Snap Caerphilly by-election analysis: Tactical voting can stop Reform. But Labour have to give tactical progressive voters reason enough to do that. It's not enough to just be a bit less dreadful. iandunt.substack.com/p/today-it-r...

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

🇵🇱 "Poland will force Putin's plane to land for arrest," - Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the country cannot guarantee the safe flight of the plane over its territory.

Some politicians and commentators continue to talk our great city down. The facts show a very different picture.

☠️ One in every 117 Russian men has died in the war, - The Economist ❗️According to a study based on over 200 sources, Russia lost between 0.5% and 1.2% of men under 60.

☠️ In 2025, for every Ukrainian soldier killed, five Russian soldiers die — The Economist Russia’s summer offensive, which Putin placed high hopes on, ended in failure despite record mobilization numbers.

#A_NewHope ✊

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski brought a decommissioned Shahed-136 drone to his speech at Westminster @radek-sikorski.bsky.social stated that Europe needs to prepare for Russian drone strikes deep into Europe. "We should be prepared to counter that”

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

Both knife crime and homicides are falling in London. This is thanks to our record funding in the Met, targeted police action and vital prevention work through London’s VRU. But there is still much more to do, which is why we won’t let-up in our work to build a safer London for everyone.

⚡️ NATO chief mocks Russia over malfunctioning submarine 'limping home from patrol.' "What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

⚔️ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036, - ISW ❗️Russia’s ongoing sabotage and drone reconnaissance activities in Europe indicate that Russia has already entered “Phase Zero” of campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

The inability of the US and Europe to build an own supply of rare earth refining - knowing for years it was a huge vulnerability - must be one of the most catastrophic policy failures of the decade. One reason it‘s hard: the West cannot free trade its way out when China controls the price mechanism

They did this with this dude more than twice too

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

*gasp*

Do read all of this.

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

Starmer: “Controlling migration is a reasonable goal- but if you throw bricks and smash up private property that is thuggery…if you incite violence that’s criminal…if you graffiti on a Chinese takeaway telling them to go home, that’s not pride that’s racism.”

Poll with LabourList & Survation. Who would Labour members want to replace Keir Starmer if he didn’t lead the party into the next election? Andy Burnham: 43% Wes Streeting: 9% Angela Rayner: 7%

Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA

🇲🇩 Moldova, you’ve done it again. 
No attempt to sow fear or division could break your resolve. You made your choice clear: 
Europe. Democracy. Freedom. Our door is open. And we will stand with you every step of the way.
 The future is yours.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why was Galloway in Moscow? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

NEW: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon are all named in Epstein docs released today by Democrats

Russian media report that in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, school buses did not run due to a gasoline shortage. It is reported that private gas stations have been without gasoline for 2-3 weeks already. 67% of gas stations in Russia are privately owned, and they cover a vast part of the country

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

Splitter!

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

It’s appalling to see police officers come under attack at the Tommy Robinson rally. Those involved should be held accountable through the full force of the law.

It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.

“Russian missiles will reach London just as quickly as they will reach Tallinn,” said the NATO Secretary General. “Russian missiles are capable of reaching London or Madrid in a matter of minutes, so one cannot assume that the threat only concerns NATO’s eastern flank,” Mark Rutte declared

The head of the Bundestag’s defense committee has called on NATO to shoot down drones over Ukraine, according to Spiegel. He also stressed the need to strike drone production and launch sites in Russia, and urged allies to equip Ukraine accordingly.

It was his teachers’ fault. He was the internet’s fault. It was the libs. They’re sounding like the guy’s public defender at his sentencing hearing.

The alleged Charlie Kirk shooter proudly wearing his Trump costume for Halloween in 2017

Pretty clear that a lot of people jumped the gun on the motive behind Kirk’s assassination. The shooter: 1. Grew up in a Republican family 2. Donated to Donald Trump 3. Loved guns 4. Was steeped in Groyper culture This isn’t a simple “raging leftist hated Kirk” scenario.

Prince Harry has also arrived in #Kyiv. Welcome, Sir!

Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

"Who do they think they are?!" A furious @andyburnham.bsky.social on the news that a Reform UK government would scrap plans to build Northern Powerhouse Rail.