🇩🇰✈️ As of 20:26 local time, all takeoffs and landings at Copenhagen Airport, the capital of Denmark, have been suspended due to reports of drones. At least 11 flights have been diverted.

BBC Sounds has now been switched off outside the UK. It’s just the latest loss—the BBC has been cut by more than 30 per cent since 2010.

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Identity in Northern Ireland is complicated but most people in Northern Ireland are legally, at least, dual citizens (including myself)

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Lord Peter Mandelson did not disclose in the House of Commons register two flights he took at Jeffrey Epstein’s expense in 2003 worth a total of $7,486, raising further questions about their relationship. www.ft.com/content/4cf6...

Absolute legend

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Times births column today

I thought this was a joke and I feel silly now. Apparently this is indeed an urgent question

Free speech US style: Australian journalists banned from Trump UK press conference after one had angered him in the USA with his questions bit.ly/4n9a3kL ‘logistical reasons’ cited but clearly either US or UK organisers decided to ban them.

Free speech latest www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

What I then found odder was that, after the debate but before the vote, a procedural quirk meant Douglas Ross spoke for five minutes about seagull attacks. (After the vote they spoke about nuclear weapons, which I suppose would be one approach for stopping the attacks?)

The road to this happening has taken years and I genuinely found it very odd listening to the end of the debate today thinking “this is just going to… happen now?”

JAIL STRAIGHT TO JAIL

Part of a photo study entitled 'Amphetamine bears of Poplar'

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Des militants du collectif "Everyone Hates Elon" ont déployé à Windsor une immense photo montrant le président américain Donald Trump aux côtés de Jeffrey Epstein, condamné pour crimes sexuels. Cette action intervient alors que Trump doit entamer une visite d'État au Royaume-Uni ⤵️

MI5 concedes it ‘unlawfully’ obtained data from former BBC journalist

I feel hugely honoured to be asked to be lead fiction judge for the 2026 Neil Gunn writing competition, open to writers worldwide. I first read Gunn as a 17 year-old pupil in the school just down the road from where his monument stands today. To a young Highlander, his writing was transformational.

Karen Attiah says she has been fired by The Washington Post, where she was the last black staff opinion writer. She says The Washington Post said her posts made after Charlie Kirk's killing were "unacceptable" & claimed they put colleagues in danger - which Attiah calls "charges without evidence"

Fifteen year old classmate of a friend’s daughter detained by ICE in our school district yesterday. Never came home from school. 15 year old girl. USA Today.

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Huge missed opportunity not to buy their own boat and call it Buoyancé.

Thus made me laugh quite hard. Surely a film in the making. 3 defiant nuns in their 80s fled the care home in Austria they said they were moved to without consultation to return to the convent where they had spent decades www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system on.ft.com/47HEE46

"We don't need to have thousands of cats," Trump says.

This regulation, if approved, would disrupt the work of any foreign journalists operating in the United States. They could only enter the country for 240 days with any renewals subject to gov approval, complicating any house rentals, school enrolment of their kids etc www.reuters.com/business/med...

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time www.ft.com/content/0723...

NATO has scrambled aircraft.

Seven Russian drones flying into Poland from two regions.

Yeah, you should.

Historic selfie. Ukraine’s government leadership always visit the sites of Russia’s drone and missile attacks. Today Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko just had to walk down the hall. This is the cabinet of ministers building in central Kyiv after the biggest Russian drone attack of the war.

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

“I too came from a poorish family,” says the 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, eldest son of Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia, Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley.

Day Two of Reform conference, and we're getting the good stuff. At the Heartland Institute's fringe "Is Climate Realism Inevitable", we've learned that electric cars are part of a Marxist plot to control humanity, and heard calls for the abolition of the BBC.

This is grisly, and a warning of multiple more failings - including the killing of Linda Norgrove in a botched rescue attempt

Darren Jones to be CDL as well as the new Chief sec to PM. A short lived innovation!

This is a ridiculously good read

Timeline cleanse

So, here's my questions: "What is Nigel Farage so afraid of? Does he fear The New World so much that letting even one of our journalists into their conference – their home turf – would make it an unsafe space? Is Reform UK a party for snowflakes?"

Yes, I'm a journalist who's critical of Farage and Reform UK. But I'm an accredited journalist with a press card, I'm the political editor of a weekly magazine, and when I registered back in May I got confirmation it was "successful". Until today, when it's now "declined". Here's the pics:

I am profoundly opposed to surrogacy anyway but I think whatever your view this is an utterly horrifying read

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“If you’re not a disabled person, it can be very difficult to imagine that there is life after the ability to talk, walk and breathe by yourself.” Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP speaks about her fears over the assisted dying bill. www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

This is nice, well done Cologne bars

Fernando (33), who was 12 when he came to the UK, was detained by the Home Office as part of their upgraded immigration raids. Held for 29 days. We are supporting him with an application for settled status. No way to know, but this is unlikely to be isolated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse. Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."

Having lived many years in the UK I got used to British standards in life; when back in Europe I realised that you can expect so much more | Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu