America’s accelerating exit from itself on.ft.com/46yOwLk

But Farage & Reform have topped the news agenda and rained on the Lib Dems' conference parade - so mission accomplished. It's not about coherent policies but full spectrum media dominance.

And the Democrats knowing this did precisely what to prevent the destruction of the American Constitution when they had control of both Congress and the Whitehouse? Citizens United & AIPAC didn't come out of a vacuum either. The Democrat establishment has willingly facilitated the long coup d'état.

Make it stop! Please God make it stop!

It's amazing what a 3.5% plunge in stock value can do for the backbone of a TV network's senior management team

ICYMI: I published a thing today. Shanah Tovah everyone! May the coming year be better than the last.

Draw your own conclusions...

Ellison is also a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu and donated $16.6m to Friends of the IDF in 2017. So the implications for media freedom and pluralism not just in the US but around the world of these impending deals are very significant.

Trump donor Larry Ellison’s Oracle will oversee TikTok’s algorithm. His media company owns CBS News and is plotting a bid for Warner Bros., which owns CNN. When billionaires take control of communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

You have to go a long way down the article in the BBC report to find reference to the £234 billion figure being disowned by the CPS. A classic Daily Mail tactic to plant the lie in the standfirst then row back at the point most readers have stopped reading. The Farage Broadcasting Co is a disgrace.

Not that deporting hundreds of thousands of our friends, neighbours, colleagues and their children is inhuman and immoral just that it needs looking at again presumably to make it more 'workable' and 'fundable'. What a spineless response.

It would be great if even one genuine journalist in a live broadcast interview could challenge Farage on the entirely fictitious £234 billion 'saving' that even the right wing think tank that made it up has now withdrawn because it's b******s

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Several unis are on the verge of collapse & 25% of physics departments face closure thanks to the financial crisis of UK higher education which Starmer has only made worse by deterring international students and stealing their fees. Why would the world's best academics & scientists come here?

The people that Farage plans to 'kick out' include doctors, nurses, care workers & people essential to the UK economy. To avoid legal challenges he will also have to leave the ECHR, revoke the EU Withdrawal Agreement & suspend judicial review indefinitely. A fundamental assault on law & human rights

This would also mean UK citizens in Europe would lose any reciprocal rights forcing most to return to the UK where the largely retired & older population would become a considerable and expensive burden on the NHS.

Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel | CBC News share.google/g3W15S3L8VZ2...

That once great PR enthusiast Nigel Farage who leads a group of 5 MPs in parliament has gone completely silent on moving to a fairer electoral system since polling showed Reform could win a whooping majority with only ~30% of the vote. Curious that 🤔

In a week of unendingly bad news the thought that at the next election Starmer, Streeting and Mahmood could be out of politics forever is just the tonic that many millions of us need.

Just another normal day in Trumpistan where courtiers are warned - Execute the will of the Emperor or face execution yourself.

Operation Brainwash Gen Z is nearing its conclusion. For the 'United States' read the AIPAC controlled MAGA Republicans who are now a much greater threat to freedom & democracy around the world than Communist China.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Why is this criminal not the one in jail instead of the many innocent people targeted by his border police?

The first time I opened TikTok, purposefully deactivating all of the tracking options, I was greated by a slew of videos that put migrants in the Netherlands into a bad light, often including police action. Oh, and AI generated babies that talk? Never opened that app again since.

London last weekend, the Netherlands this weekend. It would be naive to assume this isn't being coordinated and algorithmically targeted at receptive publics by powerful state & non-state actors.

Why is what remains of the British Left such a never ending sh*t show?

Trump has gone home but Britain’s problems will remain. Starmer’s invitation was a big mistake | Frances Ryan

This is unprecedented in the post war history of the United States. We are witnessing the emergence of a full blown dictatorship in the Whitehouse while western leaders like Starmer behave like craven sycophants in order to win the approval of a tyrant.

If Jimmy Kimmel was fired for 'lack of talent' will Donald Trump be firing himself? He promised to stop the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours and to get the Israeli hostages released and bring peace to Gaza. The world is still waiting for any of this to happen.

...and Hell followed with him.

JD Vance is right about the lack of free speech in the UK

See a pattern?

So yep here’s the truth - the head of Nvidia admits data centres will need more fossil fuels. Starmer’s plans today are completely incompatible with fighting climate change.  www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

There's no such thing as an environmentally friendly data centre. The only people benefiting from this will be Nvidia's directors & shareholders.

Still absolutely nothing from Badenoch or the so-called 'Free Speech Union' about the police arresting entirely peaceful anti-Trump protesters

I wonder if this was the type of person Trevor Phillips claims that Unite the Kingdom represents and that you could meet in any country pub with their dogs?

If you mock or even ask awkward questions of authoritarians who run governments or control media organisations they will try to get you fired, arrested & imprisoned or worse. This is the new normal that a visiting head of state is imposing on his own country & wants to see happen in the UK as well.

Kimmel was fired for mocking Trump not Charlie Kirk. Let's just be clear about that.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

This is what an "Orwellian state" looks like and Trump and Musk invoking one of the great British writers and anti-fascists (maybe read Homage to Catalonia) for their own propaganda purposes just reinforces the world's impression that the US is run by authoritarian ignoramuses.

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

My grandparents told me stories about a time long ago when all of America was anti-fascist

Remember the good old days when conservatives would claim the Left wants to make everything political and carry on running the world regardless? I miss those good old days.

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The Addams Family have let themselves go

As the York born legend Frankie Howerd always used to say - 'don't mock the inflicted'.

Fly Delta. I even have their app on my smart phone. But also travel carbon responsibly and consider bus or rail if you really don't need to get anywhere in the USA within 3 days.

Tanehisi on the man Britain's top politicians have expressed the kind of grief that would normally be reserved for a latter day saint archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

The police have arrested a man filmed calling for the assassination of Keir Starmer, citing malicious communications (which suggest the online dissemination of the call is the issue). But no news about the billionaire who called for violence from the main stage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...