Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

Behold, a brilliant little guide if you are new to growing Garlic 🌱 Particularly, letting them get their roots down before any chance of frost AND mulch well. 👍

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Went to see Antony Szmeirik last night. Highly recommended if you get a chance!

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

This is really interesting.

🚨NEW: Stephen Colbert's opening tonight will forever be remembered as one of the most powerful moments of late-night comedy in modern history. This is a must-watch. Damn. 🔥

Here’s how Jimmy Fallon responded to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air:

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

I USED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HAVING NO SHOES. UNTIL I MET A MAN WITH NO FEET.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

I launched a book. I got a standing ovation. I love my friends.

Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Tellingly, this is all very much a subplot on Today. Anti-extremism really struggles to get any kind of purchase in the mainstream debate. There is no discussion about whether the govt should come off X, because that would entail the journalists conceding that they shouldn't be on X either.

Extra Manchester show added. November 15th. Tickets on sale. Please do come tickets.thelowry.com/en-GB/shows/...

Nothing like a holiday to inspire your baking choices, this is Bara Brith. Gotta be the easiest cake I've ever made. #baking

The view this morning. Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people. But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now

I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

Keir Starmer's next nightmare observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

Now is the time for our Prime Minster, Kemi Badenoch Ed Davey, Zack Polanski and Nigel Farage to stand together & reject the racism & violence at yesterday's march. They must condemn Elon Musk and be clear that they understand the very real threat and will move against acts of violence decisively.

It's very good to have a Minister saying this. But the Prime Minister needs to say it, loudly and unequivocally, now.

Elon calls for dissolution of UK parliament, says the violent left is coming for the “reasonable centre” and either normal people have to fight back or they will die. These are dangerous fantasists. news.sky.com/story/politi...

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

🌱 Allotment update - today we did a bit of light weeding and picked the last of the raspberries. We also moved in officially with our 'house' number.

🌱 When I got home from a holiday I noticed this pretty spider plant flower.

Musk has addressed the Far Right rally by video calling for a “change of government” in the UK. If this was the US, he’d be banned from entering the country and his businesses shut down.

The government needs to realise that it is in an existential fight and there can be no compromise with the far right.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

Two things about MR's memoir: (i) He is BRILLIANT at writing about music. Like, if he'd decided to do that for a living, he'd be amazing at it (though not as rich); (ii) If you like self-deprecating humour with a dollop of bathos, he does it impeccably. And, yes, it was a blast interviewing him.

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

Peter Mandelson’s final final curtain observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The framing of this Labour deputy leadership election is just ludicrous. "We need a northern woman". Like, guys, the basis of Rayner's appeal to wasn't just "a woman from north of Birmingham". It's that she was working class, rose from an impoverished childhood, was a care worker and union rep...

His killing was a tragedy, and we should say so. But let's not go so far as to airbrush out his spreading of antisemitism, Islamophobia and disinformation: this is not "practicing politics the right way".

ohhh this is something I keep meaning to write about - think an underrated dynamic in Westminster is that becoming an MP or a peer (usually Tory but clearly sometimes Labour) will push you into a world of people richer than you and some people can resist those siren calls but....not everyone will

Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things

“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

🌱My tree of the day, an old gnarled oak covered in moss and lichen.

🌱 So walking on the coastal path in Pembrokeshire today, somehow avoiding rain....

Once again, the BBC enables the now-ridiculous 'newspaper industry' to inject a damaging virus into the national conversation. ITV (GMB) is far worse. All 'newspaper reviews' on mainstream TV & Radio should be stopped immediately. If you want to know what the papers say, go and look it up FFS.

Christ, can today get any worse?

"school shooting industry"

The NHS often feels set up to prevent people relating to each other as humans. The bureaucracy and its numerous failings are cruel - no-one intends it to be this way, but that’s the inevitable result of decades of lack of investment. #cansky #graphicmedicine 1/6