If you listened closely to Hegseth and Trump, they were saying that the US military should be more like the Russian military--unaccountable for its actions, using lethality in favor of intelligence, and where training can be used to abuse recruits.

My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.

Also, this

I am shocked, shocked, I tell you...

A more accurate headline would be "Dishonest politicians and media blame net zero for failed industrial policy". Net zero had very little to do with the closure of Port Talbot.

This is very interesting. Party that used to support opportunities for all, not just rich, is now pissed off that generations of their voters took those opportunities to move from trad working class jobs to white collar & service jobs. They'd rather shove us all back down the mines where we belong.

... all we get are insults and hate because the major parties have decided their immigration policies are best shaped by extremists. This began with Brexit and now we are where we are with Reform as a result. I accept that the UK's media landscape does not help, but the problem is more fundamental.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Anyone who really knows migrants knows this. We know how hard it is to move to another country, and how much commitment and heartache it takes.

As heroic Moldovans ignored threats of violence and huge financial inducements to vote for being European, one of Farage’s closest political allies pleads guilty to taking Kremlin money for political interference. A reminder of what is at stake.

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Another nation fighting Russian tyranny, and winning. As Arthur says in that piece, the fight against Reform is also a fight against Russian tyranny. We should be a single-minded as Moldova is.

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

TIME TRAVELER: I’m here to prevent the rise of — wait, you spoke English. Is this Braunau am Inn, Austria? MAN: No, it’s Queens, New York. TIME TRAVELER: This isn’t 1889, and your names aren’t Alois and Klara? MAN: It’s 1946. I’m Fred Trump, and this is my wife, Mary.

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel behind Trump exporting MAGA playbook to Britain - embedding across three parties: Blue Labour, Tories, Reform - via a network of race science believers. By me with @peterjukes.bsky.social via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

This is an exvellent point.

‘Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors funneling billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money.’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/f...

Before getting too excited, check the detail. These are *optional* cards, not mandatory, and after concerns that blocked a serious plan, the system is provided by the state without private company involvement. That would be a scheme even I could back.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Can I please ask for shares on this? My mother’s lovely retirement cottage on the North Norfolk coast at Cromer has just been reduced to £160k. It’s full of happy memories, has good storage for this type of property & guest bedrooms available to rent. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

This #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain was inspired by Adorno's famous quote that "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I've bored on before about my view that the hidden assumption of the Left is that economics is bad and nasty, therefore the worse and nastier you're being, the better economics you're doing. The worst boss is always a squishy liberal acting how she thinks a hard nosed capitalist would.

Government is not like a business in this respect: it has to provide services to 100% of the market. It cannot simply accept that it won't do business with people without access to certain consumer tech. Indeed those most in need of its services are most likely to struggle with the tech solutions.

In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

I so love this! bsky.app/profile/neve...

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

Bilingual Welsh-English Shakespeare. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

President Stubb on the UN: No single state should have a veto power.If a member of the Security Council violates the UN Charter,its voting rights should be suspended.I believe that these changes at the top of the UN are necessary in order to maintain the UN's central role in international relations

I have a piece in @thenation.com discussing the rise of Britain’s oligarch backed far/extreme right and the threat it represents to democracy. 🧵/1 www.thenation.com/article/worl...

They’re destroying our history!

Zelensky at the UN General Assembly session:

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see also my recent thread on the vulnerability of UK structures to this sort of scepticism bsky.app/profile/chri...

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

PSA...

Resentful competent workforce. But who do their bosses back?

There is no age limit to our ability to learn a new language.

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

I am saying this to EVERYBODY, but @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Powell & 'Rivers of Blood' shouldn't just be on the national curriculum, it should be required listening for all. Esp ANYONE commenting on Reform/Kirk/Yaxley-Lennon. Cannot believe we're wading through this much ignorance again.

I was a boy in the 1970s and I thought it was brilliant. As long as I got fed, could play with my mates down the woods, and watch TOTP and the occasional war film, I was happy. But I was looking at my (very narrow) world through a child's eyes. You'd think this point was obvious to everyone else.

A Reuters review of settlement growth in the West Bank mapped out the expansion of areas under Israeli control, revealing how deeply settlements and other measures have fragmented the territory and why an independent state seems increasingly distant reut.rs/3IkBLMh

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

Shame SHAME on SKY & BBC. I absolutely blame them for quite needlessly allowing and aiding this vile piece of 💩 to spread his petrol and light the fires to the ever widening field of view Sky and BBC provide.

Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.