It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people” And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

I didn’t think I’d ever say this: let’s hope the Tory party can be saved | Polly Toynbee

Well said, Gary Neville! 👏

A work of art

‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Today, for horribly tragic reasons, might not have been the worst day for a lecture introducing my students to the dangers of antisemitic discourse and imagery infecting debate about the Israeli.Palestinian conflict.

Strong, deeply sad piece. "Even when this war somehow ends and takes the temperature of life down a few degrees, the long-term trends in this country (and elsewhere) are all heading the wrong way." www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-the-...

Conference season in different times. Tony Benn at Labour Party Conference, Brighton, #OnThisDay 1979

😂 A sense of humour at least

While today he presents himself as the defender of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment, the Russian intervention in Syria was supported by Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his director of communications Seamus Milne. This is why Syrians continue to despise him. bsky.app/profile/ozka...

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

I didn't know until we buried my mother, so probably most people here don't know: Jewish cemeteries strongly recommend that you get insurance for the headstone. Because the cemeteries are so often desecrated, the gravestones smashed.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

yes to all of this

Oh no. One of the deceased in Manchester was killed by gunshot from police

Breaking news: Greater Manchester Police said that its officers shot two of the victims in the attack on a synagogue in the city on Thursday, one of whom died. on.ft.com/3VJlnbj

DEP Bella, bellisima Claudia Cardinale 🖤🖤🖤.

Farewell to Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025), who graced us with her many lives. #RIP #FilmSky

Claudia Cardinale se baladant dans Paris. 1961. RIP

Addio, Claudia Cardinale.

NEW: In extraordinary shift, President Trump says Ukraine can take back all territory lost over Russia's invasion.

America's rivals and enemies have never had a greater gift than Trump. He's burning down the house from inside

"Absolutely shocking that this would even be considered." 💬 RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Prof Nicola Ranger spoke to ITV news this evening about Reform UK's plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants.

"Researchers have developed a comprehensive tracking project documenting the systematic dismantling of democratic institutions in the United States under Trump’s emerging regime. On 9 September, Christina Pagel and Sandy Laping presented their Trump Action Tracker project..."

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted". The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

Article talks of betrayal of voters but fails to mention.. Farage’s precious Brexit caused the labour shortages that exploded legal migration.. And the Brexit/EU withdrawal agreement would need to be renegotiated with this latest stupid, nasty idea. Irresponsible politics. Irresponsible reporting.

Wherein I talk about how the heinous murder of Charlie Kirk is being exploited by authoritarians in much the same way Nazi party chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels exploited the death of brownshirt Horst Wessel in 1930.

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Kimmel said truthful things about Trump, not horrible things about Kirk. ABC/Disney is out of its corporate mind to cave into a despot because of things the despot said.

Top Democrat Sounds The Alarm: 'They're Making Comedy Illegal'

Under the First Amendment, the president doesn’t get to censor comedians, TV networks or political speech. Americans and our Constitution reject Kings, dictators and speech Commissars.

The degree to which the entire creative community is massing against Disney right now should not be underestimated. There are people who are staying silent because they don't want to make it more difficult for Iger to walk this back. If he doesn't, I believe things will get much noisier.

Labour should have rejoined the EU.

I thought the whole point of Brexit was independence but instead we traded being in the EU for the US owning large chunks of our economy.

Ever since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, I have warned that he would use every tool and level of government to target his political opponents. Now it is happening. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

"All The President's Men" is one of my favorite movies with Robert Redford. He was fantastic portraying Bob Woodward. We need journalists to rise to the occasion today because 'all the president's men' are a 100 times worse than Nixon's.

Robert Redford (1936-2025) should be remembered as much for his social conscience as for his talents as a storyteller. This 1976 interview about ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is a sobering reminder of what we’ve lost. #RobertRedford #FilmSky

"Sound and accurate journalism defends our democracy. It's one of the most effective weapons at our disposal to contain the power-hungry. I've always said that All the President's Men is a violent movie. No shots are fired, but words are used as if they were weapons." RIP Robert Redford

Just gonna pretend the flags at half mast are for Robert Redford