David Austin Roses has announced the death of its Chairman, David J. C. Austin, who passed away at his home in Shropshire aged 67.

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❗️Eight Russian air defense assets were destroyed overnight by Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces - six in Russia's Krasnodar region and two in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region. Among the targets were: ▪️ Tor-M2 missile system (Yeysk Krasnodar region, Russia);

He is scum

Boris Johnson: You can't say Putin is going to escalate. I mean, how much more escalation can he do? He's bombing apartment blocks. He's in desperate hole. Escalation isn't the problem. We need to flip the switch in his mind and convince him that geostrategically it's game over.

Fuck sake.

Moving to the appointments now. John Healey has just gone in to Downing Street.

At least somebody is counting.

"Mexico leads Latin America’s pushback against Trump’s migrant crackdown" "Mexico’s decision to pursue criminal legal action over the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals at the hands of #ICE represents the region’s strongest response yet to the Republican’s #immigration policy"

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@lbc.co.uk @tomswarbrick.bsky.social Why now abolish the charter that created the #CharterCity of #CityOfLondon New fiscal rules.

Paresh is right. The EU must be a priority for Andy Burnham. Letter in the Guardian.

Boris Johnson: We should do other things to support Ukraine. We could do much more with shadow fleet. We don't do enough of that in the English Channel. There's about 15 billion dollars' worth of Putin's assets just in London alone. We could unfreeze that and give it to Ukraine.

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Boris Johnson: One way to end the war is for Washington, London, Paris and other Western capitals to declare that Ukraine should join NATO. You don’t hear that now. Putin will respond to that by doing a deal because at the moment, he has no reason to think that we're serious.

Andy Burnham's first foreign leader call since he entered office was to Donald Trump, No 10 confirms. According to @katyballs.bsky.social the G20 summit - which UK is hosting next year - will be held in Manchester. This comes after US president said Burnham was mayor of "some town".

Rachel Reeves' aides currently briefing every journalist they can think of that she was definitely offered a job by Burnham and it was definitely "big"

The Pentagon has identified the two US service members killed by an Iranian strike on their base in Jordan. 1st Lt Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii and Pvt Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.

Boris Johnson: As long as Putin thinks there's ambiguity. And that's the fatal thing about Ukraine, the doubt about ultimate location of Ukraine in the security architecture of the world. As long as Putin thinks there's chance he can keep Ukraine ambiguous, he'll keep attacking.

I don’t know why, but Rowling dingleberry and merkin-headed TERF, “Journalist” Jill, can’t stop tweeting about me! I appear to be living in that cavernous space between her ears completely rent free!

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For those of you that ever wondered what scares the shit out of him: #FabFord

Boris Johnson: One of the reasons war in Ukraine isn't over is that Putin doesn't really know from the West what we want, and we won't declare that we really want Ukraine as part of the Western committee of nations, a group of countries. NATO, for instance, is the crucial thing.

Very interesting and thoughtful piece by @thoughtgenerate.bsky.social Worth your time.

Kevin Keegan dying on new cabinet day sent my head west. Thought he was replacing Lammy for a second. Anyway, RIP Kev x

I bet that by 6pm a slightly bigger majority of people will know that Kevin Keegan has died, than that Andy Burnham is PM.

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BREAKING: Andy Burnham tells reporters he's looking at cutting energy bills and bus fares as part of cost-of-living package which could eventually include more radical plans such as freezing private sector rents.

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Why is it "out" for Reeves, Lammy and Reed, but "sacked" for Peter Kyle?

Kevin Keegan brought excitement to millions on the pitch and so much joy to the many he met off it. He will be greatly missed and my thoughts and prayers are with his nearest and dearest.

Boris Johnson: I want to hear [from Andy Burnham] that UK government will stick with Ukraine and will be even more resolute in support. Ukrainians scoring fantastic successes against Russians, killing more Russians than Putin can recruit. I've got no doubt they are going to win.

⚡️Ukrainian drones strike Russian FSB coordination center in occupied Kherson Oblast, SBU says. Preliminary intelligence indicated that around 100 Russian service members may have been present at the facility at the time of the attack, the SBU said.

In Bicester, Barnham and Braintree, protests against the use of three military barracks to house people seeking asylum have been hijacked by the far right. This includes members of Restore Britain, Patriotic Alternative, and Britain First. Read more: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/20/b...

What is the connection between a long-dead Soviet officer and an oligarch's superyacht in the mediterranean? It's Spenser's last hope. Read why it matters in my book The Last Hope. amzn.eu/d/0293i0DX

Rachel Reeves gone as Chancellor www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

It has been the privilege of my life to serve my country as Attorney General over the last two years. I’ve been so lucky to be a part of Keir’s team, as he delivered for the public at home while rebuilding the UK’s reputation abroad, in particular on the rule of law.

Nice try, Riley.

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This is Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region. Yet another town is slowly getting killed. Russia came to "liberate" it... from its people, homes, laughter, dreams, jobs, and life itself. They brought fire, death, and destruction. That is what they bring everywhere they go.

"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

Well shit... Rachel Reeves David Lammy Peter Kyle Steve Reed ...all gone from cabinet (and probably government entirely). Likely more very good names going too. Cannot imagine only these 4 will go. Not to mention James Timpson from earlier and now Patrick Valance too.

David Lammy sacked from Cabinet. Burnham had previously signalled that he opposed Lammy's plans to curb jury trials