After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

NEWS! Elon Musk surprisingly supportive of man who was jailed trying to get into the United states with false passport newsthump.com/2025/10/30/e...

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

#nowlistening A particular soundtrack for lengthy working.

John Cleese on Prunella Scales, taken from Cleese's commentary on the Fawlty Towers pilot.

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

The Washington Post thinks the White House Ballroom is a splendid idea and anyone who thinks otherwise is a NIMBY. In other news Post owner Jeff Bezos is helping to pay for the Ballroom

“Legitimate concerns” update

To go from "Who is Katie Lam?" to "Everybody hates Katie Lam, the Tory Idi Amin" in less than a week is exemplary "rising star" behaviour

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

I was lucky enough to interview Dave Ball at a book festival not so long ago. He was very nervous but when you got him onto music, amazing. I told him I had listened to Soft Cell every day on the way to school, radio pressed to my ear. He said, “Did it help?” More than you knew, Dave. RIP

Trump announces plan to steal $230 million from US taxpayers www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/trum...

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

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Again, grateful to Facebook memories for reminding me that while today always has the potential to be a bad day, someone, somewhere is having one that's worse

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

Trump posting a video of himself literally shitting on America is pretty spot on to be honest

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

Driving about yesterday, there were lots of really scabby flags stuck to poles.

True bravery!

I ❤️ Viz

“If Robert Jenrick had seen you or Kemi Badenoch in that area, he would have just assumed you were poorly integrated.”

The Saudis executed a journalist for criticizing the government on Twitter LAST MONTH. Fuck those sellout comedians. Great piece by Khashoggi’s friend & colleague @karenattiah.bsky.social. karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khas...

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany." - Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Kash was begging for a Community Note

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn: "I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...." Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

That’s showbiz.

Oh, I appear to have missed the conference speech by Kemi Badenoch, along with everyone else.

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture. It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?" Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

EUSTON TANNOY: Customers are reminded not to run at any time

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This is heartbreaking news!

I just backed The Lost Films of Hollywood Calendar 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

“The idea that Mr Farage thinks democracy is going to win, frankly, is for the birds”

We drove through Brownhills years but (cough) sadly did not seem this on the road. What we did see was mental enough. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

That awkward moment when google reveals that this isn't a made up name

A victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal who was temporarily paralysed after the stress of her ordeal has been offered 15% of her compensation claim