It sounded like Kimmel was driving a pretty hard bargain on coming back on the air—Disney was begging him, not the other way around—so let's hope this is interesting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

And yet Chris Mason acts offended when @eddavey.libdems.org.uk expresses perfectly understandable concern about the BBC's editorial choices.

Pretty disgraceful for Mason to call Davey’s criticism Trumpian given his disastrous coverage of the Reform conference among other things. Maybe do your job better instead of shooting the messenger?

Poland's statement to Russia at the UN. "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or 'by mistake', and gets shot down, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned." ~AA

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

No. 10 spokesperson responding to a far right idea: "lol how will you pay for Dachau?" No. 10 spokesperson three days later: "On reflection, Dachau is bad"

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": #Moscow has devised a plan to interfere in the #Moldovan parliamentary elections and disrupt the country's path toward EU membership, @bloomberg.com reported on Sept. 22, citing documents it had seen. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/media-reveal...

"Brexit will allow the Parliament more legal autonomy to legislate and regulate independently at the cost of making Britain measurably poorer" would have been a much more accurate and honest framing of the choice facing voters.

Definitely true. Father Ted was gentle, thoughtful and funny.

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

I have nothing against Malik but if you attend a far right rally, then you are supporting the far right. And anyone voting for Reform, whatever their justifications, will be backing the far right policy of mass deportations of legal migrants. Let’s be honest here observer.co.uk/news/columni...

This feels so much like pre referendum times. Opposition proposes crazy, damaging policy [then, Brexit, now, withdrawal of indefinite leave to remain retrospectively...]. Economic arguments made on both sides. Voters can't see the damage of the hypothetical because it hasn't happened...

Radio 4’s coverage of the Charlie Kirk rally is bizarre. Terrible whitewashing spin from Sarah Smith juxtaposed with the truth in the form of clips of Trump’s ranting

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

Good morning☕ at #Bluesky #NATO😵‍💫- @RaduHossu at X Political Strategist Do you know how #Russia wins over #European minds? With the help of empty statements such as those made by @SecGenNATO who described NATO response to the incident in #Estonia as "swift and decisive" Turkey's response... 1-4

Nothing but contempt for people who voted out of fear to honour a fascist

Finding myself cheering on Ted Cruz and Karl Rove is disconcerting but there we go I guess

♥️ this

And also on Friday, two Russian aircraft buzzed a Polish oil platform in the Baltic. I’m sensing a pattern. If NATO doesn’t make the Russians take them seriously, intrusions will grow more dangerous. They need to be told if they enter NATO airspace, they will be shot down - & we have to mean it.

Dutch late night TV has its take

I tend to agree with this and avoid arguing on social media as much as possible and always regret it when I occasionally do

DONALD TRUMP VS JIMMY KIMMEL Tell Disney capitulating to Trump is unacceptable. Bring Kimmel back, now: action.eko.org/a/disney-kim...

Artists like Lindelof, Springsteen, Hannah Einbinder and Pedro Pascal have displayed more spine than most US institutions

The live blogging of anything that is said, regardless of veracity, has been a disaster for news. The BBC needs to stop doing this.

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany has changed its position and now supports the use of frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine's needs — Bloomberg. Germany's position changed, in part due to concerns that if USA completely stops aid to Ukraine, the burden of supporting Kyiv would fall disproportionately on Berlin.

This whole thing is so unimaginably gross. Makes me sick to my stomach. inews.co.uk/opinion/king...

Pretty much the prefect video for our times. They insist their tech is about to reach the level of self-awareness but it still autocorrects were for we're.

This is the standard approach through history: The community of the free. We've always had people insist on liberty, but only for their group, typically white men with property. Progressive liberalism was about rolling out those rights for everyone, a process that is now being reversed.

Why Maga’s next project is to fix ‘Broken Britain‘. V good analysis.

Trump admin doesn’t want anyone to hear what Jimmy Kimmel said: “The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Important and timely contribution by the Attorney General, reported here.

This is truly revolting, and the New Statesman should be ashamed of itself for having let it get anywhere near publication. There is a case for assisted dying, and offensive drivel like this only harms it.

This again shows Starmers poor political judgement. You cannot build a stable relationship with America. That time has gone. The special relationship (which never really existed on the American side) has long gone. #ukpolitics

The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening. @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

Chris Mason's take: a bit of pageantry with what he describes as a 'vital ally' over here to do some regular horse trading: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Roasted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...

Essential podcast about the appalling career of terrible person Charlie Kirk

Keir Starmer tells his Cabinet that scenes of police under attack at a march "led by a convicted criminal and egged on by a foreign billionaire calling for violence" sent "a chill through the spines" of British people. Says UK in "the fight of our times" against "toxic division" and "we must win"

The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?

BBC falling for the hype and making it look like a Trump visit has caused Google to change its plans and spend more money. This is just a press release of something they had in mind to do anyway, and still might not do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glorious bit of shitposting by Khan here. Top man.

The right have launched an all-out attack on liberals and the left, in the wake of the Kirk killing, pushing narratives about left-wing violence and the need to investigate liberal nonprofits and Schumer and Jeffries are totally AWOL. The Dems are leaderless. Shocking.

Montie thinks this a beautiful sight. It was recorded from very close to St Thomas' Hospital, where a doctor has given us a much less beautiful insight into that day. Montie is such an idiot. bsky.app/profile/ceeb...

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

And JD Vance & Elon Musk lecture us Brits on ‘free speech’…It’s not just brass neck of monumental proportions, it’s gaslighting the American people & ourselves.

I strongly suspect Starmer didn't want to do this just before Trump's visit but he has been forced into it by the rising tide of anguish among Labour MPs and supporters. Well f*ck Trump, and f*ck the pretend special relationship. It's time to go all Hugh Grant.