Reform MPs care so much about the Huntingdon attack that not one of them could be arsed to turn up for the Home Secretary’s statement about the incident yesterday.

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...

Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk: "Since the beginning of the year, there have been nearly 160 successful strikes on [Russian] oil production&refining facilities.For September&October of this yr alone,there were 20 facilities targeted,including 6 refineries,2 oil terminals

🤬In just ONE day, russia carried out 744(!!) strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region. • 8 missile strikes • 481 UAVs • 4 MLRS shellings • 245 artillery strikes Try, JUST TRY, to imagine a day of your life where someone literally try to kill you 744 times! ONE DAY‼️

There are always the gullible 'Tankies' that, for reasons of historical ignorance, will support Russia in spite of all the evidence of Putin's imperialistic inclinations and aggression. Sultana appear to be one of them.

The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Also, may I point out that, just as BRAVE Times journalists found out the word "enemy" disappeared from the witness statement in the Chinese spying case, *under Sunak*, the story vanished from Times front pages, just before he "joined". PHEW! Lucky timing, hey? That COULD have been embarrassing! 🤨

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

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Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is. It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

The cost of riot policing for the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was estimated to be at least £6mn, says the Guardian Given that there were 2,400 away tickets allocated, that would equal at least £2,500 per away fan. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin. They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

Patriotism is loving your country all the time Nationalism is loving your country until the next election

Sky News now offering clarification. They’d previously stated that the Maccabi ban was just about safety of Maccabi fans. Now they admit it was also about Maccabi violence. Ladies & gentlemen, our corrupt journo-political complex just got caught out.

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Military cemetery, Lviv. A gut-wrenching visit after delivering vehicles, medical equipment, dry food, etc to western Ukraine with #JeepsForPeace Volunteer drivers, donated 4×4 vehicles, etc. always needed for future convoys.

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

It was a pleasure to be part of this Jeeps for Peace convoy last week alongside so many wonderful volunteer drivers.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

In addition to having vastly more MPs and being the realistic threat to the Tory Party’s position as official opposition in Westminster, the Lib Dems lead 37 councils to Reform‘s 12, and have 3,200 local councillors to 889. The BBC position is not defendable at all. Shocking bias really.

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

Ukrainian sanctions working. Even pro-Russian channels are stunned by the fuel crisis in Sevastopol. Some stations briefly have A-95, but A-92 is marked as zero across the board. Fuel coupons for Crimea are now being sold on Russian marketplaces.

Brexit: the unforgivably selfish arseholery of those who lied about what it really meant for the country while dodging the cost, hassle and restrictions they inflicted on everyone else. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Poland has begun closing all railway border crossings with Belarus.

“.. would not have happened if I were President.” @wsj.com #Ukraine www.wsj.com/world/these-...

We don’t all share the same internet. The personalised algorithm has siloed us into parallel worlds

In April 2023 100,000 people from all walks of life gathered in London to march for nature - a carnival of creativity and a heartfelt plea to restore our depleted biosphere. The media response? One Guardian article.

Trajectory of Russian missiles and drones during the overnight attack. Monitoring channels clearly show Russian drones violating Polish airspace. Main targets of the attack included Lutsk, Lviv, Zhytomyr and Ivanov-Frankivsk.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage is lying to Congress. He has banned journalists from his events. @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @desmog.com, @thenewworldmag.bsky.social and others were banned from Reform UK’s conference in Sept 2024 - even after buying tickets. @femi-oluwole.bsky.social was also removed from a Reform UK event.

His answer was hugely impressive and it’s what Labour could have said years ago .

This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.

This is how Russian drone crashing into your apartment looks like. + we live in truly bizarre times. this person stands there calmly in their Kyiv apartment that was just attacked by a Russian Shahed drone, and just calmly says why you should indeed hide in bathroom or hallway during the attack ,

The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again

It's been a bad weekend for broadcasters' digital teams. BBC, Sky, and ITV have all had issues with this story and/or the Connolly story. A case of buying the hype in planning meetings and then struggling to overturn the story's topline as it became clear how small the protests were?

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV is openly mocking Trump by describing their bombing of a U.S.-owned Flex electronics factory as "destroying Western investments." Remember when Scott Bessent said that U.S. investments in Ukraine would serve as an "implicit" security guarantee?

This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3

Asylum-seeking is a global phenomenon, with 8.4M AS in 2024 of whom 110K sought AS in the UK & 32K are currently housed in over 200 hotels dispersed around the country. There are issues about that, including for ASs themselves, but the attempt to turn it into a national crisis is a disgrace. 2/3

we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage

The story of the weekend looks like about 3000+ people protesting asylum, 2000+ counterprotestors while 210k people do parkrun

Trump is proving devastating for scientific research and progress.

I'm driving in an aid convoy to Ukraine in a few weeks time, delivering used 4-wheel-drive vehicles for use on the front line. If anyone would like to contribute towards the cost of vehicles, fuel, etc., here's a link to my crowdfunding page: www.justgiving.com\crowdfunding\claudia-watts

There is certainly a regular need for us all to remember that 'feeling very strongly that something is true' is not, in itself, evidence for that thing being true.

For accuracy, the numbers are: whole UK pop 67.0 million of which 9.6 million foreign born. So that's 14.3%. The Times says 1 in 8 prisoners are foreign born. That's 12.5%

UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025 US economy grew 0.6% I present these figures without comment

The painfully stupid and needy Donald is trying to spin all the European leaders coming with Zelensky as somehow an honor. It is an honor to Zelensky. And a disgrace for Trump. They are there because they thought Trump treated Zelensky shamefully last time. And they don't trust him.