The northern lights were stunning last night on our tour south of Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Dog That Hasn’t Barked

Autumn colours #trees #TreeClub

In one of her first acts as a member of Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva signed a petition that could force a vote on a bill related to releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Contrast.

Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is expected to become the key signature needed for a petition on releasing the Epstein files when she’s sworn in this week.

David Olusoga's empire state of mind 📺 Nicholas Harris on Empire

On this day in 1918 the parents of the poet Wilfred Owen were just listening to the church bells ringing to announce the Armistice when a telegram boy arrived with the message that their son had died.

“The bad headlines for Labour this morning are deliberate and self-inflicted. On one level, No 10 isn’t wrong to be paranoid – Labour MPs really are furious, and really are talking about replacing Starmer. But on the flipside, it is hard to see what they’ve gained by saying it.”

Two Polar Bears | Raymond Sheppard

New modeling suggests Neanderthals may have faded into Homo sapiens through slow genetic blending, not extinction. A quiet merge, not a catastrophic end. #HumanEvolution #Neanderthal #Archaeology #Genetics www.anthropology.net/p/the-slow-v...

#GVerse Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social just walked onto a plane full of veterans & thanked every single one of them: no stage, no teleprompter, no ego trip. #MyPresidentBarackObama 🫡🇺🇸 Hit the like, & repost to show your love for this man, a true American Hero! #VeteransDay

Study for Still Life Painting Milwaukee, 1966 | Hubert Arthur Finney

Universal Credit allows bosses to get away with paying wages that are too low to live on. Don't stigmatise the millions of hard-working people who depend on it as 'lazy'.

Russia buys 55% of everything related to prosthetics "from countries that are at war with us", Svetlana Orlova, the auditor of Russia's Accounts Chamber, said. "And 850 billion rubles (~ $10,5 billion) is allocated for import substitution," she said.

To the delight of Britain’s tabloids, female prison officers keep entering into relationships with the male prisoners in their charge. 🖊️ Ethan Croft: Prison sex stories are a sign of our corrupting state

Inside story 🚨 No 10’s briefings about a plot against the prime minister are the work of his unpopular chief of staff ✏️ @jamesrball.com Read story 👉 buff.ly/hubhVNL

Energy and food bills remain the biggest financial stress for UK households - the autumn budget will be judged on whether it tackles them. Read the latest from us here www.ippr.org/articles/a-w...

JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg to run for Congress

UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell tried to open a back channel to Putin as Britain and its closest EU allies feared the Trump administration could sideline their interests over Ukraine. The Kremlin confirmed our reporting on the outreach. Scoop w/ FT comrades on.ft.com/4nWDWnX

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

It was my great pleasure to speak to @srd.bsky.social about competitive authoritarianism and what it means for our age. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Mood is a bit sombre at Casa Aust as yesterday we had to say goodbye to our family hound, a few wks short of his 13th birthday, after a rapid decline w aggressive B-cell lymphoma. House feels rather empty today. We're going to miss you, mate.

An Urgent Message: What You Must Know About AI open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Great video from Robert Reich and Inequality Media Civic Action #AINeedsOversight

Fall Into Minnesota

Whether the briefing from "friends of Starmer" was a stupid 4D chess move to ultimately get Streeting in to replace him, or just a regular stupid move to shore up Starmer, is was a stupid thing to do and just reinforces how wildly out of touch they are with the country and the PLP.

FYI I don't think Streeting is actively trying to push Starmer out now. I think a lot of MPs have decided Starmer is going to go so possible candidates are quietly trying to get a sense of support levels.

“His achievements included negotiating the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, punching a voter who’d thrown an egg at him, and holding the government together with his bare hands.” This week’s New World column concerns a century of deputy leaders of the Labour party.

Why Democrats need to get over their shutdown crackup — and fast www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

I support Sir Keir Starmer. He is our PM and must remain as PM. This speculation about his future needs to stop. The media have it in for him and he is actually doing a bloody good job.

Keir Starmer has effectively started a leadership challenge against himself. To have entered into this kind of madhouse Westminster squabbling so soon after an election is simply unforgivable. inews.co.uk/opinion/back...

Ah, so after Epstein files vanished, the East Wing was destroyed, inflation soared, and democracy burned, it took ISIS in the White House for MAGA diehards to start blinking. When even MAGA influencers start admitting Trump’s America is “actually worse,” you know the facade is cracking.👇

NEW • Domhnall Gleeson photographed for Esquire by Jeremy Liebman

Happy Birthday to the director behind 'ABOUT TIME', Richard Curtis! 🎉

NEW • Domhnall Gleeson photographed for Esquire by Jeremy Liebman

NEW • Domhnall Gleeson photographed for Esquire by Jeremy Liebman

Eerie glow in the sky this morning on Glastonbury Tor.

Autumn Gate. Photo taken at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

Storm clouds gathering earlier on here in Glastonbury.

If you missed our @therestpolitics.bsky.social LIVE on the BBC yesterday, here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgk8...

Following in the footsteps of giants … last year Grace, today me and Rory Stewart for @therestpolitics.bsky.social Live. Hello Hammersmith

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - explaining the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social phenomenon; why the Czech election matters to the whole of Europe; the Trump-al-Sharaa meeting. And a bit more BEEB alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/467-...

For those of my followers interested in Poland. Really interesting TRIP episode with Radek Sikorski. 👇

Tree of the Day

The National Union of Journalists has called for worker representation & independent appointments to the BBC board, amid the fall-out from the BBC Panorama doc The union has also defended the integrity of its members at the BBC & demanded "sustainable funding to safeguard public service journalism"