the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Interesting to compare ONS figures on public sector net debt released today (left) with those released a year ago. Then it was 98% of GDP and rising Now it is 95% of GDP and rising If we carry on borrowing like this we will have paid off the debt by 2060! 😉

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Jewish community leaders in Birmingham Standing outside Villa Park Saying they support the ban of Maccabi Saying it's nothing to do with religion, or against Jews "It's a genuine safety concern against hooliganism from Maccabi"

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

"The government needs to take ownership of the Budget and use it to construct a convincing narrative. That means not blaming the OBR or HMT but explaining why tax reform is necessary, why it will be good for growth and public services and how pain will be fairly shared. www.ft.com/content/a06d...

Normalising ideas which just a few years ago would have been regarded as career ending extremism but now are seen as legit, because they are constantly in every centre right MP and journalist's X replies, may end being Elon Musk's most lasting, and most destructive, impact on British politics.

Indeed. One of the consequences is that MPs and journalists who still consider themselves centre-right now discuss unilaterally revoking settlement rights and deporting people on a mass scale as if this a normal policy option like tax cuts or bus spending.

Israeli Police announce they have canceled a derby match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv that was set to take place tonight in the city’s Bloomfield Stadium, when fans began to riot. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

If Russia could destroy Ukraine it would have done so already. (And if Putin was willing to pay the price to do so with nukes, he also would have done it already.)

I am outraged that apparently jews are not welcome at football matches in Tel Aviv (am I doing this right?) news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Man United fans asking Starmer to intervene and prevent them from going to matches

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The Starmer Effect.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Inevitably, Number 10 – who generally manage to go days if not weeks before commenting on moving news – have broken form and immediately weighed in on this, rather than just saying “it’s an operational matter for the police”. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Pretty frustrated at the front page of a UK newspaper today listing the method of suicide used by Ricky Hatton. I won’t share a screen shot because we should not share details of methods. I would urge all journalists to read the excellent Samaritans guidelines

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

The simple fact is that the Government is going to have to find a way of rebuilding local government finances systematically. The decay of public realm and social infrastructure is deeply corrosive of public trust. Everyday, people can see the state not working all around them.

In today's least surprising news

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

On the 6th of October Israel had about 5,000 Palestinian prisoners. Today, *after the exchange* Israel holds at least 9,000 prisoners, most of them have not been charged. Conditions in prisons became intolerable after Oct 7. Torture and starvation are standard.

Amazing

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

Portland 🔥

Bringing the Monstrance out of the church is quite a serious gesture. That's not something that usually leaves the vicinity.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book "Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law." insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

One thing I love about the Traitors is you really get a very profound insight into a country culture, and we really do love to kill the clever ones.

Trump will just have to keep murdering fishermen until you stupid jerks give him the peace prize

📷 #Gaza, Palestine, 1900

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

The historical parallels are just too wincingly crude now, aren’t they?

This weirdness is because council tax bills are based on property values from 1991 — regardless of how much house prices have changed since. For context, in 1991 John Major was PM, the Cold War had just ended, and 2G was launched but nobody cared because cell phones were bigger than home phones.

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.

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

I suppose the point of this is that quietly helping out unfashionable people in provincial locations is far less important than generations of influential people vaguely registering your name in a centre of power.

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

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

The ones who weren’t kidnapped returned to their homes to find they no longer had a home. “Building management stole or threw away residents’ belonging, including visas” Maga created dozens of homeless people overnight with nothing to their name