@jkbjournalist.bsky.social at The Miami Herald deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - her dogged determination is finally delivering a morsel of peace to Epstein and Trump’s victims Either that or a Pulitzer Prize Thank you Julie K! 👏👏👏

Wonderful tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social Rachel was always a wonderful colleague and over the past 14 months, during we experienced a horrendous period at the Guardian together, she became a cherished friend…. /cont. 🧵 observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

The only way to raise serious revenue is to raise a tax which everybody pays. Raising a tax which someone else pays rarely raises the revenue needed and creates endless pressure from special interest groups. Compare and contrast Mr Osborne's 2 1/2% VAT increase with his pasty tax. #omnishambles

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

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I keep thinking of a friend in the Labour Party who was comparing Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan. "Sadiq Khan's a solicitor, solicitors get things done. Keir Starmer's a barrister, barristers take instruction." (Apologies to any barristers.)

If you read anything today, make it this. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

50 years ago we were in a trading bloc with the rest of Europe. Is this the Telegraph finally acknowledging that Britain was better before Brexit?!

I do feel for Labour ministers who have been knuckling down on their briefs and patiently working on delivering sectoral reforms which will deliver wide ranging public benefits, e.g.

To be honest I think “I’m going to give a press conference to tell the whole nation over their breakfasts about the absolute need for something big on tax, then just drop the idea 10 days later” may actually be more stupid than anything Truss and Kwarteng did.

Can anyone point me to an analyst whose response to the overnight budget briefing was to say it's a brilliant idea, and definitely the best way to do it please? (and not sarcastically).

At the Irish Football Programme Club fair, people hunt for the rare and the strange. “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Gareth Jones, standing over his own extensive collection, sprawled out over several tables.

Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.

Is it too late for the Daily Star to get a lettuce on tomorrow's front page?

How can you spend three weeks telling MPs, you can't do XYZ because the markets think we are too in hoc to our backbenchers - and then do this? All the whips, advisors, external experts who have been faithfully disseminating this made to look like mugs.

Absolute bombshell report in the FT tonight that Reeves has effectively ripped up her entire Budget and abandoning plans to raise income tax. Means a lot of disparate, smaller measures now on the table. Just yesterday morning I was told they were desperate to avoid that.

Oh wow. At this point I genuinely don't know who or what they think they're in government for. Please tax me more. I want nice things that work. I want security for people that aren't doing as well as me. I want investment in a positive future. Please put up my income tax.

“We don’t want to do things that antagonize Labour MPs and voters”. Guys that ship sailed. That ship disappeared over the horizon. That ship is docking in New Zealand. You have 400 seats. Just do the policy that makes sense. Stop running away from shadows.

🚨War is not the answer. Pres. Trump has NO legal authority to launch unauthorized, unprovoked strikes against Venezuela. And the American people do not want our country mired in another costly, disastrous war. #NoWarWithVenezuela!

Buried in here: UMC pastors in Chicago told me they were going to keep doing this for a wide spectrum of Methodists who have legal battles amid the ongoing mass deportation effort in the city — immigrant families, pastors who have been arrested, etc. Some serious denominational solidarity here.

I suspect "his manner, his expression, the way he walked" were a reflection of his absolute contempt for Daniel "ancestral voices" Hannan, who he'd just spotted coming in the other direction.

so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”

I have had to pop over to X to stop you posting that bloody Guardian screenshot about Starmer

𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐩𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐚𝐱.

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Talk about #elbowsup. 🇨🇦 “.. their absence is driving down international travel spending, which is expected to drop 3.2 percent to $173 billion ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room. Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.” But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide. defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...

Good morning dear friends, I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful day. I hope one day you’ll have the chance to visit my beautiful country.

Bosses will resign, right?

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Tonight I had a good call with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, during which we discussed progress made and reiterated our commitment to our renewed agenda. We have agreed to start negotiations on both the SPS and ETS agreements next week.

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All those Christians who supported Trump, are they now thinking this is all a hoax? That it's in the past and he deserves a shot at redemption? Or are they starting to wonder how they got duped into supporting someone like this?

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Sun Tzu had a beard, Genghis Khan had a beard, MAGA favourites Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson both had beards, as did Ulysses S Grant, the man who defeated Lee. Vladimir Putin's hero Peter the Great banned beards. So much for the "Warrior ethos".

Middlesbrough, twinned with Forest Green. I wonder what @dalevince.com makes of it all... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

TalkTV goes woke!

Is Trump going to use the Gladstone defence? Will he say he was spending time alone with Epstein's victims in the spirit of "rescue and rehabilitation"?

On broken prisons, a besieged BBC and the problem of collective politics in a climate of mistrust www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Something about this morning's stories reminded me of Gordon Brown's No 10. And then I remembered this passage from Damian McBride:

A selection of fury from Labour MPs, ministers and advisors - “This is batshit crazy” “they are f-ing deluded” “did we watch the Tories and think, let’s have a bit of that?” “why are you slagging off your main rival and then putting him on the morning round to show everyone how much better he is”

Before this government collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, might it be possible for it to reach an agreement with the EU on free movement of young people. Please. Pretty please.

From 1910. One hundred and fifteen years ago.

Take that, SNCF! 🤣 European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art... There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.

So, so corrupt.

The Tesla shareholders awarded him a trillion dollars AFTER he said this? If your pension fund is among them, change it immediately.