“In St James's Park, they’re eating the swans. The people that came in, they’re eating the carp. They’re eating, they’re eating the ornamental fish and waterfowl of the people that live there.” Farage, in the style of Trump.

Why would Farage need a KC Tax Expert's advice if she paid for her house?? 🤔 #ukpolitics

Trump made clear the UN's rejection of his early-2000s bid to refashion its headquarters in marble and mahogany still rankles. The president remains weirdly obsessed with “windmills”, deluded about immigration, and clings to a make-believe dystopian vision of London.

FACT CHECK: The Guardian has debunked some of the torrent of false and misleading claims made by Donald Trump during his United Nations rant. Good work @rstait.bsky.social

If the BBC was your only source of news you’d have no idea Trump told world leaders -UK & Europe are “going to hell” -climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” -“immigration and suicidal energy ideas will be the death of western Europe” -London has adopted Sharia law

The Glorious Corruption of the Dumbest, Most Reckless Administration On Earth Trump's Border Czar accepting a CAVA bag filled with $50k, Trump's family making $5 billion from Crypto, & the world's worst grifters getting rich. With @katiephang.bsky.social thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-glorio...

Daily Mirror on Trump’s UN speech "Deranged" #tomorrowspaperstoday

Fair play to Sadiq Khan. To live rent-free inside the head of the president of the USA is a massive achievement for any Mayor of London.

Nick Robinson’s ”in depth” article is about as shallow as a rapidly evaporating puddle. He doesn't even mention the four men from Led by Donkeys who were arrested for staging a peaceful protest at Windsor Castle last week.

Japan’s Suntory hires American actor Willem Dafoe, 70, for its latest Laphroaig (est 1815) ad. Shades of Harrison Ford's lighthearted series of ads for Glenmorangie (est 1843).

A unit asked to investigate more than £1 .9 billion of suspected fraud on taxpayer-backed pandemic business loans recovered only £7.2 million, UK government admits.

Shares in Danish renewables firm Ørsted jumped after a US judge ruled it can resume work on the Revolution Wind project off the Rhode Island coast. District judge Royce Lamberth granted Ørsted’s request for an injunction to block a “stop work order” issued by Trump against the $1.5bn project.

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

Tylenol—also known as paracetamol or acetaminophen—is used as a painkiller by around half of pregnant women worldwide. Despite zero evidence, Trump has convinced himself that the analgesic is “a very big factor” in autism.

And he’s back ... After ”thoughtful conversations” with Jimmy Kimmel, Disney decided his show will return on Tuesday.

Trump's new-found determination to stamp out criticism is much scarier than the “red scare,” says @risenc.bsky.social. The so-called Mango Mussolini's second administration is today marshalling the enormous powers of government for punishment and revenge.

Free speech latest: former Meta/Facebook global public policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams “on verge of bankruptcy” after publishing Careless People, a bestselling exposé of the Zuckerberg-led social-media firm’s policies and practices.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Looking forward to seeing @lloydalter.bsky.social speak at Scottish Ecological Design Association conference in Edinburgh on 4th Oct. Lloyd teaches sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan Uni and is author of Living the 1.5° Lifestyle and The Story of Upfront Carbon. substack.com/@lloydalter?...

Even Maggie Thatcher wasn't averse to imposing windfall taxes on banks. The IPPR believes Starmer/Reeves should emulate this, with a windfall tax to recoup public money lost on the BofE's quantitive-easing programme. Banks like Barclays, with annual profits of well over £10bn, can readily afford it.

Lib Dem treasury spokeswoman Daisy Cooper calls for a windfall tax on the exceptional profits that UK banks are making from the Bank of England’s £895 billion quantitative easing programme.

“So it’s a psychic, political thriller comedy with a heart. [The bad guy Senator] starts reading people’s minds and when he gets to the President's mind it’s completely blank.” —screenwriter Alan Rudolph, playing a fictionalised version of himself, makes a pitch in Robert Altman’s The Player (1992)

Diageo’s plan to demolish its Talisker distillery on the Isle of Skye and replace it with one that would be twice the size and run by robots is meeting fierce local resistance from the local community. @vickyallan.bsky.social

“I saw more paintings than any human being has ever saw, and statues, but they treated us great.” Trump added that he ate “whatever the hell they served us”. US president reminisces about his UK visit on Air Force One.

Helsinki-based Scots filmmaker Gavin Hanigan & myself have spent a week filming to tell Finland’s incredible story. Despite famines, wars, a meter of sea ice half the year & the perennial threat of Russia, these modest people are quietly top performing. A great model for Scotland

Don’t buy the hysteria. Ignore the right-wing propaganda. Buy the facts. The UK’s problems are no more being caused by immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth. @timharford.ft.com

R.I.P. Conor Gearty (1957-2025). “A force of light, humour and insight has gone from our world, just when we need him most” — David Dyzenhaus

The New Yorker on Jimmy Kimmel. @newyorker.com @jimmykimmel.com

This is a very good piece by George Monbiot on the evolution of the British press and broadcasting since the 1970s. It’s good that George ends on a positive note! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @theguardian.com @jonathan-watts.bsky.social

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

Future Fund fiasco: UK taxpayers have lost £400 million as a result of an investment fund launched by Rishi Sunak.

Inside Trumpworld’s Reality Distortion Field In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing, Donald Trump's advisors were sure who was to blame. That law enforcement says they were wrong didn't, and doesn't, much seem to matter. www.wired.com/story/inside...

Trump just claimed that inflation reached the highest level in US history under Joe Biden. This is a straight-up lie. Under Biden, US inflation peaked at 9% in June 2022. Since 1960 alone, US inflation has twice exceeded this, reaching 13.5% in 1980 and 11% in 1974.

That marvellous moment when two and half years’ work materialises in physical form, as if by magic (with a great deal of help from those nice people at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social …)

“Starmer’s one historic role is to stave off the hard right. He is not only failing, he is paving the way for Farage and his crew. The supposed ‘centrists’ are ushering fringe politics into the mainstream and normalising the abhorrent” Aditya Chakrabortty who ought to be on Bsky in @theguardian.com

The police crackdown on the nine-minute Led By Donkeys video which detailed Trump’s close friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and was projected onto Windsor Castle has been dubbed a “ridiculous overreaction,” by @ledbydonkeys.org

Of course Reform UK leader Nigel Farage didn’t avoid £44,000 in stamp duty on his Clacton-on-Sea constituency “home”.

“African tribe” with huge online presence evicted from woodland near Jedburgh by Scottish Borders Council

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Brothers Ewan, Jamie and Lachlan McLean appeared on @itvx.com's Lorraine, opening up about their 139-day, 9,000 mile voyage from Lima 🇵🇪 to Cairns 🇦🇺 across the Pacific. They have hit their target of raising £1m for clean water in Madagascar.

Revisiting the RBS / NatWest collapse. I'll be talking with Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins of the podcast “A Long Time In Finance” in @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social at 6.30 pm on Thursday 25th September. More info www.libraryofmistakes.com/lectures/jon...

R.I.P. actor, director and environmentalist Robert Redford (1936-2025), who for decades was one of Hollywood’s leading men and founded the Sundance Film Festival.

Scottish Government considers quitting X following owner Elon Musk’s use of platform to spread disinformation, sow discord and incite violence on British streets.

As the UN concludes that Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinian people in Gaza, @iainoverton.bsky.social says the UK must formally end all military and other support for Israel's genocidal campaign or risk being complicit in the gravest crime in human history.

Taxing SUVs in line with European countries could raise £2bn a year for the Treasury, says thinktank Transport & Environment, which wants the chancellor to impose a levy on the largest “Chelsea tractors” to reflect the damage they cause to the environment and infrastructure.

The trial of two prominent businessmen accused of fraud over a £1bn Nama loan deal is to go ahead on 22 Sept. Frank Cushnahan, an ex-banker who became a Nama adviser in Northern Ireland on the recommendation of the DUP, and Ian Coulter, former senior partner of law firm Tughans, deny the charges.

Channel 4 to mark Trump's state visit by dissecting more than 100 of his lies, in what the channel describes as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

How US cash and being unbanned by Musk transformed racist thug Tommy Robinson into a poster boy of the far right. Most transformative was cash from ultra Zionist US tech tycoon Robert Shillman, who has also backed far-right “influencers” Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer, Charlie Kirk and Geert Wilders.

It wasn’t so much that the 316 South Korean workers were detained—it was how they were detained. ICE officials released videos of the workers with shackles on their arms and feet. “Is this any way for the US to treat an ally?” asked South Korean news outlet @hankyoreh.bsky.social.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk widely condemned after inciting violence at far-right rally @kevinschofied.bsky.social