www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Doesn’t quite express the actual policy!

Wake up to 400 emails on how I can hide my money from the Chancellor and, as ever, it's good to see the generous, warm-hearted, UK press in action.

Not a royal watcher so may have missed something here,but it does seem that the commentariat want the Sussex marriage to fail? Why?

I've given up on pointing this out, but it is 100% true. The list of "new discoveries" about platforms that I literally filed public affidavits about in 2010 or testified on live TV about in 2012 is... really long. We could skip a bunch of bullshit by looking at what is already public.

I found 2024 incredibly frustrating. Because I (and lots of other people) kept explaining that the fiscal position of all parties was literally impossible but broadcast (in particular) was never willing to go that far.

Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.

So Trump wants to bring down the BBC.

@jonilo.bsky.social @politicalquarterly.bsky.social what would it take for a women to become President of the United States? A series of unlikely events. doi.org/10.1111/1467...

From our porch as the valley fog lifted this morning

My neighbour in Umbria

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer: 2021: 28 2023: 41 2025: 42 👈 And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.

Congratulations to the Netherlands for showing authoritarianism the door! It can be done - Wilders' far-right party just lost 12 seats in their 150 seat House of Representatives, leaving them only 25. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

I would pay more attention to this Teams meeting, but a heron has just landed on top of this tree out my window. @everyheron.bsky.social

It’s here! Gendering Party Politics published with Oxford University Press & available in all good bookshops in hardcover & paperback. Edited by @merylkenny.bsky.social and @elinbja.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61464

Might we think of January 6 2020 invasion of the capitol as Trump’s Beer Hall Putsch?

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

#NoKings Miami!

I know how the media works. The whole China kerfuffle is being bigged up to avoid the bigger picture about Russia. China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far

this has pretty evidently been the plan from the outset, where is the plan to stop it?

New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...

I’m beginning to think the passage of time has washed away that raw understanding of 1914-45 that protected us from lurching back to madness

“Mood music changing” captures this perfectly. And people might not realise quite how concerning this is for people living here with such immigration status. Suddenly it feels like things are up for discussion that weren’t, and mainstream politics is just going along with it

I did predict he would turn the experience into a substack. A lot of lessons to learn ( for Sam and the NHS!)

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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To be boycotted

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions. People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

And again

View downhill on Highbury Fields

Downing Street pushing out more women I see.

Anyone have experience of Wiley’s Research Exchange system For journal Submission?

So reliably charming

Highbury Fields today

Home office has long had a somewhat non accountable border force.

The conversation about the detail of the fascist take over of US government is about demonstrating that it is taking place. That ship has sailed. We already know.

Y'know there are some really excellent Private SNAFU educational cartoons from WWII that we could force these clowns to watch but I think they were too subtle, really.

I keep thinking about those 800 Generals and Admirals who had to sit through 90 minutes of Hegseth and Trump…their faces were stone-like and without any emotion…… I think I felt that we might have the beginning of a real and powerful resistance movement that we hadn’t anticipated……🤞🙏

open.substack.com/pub/benansel... Why Labour should stop chasing reform voters.

Just had time to properly read this brilliant piece by @benansell.bsky.social. It left me even more convinced than I already was that what he calls Labour's (and indeed the Conservative's) "prole-whisperers" are horribly mistaken if they genuinely think chasing after Reform voters is the way to go.

Excellent look at where and why we draw lines from Ian Dunt channeling his inner moral philosopher. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

My timeline, summarized: "Nice university you've got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it."

Soon we’ll learn whether our military stand by the principles that define their duty to our country and the Constitution—or whether they break them to serve the depraved, degraded & lawless desires of a wannabe dictator and his sycophantic “War Secretary.” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-i...

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.