Some Boss Tele Reds (PSV Edition)

'Nigel Farage is facing calls to explain why he repeatedly aired tropes and conspiracy theories associated with antisemitism during interviews, after claims the Reform UK leader used racist language in his teens.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This a good time for those who have been systematically harassed/abused for criticising the Rwandan regime to check out where those trolls are based. The answer, in many cases, will be "Rwanda". Which is amusing when they are pretending to be Austrlian surf babes. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This article's focus on Trump and MAGA is inevitable, I guess, but this new facility is also opening up thousands of "sock puppet" troll accounts run by Rwanda's dictatorial regime to public scrutiny - finally. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really good to see this shabby deal ending. Congratulations to the fans who campaigned against it. Let's hope the many other Western sports teams helping Rwanda sportswash its image while occupying eastern Congo will do the same. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Sports clubs are, at the end of the day, answerable to their supporters. Fans of all the other teams helping Rwanda sportswash its reputation should take their cue from the Gunners For Peace. www.instagram.com/p/DRPGbqHjNZw/

Not just Jamal Khashoggi: Trump's pal Mohammed bin Salman, the ruler of Saudi Arabia, executed another journalist and critic of his abusive rule earlier this year www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

NEW: Reform UK has been accused of embracing racism after it picked a former academic who argued that UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds are not necessarily British as the head of its new student organisation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So not just racist, but a liar too www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Just Some Boss Tele Reds (City Edition)

I don’t recall anyone from the BBC resigning over the Orgreave edit.

I shall be on Circl8 Radio tomorrow night, Tuesday11th November at 9pm (UK) time with my world music programme Dave Sheekey Plays The Music Of Five Continents And Half A Dozen Small Islands. Circl8 Radio broadcasting from Chester to the world via the internet.

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

The one good thing to emerge from Tanzania's brutal elections: African election observers are no longer turning a blind eye to abuses committed right under their noses. dailyfriend.co.za/2025/11/08/t...

What a joke! A climate and nature event sponsored by Essar, one of the world's biggest polluters. Cllr Louise Gittins - Leader of Cheshire West, you should be embarrassed. #DrawTheLine

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellent article from Charles Onyango-Obbo on how the recent bloody election debacle marks the definitive, and overdue, end of Tanzania’s perceived exceptionalism. nation.africa/kenya/blogs-...

It’s so grim - and a depressing sign of the times - that Reform UK bigots are putting this absurd and offensive suggestion into the public arena

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What happened to the Mail&Guardian? If they had published an article dictated word for word by Kagame's press spokeswoman, it would still have constituted better journalism than this. Context-free, stunningly-awful reportage. mg.co.za/africa/2025-...

#comingup at circl8radio.com/%F0%9F%92%A5 A midday jolt of post-punk pulse, indie grit, and new-wave shimmer as Magnus Shaw takes the reins. Expect angular guitars, synth shadows, and lyrical bite, curated with the precision of a vinyl snob and the heart of a rebel. #music #musicsky #chester

Reminder: Here's what Nigel Farage tried to take away from you this week... Join.greenparty.org.uk

What amazing news to wake up to! If you want to help make hope normal again in the towns and villages across Cheshire West, join us. #DrawTheLine #makehopenormalagain Join.greenparty.org.uk

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

Ian’s previously written compassionately about Alice. Here he writes on his own grief, as the first anniversary of his daughter’s death approaches, and how he found solace in Mexico, where Día de Muerto is much more than a tourist attraction, a day of remembrance and celebration of those we mourn 🩷

The cartoonist Gado, on the recent elections in his country of birth:

Would you look at that, none of the four richest clubs drawn against each other. What are the odds!

Happy Halloween! Celebrate spooky season by browsing LUP's Halloween reading list, from science fiction and gothic literature, to grotesque digital culture and ghost stories. More here:

This is the best analysis I've yet read on Raila Odinga's style of politics. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Just finished this. Gerard Prunier in characteristically provocative mode, going for the jugular of the French state and its history of African intervention. It helps to have some grounding in French politics of the last 50 years to fully appreciate the book. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/colonia...

The Conservatives would not deport as many people as Idi Amin. They would deport *more*. www.ft.com/content/9a1d...

Over the course of a decade the Conservatives have moved from being a centre-right party in coalition with liberals to adopting far-right policies in their desperation for post-Brexit relevance

My old friend Daniel Simpson interviewed me about working with John le Carré on "The Mission Song", his novel on eastern DRCongo, for his podcast. ancientfutures.substack.com/p/le-carre-m...

Presidential immunity is such a convenient thing. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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For first time in history The Greens have more members than the Conservatives at over 130,000 members.. it’s a seismic shift in the shape of British politics Yet the silence from BBC is deafening.. as it is from most MSM BBC managed to report when Reform hit over 130K members but for Greens… 🤫🤫😡

Forest Fans, prepare yourself for…Hard Yards. Noise. Feel. Alignment. Back on the Grass. Earn my Stripes. Fine Margins. Details. Gonna Take Time. Good Outfit. Change the Story. Trust the process

Farage's duplicity on Russia, pushing of Putin’s propaganda and shameful betrayal of democracy shows that he is totally unfit to lead our country. My ⁦‪@inews.co.uk column inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

A Rwandan newspaper is reporting that Kigali will apply for Red Notices against 25 individuals it named as "terrorists". Sadly, Rwanda's past abuse of the Red Notice system has not passed unnoticed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Good luck with that. occrp.org/en/investiga...

🚸 Sunday School: Villa of The Damned ⚽ Should UK bend over backwards to welcome Israeli football fans, while Israel rolls out the red carpet for English hooligans? + New research into Brexit damage. + Favourite Autumn comfort foods. 🍊 spotify.link/Ug3MyT3xAXb 🍏 coming soon

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

Rwanda recently published a list of 25 supposed "terrorists" abroad. Many were once Kagame's most trusted colleagues - wonder what changed?😁 Slapping the "terrorist" label on any critic or dissident is a well-recognised form of transnational repression. youtube.com/watch?v=LvmOfRRN30c

Reveal's podcast is a follow up to last week's coverage of the phone tracking technology being sold by a company called First Wap to dictatorships (including Rwanda) to track dissidents. revealnews.org/podcast/cell...

Farage is lying over his party’s links to a Kremlin stooge. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n... Why is this story of Russian ties to the party leading in opinion polls being ignored by most of the media? (My recent article ianbirrell.com/russian-tent...)

Part 3 of The New Humanitarian's reportage from eastern DRCongo. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...