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Are we about to get another hyped era in computing? HSBC claim to have used IBM's quantum computing tech in bond market trading, with the quantum algorithm doing 34% better in results than a traditional one. www.ft.com/content/d9d4...

Nigel Farage fails at science Could Donald Trump ever say anything so mad that Farage would disagree with it? On this evidence, no - probably not

I think this is the right response. Trump will change his mind again (probably after talking to Putin or Orban); & in any case he offered no new US help, in terms of sanctions or military aid. As for "I wish both Countries well" - does that sound like someone working hard for the victory of an ally?

How can potential Reform UK voters be won back? YouGov, commissioned by B4B, asked 3,000 people planning or considering voting for Reform UK which criticisms of Farage and Reform UK would make them reconsider. Here’s what we found out ⬇️ https://www.bestforbritain.org/farage_vulnerable_on_economy

“It turns out they’re all wankers and it turns out they all hate each other and it turns out all they do is fight with each other"

This is really dangerous territory for Farage. He's being pushed towards crankery by the radicalisation of online support.

Farage’s evidence that Muslims want to takeover London: Wait for it. Taxi drivers. In Buckinghamshire. I’ve heard taxi drivers tell me lampposts are watching us, Covid was a scam and Aston Villa will win the premier league!!

we really do need to worry about what Reform might to do to our medicines and vaccine regulation if they get into power christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-vulner...

Contrary to public perception, I think Europe (both EU and the UK) have done rather well in handling Trump, under the circumstances. It was never going to be great, or even good.

Europe's collective US policy is a damage limitation exercise. There are no illusions as far as I can see at senior level about US reliability.

Good dog Nigel. Don’t bite master or he’ll stop feeding you.

Nigel Farage is essentially declaring war on not just every immigrant in the UK, but on the post-Brexit immigration system. An immigration system brought about by… Nigel Farage

"The question you have to ask Farage is, why is he deliberately lying about the facts?" x.com/GBNEWS/statu...

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

The “Ed Davey is obsessed with Farage” takes are weird. A) The media is obsessed with Farage B) If the next election looks anything like the polling, it will basically be a progressive/populist bloc election. Labour won’t be Davey’s enemy. They’ll be his path to govern.

Trump: “I thought the Russia-Ukraine war would be the easiest one because of my relationship with Putin but unfortunately that relationship didn't mean anything.”

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols: “I would say that it's a dangerous thing to show the world that the American president is clearly suffering from some kind of disordered emotional issue, but by this point, there's not a country on the planet that didn't already know it.”

Farage is the ultimate toad.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

Have a look at Melania, sporting a grim, stony "what the holy fuckpuffin was that?" face, until someone points a camera at her.

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Farage is the choice of fascists and r/wing billionaires/oligarchs who own, control virtually all media outlets. He's a dangerous grifter and liar. Brexit broke Britain's economy and he's the arsonist, not the fire brigade.

Family hardship? He’s got a BMW X5!

The Conservative Party chair is saying the 60,000 people in hotels would have been deported to Rwanda. The capacity of the scheme was 300 in year one

Trump told people to inject themselves with bleach to cure Covid. Now he’s coming out with more crankery.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

The Reform Party policy of abolition of indefinite leave to remain is supported by 3% of the public

Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense. Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs. No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that. You cannot defeat delusion with reason. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Deceptive’ dear neighbour letter from Reform sparks anger among Caerphilly residents

Trump told people to inject bleach to cure Covid.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

Interesting take. martinplaut.com/2025/09/20/t...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

These people are dangerous. This is not normal.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

One of the things I find vexing about Kimmel's sacking is how it reveals Disney to be precisely the disingenuous "virtue signaller" the right accused them of being. "BRAVELY" casting The Little Mermaid, so it made them $250m, but voluntarily kissing dictator sphincter, if they stand to lose a cent.

The far right are spreading lies about this over on Musk’s sewer site. www.westmidlands.police.uk/news/west-mi...

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

Honestly, the 1,5% was always just to get it to the nice 5%. What’s happening with the 3,5%, that’s what’s important (and also addressed in the article).

‘What ho, peasants! It hasn’t made me poorer. Ha ha ha!’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This is getting old. Everyone knows the US won't protect Europe. Now obviously Russia has absolutely zero chance to win a conventional war so it's about nukes. Seems prudent for Europe to get 1000 warheads. It's 80y old technology and pocket money

If you think the military should stop small boats then you've not a clue about military capacity or capabilities. What do you expect them to do? Gun them down? Sometimes I just think this country needs to be given a shake and told to grow up.

People who bang on about ‘the military’ being used to stop small boats haven’t actually been in the military. Donald Trump was a draft dodger and called the military ‘losers’ so he’s in no position to talk.