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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Remember the Russia Report, which Boris Johnson held back until he'd won his election? At the press announcement when it was finally published, we were told that British security services hadn't looked into Russian interference in the 2016 referendum because they hadn't been asked to. #r4today

An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.

Yes! Stephen Miller is our *actual* president, and NOBODY voted for him. Not a single person. This should piss you off regardless of where you stand politically. He attached himself to Trump b/c Trump is easily led, not out of any sort of loyalty or shared beliefs.

I was delighted to join the panel for BBC Politics South yesterday. We discussed a range of topics including the Gatwick Airport expansion, hospice funding crisis and 200 years of the railway. You can watch the full episode on BBC iPlayer👇 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I wonder what attracted him to a party led by a massive Putin fan… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe rejoices as ‘dirty’ Putin plot backfires share.google/pMVhyhMOQ1xR...

No, but they might 'accidentally' do something. Fucking Russians. Do they think we're stupid?

Putin lied wow

Nice job Moldova! Suck it Putin

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

This is an illustration as to why it always grates when footballers are labelled as spoilt, rich, disloyal etc. The game is ruthless, the living fragile, and there should be no blanket blame attached to young people who accpet what other older, richer people are prepared to pay them.

Look how small the green bit is for Twitter/X ("credible" content) and how big the purple bit is ("abusive"). Great platform!

There’s been a realignment. The Labour voting base is simply different to its historic form. It just seems completely bonkers not to seem to understand this. And even more bonkers to pursue policies that are going to make the key problem - losses to the LDs, Greens - EVEN WORSE!

I’ve now read this excellent piece and am even more baffled by Labour’s strategy. Not only have a very large amount of the currently lost voters not gone to Reform, they are highly unlikely to go to Reform in the future! Furthermore, previously lost voters to Reform etc (pre 2025) are long gone.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but global players’ union study finds that top football stars are playing too many games, with too much travel & not enough time off. www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...

🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again. 
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve. You made your choice clear: 
Europe. Democracy. Freedom. Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
 The future is yours.

I mean...

These towers surround Gaza's Roman Cemetery — an ancient intact burial site with 125 tombs that was discovered in 2022. @premiereurgenceint.bsky.social worked on the site before the war: www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/26/r... Can see the site in a video from 2023: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VStQ...

The BBC's Rob Staton reporting on the other place that Sheffield Wednesday's players have been told they won't be paid on time at the end of this month.

So exhausting..

reader i cackled

New. For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine. By @samindrakunti.bsky.social and @bobbyperu.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

Farage is a Russian asset and has been for years. He doesn't love this country. He resents it.

Given everything that's happening over the pond including the creation of a US Gestapo and the latest news that Trump's antisemitism is surfacing with his attacks on George Soros, this is well worth a listen to. Authoritarianism doesn't just 'happen' www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

A quick note to say that I am available for freelancing work. Because frankly I'm not getting enough through at the moment.

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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This is amazing. I was in Moldova last year, and saw all the corrupt money Putin was pouring into that country trying to buy the vote. If Moldova stands against this, Europe and democracy wins

Violent crime with injury is down in every London borough thanks to the collective efforts of the police and London's Violence Reduction Unit. But one death or one crime is one too many - so we’ll keep working with partners and the government to drive down crime and make London safer for everyone.

Putin really pulled out all the stops here. Threats against polling stations, hoax bombs attacks, targeted disinformation units. Russia doesn't have a single argument for how it would improve people's lies: just lies and terror.

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.

Looks like Putin's attempt to bully Moldova has failed. With 90% of votes counted, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) has a 20 point lead over the Russian-funded Patriotic Bloc open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

A day out with the kids, and some FA Cup football that was curtailed. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-weeken...

Is this the first time a Cabinet secretary has publicly considered this?

Important to remember it is possible to mobilise coalitions against the radical/far right.

But no way was anything like this is happening in Moscow

This is *really* important. Our elections regulator isn’t independent. Reform’s Arron Banks has said the Electoral Commission should be abolished The architecture of British democracy is really weak and easily ripped out. It needs to be protected now

Moldova’s Foreign Ministry says bomb threats targeting foreign polling stations began exactly as authorities had warned — as part of Russia’s interference in the country’s election. Incidents were recorded in Brussels, Rome, Genoa, Bucharest, Asheville (US), and Alicante.

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

ICE keeps transferring detained individuals before they can talk with their attorneys. www.huffpost.com/entry/alliga...

Jokes you won't hear from this bunch of sellouts "I had that Jamal Kashoggi buried in my back garden once".

It's fundamentally impossible to do this kind of politics with a state as centralised as we have. You have to give more power to mayors and councils. Including the ability to raise funds.

While perusing this Sunday’s helping of bananas newspaper punditry I can’t help thinking that an idiot’s idea of an intelligent person is really not at all far from someone writing a Sunday newspaper column.

It's racist in effect, because the EU secures EU settled status by its ability to suspend the EU-UK trade agreement in total or in part. Farage has apparently balked at that. There's no powerful institution to protect leave to remain for other nationals, bar the ECHR, which Farage wants to leave.

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

Exactly the right language and tone from Starmer here -no nonsense about "legitimate concerns" or weasel words about cost/practicality. Now government needs to put his money where the PM's mouth is (in policy terms)

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation