I would normally be horrified about someone releasing a video to talk about being indicted but this is pretty disciplined.

Here's the clip that's the foundation of the false-statements charge in the successful grand-jury indictment of James Comey.

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Uh oh. Poland has urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately and avoid traveling there. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”

Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians. https://cnn.it/481CRHe

According to preliminary information, the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region with strike UAVs.

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

Coming up on @BBCNewsnight Powerful interview with the family of Virginia Giuffre on latest attempts in Congress to release all Epstein files, their call for Sarah Ferguson to lose Royal title, and how they and she reacted to the Newsnight interview with Prince Andrew PLUS Digital ID Burnham 2230

An unfortunate side effect of state debt rising is politicians/media assigning blame for market moves that are largely due to global factors. Like that mad few days in Jan when Reeves was apparently going to be fired because yields were up a lot everywhere.

WARNING UPDATE: The Kremlin is setting conditions to generate possibly violent protests to remove Moldovan President Maia Sandu from power following the September 28 Moldovan parliamentary elections. Read More: isw.pub/Moldova092525

This is a serious proposal by Merz – and one that could help move the debate on frozen Russian assets forward.

💥💥💥 Bryansk region. Belaya Beryozka.

Want to know how the new digital ID system will work? Good news! I’ve explained how it will almost certainly work here: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/britcard

"Somehow"? It's a complete mystery how this keeps happening.

I'm not at all sure about the thought process that reduces the Conservative vote by switching from Starmer to Burnham.

Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was filled with blithe nihilism, Will Gottsegen argues in The Atlantic Daily: “Faced with a world on the brink, Trump seems to be throwing up his hands.” https://theatln.tc/XFgNaVu5

With conference season in full swing, CEO of Punch Records, Ammo Talwar calls on policymakers to recognise culture as infrastructure with high growth potential and to invest, long-term, in rebuilding cultural institutions, particularly outside London.

My view: there is only "definitely a case" for introducing the 50p rate if you care more about political optics than reality. If you are on the Left and you actually want to raise revenue, or to tax high earners/the wealthy more effectively, then there are much better ways.

⚡️ Ukraine's sea drones 'paralyze' Russian Black Sea oil hubs, HUR source says. "Naval drones targeted key logistics facilities belonging to the aggressor state on the Black Sea coast," the source said.

Zelenskyy:If we have long distance weapons from the US,we will use them [Q]:What would you tell somebody who works at the Kremlin today? Zelenskyy:First of all, they have to know where the bomb shelters are. If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case. #Ukraine

samf.substack.com/p/last-rites... Grim scenario, and why Starmer is in real danger from Burnham

Okay - so #TheHack ends on the select committee and the cliffhanger about whether Nick Davies can save the Guardian. It’s now going to pivot to the ‘most investigated murder in British history’. If you want to know about that go here Www.untoldmurder.com

If you enjoyed #TheHack tonight here’s why the story mattered….

Going to have to repost this every day and twice on Sundays. It’s not a Bluesky problem, it’s a reality problem

If the Starmer government has to bail the JLR supply chain out then the fiscal headroom for Rachel Reeves's budget shrinks even further

Not sure voters will view this as acceptable if the government fails to secure a bailout. You'd think a Labour leadership so keen on tech issues might have thought legislating mandatory cyberattack insurance for systemically crucial sectors would be a good idea

I'm not sure that Peter Kyle is exuding a strong impression that the Starmer government has a grip on the entrepreneurial challenges of the JLR crisis

Trump's disinterest in and lack of understanding of international affairs, the practice of foreign policy and diplomacy, or of US interests has created a vacuum that others in the administration are filling (incompetently).

Interesting

This administration very literally favors Secret Police.

I’m not going to rant endlessly about this but Labour came into power on a vague ticket to improve northern rail connectivity and over a year later is still wondering what it means on.ft.com/4pAIfaJ

For those that think the swan-eating bollocks is new, here’s a story about it from 2003. The debunking has happened many times over the decades. www.theguardian.com/media/2003/d...

Zelensky at the UN General Assembly session:

Genuine thoughts with the families of those affected. I wonder though how long the whole "thoughts and prayers" line from Vance, Noem et al will last now it appears that it was people ICE was detaining killed or injured and not ICE agents. Obviously still too early to make claims about motives.

In one of the Russian kindergartens, kids were made to stage a scene with a plot in which a mother receives a death notification about her son, who died on the battlefield. Russia instills a war mindset in people's heads starting from a very early age. This is terrifying on so many levels.

Some shifts in this week's voting intention as Reform’s lead over Labour narrows again: now down to just 3pts. With both Labour and Tories up ➡️ REF UK 28% (-3) 🌹 LAB 25% (+3) 🌳 CON 20% (+2) 🔶 LIB DEM 13% (-1) 🌍 GREEN 8% (nc) 🟡 SNP 3% (nc) N=2055 |19-22/9|Change w 15/9

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

SBU claims responsibility for the second drone strike in a week on Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, one of Russia’s largest refineries. The site, ~1500 km from Ukraine, was hit by SBU Alpha drones, sparking major fires. The refinery produces over 150 fuel and petrochemical products.

Farage seems to want to prove Ed Davey's point on his Trumpism. Asylum seekers eat swans was invented by The Sun two decades ago then withdrawn as made up.

Tbh this was Enoch Powell's argument early on — the way to improve race relations is to have fewer immigrants — so not really a Labour argument is it? Of course immigration should be controlled but it already is controlled, in multiple ways. She's talking as if we have open borders

Crimea ⛽️🚫

Ukrainian sanctions: Russia’s fuel shortage is now hitting Moscow, the suburbs, and even Leningrad Oblast. Lukoil has started banning canister sales at some stations, and businesses are reporting restrictions across the region.

🇺🇸🚫 The United States did not support the anti-Russian statement before the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, initiated by Kyiv and EU countries.

Wouldn’t read too much into this. He doesn’t say anything specifically about supporting ukraine, puts responsibility onto European Union and Nato. You could possibly argue he’s goading Putin, but I don’t know if it’s that deep. Either way, frustrating distraction.

Ed Davey made a confident speech: there is a great deal of strategic logic in a liberal challenge to Nigel Farage is offering Britain the chaos and cruelty of Donald Trump's America, and in taking a strong stand that Elon Musk should not be above the rule of law www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

Radical plan for unlimited council tax on second homes, tougher rent controls on landlords, and stronger rights for tenants bit.ly/3W5YSNG in Scotland

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen called the drone incident at Copenhagen Airport “a serious attack on critical infrastructure.” She linked it to wider European tensions, referring to drone incursions in Poland and Romania and Russian airspace violations, saying she “cannot rule out Russia” as responsible