on.ft.com/4ocGkY0 Gore points finger at Saudi blocking tactics at UN COP30 climate summit

LibDem @maxwilkinson.bsky.social proposes a more recent reason. EU states monitor secondary applications through the Eurodac system (with fingerprinting) which will pick up if there is a failed application in another member state. UK is not part of this. Is that a new incentive to apply in the UK?

It’s important news and also important to note that she’s currently in India and very unlikely to be extradited.

Christ

It must be this, or a confidence that he can get senators to vote against. Or both.

This is corking news: discovery of antibiotic that can be used that doesn’t trigger resistance - early days but this is really meaningful stuff: bsky.app/profile/adap...

Gosh, this is bad www.reuters.com/world/explos...

www.thenewworld.co.uk/arthur-snell... Using the CIA’s analytical tools to explain Nathan Gill’s treachery.

Pretty unreported in the UK, I think - Japan and China relations are in a very bad way following "unhelpful" comments from the new Japanese PM about military deployments. Several Chinese companies due to attend the event I'm going to in Tokyo have withdrawn. More may follow. It's not good. At all.

Take the wedding rings? Gold fillings? Does this remind anyone of anything?

Literally we're at the banging head against wall stage of things here. What is wrong with this government?

Extraordinary stuff in Mali.

Every time I read about one of the conservative “intellectuals” around JD Vance the big idea is basically just racism with a reading list

Said this a lot before, but there is no politician conveying any sense of what they think the country should look in 2040 or 2050, so no sense they are taking steps to get there.

This quote from Reform is completely normal and not extraordinarily and unnecessarily specific.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Foreign-born Daniel Hannan there, acting the hypocritical twat as usual.

No matter how far right some politicians drift, the BBC continue to court them, it’s incomprehensible to me. Michael Gove never seems to be off their guest list. I’ve heard him twice this week alone and he’s never asked awkward questions about approving racist articles like these. #r4today #bbcpm

Full-on, unapologetic racism, not dog whistle but bloody foghorn, is now mainstream on the right.

taco

"That's no longer the case?!" Perhaps some Trump supporters ought to have their tiny brains examined. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

For a man completely not at all involved in any way in the Epstein scandal, Donald Trump seems awfully concerned that none of the information relating to it gets released.

I’d love to know the balance between raising basic rate vs fiscal drag making vast numbers of people into higher rate taxpayers. on.ft.com/444DtZB

instead they really were just writing "looking forward to doing pedophile stuff with you next week"

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims

BREAKING: House Democrats just released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump had "spent hours at my house" with one of Epstein's victims — among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. tinyurl.com/5yj3dfpx

Good. Nothing against the people of Bulgaria but they've had plenty of time to shift to other suppliers.

It’s out! Here’s @LordsEUCom Report ‘Unfinished Business: resetting the UK- EU relationship’. The Gov’t have made a strong start, esp on security and defence, but there’s still much to do in turning aspirations and goodwill into workable agreements 1/8 publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Join the dots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Research-led teaching at @edinburghpir.bsky.social live in podcast form. Thanks @snellarthur.bsky.social for the chance to talk about several of my favourite topics!

Sat in for this interview (as a tech) and was utterly fascinated by the conversation. The fact that we so often think of democracy/not-democracy as a binary is at the core of why we rarely see authoritarianism coming. It's time to wise up. Thank you @srd.bsky.social for such a wise explanation.

The most bizarre and alarming thing about this is that it suggests they really did think they could carry off their tax promise until a few weeks ago. Nothing has really got worse for Labour in the last few weeks unless the reality of the fiscal situation is a surprise to you.

What caused a NATO plane to break up in the sky over Georgia?

It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Wanting the collapse of the BBC, lying about Brexit, or your tax proposals or an election result, all contribute to a sense of nihilism in politics. Nothing could suit authoritarian populists better than a disengaged, nihilist electorate. arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Wanting the collapse of the BBC, lying about Brexit, or your tax proposals or an election result, all contribute to a sense of nihilism in politics. Nothing could suit authoritarian populists better than a disengaged, nihilist electorate. arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.

According to Ukraine’s General Staff, in the early hours of 11 November the Defence Forces struck three key targets: the Saratov oil refinery (a series of explosions ignited a large fire); the Morskoy Oil Terminal in Feodosia (hits on fuel storage tanks); and sites in occupied Donetsk region — 👇

If a self-identifying “left of centre” government with a parliamentary majority of more than a hundred seats won’t defend a vital public service institution you really have to ask why it’s in government at all.

How can an authoritarian fascist be "leader of the free world". Americans are not free. They are being terrorised by Trump's Gestapo. They are no more free than Russians.

A brilliant example of what Lewis Goodall talks about when he argues why right-wing radicals keep winning. They don't play by the rules and simply don't care. Whereas the institutions they want to destroy do even when said rules are contorted to absurdity and are blatantly being used against them.

If you think that “the slow vanishing of employee benefits” is a better trade politically than “the other lot saying you broke your promise on income tax”, you are out of your tree: www.ft.com/content/1160...

Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed: Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost. Now he’s pardoning them for it. bsky.app/profile/anna...

A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million is reasonable - that's why 75% of the public support it along with 80% of millionaires. Our member @stephenstroud.bsky.social chats to GB News.