I just feel sorry for teenage kids, no way they will be able to make fake ID with some Paint software and a laminator anymore.

Facebook and Instagram to offer ad-free service in UK for up to £3.99 a month

Is it "move to Dubai"?

Keith is fucking this up royally now.

There are quite obviously competing factions in Number 10 arguing about whether to be Reform-lite or set policy agenda / attack, and for today the former seem to have won. As far as one can tell, virtually everyone sane outside the centre thinks the latter.

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Left: Richard Tice says Dr Aseem Malhotra has nothing to do with Reform UK's health policy Right: Dr Aseem Malhotra being introduced as the person helping advise on Reform UK's health policy at a Reform UK conference

Did the political establishment pave the way for Trump and Farage? on.ft.com/4pIrR7X | opinion

Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found.

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order

Patriots protecting our women?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

🚍 South Londoners, the Bakerloop is here. This new express electric bus from Waterloo to Lewisham is free for its first week and shows how a quicker, greener, more convenient service could transform your daily journeys.

@wired.com Hi, can you please do some investigative journalism on the length of time people are forced to interact with service providers via chat bot/customer service chat systems please. I've just spent a very disruptive to work 3 hours on a chat with my phone provider...

Now O2 having to credit check me, having talked me into a contract renewal, even though I've been their customer for TWENTY-SIX years and have never missed a payment. 🙄 Offended.

Getting really fed up with online chat customer services. Two hours I've been on with 02. 45 mins before they answered, they are taking a few minutes in between messages, probably to juggle multiple customers, meanwhile I get distracted by work. This could have been a 10 minute call!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Regarding the carp and swans, I know you've seen Withnail James. The poacher was white British as were his forefathers going back millennia!

Banger of an intro paragraph When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing. Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models

Dangerous dangerous grifting lying man.

Justin Webb on railway stations: "there's something about their practical use that draws people to them". Yes, Justin, it's where you catch a train 🤦🏻‍♂️

In the late 18th century a group of evangelists decided to 'improve' Britain and beyond. They became known as 'the Clapham Sect'. Their greatest achievement was to lead the campaign to end the slave trade in the British Empire. Read about them here: www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-clapham-...

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Miscrosoft is reportedly in talks with some US publishers to build a marketplace that would compensate them for the use of their content in AI products like its Copilot assistant www.axios.com/2025/09/23/m...

Kimmel: "Disney has asked me to read the following statement and I agreed to do it. 'To reactivate your Disney+ and Hulu account ... '"

Farage’s plan to scrap indefinite leave could collapse the NHS… Which would be incredibly good news for someone wanting us to move to an ‘insurance based system’ FYI the average American pays £480 per month for private healthcare Please wake up folks.

French President Emmanuel Macron phoned President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York intersection that was being blocked off for his U.S. counterpart's motorcade during the United Nations General Assembly.

"Conservative trade barriers"! 👏

Is this a threat?

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

the rapture is in beta testing right now so you’ll need an invite code from someone who’s already there

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Obviously, as a Palace fan, I hate Brighton, but this is very good. Props.

Does paracetamol turn your skin bright orange?

A poorly thought out, vindictive and completely unworkable policy by Reform UK fell apart the moment it brushed up against reality? I am shocked. Shocked I tell you. It’s almost as though they have, yet again, proven they are not in any way or form a serious party.

Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside

This.

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Harry Styles was in Berlin on Sunday. Not performing. Running the marathon under a false name. His time? Under three hours. http://dlvr.it/TNCxcz

Reform said the abolition of ILR would save £234bn because of benefits claims. The figures come from a Centre for Policy Studies report that has been withdrawn because of a dispute over the numbers. The thinktank has said its costs “should not be used”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives

"97,000 fewer jobs in retail than last year" How much of this is down to retailers choosing self-checkout to save money? Stagnating wages for profit has already been a policy for most for two decades now.

Videos shared across social media show a bright fireball streaking across the night sky over various cities in India. It’s unclear whether it was a meteor shower or space debris burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention. Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them. Who do you think Reform are? This. This is who they are.

One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney

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.