Satellite imagery of the Russian Salavat oil refinery after yesterday’s Ukrainian drone attack. ELOU AVT-6 with the yearly capacity of 6 mln tons of oil per year was severely hit.

I could not agree more. His decision to continue with his failed, immoral Reform Lite strategy is both baffling & depressing in equal measures. Labour's polling is in the bin, supporters are leaving for the Greens & Lib Dems in droves, he's alienating core support. Conference will be 'interesting'.

Ok, so that’s Keir Starmer’s reset? This is him listening to Labour MP’s and members? Doubling down on immigration. Taking back control nonsense? White people have been ignored for too long. So ID cards…..? Profoundly depressing and disgusting.

Palantir for instance….

It’s the fact that the id will be digital Do you really want to trust anyone with the digital data of everyone in uk in one place ?

The Culture Secretary should be looking at the far right culture at the BBC, starting with Robbie Gibb and the others who have connections with GBNews. #Leveson2

Donald Trump has always mistaken spite for strength. His latest act - hanging a self-aggrandising black-and-white portrait of himself beside a flimsy photo of President Joe Biden’s autopen signature - is not the gesture of a titan, but of a terrified man. www.plagueisland.com/p/trumps-gal...

OPINION: An answer to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression will never lie in economic action alone.

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Honestly, I don't know why he can't do this. He would fell Farage in a single stroke and put him on the back foot.

The patriotic case for diversity would be honesty. Honesty about govt failure to invest in public services. Honesty about Brexit. Honesty about labour shortages. Honesty about the contribution of immigration. Just tell the fucking truth and shame the racists for the harm they do.

People aren’t voting for right wing parties because they support right wing policies. People are voting for right wing parties because other parties aren’t calling out their lies and giving a good alternative. A left wing party promoting right wing policies is simply doomed. The sermon ends.

If I was a Labour politician who wanted to design a better right to work scheme, I'd (a) start by cracking down on employers who transfer the risk to their workers, (b) work with the unions to design a scheme that puts workers' rights front and centre, and (c) phase roll-out, like digital switchover

Russian forces have reportedly fallen into three simultaneous encirclements. Ukrainian troops cut off retreat routes while drones track reinforcements. Ukraine’s Dnipro command confirms advances, saying Russian logistics near Dobropillia are collapsing and retreating troops are trapped under fire.

My theory is that Putin has something really bad on Trump and is forcing Trump to do his bidding. Nothing else can account for why Trump is unwilling to hold Putin accountable for anything. Putin is making Trump look like a fool and Trump is powerless to do anything about it.

#FarageOut and jailed for treasonous acts and financial fraud

Still. At least everyone isn't taking about this 👇

I am both baffled & depressed by the way Starmer has looked at all the evidence that his Reform Lite stance is alienating Labour voters & driving us away & then decided to double down on that self same, failed, disastrous strategy. What the Hell is he thinking. Conference is going to be in uproar.

Russian Telegram channels report that there is a total fuel shortage in Russia, with about 360 gas stations shutting down due to a lack of gasoline. Supply disruptions have affected the Moscow, Leningrad, Ryazan, and Nizhny Novgorod regions, among others⤵️

Trump gets humiliated at the UN, Kimmel returns, he drops further in the polls and just goes fucking crazy at the White House today. Insane new tariffs, Comey, war against his domestic opponents, shutting down the government. He is losing it, and it’s getting dangerous out there.

Reported tax avoider Tice managed to drag himself away from Dubai for a bit, has he? Utter grifter!

Tice was on the defensive. Reform have had a bad day or two. Farage badly miscalculated just how unpopular Donald Trump is in the UK and how British people trust science and medicine. Tice made the same error. He could barely bring himself to criticise Trump’s BS.

Ten Years ago Farage was already a regular on Question Time iirc. The time to laugh him out of politics was long before that.

That we've even reached the point where the likes of Farage and Rice are occupying mainstream television is deeply concerning. As little as ten years ago they'd have been heckled off stage. And for good reason. Nick Griffin-esque opportunists.

Billy Bragg debating with Richard Tice is like Muhammad Ali boxing against my grandmother - who died 65 years ago.

Brilliant line “Nigel Farage wants to be the next PM? You must be joking!” #Farageisajoke

“Sharia courts” are not legally binding in the UK. They only carry weight if both disputed parties *choose* to follow their judgement. It’s like a friend informally mediating a dispute. This needs to be stated in such debates because this inflammatory rhetoric needs to be brought back to reality.

Richard Tice, "We've already got 80 sharia courts in the UK" Billy Bragg, "There are also Jewish courts as well, thats part of their religion. We as a tolerant nation accept that" "To demonise, particularly the Muslims, is the sort of thing we worry about Reform UK"

Fortunately for him Sharia law doesn't apply to non-Muslims in most Islamic countries, including Dubai. If it did he wouldn't set foot in the place.

Tice literally lives in a country (Dubai) that has Sharia Law as its legal foundation..... the man knows no shame

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📝 Latest figures show waiting lists remain at 7.4m. Analysts now expect the government to fall short of its pledge that 65% of patients should be treated within 18 weeks. We knew this was coming... Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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tbf he may have cracked a while back

This is like the John Craven's Newsround version of your Byline Times piece Peter. (Yours and Nafeez Ahmed's, being some excellent reporting btw) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glasman is being dragging around the interview circuit at the moment . He should come with a bloody great warning ; ‘ Has absolutely nothing to do with Labour or Socialism !’

Pretty sick making stuff. Starmer's Labour aren't just cosying up to the MAGAs to protect our trade with the US, there's apparently an ideological meeting of minds with these extremists and racists in the US and (presumably) here in our government.

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel" bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Again, I'm sure this is in no way connected to Labour's sudden frenzy to introduce a compulsory mass digital registration system

The professor of populism has become the populist professor

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

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