Do the numbers add up? No. Not really. But they don’t care and their supporters don’t care. We are exactly where we were with £350m for NHS on the side of the bus. Question is will the same trick work again?

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! After an eventful few weeks away. And if the FCC is reading this, we just want to say: tonight’s episode is about…how cute your outfit is! And every episode after that, too, cause you’ll just keep wearing outfits! And we love that about you.

President Trump says tech and media giants Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch will be a part of the group to take over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations: https://cnn.it/46KUeuG

Funny thing going around American FB.

My conversation with Stefanie Babst on Times Radio. Since February she’s insisted that Trump is an unreliable ally. m.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWX...

I’ll be speaking to @samfr.bsky.social about his brilliant piece. From 1-4pm @listentotimesradio.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Well if you keep inviting a team to score against you - don’t be surprised when they do. #ManUtd

A school in Reform-controlled Kent is offering a special prize to the pupil who writes the best essay about the party ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Sure sure.

Beth Rigby asks the question. Trump: I don’t know him.

Three journalists in Mandelson has not made it into a question … 😬

Fascinating: Britain is about 13% of EU population. It used to take ~3% of all asylum applications. Now it takes ~10%.

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Thank God we don’t have the cancellation of satirical comedy in this country. I can’t wait to see how they deal with the Trump visit on The Mash Report, Mock The Week and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order!

Extraordinary this man is in charge of the FBI.

Just … never mind.

What?

Well …

Oh no … Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social “racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….” www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

Can't we agree to reserve 'defect' for the act of a sitting MP and refer to cases like Caulfield as 'changes direct debit'?

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

So what has Farage said about MPs switching parties? That was 2017. Looks like he’s changed his mind. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

Farage: “We are not the Conservative Party 2.0. We’re not going to become the Conservative Party 2.0. Theirs is a completely broken brand.”

Farage: “We are not the Conservative Party 2.0. We’re not going to become the Conservative Party 2.0. Theirs is a completely broken brand.”

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

On days like today, it’s important to remember the words of the wonderful Jonathan Miller when challenging the dog-whistling of those who wish to divide us for political or financial gain.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Exactly this. One recurring realisation from my attempts to educate myself about Charlie Kirk is that he would have had no career at all if his supporters’ characterisations of college campuses were even close to accurate.

Important bit of new polling from @deltapoll.bsky.social: ask people for the top issue facing the country and immigration is second, at 49%. But ask what’s most important for *them* and it drops to fourth, at just 21%. That gap might suggest a way out of Labour’s mess…

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Oh …

SCOOP “I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers www.wired.com/story/right-...

case in point

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Funny how this keeps happening?

After the biggest weekend in the Reform UK calendar … a drop in the polls. Will be interesting to see if this is reflected across more polls post conference.

At the Reform UK conference, Dr Aseem Malhotra made a number of claims about Covid vaccines, some of which were misleading or simply not backed by any credible evidence. We’ve fact checked a few of his claims 👇

Reform’s polling lead is astonishingly brittle. The headline numbers may look impressive, but the underlying data reveals a fundamental weakness. 4 major headaches for Farage:

Farage repeating - yet again - the simple lie that most new migrants don't work. Completely unchallenged by Kuenssberg, yet again. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Chris Mason is a profoundly unserious man who writes about politics as if it were a video game with no real consequences. True to form, this article is purely about optics. Not a single policy is mentioned www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s a steady trickle of political journalists and editors now leaving the Reform conference to dash back to London, following Rayner’s resignation and the rumoured cabinet reshuffle it is set to prompt…

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

Farage denies having banned journalists from his political events ... Maybe @jamesrball.com and @adambienkov.bsky.social have a different view ...