I'm just a girl, standing in front of a tower fan, asking the storms to come to London

Kind of obsessed with this

Very interesting that Nigel Farage appears to have lost the X comments section after his morning media round

The huge storms in London last night (I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off at 4am) caused house fires and floods It was so severe that the London Fire Bridgade had to trigger an operation designed for "times of extreme demand" Show this to anyone claiming this is normal summer weather

Children are being used as “dispensable” weapons by organised criminals and hostile states paying for crimes including murder and arson, international law enforcement leaders have warned The NCA says “younger and younger” childre are being investigated as perpetrators inews.co.uk/news/how-bri...

Podium guy is outside Downing Street! This is not a drill! He's currently setting up some sort of sound equipment

A thread on trends in violence against Muslims in the UK🧵 📆Since 2017, around 1/4 declared terror attacks in Britain have targeted Muslims or Muslim migrants ⌛Such attacks have become more frequent since 2022 ⚖️There have also been several plots targeting Muslims, including foiled attacks on mosques

Counter-terrorism police investigate after five injured in Edinburgh attacks trib.al/rIG5hms

The head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing has warned that AI is driving a dangerous “polarisation of views” by making fake social media posts hard to distinguish from reality “There is no place where people can benchmark what they're seeing,” Laurence Taylor said inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The Ukrainian man who set fire to two homes and a car linked to Keir Starmer, and a friend who assisted him, have both been jailed today The fires were commissioned by a Russian Telegram account, but a bizarre conspiracy theory that the culprits were "rent boys" persists inews.co.uk/news/starmer...

I love British politics

Getting messy between Restore and Reform in Makerfield A van branded "Muslims for Reform" has been following around the Reform campaign bus. One high profile Restore campaigner claimed it showed the "Islamification of Reform UK" Restore are now denying they're behind the stunt, unclear who is

The Admiral Grigorovich has been acting as a taxi service for Russian shadow fleet vessels passing through the English Channel Read more: trib.al/y1ZevMW

The ritual worked

When a Russian warship fired warning shots at a British yacht yesterday, it was the latest in a series of extraordinary developments deepening tensions The events of recent days have illustrated what security officials describe as a “full spectrum threat” from Russia inews.co.uk/news/russias...

Breaking: Retired UK couple reveal ‘scary’ moment Russian warship fired warning shots at yacht trib.al/f1LxN3U

Britain's far right is not known for its unity, but several normally competing factions are rallying in support of Rupert Lowe's Restore UK party Some hail Lowe as a "saviour" who they see as bringing their long-held desire for non-white "remigration" into the mainstream inews.co.uk/news/far-rig...

Tuesday's front page: Plot to burn down Starmer's home linked to Russian mastermind Read the full story: trib.al/ISHnsaR

If you have been using X over the last year, you are likely to have seen claims that rent boys were behind the arson attacks on Keir Starmer's former homes and car We charted how the *completely false* conspiracy theory spread from far right 'patriots' and conspiracists inews.co.uk/news/starmer...

The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban Almost 2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months - surpassing the number of terror suspects detained in the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori has announced that she will seek to appeal to the Supreme Court "We will not stop fighting to overturn one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history," she said Updates here: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Breaking: The government has won the first of two grounds of its appeal against the High Court's finding that the ban of Palestine Action was unlawful The Court of Appeal found the home secretary did not violate government policy on proscribing terrorist groups. Decision on second ground shortly

Palestine Action protesters who broke into a weapons factory near Bristol and vandalised equipment have been jailed as terrorists in a legal first The four defendants, including a man who broke a police officer’s spine with a sledgehammer, launched the raid on Elbit's Filton facility in August 2024

Police officers from forces in the north west and north east of England are being sent to Belfast to bolster the ranks of the PSNI A national unit that monitors community tensions is tracking the impact of the Belfast stabbing Details in our live blog here: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Attacks on racial and religious minorities in Britain are rising, and becoming more violent Recent months have seen murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual assault and physical attacks of all kinds, all driven by hatred And these crimes are not happening in a vacuum www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/w...

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...

The government's announcement of a suite of laws targeting people paid by foreign proxies to wreak havoc in Britain was understandably overshadowed by horrific events yesterday Here's a deep dive into what the new powers hope to achieve, and how there may still be gaps inews.co.uk/news/uk-crac...

Wednesday's front page: Police plead for calm after knife attack as far-right push for protests across Britain Read the full story: trib.al/OEbgdSK

My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The phrase "two-tier" policing first entered Britain's political mainstream in August 2024, when people supporting the Southport rioters were complaining of their treatment But it is not a mainstream term - it originated with far right and conspiracist groups trying to push their own narratives

In the last few weeks on X, I have been served dozens of ads similar to this that seem to show AI-generated images of Nigel Farage having some sort of altercation with the governor of the Bank of England or a CEO on Question Time or Newsnight No way in hell I'm clicking on it but clearly a trend

Apologies for the extremely cringe question but does anyone know what to do if your Wikipedia page is out of date, but you can't update it yourself and you also can't be the source of updates under Wikipedia's rules? I'm a bit stuck 😬

Hampshire Police is pulling officers from forces in different parts of Britain and cancelling some rest days following the violent protest over the murder of Henry Nowak It also reporting to a national unit that monitors community tensions - full details in the live blog inews.co.uk/news/politic...

MI5 warns China’s military intelligence services are using LinkedIn and Indeed to recruit unwitting British jobseekers and reveals the patterns to look out for: trib.al/4WOVn2U

From exploding neck massagers to amateur spies and arson attacks, people paid by Russia have been wreaking havoc in the UK The government is fast-tracking new laws to ban proxy groups but in this bizarre space, some people don't even know who they're working for inews.co.uk/news/putins-...

Chinese intelligence services are recruiting unwitting job hunters through websites like LinkedIn and Indeed, posing as legitimate companies hiring analysts on various topics A new bulletin issued by MI5 and Five Eyes has laid out the warning signs to look for inews.co.uk/news/how-not...

Wednesday's front page: Family's plea for calm ignored Read the full story: trib.al/dNPllzg

Police are monitoring the potential for disorder sparked by the murder of Henry Nowak, which has been seized upon by the far right A protest has been called in Southampton tonight and the situation is being tracked by a unit that decides if to trigger a national response inews.co.uk/news/police-...

Nigel Farage tweeting "white lives matter" - a slogan started by white supremacists as a racist response to the BLM movement - this morning and calling for people to respond to the murder of Henry Nowak with "pure cold rage" The police will be glad it's raining www.adl.org/resources/ha...

The sentencing remarks for the murder of Henry Nowak in Southampton are now online and contain a series of important findings The judge found that murderer Vickrum Digwa lied at the scene by claiming to have been the victim of a racist attack and denying stabbing HN www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The UK has won this case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, meaning the government does not have to pay up to £100m claimed by Rwanda The court found the UK had not breached its agreement with Rwanda and that its obligations had ended with a "November 2024 exchange of diplomatic notes"

The second and final tranche of documents relating to Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US has just been published. Follow for live updates: trib.al/DfLIglX

The man on Bovino's left (as we look at the photo) is Martin Sellner He is the Austrian co-founder of the white nationalist Generation Identity group. He was banned from the UK in 2018 on security grounds, and remains banned In 2019 it emerged he'd conversed with the Christchurch mosque shooter

My local council in London (Southwark) has just announced a "joint administration" between the Green Party and Liberal Democrats following the local elections Wondering if that's the first of its kind? Do we need a name for this combo if it's going to become more common? A chartreuse coalition?

The cause of the fire at the Kosher Kingdom supermarket in Golders Green is currently not known, and there have been no statements on the Telegram channels used by the group that previously claimed attacks in the area The Met Police says: "This is an ongoing incident with the focus on dealing...

First day, new bio ✨

For many victims of phone snatching in London, the theft is only the start of the ordeal Weeks later, when the phones have reached China, loved ones begin receiving an increasingly threatening and graphic series of messages www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/w...

Attacks on racial and religious minorities in Britain are rising, and becoming more violent Recent months have seen murder, attempted murder, rape, sexual assault and physical attacks of all kinds, all driven by hatred And these crimes are not happening in a vacuum www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/w...

The latest Home Office statistics show that the asylum grant rate for Syrian nationals has dropped from 98% (y/e March 2025) to 9% (y/e March 2026)

I'm very happy to announce my new role as security correspondent at the i paper 🗞️ I'll be arriving next week and am excited to work with the great journalists there and get stuck into stories on all aspects of security - from hostile states to terrorism and cyber warfare 🕵️‍♀️