Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR @janiceheppenstall.bsky.social @sussexbylines.co.uk

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

These aren't random lies—they're part of the relatively short runway the Trump administration will use to illegally invoke the Insurrection Act and soon after declare martial law and end our democracy I'm unsure if we have days or weeks left, but I suspect it's one of those two rather than months

New poll shows: Potential Conservative voters are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure rather than a success. @pimlicat.bsky.social: “The British public, including the Conservatives’ voters - recognise that Brexit has been a calamity for our economy.” https://bit.ly/3WxPUsO

On the territories of Donetsk region occupied by Russia,48 Ukrainian children have been placed under forced psychiatric treatment as punishment for "extremism," Mariia Krasnenko, the author of the report How Russia Erases Ukrainian Identity Under the Guise of Combating Extremism, reported.

~ 'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – Byline Times ~ https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/stunned-farages-admission-he-knew-nathan-gill-but-not-his-pro-russian-sympathies-does-not-stand-up-to-scrutiny/

Trump announces he's putting a bajillion percent tariff on China

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

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Meanwhile, the man in charge of this horrific circus really thought he was in with a chance of winning a Nobel Peace Prize. How did we ever let him believe that? And yes this includes us, UK, who indulged him with pretty carriages, horses, soldiers and palaces.

The first phase of a ceasefire deal brings fragile hope to Gaza. Jacob Ecclestone looks back at the warnings from history that might still help guide peace.

Notable market moves this morning: 10-year U.S. Treasury yields below 4.10%. WTI crude oil below $60. These developments, combined with remarks signaling future rate cuts from Fed Governor Waller (identified as one of the five finalists to replace Chair Powell), will provide a boost to stocks.

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

@yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk ✉️welcomes 'encouragingly combative' #Starmer #Labour conference 🗣️speech on #Brexit & its role in encouraging #FarageBoats Via BBC Verify www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #RejoinEU #BrexitReality #UKPolitics Is #Labour PM & party now more assertive 🥊...do you welcome this❓

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Trump’s not got the Nobel Peace Prize…..let the tantrum commence.

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Russian attack on Odesa last night. At least five people injured and massive fires. Terrible.

How's that Brexit reset going, prime minister? Have you made Brexit work yet? www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/eu-set-...

Powerful - the name of every child on a list compiled by health authorities been killed in Gaza, starting with 1 day old Yaqeen Yousef Sami Al-Tilawi www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Is this situation not a consequence of Brexit, of the UK leaving the EU? Did not Brexiters complain that the EU was a "protectionist racket"? Do they now complain that the US is also such a "racket"? Difficult to be on the outside of such "rackets". www.theguardian.com/business/202...

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

Real world consequences come crashing into Brexit…remember Farage said that remaining in the EU would mean the death of the steel industry.

An incredible scoop from Darren here lifted straight from... Polanski's public Wikipedia page

“EMBARRASSMENT TO THE EXEC BRANCH” NASHVILLE – A federal judge in Nashville ruled there is a “realistic likelihood” that the govt behaved vindictively in bringing charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador by Trump. tennesseelookout.com/2025/10/06/n...

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Is that another Brexit benefit? No, quite the opposite. news.sky.com/story/uk-ste...

Warning! This is from the Torygraph. Seems they're not fans of the new Entry/Exit System or being forced to abide by EU rules, even ones they voted for. uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-threatens...

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill” searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?” AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

Russia's defeat is not the aim of the Slovak Republic's foreign policy and government, PM Fico said. During the O 5 minút 12 program, he said that the war between Ukraine and Russia could have ended three months after it began, but someone uses this war to fight Russia to the very end.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here. Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

Leeds for Europe is proud to support the Leeds Stand Up To Racism march and rally. Saturday 12:30 outside Leeds Art Gallery.

'What happens to our democracy when leaders on the left adopt the rhetorical playbook pioneered by Bannon, Farage, and Trump?' Should the Greens take lessons from populism?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

Still waiting for the moment when a UK government is going to go further than vacuous words… and say that they are going to undo Brexit's pernicious effects… by at least working to join the Single Market and a Customs Union... (which can be done by bipartite treaty with the EU, btw.)

Read this list when the author put it up on X. You got the sense he was struggling after typing "number one."

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash. Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Amazingly enough, it seems like the claims made in a book listing the successes of Brexit might not be quite right... presumably also the book doesn't include how UK exports haven't risen since 2019, and UK immigration has, when I seem to remember the promise was of the opposite.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

A State Department inspector general report says U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson dismissed an embassy contractor at Salvadoran President Bukele’s request. The contractor had talked to a journalist about a suspected government pact with the MS-13 gang. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/42WCOcc

This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation. Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!

"We are a Palestinian family from Gaza, uprooted and displaced by the ongoing war. Under heavy bombardment, our home was destroyed, forcing us to flee with nothing but the clothes we were wearing. Overnight, we lost everything"