Some subscribers to Reform magazine are not getting what they thought they were getting

A private investigator central to the legal action by the Duke of Sussex and others against the publisher of the Daily Mail has retracted his confession and denied carrying out illegal activity on behalf of the company www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The lesson of China’s broadening interference in the education systems of democratic countries is that if we want academic freedom, we will have to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

Was he not impeached for doing precisely this?

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in - Jane Martinson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain’s system of local property taxation is regressive, arbitrary and in need of a root-and-branch overhaul - but the plans being floated for this month’s budget aren’t it. This is a simple cash grab www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

There are dangers in opening the Overton window on race, Martin Ivens writes. It’s morally wrong — and responsible political leaders should nip it in the bud. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A day ahead of its 75th anniversary, nearly 300 UK-based organisations have spoken out in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... via @the-independent.com #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75

Deep bias toward reality

Most Americans think the government lies. Many say the American Dream is dead.

OK but… what soundbites?

Andy Windsor, just a regular guy Prince Andrew to Be Stripped of His Royal Title www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

Kind of psychotic the way all the Halloween crap disappears from department stores before Halloween, to be replaced by Christmas crap. Looking forward to shopping for my Easter decorations on Christmas Eve

This is farcical. Katie Lam didn't speak "imprecisely". She accurately stated the Conservative party's existing policy, which they tried to pass as a Bill in Parliament earlier this year, and which Badenoch's spokesman defended himself just last week.

The mainstreaming of xenophobic radicalism does nothing for Britain’s reputation as a bastion of reliability, tolerance and decency www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Farage: epic grifter

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

“Conservatives used at least nominally to argue that it was important to protect civil society from the depredations of government, and many genuinely believed it. Some still do, but now, the dominant figures in political conservatism want to use government to weaponize and suborn civil society”

“Business transparency might expose the party or its cronies to scandals, or expose government malfeasance that could inspire popular protest. The [NSL] is so broad and vague that it could ensnare anyone who maintains databases such as Mr. Webb’s @webb-site.com.” www.wsj.com/opinion/davi...

"The apps are so advanced!" The apps are 13 million migrant workers in a robot suit!

“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing is, among other things, a story about social class: about the unacknowledged and often exploited low-paid labour force that has powered the economic boom in China – and, given globalisation, the world”

Reform UK MP: “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of Black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are basically anything other than white.” The absolute dregs of humanity www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“Listen love, you’re trying ever so hard.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️❤️❤️ www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ignore the overdose of techno-boosterism - the NHS’s vital signs really are improving www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Of course China is a threat www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The flag-hanging campaign has reached as far as Eton, a well-to-do suburb of Slough

US President Donald Trump called China's restrictions on rare earths a “moral disgrace” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Maybe I need to see it again www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

This is quite the graph, though I’m having some cognitive dissonance in trying to square it with the fact that Nigel Farage’s party is way ahead in the polls

The Manchurian candidate is back on message on.ft.com/3WMSQSu Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

The China spy saga is a Slow Horses plot. But where’s Jackson Lamb when you need him?

NEW: Britain’s top libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for OneCoin - a $4bn crypto-fraud. The firm threatened whistleblowers, journalists, regulators, and even the police. Carter-Ruck's work helped the fraud continue as long as it did. Was that a crime?

My weekend is sorted

“The truth is that China poses a greater strategic threat to Britain than any state since the Second World War. It is not just a rival economy; it is an adversarial system seeking to rewire global power to its own advantage.“ www.spectator.co.uk/article/chin...

China spy case has an aroma of appeasement on.ft.com/3L0pTQm

Never interrupt your enemy etc etc on.ft.com/42Hat9S US warns world will ‘decouple’ from China if it imposes new export controls

Brother mote eye on.ft.com/475ahTb Bessent says China wants to ‘pull everybody else down’

王老师，加油！ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The ECHR has taken over post-Brexit as the symbolic oppressor of Britain’s sovereign freedom. But grandiose gesture of leaving would do little to solve the problem it’s designed to address: immigration. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Powell is surely gone www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

The Sunday Times says Jingye - which we were all assured was a private company and nothing to do with the state - was willing to waive its compensation for British Steel if China’s London’s mega-embassy was approved.

So why are there no women in the Politburo? Not one. Nada

And these people want to come over to Europe and lecture us about freedom of speech

A spying case collapsed because of a reluctance to call China what it self-evidently is - a threat to the UK’s national security. If this was an attempt to curry favour, it will go unrewarded. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If China isn’t a threat to national security then no country is 🤯 on.ft.com/3IxutVG Spying case collapsed after UK refused to label China a ‘threat’, prosecutors say

Jenrick is beyond revolting. A disgrace and an embarrassment to himself, his party and basic human decency. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...