The two people Trump hates most, in town today for the rugby - London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Canadian PM Mark Carney.

Ukraine under Russian drone and missile attack Over 100 Shahed drones are in the air. Kinzhal launches reported at Starokostiantyniv (Khmelnytskyi Oblast) Cruise missile launches are expected later in the night as per monitor TG channel

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Another air alert in Kyiv - and whole country - a MiG-31K, capable of launching a Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, has taken off in fascist Russia. The fast-traveling missile has a range that allows it to reach any point in territory of Ukraine.

History shows that when democracies face crises, strengthening and reinvigorating democratic participation is essential to prevent democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism. This is not that.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Things you don’t notice if you don’t look. Which i obviously haven’t. Glasgow

Brilliant night at the Barrowlands. Live music and the crowd is great. I’d forgotten. First night of The Beta Band tour

A German Airways passenger jet en route to Aalborg, Denmark, was forced to return to Amsterdam due to new drone intrusions in the Danish airspace.

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Say what you like about his political instincts, but against the wind Sir Keir could sniff out a vote losing opportunity at 10000 paces. Fair play.

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Under heavy US pressure, Israel has avoided immediate expulsion from UEFA, Israel Hayom reports.

"Navalny's warning is devastating. Tyranny just requires mass acquiescence or simply indifference. When people stare down at the table and say nothing — instead of speaking out — a tyrant can lock up his critics and destroy a nation’s institutions with ease." open.substack.com/pub/treason/...

Today’s large-scale military march in Belgrade - w/ Russian officials in the stands - is another clear warning that Vucic remains categorically committed to the use of force, both against his own citizens, and neighboring states (specifically Bosnia and Kosovo). www.rferl.org/a/serbia-mil...

Aalborg Airport in Denmark has closed due to unauthorised drones in its airspace. Three flights diverted.

Military aircraft with Spanish defense minister undergoes GPS attack This is the 3rd time a high-profile EU gvrnt plane to suffer GPS interference this year, with the incident occurring over the Baltic Sea near Russia's heavily militarized Kaliningrad Oblast euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/24/m...

Dear followers, I have a request for you. I'm presently back in Ukraine again, and looking to make a reporting trip out to Donbas soon. The costs of this are not low, though, and keep growing as media budgets shrink. That's why I'm asking for your help to make this trip work. /1

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

Farage shows his absolute weakness as a Trump puppet on LBC. Asked about Trump blathering about a completely unproven link between paracetamol and autism, Farage said “I have no idea, I have no idea” and he would “listen” to RFK Jr. He went on to say “science is never settled”. Dangerous.

Fuel shortages are sweeping across Russia. Some stations have been without petrol for two weeks. And this isn’t just a regional issue - there’s even rationing in the suburbs of Moscow. Feels like we might be moving towards a tipping point.

As ever, looking for photos to delete from my always full iPhone storage. Came across this from September 2018 - ‘Planet Farage’ by Jackie Kay.

Popped over to the dark place to have a peek at Aberdeen's feed, but what struck me more than anything was that they have, as their banner photo, a stand full of red smoke when it is illegal to take pyrotechnics into a football ground!!!

I've started reading Camus again the last few weeks, and, for the first time, his autobiographical 'novel', The First Man. I was blown away by this book. His Nobel Prize winning speech is recorded on youtube with a link to the transcript on the Nobel Prize website www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

Trump is giving a lesson on how to ostracise every world leader and look an idiot on the world stage.

That's more than the stipulated 15 minutes to ensure everyone has time to speak. Will Trump be told to stop 🤔, that's at least 25 minutes now. He's just rambling on and on and on....

I don’t think I’ve ever seen America so embarrassed in front of the entire world.

Listening to Trump at the UN General Assembly. So embarrassing. Talking about himself, how great he is, and slagging off Biden. In stark contrast to the Brazilian president's opening speech talking about proposals to improve the world and UN reforms to help achieve this.

🔥 “It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far.” Ukraine’s drone strike campaign against Russia’s oil refineries has left Russian fuel exports approaching their lowest level since 2020, disrupting a key source of revenue for the Kremlin. www.ft.com/content/8f8c...

Sweden says it’s ready to shoot down intruders — no warning needed. Minister Pål Jonson confirmed the military is authorized to use force under a standing directive. This comes after Russian MiG-31s entered Estonian airspace and drones violated Poland's. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/23/p...

Last night, Copenhagen and Oslo shut down all flights last night after drones breached airport airspace. Over 60 flights were diverted or cancelled. By morning, the drones were gone. Now both countries have launched a full investigation. ✈️ euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/23/d...

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

Zara’s “exit” from Russia was never real. Inditex sold its stores to a Lebanese partner under a contract guaranteeing re-entry. Now, Zara and other brands are back in Russian malls—just three months after the CEO swore they wouldn’t return. Sanctions loopholes + corporate greed = business as usual.

Ballistic missile strike in Odesa region ⚠️

For anyone who might be interested and missed out, Beta Band tickets for Glasgow are currently available on Ticketmaster at face value.

A Russian cluster munition directly struck a multi-story residential building in Dnipro during a massive barrage involving 580 drones and 40 missiles, leaving one dead and 26 injured in the oblast and 3 people killed across Ukraine euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/20/r...

Telegram channels reporting that there are roughly 110 Russian drones in the sky over Ukraine right now, with five missile-carrying Tu-95 bombers also airborne. Two explosions - likely drones being shot out of the sky - heard already in Dnipro tonight.

Still testing. Three Russian MiG-31 jets entered Estonian airspace without permission and stayed there for 12 minutes, Estonia says.

Kharkiv citizens watch the sunset as russian drones fly over the city and the air raid alert wails. I can’t explain this to anyone who hasn’t lived here. Being so close to the frontlines, with no warning before the bombs fall, changes you. 1/3

The book is in the top five most read Ukrainian books published by HURI (Harvard). Translation into Georgian and Czech is in preparation. Link below: books.huri.harvard.edu/books/the-to...

Just 65 soldiers, but still, not a line you expect to read - “India has sent troops to join Russian-led drills that are rehearsing war with neighbouring Nato countries”

UPDATE: Tusk says Poland’s State Protection Service downed a drone operating over two government buildings, the Belweder Palace and Parkowa, in Warsaw. Two Belarusian nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement, with the incident under investigation by the National Police of Poland.

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For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

Morning!

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social