In America the revolving door is very clear across several arms of Government And Peter Theil has a finger in most of these pies. But this is now spreading to Europe. Including the U.K.

Illustration for today's @theguardian.com to accompany piece by Aditya Chakrabortty on the victory of Zohran Mamdani www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ZohranMamdani #Mamdani #Trump #NewYork #NYC

Donald Trump gives ZERO F**KS about anyone other than himself, unless he thinks you are someone who can improve how he thinks about himself.

The value of significant investment in the arts. In the mid-20th-century Australia was frequently accused of "lacking culture", yet they made one of the most significant investments in the arts per capita of any nation, and created a persevering national icon. Watch to end. youtu.be/ODSKfN6pSMs?...

Trump complaining about "packing" the supreme court when he has turned it into a pro-Trump puppet show makes the bile rise.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Normally you don't get a response like this from New York without actually busting some ghosts.

This is what a brainwashed and indoctrinated people sound like. It is also where the US is headed unless everyone gets out to vote against the GOP in the mid-terms. inews.co.uk/news/world/r...

"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always." Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901

Petrol bombs gutted the Sapes Trust building in Harare hours before opposition leaders were to hold a press conference challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid to extend his rule to 2030.

Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services. Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0. But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?" Make it make sense!

I know the tan suit thing is old, but still. The performative outrage never ceases to amaze me. And of course, now, it's performative silence.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

One of the aphorisms that's been going around resonates with me: “The underlying purpose of #AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” ~ need to remember the author. 😖 They don’t to pay or work for expertise anymore!

Will the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?

How much do ICE walts really care about public safety? Well this guy was driving drunk with his kids in the car before trying to play the "I'm a Fed" card, and then being racist to his arresting officer, revealling what we all know, ICE is just a racist group of thugs. youtu.be/nU-jiN1U26o?...

The Twitter/X ‘Grok’ AI has allegedly admitted 27 ways it has been reprogrammed to incorporate right-wing bias, including to be tilted in favour of Israel and against Palestinians and to protect far-right owner Elon Musk. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Reform councillor snubs journalists minutes after election This is Lee Duffy, he paid for a buffet for residents during the election period and somehow got away with it. Why is he trying to avoid the press?

I don't see how, despite the author's clearly one-sided presentation of this story, Charles Windsor protecting his brother long-past he should have, and then reluctantly bowing to pressure - too little, too late - "saves the monarchy". Anachronistic and unjustifiable. Time for a republic.

I think some of the fascists, Elon Musk - looking directly at you; Peter Thiel (Panaltir, ffs) probably need to learn how to read between the lines in literature. Or just make it easy for yourself & read biographies - LOTR was about races uniting vs evil during the rise of fascism. Not hard, idiots.

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018” God, failure is tedious… www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

Rather than "benevolent employer", I am reminded of Shadowrun's "Renraku Arcology", in a world where corporations are more powerful than governments & control every aspect of their employee's lives, they all remain trapped permanently within a closed ecosystem. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

The EU should absolutely nourish a revival of Prometheanism in the colonised nations currently ruled by Russia. www.eurasiareview.com/30102025-mos...

@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50

Good GRIEF! Do not let these people anywhere near Westminster. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” he warned. “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” www.foreignaffairs.com/military-nar...

Intellectually dishonest from The Times' Lord Finkelstein. If you look only at a progressive tax and ignore how much more the richest earn of course you 'prove' they "bear the heaviest burden". But if you look at all taxes as a percentage of income the poorest bear a similar burden to the richest.

And why Britain eventually realised tariffs cause more self-harm than good. theconversation.com/the-rise-and...

Why is racism in Britain getting worse? I did not want nor expect to be asking that in 2025. I'm used to making progress against racism in our country. So I write in The New World about how we understand what's going on + what needs to change to turn this around www.thenewworld.co.uk/sunder-katwa...

Pete Hegseth's drunken ramblings about "warrior culture" are preparing the US for failure against China. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A poignant article on why Trump's "make me look good first" approach to foreign policy is handing a major advantage to particularly China and to a lesser extent Russia. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Give them tomahawks and they will beat Russia. nationalsecurityjournal.org/putin-is-slo...

Omg, he's always been an idiot - but this does look like neurological degeneration. www.thepoke.com/2025/10/28/w...

AOC calls out Donald Trump: "There was a day before your presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us!" ✊

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

Could it be that Americans are starting to realise they are the ones paying for tariffs, and that that little fundraiser is going directly into the pockets of Trump and his enablers rather than being invested into the things everyday Americans really need?

Why would any right-minded person take medical advice from a f***ing idiot with no medical qualifications and a history of endlessly failed and bakrupted businesses across five decades in the fields he supposedly IS good at?!

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.