What life is like for those living in the swathe of DR Congo captured by the Rwandan-backed M23. Excellent reportage by The New Humanitarian. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

So the Tories continue on their populist death march as a Farage tribute act instead of showing the courage to win back voters appalled by their past antics. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him. He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

Excellent slice of controlled fury at Jenrick’s repulsive racism 👇

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes. A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy? Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens. Same old Tories.

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Cinematic

Rampant stupidity. Politicians attack the ECHR, but ignore what it means or how it works. It has become a target, but reality is it has very limited impact on asylum removals. Leaving it though would have catastrophic consequences for the whole country. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Really depressing but not unsurprising to hear and see commentators across the networks scramble to weaponise the terrible events and loss of life in Manchester yesterday. Maybe they could give it a day off and actually mourn the victims.

Cinematic RS

Before his move, in his previous 95 league games, Dewsbury Hall picked up 9 yellow cards In just 6 games for Everton he has 5 While its possible he has suddenly become a different player overnight, it’s equally possible that Everton are just officiated differently

Fortunately the European Parliament keeps a record of Nigel Farage shamefully repeating Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine and absolving Russia of any responsibility for invading a democratic nation while saying Putin 'is on our side' in a more significant struggle

When Shabana Mahmood says migrants can’t get indefinite leave to remain if ‘taking a penny in benefits’, this must mean a couple - maybe working as NHS doctors or nurses - must forget about claiming any care support if they have a child with disabilities. Yes, this is Labour 2025

Brian Patten - one of the first poets I loved www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Jimmy Carr, Jimeoin, Jack Whitehall, Omid Djalili - and all the others that were anxious that they weren’t rich enough so had to take that delicious Saudi Money - hope none of you are pontificating with your delusional morality on a podcast soon

Handball is essentially meaningless. Less a law more a discretionary interpretation depending on mood

What a surprise: senior Reform UK figure pocketed cash to promote Russia, following the far-right rulebook seen elsewhere in Europe

@housingsector.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/muzu...

Keep Reform out of Strawberry! It's PAUL BOWERS or them.... #strawberryward #byelection2025 #VoteGreen #realhoperealchange #ellesmereport

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PAUL BOWERS stands up for communities and the environment. Essar refinery (August 2025) got £2.5 million for jet fuel, plus £7.2 million for the blue hydrogen furnace. A foreign company, earning billions, taking money from you. Flaring, smells, air pollution are at a high. This needs to stop.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

“Farage often says he lives rent-free in British politicians’ heads, but Trump lives rent-free in Nige’s. He’s The Donald’s emissary to the UK. An existence dedicated to sanitising Trump’s madness for a British audience” Crace nails the menacing idiocy of Farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump’s fanboy wants to round up for deportation people granted settled leave to remain on the basis that they fail to earn what he considers to be high enough wages.

Hear from PAUL BOWERS standing in #strawberryward #ellesmereport

£44million profit on Mersey Rail that should be back in public ownership. PAUL BOWERS will work with Wirral Green Party and CWaC Green Party Councillors & the Unions to push for this. We need affordable, accessible public transport now. #strawberryward #byelection2025 #VoteGreen #realhoperealchange

A cautionary tale of ex-pat life in Thailand, including a fine photograph of a local woman pointing at no cash machines at all.

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

Trump's peace deal for eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is in trouble: www.reuters.com/world/africa...

This is exactly what happens when a sports organisation gets in bed with a dictatorship. As many of us pointed out at the time, the UCI should never have chosen Rwanda as a venue for world championships. What the **** did they expect? www.belganewsagency.eu/belgian-jour...

If you're a control-freak police state, best not volunteer to host global sports events which attract hordes of journalists. Annoying, disobedient, disrespectful things, journalists. Rwanda should never have been allowed to host these cycling championships. cyclinguptodate.com/cycling/cont...

I was interviewed by Jan Antonissen ahead of the cycling championships in Rwanda. Striking how many media outlets doggedly gloss over this event's political aspects, despite the fact Rwanda already politicised it by banning a Belgian journalist. www.humo.be/nieuws/wk-wi...

Talking about Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, iconic hotels and the joy of storytelling on "Start the Week" this morning. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

@cwacgreen.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Tommy Robinson’s mass far-right rally should be a wake-up call to real patriots. My @theipaper.com column inews.co.uk/opinion/tomm...

"Eurovision is supposed to stand for peace, shared humanity, and lots of fun. But these values cannot coexist with complicity in genocide.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/eurovis...

Goodison Reborn  Read More Here: tinyurl.com/yu8uy2r5

Beto belongs to another Everton, the hard up, fighting for survival side of recent years He’s not equipped for what this version of Everton wants to do Works his arse off but does not have what it takes to kick us on, and never will A better forward would’ve got a brace today

The 25th anniversary edition of "In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz", my account of Mobutu's rise and fall, comes out tomorrow. Back when it was first published, I never dreamed it would still be selling all these years later. Funny. It has a new afterword and updates throughout.

I'd not heard of Critical Threats before, but this is a strong report detailing the administrative structures being put in place by the Rwandan-backed M23 as it attempts to create a protectorate in eastern DRC. Rwanda is in it for the long haul this time. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/m23...

Nigel Farage writes this in an article tonight about Charlie Kirk’s horrifying murder - just days after he was hugging and hailing a woman at his party conference who urged people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.

I shall return to Chester"s Circl8 Radio tomorrow night Tuesday 9th September at 9pm (UK time) for my world music programme Dave Sheekey Plays The Music Of Five Continents And Half A Dozen Small Islands. Available via the internet