No mention in this BBC news item on Trump's UN "speech" of his ludicrous attack on Sadiq Khan. You'd think a personal attack on the Mayor of the UK's most important city would warrant a mention. 6 years ago Trump's UN audience laughed, this year they were silent www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is what giving Trump the honour of a second UK state visit achieved. Eight days later, Trump spews outright racist lies about our capital city on the world stage. I have lived in London for most of my life. It is an overwhelmingly a terrific place. And much of that is thanks to immigration.

The best thing about Infinite Jest are the footnotes. And I love that book. It's just that the footnotes make an already great book even better.

I don't know if anyone is keeping count of the incidents between Jct 19 and 22 on the M1 but every time I have the misfortune of having to travel on this bit I hold my breath. It's definitely cursed. M1 closed in both directions due to serious crash in Leicestershire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas with a handle in your hand" JLR shutdown extended again as ministers meet suppliers www.bbc.com/news/article...

Libertarians going begging to the US for a bail out. Hilarious. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I thought more guns made everyone safer? BBC News - Heightened security as Americans gather for Kirk memorial www.bbc.com/news/article...

The weird thing about this is who cares, in the UK, what Cruz says. Why have the Beeb given his half hearted, most bad, take any prominence instead of more condemning voices? BBC News - Senator Ted Cruz says US broadcast regulator acted like 'mafioso' on Jimmy Kimmel www.bbc.com/news/article...

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

I wish people understood the theatrical principles of emotional preparation, foreshadowing, and dramatic anticipation. If this is you, four years from a GE, what pitch and volume do you hope to reach in 2029 when you finally announce, to absolutely nobody's surprise, you are endorsing another party?

Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.

The horse knew the assignment, etc...

Obviously I'm going to see anything even vaguely related to Pynchon's books but I am not going listen to Di Caprio tell me anything. BBC News - Leonardo DiCaprio on why his new film addresses 'divisiveness in our culture' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Another misleading headline. Kimmel merely played a clip of Trump specifically NOT talking about Kirk. He made no comments about Kirk at all. BBC News - Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is excellent.

This is all the excuse they needed. Kimmel wasn't cancelled for this clip. He was cancelled because of a deal that needed GOP approval, which means Trump's approval. Anything to appease the Beloved Leader.

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.

This is what fascism sounds like. Cracking down on anyone who disagrees with them or portrays the Trump regime in an undesirable light. The country is changing before our very eyes. 🇺🇸

All the other news, all of it, seems to me increasingly an excuse not to confront the reality of what is happening in Gaza where children are being killed every day by a government propped up by the man visiting the UK today. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Meanwhile, in England...our homegrown MAGAhats continue "doing their own research"...this is an actual Reform councillor blaming low reservoirs on immigration.

Pam Bondi's suit here is giving me 1970s vibes (Charlie's Angels/ Duane Keaton) and I, God forgive me, I love it. So sue me.

Also: how does the FBI prevent murders? I understand how it can help bring murderers to justice after they've committed such awful crimes, but, um, I think there's a step or two missing here.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Just do it. F*ck these things. All of them, electric or not.

This is the kind of ai slop they're sharing (and heart-ing) over on Facebook. These patriots can't even recognise the Champs-Élysées when they see it.

Absolutely not.

What happens when Farage becomes PM and the Easily Confused don't "get their country back" (because it's not a real thing that can happen)?

I really wish companies and organisations would stop using Facebook. It's an open sewer of fact free bullsh*t. You go on it to see if an event is happening and the next thing you know you're wading through flag shaggers begging the King to sack Starmer and "get our country back".

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

We should probably start reclaiming Bella Caio from murderous far right memelords (if that's what they're called - I am old) immediately.

It's simple. Stop kowtowing to people who are never going to vote Labour and start kowtowing to people who want to vote Labour, stop pretending there's no money (there's plenty of money) and spend that money fixing things that are broken. Oh, and ban loud motorcars and motorbikes (personal request).

Looking in vain on the front pages of today's newspapers for an apology about the "pro trans bullets" bullsh*t on yesterday's front pages...

Kirk's assassination, @davidcorn.bsky.social writes, is heinous and warrants widespread condemnation. It should prompt reflection on what is happening within the US. However, it should not shield him or others who engage in such extremist politics from critical review.

Trump can't hide his long legacy of inciting violence

The only way anyone could possibly read this as suggesting “trans ideology” is if they were predetermined to reach that conclusion. Which suggests pressure to conform ideologically is making law enforcement worse at their jobs.

If anyone is "celebrating" Kirk's death, it's Trump and his people. They are already using it as pretext for achieving their goal of stripping people's rights, crushing dissent. Your opinion about Kirk could be a criminal offense. If you don't want to run afoul of the law, change your opinion.

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

I just don't remember this kind of coverage for any of the mass shootings by far Right extremists on the BBC. Top of the front page, twenty video shorts, in depth analysis of every single thing. Am I misremembering or is this weirdly over the top?

Shocking, but not surprising, that three of the UK's leading news outlets all put the "trans bullet" on their front page, with scant regard to actual facts. Reckless "reporting", to put it mildly.

Let France be a warning, Rachel Reeves: stand up to the bond market vigilantes, or they’ll come for Britain next | Larry Elliott

"We interrupt this news item about a school shooting to bring you news of another shooting which occurred as the victim was talking about shootings..."