This summer, I wrote about Paul Dama, a Boko Haram survivor and award-winning restaurant manager who had been detained by ICE. Yesterday, after 3+ months in custody, Paul was granted asylum (!!) He's still in detention - DHS has until Oct 23 to appeal.

Malawians do not hesitate to throw out incumbents, even in the face of the rather stagnant party leadership of the last 15 years. (If he had not died, I think this would have been Chilima.) Someday, I hope Malawians get a leader dedicated to the structural change they deserve. 🇲🇼

In #Malawi, Peter Mutharika is back. Chakwera has conceded defeat malawi24.com/2025/09/24/c...

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

"Disinformation" is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States. The label is so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether and opting for "more precise" language u.afp.com/SWUq

Badenoch started the talk of expanding ILR to 10 years. Starmer adopted it. Farage is only one-upping them. It should be no surprise.

Pedri at 11 should tell you what a farce this award is.

Reform’s new position on indefinite leave to remain is even more extremist than Donald Trump’s crackdown on US immigration. If any of Reform’s political opponents fancied saying they publicly, that might be nice. Handily, it’s even true.

In the meantime, in Bamako, the junta makes Assimi appear in the sky with drones

In attempting to placate the Reform crowd, Starmer doesn’t seem to get that there’s no way your opponent will say “well done, that’s good enough”.

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Breaking | Australia officially recognizes a Palestinian State.

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

'Indians pleaded to get off': Chaos on plane in US after Trump's H-1B shock www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/i...

Starmer is expected to announce that the United Kingdom has recognized the State of Palestine later today (Sunday, the 21st) according to the BBC

We should be winning today, because if not now, then when? Wolves are in poor form #lufc

Was enticed by your post. Looked it up, just read it all. Absolutely fascinating work by Chloe. Thanks for recommending! Unrelated to Trump: the article calls it "Israel’s war on Gaza." Pleasantly surprised 🙂 had expected the usual "Israel-Hamas war."

What a strange thing to point out.

One thing I’m grateful for in Berlin is the room it has for kids. There are 8 playgrounds within a 500m radius of our place. It takes deliberate action from the local authorities to keep them functioning www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...

One thing I’m grateful for in Berlin is the room it has for kids. There are 8 playgrounds within a 500m radius of our place. It takes deliberate action from the local authorities to keep them functioning www.mylondon.news/whats-on/wha...

El Fasher needs greater focus, with the RSF closing in.

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

Man like Rashy

Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social on How to Tell the Story of Sudan: The editor in chief of The Continent on how African writers cover Africa differently, with @moniango.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

There will be a point at the trials when the prosecutors are going to want to prove a depraved indifference to human life, and man are they going to be spoiled for material.

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

I have been obsessed with the football challenge the Lucarne d'Évry – a small window to a bin room in the southern suburbs of Paris – for years. In 2021, a video of Gay Sissoko nailing a spot kick right through it went megaviral. Here's the video, you can see why: www.tiktok.com/@papi__nueve...

#footballsky #epl In case you missed it, there's guy called Karelprince (on IG, Tiktok etc) who's been explosing the lies ex-players tell on podcasts, and he's got some rattled. Hilarious stuff

D’s unfair surely.

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Harry Gray tearing up U21s. Maybe he needs to play on a bigger stage somewhere. #lufc

Arsenal fans actually signed a petition rejecting Madueke 😂

Worth pointing out too that the five most frequent non-politicians invited to BBC Question Time (as of last year) were *all* Spectator writers. The Far Right is being actively normalised in the British mainstream.

“aggressive interview posture”

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.

Just watching highlights of the other games and I everyone will join me in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, Summerville for wearing gloves in today’s weather.

Elon, born in South Africa and now a US citizen, speaking at Tommy Robinson’s rally, without a sense of irony, calls on “the people of Britain [to] take charge and actually ensure there’s a government that represents their interests and not a government that represents foreign interests”

In the Thuram derby, Marcus scored and didn't celebrate, but Khéphren was having none of that woke nonsense when it was his turn 😂

We were looking very hard to beat there #lufc

Looking at floors and ceilings, Arsenal have the highest floor. They really should be winning the league.

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Frankfurt back in it after a horrid first half.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 213 of The Continent. Botswana bet big on diamonds — and won. But lab-grown stones are rewriting the rules. Is this a slump, or the end of the road? Read more 👉 bit.ly/213_TC

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Great for Nairobi in terms of its profile as an NGO hub. Lots of accompanying benefits. My only worry is what this does to the cost of living - especially housing.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.