Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

Important new report from @chrischirp.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social on how easy it would be to politicise some of our key science and research bodies, with ideas on how to strengthen their independence www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

Thursday's Bach Before 7 is live in bbcradio Breakfast. Good morning! The alien sounds of Eider was our Dawn Chorus. And just before 9 we'll be on Catfish Row - George Gershwin's orchestral suite to his opera Porgy & Bess. See you there!

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

'Nigel Farage is killing Britain - time to deport him' We need to deport just one person, says Fleet Street Fox. The descendant of migrants who lives on the taxpayer dime, refuses to integrate, and divides us all www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

looking up the types of residence cards you can get in France for a piece and HONKING at this part of the drop-down list, from the official government website (!!) www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers...

Russia accuses Brussels of attempted coup in Georgia Tbilisi ‘under attack’ after protesters attempt to storm presidential palace as Georgian Dream claims landslide victory in local elections Still smarting after losing Moldova 🇲🇩 archive.is/2025.10.06-1...

Thou shalt put all these war criminals on trial at the Hague.

That professor on #r4today at Pennsylvania University recommends the UK to "deregulate" to improve productivity. What he means is stripping workers' rights and reducing pay. All while he's no doubt in a well paid, permanent post. Bugger off mate.

This is a good explanatory post.

Buried in the polls, with every American screaming for the Epstein files, the walls are closing in on Tangerine Palpatine. Sending troops to every city you can in a desperate attempt to make martial law happen is not strength. It’s the last gasp of a dying regime.

Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts." On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets. But we wanted to “take back control.” Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

NEW! This week, on SMR Rejoin Radio, we take a look back at 2025's Party Conference Season! For good, for bad, for all! Listen FREE whenever EU like! Please help! Subscribe TODAY for just £5 a month and help us grow! 👉 Link's in bio/graphic!

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein. The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

I came here to chew gum and call out lies on Twitter... and I'm all out of gum. (Photo @politicalpics)

For the sake of lasting peace in Europe, russia must be defeated.

Ah, yes. Tories' popularity is flagging, so why not ask one of Australia's most hilariously unpopular PMs for advice? Tony Abbott's plan for undocumented migrants? "Hold them in some kind of a mothership" and invade a neighbouring country "on a quiet and moonless night". Clown.

This is just brilliant. A cookbook by one of the last century's top piano duos who became celebrity chefs! Want to know a recipe for turnip and orange? Cold mushroom soup? All will be revealed in Breakfast on bbcradio3. 👨‍🍳🎶 And it was a Siberian Rubythroat for the dawn chorus

Two of my favourite places feature in music in Thursday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. The north Norfolk coast and Scotland’s west coast looking out to the Inner Hebrides. We're getting ready for something really special happening on Radio 3 and the BBC next week - Wild About Nature

Snuck in an NHS (cancellation) GP appt yesterday, booked on the day via app. Physio appt made for Friday. X_Ray dept called just now. Appt Friday. Here's to our amazing NHS 🎉

Today's speech was easily the best Starmer has given. For the first time since the election, he told a compelling - & optimistic - story about what the government is trying to do; charged that story with moral purpose; & drew clear battle lines with the Right. A few quick thoughts & a challenge...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

He who does not read, at 70 years will have lived only one life, his own! He who reads, will have lived 5000 years: He was there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired infinity... Because “Reading is backward immortality”. -Umberto Eco writingforwellbeing.co.uk #books

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Live 2am coverage from Liverpool of the Mirror front-page

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he is preparing to declare a state of emergency to protect his country in the event of an attack by the US military, amid rising tensions over the deployment of American warships to the Caribbean. https://cnn.it/3KsgVv7

Another one!! Russian official dies at five-star hotel after 'falling from high floor' following Putin crackdown Former St Petersburg transport boss Alexander Fedotov, 49, was found dead outside the five-star Skypoint Luxe hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport

Israel to close last remaining route from southern Gaza to the north as it continues offensive on Gaza City – Middle East crisis live

New Sutton Trust research on the UK media, via Press Gazette: "Newspaper columnists and BBC executives are more likely than ever to have attended fee-paying rather than state schools." "Some 50% of newspaper columnists in its sample are privately educated (versus 7% of the population)."

Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

5 4 3 2 1 - Thunderbirds is 60 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

didn't know there would be quite so many flags in Liverpool when I wrote this, but a relief to see Starmer's conference speech finally try to reclaim patriotism from the right. Suspect a lot of people badly needed the PM just to say: this isn't what Britain is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

god I know it really isn't the main problem with them but the sheer *whinyness* of the radical right is so irritating

Good morning! Some very nice new albums coming your way in Wednesday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Including one of them that we can play especially to wish Julie Andrews a very happy 90th birthday! 6.30-9 30. Come join us ☀️

If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?

It's still wrong. Only 42% of 25-year-olds have participated in HE at Level 6 (undergraduate degree), and describing a 25-year-old as a 'school leaver' is a bit of a stretch! And the Government was clear yesterday that higher technical education is a priority for them, not just apprenticeships.

Where @thenewworldmag.bsky.social leads…back in August, we wrote about how many of the immigration issues Nigel Farage complains about were the result of policies he advocated. Now both Ed Davey *and* Keir Starmer are saying the same. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-n...

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country” Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

Hollywood is in a flap! AI ‘actors’ are ‘trained’ on real actors who will never be paid for it | First Dog on the Moon

To the millions who voted Labour. We all want change. It's not going to come overnight Reform ARE NOT the alternative. They are THE OPPOSITE ! Patience ! Because decent people dont vote Reform