Here we go

Don’t think I saw a single post from Trump himself about the BBC over the whole week btw, let alone an actual comment. It was all from the White House press team, in response to queries from UK media. Not sure the President even knows what Panorama *is*.

This might be the first spy who appears to be literally wearing one of those 'spy disguises' you could pick up in a joke shop in Newquay in 1993.

Mak u fink.

On white poppies, it's worth remembering that they were associated with the Peace Pledge Union, by the late 1930s an objectively pro-Hitler organisation. Some people choose to wear them. They are fools, I'm afraid.

Alongside the British war dead, especially my own family members, this Remembrance Sunday I shall remember all American liberators but especially these African-American liberators.

At the end of September, Leeds prison had room for 641 men but was being forced to hold 1,092. Chronic overcrowding has tragic consequences: https://howardleague.org/news/leeds-prison-report-reveals-the-tragic-consequences-of-chronic-overcrowding/

The polling was clear as daylight on this. The public may have a very shaky grasp of fiscal details. But they are not mugs. They instinctively understood that, eg, furlough would have to be paid for.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Okey-doke. Sounds like the obits will be rollicking.

On the one hand, daftness. On the other, another poll which underlines how Reform voters are outliers - and current Tory VIs are at least as close and sometimes closer to LD/Lab/Green VIs

BBC really burying the lede there

An excellent column on the importance of effective thuggery in Westminster. Even the saintly Clement Attlee depended on the likes of Herbert Morrison, dubbed the "soft-hearted suburban Stalin" by Michael Foot.

Fools and their money are not always soon parted. But it does happen eventually.

On behalf of all football fans everywhere in the world, I would like to apologise for Gianni Infantino. Sorry.

I was just not prepared for Normie MTG.

I've attended Shabbat dinners where the blessing has been recited by ordained Christian ministers.

Reminds me a bit of this:

I hereby nominate Kevin Muscat.

Hold on, I thought Mamdani's secret sauce was freeing politics from the dead hand of focus groups and message testing? Turns that *good* research actually matters.

Funny old world. "The party has already lost big chunks of its right flank to Reform UK. That means the core who remain loyal to the Conservative Party are, proportionally speaking, more inclined towards what some might describe as the liberal side of the Conservative broad church."

Updated edition incoming.

A superb piece. www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-we-c...

Watching Semenyo and Scott turning out for Bournemouth and actually feeling quite bitter that, along with Lloyd Kelly, we're in a position where #BristolCity have served as a farm team for what should be a lesser club.

"Take up the Orange Man's burden..."

Bracing thread.

Last thing I need right now is a resilient ManU tbh.

Well that's our goal difference advantage nuked. #BristolCity.

A confused piece imho. The monarchy (or, the sovereign) and "the royals" are different things.

About as close as you can get to using one particular word without using that one very particular word.

Not a Tesla in sight.

This story - and the report itself - is magnificent, ocean-going claptrap.

The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.

Call me a Doubting Thomas, but...

Cairo one of my favourite cities in the world and this looks like a great reason to revisit.

Defenestrating a prince makes even more confident we're reliving the 17th century.

This is how the Plantagenets would have briefed. Vicious. '“These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said.'

TESLA OWNERS! You bet we're judging you.

Everything The Far Left Touches Dies.

An iron-held conviction of mine over many, many decades - being a big fan of Tolkien is always a sign of being a wrong 'un.

Totally. And likewise for Brits talking about class in America. Ask yourselves "But is this actually about race?"

"Nathaniel Redmond, director of the Yale school of public health, said on Tuesday that the “horror, scale and velocity of killing” in El Fasher had left pools of blood visible from satellites" Pity the West simply does not have any tools to pressure UAE, which is the RSF's main funder and supplier

He should be struck off.

This is correct, I think. And it's also the case that lots of voters always believed taxes would go up. Because the *public are not fools*. Voters resigned to tax rises, despite Labour and Conservative pledges | Ipsos share.google/7kg2JnLmBPN3...

Half-term travel advice: Make motorway matrix signs informing you of traffic jams ahead actually useful by simply memorising what number each and every junction on the entire network is. You're welcome.

Let's have a heated debate.

"The book contains no interviews with Jewish members." Gobsmacking.

Just realised that the bits of British society that the reactionaries hate the most - academia, the judges, the senior civil service, the BBC etc - are also among the whitest I've ever experienced.