Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Great news on NO2. But @london.gov.uk has also pointed out that “All of the gains we have made by Ulez would be lost by a third runway[at Heathrow].” It's nuts. www.politicshome.com/news/article... @politicshome.bsky.social

Surely a major threat to NATO - other countries won't fight alongside troops licensed to commit war crimes. @ukarmystreaming.bsky.social

"For the second time this year, FBI Director Kash Patel has stepped forward to correct claims about a MAGA conspiracy theory he once played a key role in promoting." @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/09/29/p...

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Useful reminder that Christian nationalism has negligible purchase in the UK. Much higher in the US, but still 6% - low by global standards. What it doesn’t measure is “Christianism” - use of Christianity by populists as a racial/national identifier. @humanists.uk

In January 2021, 68% of Americans said that Donald Trump should not continue to be a major national political figure for years to come. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/01/15/biden-begins-presidency-with-positive-ratings-trump-departs-with-lowest-ever-job-mark/

Free speech news

What better illustration of the need to protect truth? (Just another day in the decent into stupid and ignorant dictatorship.) @mariaressa.bsky.social

They aren’t “creeping” and they aren’t just “tendencies”

Children and young adults in London are being recruited by hostile states such as Russia and Iran to carry out sabotage and other crimes, the Metropolitan Police has said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As if we needed a reminder of the poison that is George Galloway. www.thetimes.com/article/f9a2...

Great UN speech by @mariaressa.bsky.social on the key importance of safeguarding information integrity. Without truth, we are lost. h/t @carolecadwalla.bsky.social youtu.be/d4kizE2LgUU

Fascinating. And a challenge to our western concept of what “a religion is”.

Call of Duty: Black Ops ICE, coming soon.

Fascinating and hugely depressing stuff by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social There’s a void at the heart of Labour: it needs a battle of ideas www.thetimes.com/article/7177...

Another excellent piece. This is striking (and I speak from the right hand section of the chart).

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

Wow. Let’s not blow past this. The administrator of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY says that climate change is a hoax/con job.

Trump: "Jasmine Crocket -- she's a very low IQ person. Between her and Ilhan Omar. You know, I met the head of Somalia, did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her back. He said, 'I don't want her.'"

“Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman” spoken like a true Mafia goon

A dinner for British right-wingers descended into a bust-up between Johnson and other senior Tories over the party’s record on immigration post-Brexit. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

NEW: Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Jesus! @humanists.uk

One thing making Trump so difficult to deal with is that it's impossible to separate his politics from his grotesque ego. He's obviously a hugely damaged, possibly deranged, person, but he articulates it through politics. I'm not sure that's ever been the case for the leader of a democracy before.

Read and weep at @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social incompetence, waste, and casual cruelty. No-one wants to wait years for a decision, but at least let them work and take some of. The costs. And splitting families? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I do remember you singing the song starting with the words “gas them all, gas ‘em all, gas them all”. I can’t forget the words. I can’t bring myself to write the rest of it" An open letter to Farage from a former classmate at his private school www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Pritzker: "The reality is that Chicago isn't even in the top 25 cities in terms of violent crime rates. He's attacking Chicago because he doesn't like that people in Chicago don't vote for Donald Trump, they don't support Trump. He doesn't like the governor -- me -- because I don't support Trump."

I use this graph a lot.

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

My comments @britishfuture.bsky.social on proposals to revoke settlement and abolish indefinite leave to remain from Nigel Farage's Reform Party this morning www.britishfuture.org/reform-attac...

Farage saying he plans retrospectively to remove indefinite leave to remain is MAGA entryism into UK politics. It’s profoundly immoral as, right now, it’s causing anxiety for huge numbers of people living here perfectly legally.

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Danny Kruger’s defection shows that the Tories have lost the battle to be the country’s leading party of the populist right. Instead, they should unambiguously position themselves as the only party of the centre right. For ConHome. conservativehome.com/2025/09/22/d...

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

James flags up Lizzi Collinge MP (Morecambe and Lunesdale) sharing a video of her Westminster Hall speech in early September on what the Battle of Britain meant @lizzicollinge.bsky.social takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

Well done @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

These two stories are connected. bsky.app/profile/anth...

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

Excellent Keir Starmer column. More of this please - but people need to see and feel delivery. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Former LibDem leader Tim Farron says "let us reclaim our flags for those who would reunite and rebuild, not divide and destroy, because we will not yield our identity, our flag, or our country, to the nationalists" to the LibDem conference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

Good to understand more about how human civilisation is disintegrating. Forget reasoned discussion. Just take the hit.

OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK: Trump declined to send $400m in authorised aid to Taiwan saying they should pay for their own weapons and they can afford it. They can, but Parliament is stuffed with pro-Chinese opposition who actually cut the defence budget. Another small win for China in

"The Russians are testing the doorknobs... and what they're discovering is the US President is not at home." Senior Editor at the Atlantic, David Frum, on President Trump's response to Russian jets violating NATO airspace. #Newsnight

Really dangerous. There is now a clear project to impose the MAGA worldview on Britain. www.thetimes.com/article/bffa...

The Viktor Orban playbook.

Truly, unutterably disgraceful