“.. levels not seen since 1992.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CARNEY: "As co-chair with President Zelensky of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, Canada convened leaders this morning to spotlight the tragedy of Ukrainian children illegally abducted by Russia and to catalyze a stronger international reaction."

Nigel Farage comparing paracetamol to thalidomide reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn comparing the evidence Russia was behind the Salisbury poisonings to claims about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Tapping into different seams of the "Don't Believe what THEY tell you" mindset, but with the same goal.

Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.

A room full of people praying for the rapture so they can be lifted away from this lunatic drivel. Many of them will have been to London more recently than Trump (he was kept away during his state visit) and know he's talking complete rubbish.

Just rampantly moronic. Imagine if this staggering dimwit were raging like this on a street corner. You'd call social services.

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

This is exactly the problem. It’s not a failure of ordinary people, but a craven, abject failure of elites and people in positions of influence, who all know better, but for reasons of self-interest, opportunism or corruption, enable America’s catastrophic fall from grace and self-sabotage.

I've just put on my winter cardigan... autumn is definitely upon us.

The fact that Trump did not win a UN contract as a builder might come back to haunt the international community. And the fact that Rubio says this publicly and thinks it’s a good point says a lot about him.

🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world So much for the “land of the free” 🧵

Oh my god, they weren't kidding, I've just seen the warnings leaflet that comes with a box of Tylenol. How were they keeping this quiet?!

"I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them": In one seemingly off-script remark at Charlie Kirk's memorial, Trump summarizes his approach to politics and life. @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

The border check facilities built to deal with post-Brexit plant and animal inspections have cost an estimated £800m They are likely to become redundant after the SPS deal comes into force How many homes could we have insulated with that money? www.politico.eu/article/brex...

It's happened again. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Expertise matters. I strongly believe that one of the problems with the media has been the tendency to treat everything as just a branch of politics, and to (wrongly) assume that fundamentally politics-focused reporters can 'get across' any topic. It's not just wrong - it's enormously damaging.

Truly facile, awful analysis by Nick Robinson normalising hate speech by 'ordinary people' and equating it with free speech. The boiling point is too many of Britain's commentators unthinkingly wading in the toxic swamp of X and believing it is what passes as normal.

ABC’s John Lyons has slammed Israel for wiping out an average of 28 children in Gaza “Every Day. Week in, week out, month in, month out” Lyons “There are on avg. a classroom of Palestinian children in Gaza today, who this time tomorrow will be killed by an Israeli bomb”😳 #Abc

This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

I use this graph a lot.

Rebellion was never more mundane...

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents. No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this. I have no words left for them.

Jimmy Kimmel needs to open tomorrow's monologue by taking two Tylenol.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

CAN I JUST SAY ITS LIB DEMS CONFERENCE!!!!!!! ALL WE GET FROM MEDIA IS BLOODY FARAGE???????

They could have gone after anything. Artificial food colouring or something. But no, the problem is women taking medicine when they're in pain.

It is wild to me that we had an entire national freak out about a Presidential candidate's mental acuity, and it *wasn't* about Trump—totally unserious country.

the answer to autism is 42

Will paracetamol take the edge off the Rapture?

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

I took paracetamol in both my pregnancies for minor joint troubles. I had a better pregnancy experience because I wasn't in pain. Neither of my kids is autistic. The high-quality studies and reviews confirm there is NO evidence that paracetamol taken by the mother causes autism in the child. 🧪

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

I was walking down a street in New York and I thought how lovely it was, with the trees and the light. Tried to take a photo and this came out. It’s incredible how blind we become to the ugliness of cars. They really do mess things up. Yet somehow we manage to filter them out.

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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Sadiq Khan's response to Farage announcement.

Many people who've lived here lawfully for 5+ years have the legal right to live here permanently - from Europeans who came before Brexit, to refugees + others. Nigel Farage is saying he'd take that status away + is even threatening to deport many people with the right to live here permanently

So we're putting in a mass digital id database immediately before a potential Reform government that will use it to deport and brutalise millions of people? Your local supermarket refusing to let you buy food without your id card in 2030 cos right to work checks morphed into right to eat checks.

Deserving 5-star review of @itvx.com documentary last night, The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money. Catch it on the ITV player when you get home tonight: www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

American "Christianity" latest... "I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" Luke 6:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies ..." Matthew 5:43-44 Donald Trump:

Why on earth is the BBC running a live blog of this American hate fest? The murder of Charlie Kirk was sad and significant, but do we really need live coverage of a series of white men seeking to make political capital from it? Why is a public service broadcaster amplifying his hateful views?

there is an institutional persistence story to be written about why Cambridge is not only so bad at marketing and organizing itself in the digital age, but utterly indifferent. Its attitude to the books it publishes is like a fish spawning 50,000 fertilized eggs. A few will survive and reproduce.

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

Anyone with daughters in co-educational secondary schools knows this is true. It makes it all the more astonishing that Michael Gove (who has a daughter and is a former education secretary) ran a fawning piece about Andrew Tate in this week's Spectator.