He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

Also, Starmer should register Andy Burnham's 'leadership challenge' as a political donation. Rarely has a gift so lavish, so rich, and so generously comical been bestowed on a leader a couple of days before a tricky party conference.

H/t @andeu.bsky.social for reminding me of HI Sutton’s analysis and for the link to the topic being covered by another media for those who prefer their information delivered aurally. youtu.be/2H_tFKT9EXU?...

“We estimate the impacts of data rerouting failures would vary across sectors, ranging from moderate to catastrophic.” The report suggests a series of actions :

Have you ever heard of GUGI? Russia’s directorate of deep sea “research”? Military Unit 40056 I hadn’t, but I have been aware of the threat of aggression by cutting of undersea cables. There has been a resurgence of activity of GUGI - including over areas where UK-US intelligence cables lie

Signs not great at New Statesman since hiring the inestimably overrated McTague and he started porting in crayon-scribbling Unherd-ofs. Eg. this flat-out misleading editorial take on BW's work, conflating fame and popularity, to say Trump (-23) is more "popular" than Davey (+6). Embarrassing. 1/

YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers. Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.

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The very idea that Farage/ Tice/ ReFuk are denying Nathan Gill, recently convicted of taking bribes to tout for Russia, as being one of theirs is utterly ludicrous. Farage and Nathan Gill go WAY WAY back to their shared party (UKIP then BXP) in the European Party. Then ReFUK

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Absolutely NO LIES TOLD.....

Trump’s childishly transparent plan for world domination.

I’d call it a great deal worse than “authoritarianism” @govpritzker.illinois.gov I wonder if ordinary Americans have any idea how disastrously American reputation in the world is hitting the skids.

“Emerging epidemiological data and experimental studies have begun to reveal significant associations, suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection may not only worsen outcomes for existing cancer patients but also potentially influence the incidence and progression of lung cancer”

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

“Synthesize”? Okay, combine ideas to create a new city on top of the blasted killing fields. But the result, purporting to replace a genuine functioning city, would be (strictly speaking) synthetic. Artificial. Fake.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

JD Vance, "You will hear a lot that American healthcare policy is broken" - It is, you need a NHS

Personal medical opinion here, all the money being donated to Trump’s big, beautiful ballroom… At this point would be better as an investment in building a skilled nursing facility that resembles the White House!

Yes. And the reason is a relentless programme of disinformation to rocket boost fear, prejudice and division, in order to usher Farage into No.10. The Times is nothing more than a deeply malign propaganda outfit for the far right.

Bravo this sign.

There are 4.24m people with Indefinite Leave to Remain (or equivalent). 82% are in work, compared with 74% of Britons 3.8m are in relationships with Britons They have about 2.4m British-born children. This bullshit is never going to happen. Again. But... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

We’re fighting for at least a decade trying to find the moral character in the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 public. we need to start by saying Farage and his supporters are 1930s style fascists. Because we need to know who we are dealing with. If you are not ready to accept this, you’re not ready for the fight.

Rachel Reeves has already reopened the Brexit debate. She's asked the OBR to adjust its figure for the effect of leaving the EU - 4% of productivity lost in the medium term, more than half of which has already happened - to take account of the minor effects of the UK-EU "reset". #bbcpm

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Th tabloids are shocked women are being paid

“I was a Remainer, I’m still a Remainer, and I’ll be a Remainer until my dying day” - Minister Chris Bryant at the Labour Movement for Europe rally at #Labour Conference

Protestor interrupts Rachel Reeve's speech "We understand your cause and we are recognising a Palestinian state" Reeves then mentions some of the things she's achieved and says, "That is the difference we make in power, not through protest"

Great to catch up with What Is Left at Labour Conference, ahead of the launch of the Giga Poll. Farage has been spreading division and lies for too long. That’s why I set up the GIGA Poll, to show the truth. The British public aren’t with him. There’s far more that unites us than divides us

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Well thanks for emphasising the party you belong to, Mahmood, because without that, it would’ve been hard to distinguish you from the Tories or Reform. All seemingly competing to win the “Biggest Bastard to Immigrants” prize. You cannot win against Reform, but competing with them disgraces you.

It's a signature rambling speech

Does someone need to explain to the Home Secretary that forcing migrants to volunteer isn’t volunteering? It’s free labour. Do we demand this of anyone else? And what’s a high standard of English?

Congratulations on winning the election in Moldova and beating Putin......

As a former DOD person my first thought about the Quantico all-hands was, why isn't this just a VTC? The meeting is wasteful, stupid, and will disrupt operations in multiple commands, but it *will* give general officers the chance to see for themselves that the commander in chief is mad as a hatter.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

WTF happened?...

I sure am glad we have a president who will send a pilot making $80k/yr to kill a Colombian fisherman making $3k/yr in a boat worth $500 with a missile that costs $1,000,000 to keep the public from learning about all the times he sexually assaulted underage human trafficking victims. #Epstein

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Doing Putin’s bidding? That is Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain. We need a new inquiry by the Intelligence and Security Committee into Reform and Farage's links to Russia.

'I do think there's a case for gambling firms to pay more,' said the chancellor. No doubt she'll change her mind when T.Watson starts lobbying. #Lab25

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed." ― Theodore Roosevelt

Keir Starmer: doesn't want to rejoin the EU Andy Burnham: wants to rejoin the EU One of these men is putting country before ideology, and it's not the first of the two

Shabana Mahmood speech has some very good bits and some really worrying bits. Sections of it could be summarised as: "Lemme give you a small dose of authoritarianism now, without fussing, in order to immunise the country against it." Umm. No.

Man in audience asks Carol and Carole what they what Rachel Reeves said that Farage is in bed with Putin? Carole Cadwalladr, "What do you think she means?" Man, "I think Farage is funded through Aaron Banks and the Russians, that's exactly what I mean"