Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

As an American watching our best & most crucial institutions crumble in less than a year under Trump, I suggest you make as many of these changes now, while you can. We didn’t, obviously.

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

New report finds UK’s top scientific institutions have inadequate institutional defences to prevent potential political interference. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/str... @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @grassrootsforeurope.org @chrischirp.bsky.social

Farage has learned from the US and this is dangerous populist rhetoric

🧵🚨 The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news. Today our report is published! www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n... 1/11

Practical lessons in Buddhist detachment after a cat dumped a bowl of wall-washing water into a cardboard box of CDs, boxed up because of decorating elsewhere. Decades of favourite Bs too. Byrds, Beatles, Buckley, Beach Boys, Bowie. Glossy inserts and booklets have undergone a sad sea change.

<Bob being unable to remember directions from 15 seconds ago> Them: Bob, punch him like a normal person would Bob: You got it, man <16 seconds later>

#TheBeatles A wee thread on some Beatles books I wouldn't swap for a gold pig. 1.'The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away' Alan Williams and William Marshall. Just a great wee read about the early days in Liverpool and Hamburg. Thick with atmosphere, it seems absolutely real. 'I laughed a lot' John Lennon

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet? Why is that? 🧵

Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade' *In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

This seems bad. Craven, abject and despicable are all epithets that also spring to mind.

If you’ve missed the trailers and hadn’t heard of this just to let you know it’s great, and everyone in it is wonderful, especially Aimee Lou Wood. And the currently ubiquitous Suranne Jones gets a chance to show how fabulous she is at comedy. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Unpopulism — latest www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Found in loft where it had migrated at some point. T P Riley was Noddy Holder’s school, where we crossed over briefly. Mr Dickenson, the prize patron, was also Deputy Head and thought Noddy, aka Neville, was bright enough to do better than mess about in a beat group.

I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...

Trump is much weaker than he looks. He's always been a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure. Now he’s a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure desperately trying to distract from all that by attacking US cities with our military and sending his Justice Dept after political opponents.

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical. Reuters today. Fascism.

"If I had to enact it, I do," Trump said. "If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I’d do that." Undermining states’ rights and the judiciary in one fell swoop. Pure, unadulterated authoritarianism. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

Apart from the objective stupidity of it, the things they want to cut contribute massively to the economy, so even by their own pathetic, crushingly unimaginative and soulless standards it makes no sense at all.

UK: amzn.eu/d/8eWHyLf US: a.co/d/0UDZgQd

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

What does Badenoch think when Jenrick deplores the number of non-white faces in an area. Does she never think, Hang on, he’s talking about me. Or does she, as seems likely, decline to categorise herself as anything other than Party Leader.

If you’ve ever worked in libraries you know exactly what kind of person Kemi Badenoch is, The Great British Badenoch: supremely confident of their rightness and not bright enough to see they’re in the wrong; always disputing a fine or lost book; quick to say, Perhaps you can get someone who can help

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

this is great insightful and honest writing about the pull of pessimism..

British values: 1381 Peasants Revolt 1649 Diggers, Levellers and a dead king 1819 Peterloo 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs 1836 Chartists Suffragettes 1960s Gay rights

#NYRBWomen25 I finished THE JUNIPER TREE this morning, Barbara Comyns’s final novel published when she was 77yo. It’s everything I love about her writing. Here are a few rabbit holes I went down while reading this enchanting retelling.

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Tomorrow: "More grammar schools!" "Expand Right to Buy!" Next week: "Bring back National Service!" On and on, forever. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

This Hamlet looks shit

To the London Palladium for the Horne Section. It’s wonderfully old style to look at, but really the steps in the Grand Circle would be challenging for Sherpa Tensing.

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before 2026 elections... Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places & say they're protecting the vote. Trump knows without these breaches of the Constitution, he's gonna lose Congress." - Gov. Pritzker

I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Very strongly recommend this articulate explanation of things that front bench politicians of a party of government shouldn't need to be told.

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

This guy is in charge of US health care.

This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

All right folks, I’m taking bets on how long before Trump pardons his good friend. Over or under a week?