Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

From the man who brought us intravenous bleach as a Covid cure…

I think the horse speaks for us all

"They've said they'd do that" is crucial. The most important lesson of the last ten years is: when these people tell you who they are, believe them. Anyone saying "surely even Reform wouldn't go that far" just hasn't been paying attention.

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.

Fantastic piece. This graph particularly caught my eye. What is going on here?

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

This, totally ⤵️

On most issues, most of us disagree with Farage: Brexit, leaving ECHR, paying Taliban for refugees, Trussonomics, tax breaks for the wealthy, huge welfare cuts, binning NetZero, scrapping workers’ rights, arselicking Trump… Our politics should reflect us, not him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

TEF changes could lead to ‘more university mergers or closures’ #highered #AcademicSky

OMG the Trump/Starmer presser 😱

All UK HE news talks of contraction. Bronze TEF providers will be defunded. Research funding is to be more "targeted". Total continuation of the Conservatives' vision for HE, under Labour.

The other major difference we have to thank Gladstone for: a professional civil service who aren't replaced as governments change. Although Reform want rid of that. Another sign of how dangerous they are. /6

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

This is fantastic news for Wales!!! Wait, what? the investment is only being made in England and Scotland? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Free childcare for all two-year-old children in a Welsh county has been rolled out as part of the expansion of the Flying Start programme

In London, hate will never win.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

UK could raise £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries. Why do so many people want giant SUVs? They damage roads, create more pollution, cause more serious injuries and take up bigger parking spaces. UK buyers pay 20 times less tax than in other European countries. Tax them.

Brexit is the toxic epicentre of the political shitshow we now have to endure. It promoted idiocy and deceit, endorsed racism, divided us, made us poorer, weaker, less safe and less sane. It’s belittled the country, killed the Tory party and given birth to Reform. A relentless klaxon of failure.

Oh this is just marvellous. Well done whoever did this. 😂

Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured on Welsh roads since the default speed limit was lowered from 30 to 20mph two years ago Casualties on 20 to 30mph roads between July and September 2024 were the lowest for the three month-period since records began in 1979 👏 Evidence-led policy

This looks like Palestine Action did the government a favour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I can either confront & own the consequences of every policy I’ve supported & every leader I’ve cheered for, or I can pretend they had nothing to do with me & become Nigel Farage’s slipper-warmer. No contest.”

𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗿'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 Very interesting Washington Post article on Gib's new treaty status. Comments on the article to follow, but first, what should campaigners in the UK take from this? A 🧵

Scepticism over the advance of technology has led to a revival of RS Thomas’s poetry, as seen at a choral festival inspired by the Welshman’s finest works. https://observer.co.uk/news/profile/article/the-machine-appeared-in-the-distance-the-revival-of-rs-thomas

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/ - share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc. - and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/ please re-post?

And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts. Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.

You end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government - a LABOUR government - sending its ministers scuttling round to the BBC on a Sunday morning to deliver meaningless bollocks about freedom of expression

FFS

On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of those who wish to divide us for political or financial gain.

Elon Musk is a wealthy foreign individual attemting to interfere directly in our political process and to stimulate violence on our streets. For our government to ignore this would send the wrong signal to the world. They must do something now.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Glorious ❤️

Fantastic news for David Bowie fans: the David Bowie Centre is now open at the V&A East Storehouse 🚀 From Ziggy Stardust to Blackstar, more than 90,000 items from David Bowie’s life and work will be available to the public for the first time ever - and it’s completely free.

This is McCarthy era behaviour and shame on the university for losing 160 staff n students this way- the accused do not even know what the complaints were about and are not allowed to see the accusations which seems quite frankly out of the 1984 playbook

S4C's acclaimed Welsh-language drama Y Golau (The Light in the Hall) returns with its gripping second series titled Y Golau: Dŵr set to premiere this Sunday

So farmers are filling our rivers with human shit and landfill ooze, but can we release a few beavers? Oh, no, mate.

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Distracting myself from the constantly awful news by battening down the hatches: outside furniture snuggled down, blackberry jam made and Bardsey Apple tree crisps tasted. Hyfryd iawn! #DiweddynHaf

Fewer guns = fewer deaths Simple fact. We are the world outlier.

This is heartbreaking and disgraceful; and similar to what is happening here in America, where - with Supreme Court blessing- you can be arrested for looking foreign, doing cheap labour, and hanging around building sites or garden centres. All people of colour are now advised to carry ID papers…

We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

People will freak out over the Reform numbers but for much of the rest of Wales the Plaid Cymru numbers are as if not more salient

I’d never heard of this terrible event. A vivid reminder of the ‘forgotten’ horrors of war evoking the best and worst of humanity 💜