the government in Beijing is ready to “exploit trade vulnerabilities.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump: "I just left the Middle East ... " (Trump last traveled to the Middle East four months ago)

“We don't need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American Awards!!!”

Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"

A few BBC correspondents (including me) and others discussing the mega events in #China last week with Putin, Kim Jong-un etc joining Xi in #Beijing for the military parade and other matters on the Global News Podcast... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD-1...

Happening now: smelled a chemical smell wafting from the parking lot, went to check it out. It's Chicago ICE agents unwrapping and assembling a stack of fresh riot shields.

Despite Trump’s claim, this has very much harmed relations. Many Koreans are angry they are being bullied to invest only for the US to imprison their workers. Companies are rethinking investments. Korean govt rethinking commitments and whether US is trustworthy www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

He would’ve needed a street busking xylophonist to accompany him for this one… m.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXg...

This one is especially cool and weird in acoustic mode. It also works well for Robert Smith sitting in the street and singing with cats meandering about nearby knocking over bottles etc. Ripper version! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zL...

He was actually singing this song in my dream when I woke up... Wild! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNF4...

So, following my dream, I had a look for acoustic Cure songs. How damn good are these?! Robert if you ever wanna pop over to our building in #Beijing, #China feel free! ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ikk...

What a great dream! Hope he played a standard-issue 3hr long Cure set!

True story: I had a dream this week that Robert Smith from the Cure was living at the bottom of my block of flats. He was downstairs on the road one night with his acoustic guitar and called out to the building, "Anyone mind if I sing some songs?" What a dream!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtS...

Another day another purge in #China… www.scmp.com/business/art...