The rise in early-onset cancers has drawn a growing number of scientists into a shared investigation: not into the inherited traits that cause of cancer across generations, but into the ways modern life might be rewriting the body’s cellular fate.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Just released on Pluto podcast. We talk about the new book Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery, and the growing international movement for reparations. Please repost. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

I will be talking to Malik at the Bridport Literary Festival on 6 November. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli strikes kill at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-least-19-palestinians-gaza-dawn

Farage’s new think tank, the misnamed ‘Centre for a Better Britain’, is very clearly planning a ‘Project 2025’ for the UK - ripping up the Climate Change Act, Equalities Act, even the ministerial code A recipe for chaotic authoritarianism www.ft.com/content/2260...

“It’s not just about Palestinian heritage or Christian heritage, it’s something important to the world heritage here, protected by UNESCO,” explained Kevin Charbel, the emergency field coordinator for @premiereurgenceint.bsky.social via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/isra... #Gaza #Palestine

Estonian PM Kristen Michal: Russia is an acute threat to every sane country and Europe is only at the beginning­ of rebuilding its defences. Key points from the interview with The Times: ▪️ "Russia is an acute threat to Europe, to Nato, to every sane country in the world.

The EU will also set up a “drone alliance” with Kyiv, backed by €6bn in financing to “transform Ukrainian ingenuity into battlefield advantage and into joint industrialisation”, von der Leyen said.

They act as if January 6 never happened. This is very Soviet.

Facts are bad for the Trump administration.

As Israeli armour moves into Gaza City, Netanyahu prepares his people for international isolation markurban.substack.com/p/super-spar...

Absurd. Trump freckin’ pardoned hundreds of violent rioters. And MAGA celebrated that.

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8

I felt this so strongly when I submitted the manuscript for my book on QAnon that I opened the book with this quote:

This shouldn’t be hard. Or rare. But well done all the same.

PL: Farage needs a full investigation by the Standards Commissioner. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

PL's tune of the day (reminds of going to gigs in the early 70s). Rory Gallagher www.facebook.com/reel/4048626...

Congrats to BBC's World at One for pursuing the Farage Clacton home question. Given NF's different answers about the purchase all his partner Laure has to do is show where the £855,000 came from. Given NF wants to be PM financial transparency is in order (as with Angela Rayner).

No Reform councillors agree with climate science! Following a debate at Worcestershire County Council about the science of climate change, it was revealed that not a single reform councillor could support the statement that "man-made climate change exists." Due to a lack of time, I was unable to…

Brilliant investigation by the BBC knocking out Farage's red herrings, it forces NF and partner to detail where the £855,000 came from. That's if he wants to have credibility as a transparent Prime Minister in the future. Please RT www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Outstanding Guardian investigation which should make the case for ICC prosecutions. Migrants join the IDF to kill large number of indigenous civilians because they do not share their religion, how very colonial.

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

So Nigel and Laure do have joint financial interests despite what NF said last week. Nigel Farage's partner's company that sells his gin is struck off owing thousands

Seen at the TUC Congress today.

If you're a @nationaltrust member and want to use your AGM vote to prevent the charity being politicised by right wing culture warriors these are Restore Trust's favoured candidates *to avoid*:

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts. Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians spread across occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/settler-attacks-spread-across-occupied-west-bank

"One" appears to be the answer to that question... bsky.app/profile/otto...

It's Friday afternoon so something uplifting. I recommend this concert from the Proms of Théotime Langlois de Swarte and his ensemble Le Consort perform Vivaldi, Bach, Avison, Legrenzi, Marcello and Matteis Jr.I recommend. It is on iplayer and Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Possibly the most disastrous thing about the rise of AI is the way it’s leading tech companies to abandon their net zero goals. Google appears to be the latest. AI ain’t going to do us much good if our planet is no longer habitable for humans.

that’s ok cause he’s the man of the people .. the best con man we have

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sen. Bernie Sanders asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Senate hearing about his past remarks calling the coronavirus vaccine the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” Eventually, Kennedy acknowledged that the vaccine saved “quite a few” lives.

Reform's stormtroopers in action

Taking back control ... Ughh Farage asks US govt to determine UK laws Compares UK to North Korea. Will happily take money from Elon Musk and other foreigners. Farage brand of patriotism is wearing union jack socks and demonizing immigrants. No policies for redistribution, social justice.

“This is the inevitable result of Elon Musk’s changes to X: he has outsourced moderation to the UK’s police forces – and unsurprisingly, they are bad at it. They are having to make decisions, and use the blunt instruments of the law, because Musk is refusing to use the many tools available to him.”

NATO Secretary General Rutte: The threat will not end when this [Ukraine-Russia]war does,nor is the challenge limited to Russia.China, Iran,&North Korea pose challenges individually&as a result of their cooperation. They are increasing their defense industrial collaboration to unprecedented levels

Prominent Palestinian academic dies from Israeli-imposed Gaza famine - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/prominent-palestinian-academic-dies-israeli-famine

“How can you be that ignorant?” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) presses RFK Jr. on Covid facts. WATCH LIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3MO...

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

"Earlier on Wednesday, Reform denied accreditation to The New World – specifically, to the author of this article – to attend its party conference." ✏️@jamesrball.com

Death toll in Gaza rises to 64,231 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-gaza-rises-64231

And now we’re banned from the Conservative Party conference - Badenoch following hard in Farage’s anti free speech authoritarian footsteps