Edi Rama shouting at a CNN anchor that Albania is not pouring concrete on the heads of flamingos.

We close our programme with Covering the human toll: three perspectives! Talks from @ahnidzara.bsky.social and @connellyandrew.bsky.social on Bosnia’s mine-laden migration route, Ana Patrícia Silva on women in Portuguese prisons, & Bastian Berbner, @maudeffting.bsky.social, Willem Feenstra on Gaza.

Russia is extending its food embargo on Armenia ahead of elections there, adding summer fruits to a list of banned imports. Putin has warned Russia will "wind down" all economic integration if Armenia joins the EU. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

“Politics at Sam and Anne’s” a strong contender for worst podcast title ever

Hitchens being a useful idiot for a man who makes propaganda films for Russia including interviewing a handcuffed and injured British POW held in Russian captivity.

By advocating “whatever it takes” on illegal immigration, one suspects Blair doesn’t mean expanding managed humanitarian and labour pathways. So people can project whatever violent border control fantasies they think he means without being brave enough to state that’s what they want explicitly.

We murdered another person in a boat today. Two survivors.

Can’t you walk into the green room and ask them what’s going on given half of them work on your channel?

Number go up bad. Number go down good. Another day in the British immigration forever war trenches.

Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing thinks that perhaps that nice man she gave her wallet to might not have been the wallet inspector. But the jury is out and time will tell until she gets her wallet back.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today

Wes Streeting entered a building but after a period of time spent in the building is now no longer in the aforementioned building.

European Commission protecting Europeans by endorsing the world’s most extreme persecutor of women and girls.

Civil society is gonna have to start punching back at the far-right bullies in politics and the media, and a big part of that is having a government that gives people confidence that it will side with them as they stand up for social liberalism rather than try to appease its political enemies

“Labour need to keep digging UP, stupid.” (Insert grossly overpaid former Labour adviser here) for The Times.

“Credible on immigration” means nothing when the context is a country in which a grown-up conversation about the issue never takes place and which is constantly bombarded by myths and hatred by the political and media establishment.

150,000 have been killed in Sudan over the past two years. Calls are increasing to sanction #MCFC owner & UAE deputy PM Sheikh Mansour over the UAE's alleged funding of the war. UK government action would force a sale — this is the current situation:

🔥One of the most prominent media moguls in Orbán’s regime, who has amassed billions from government contracts and is also known for the infamous pro-government billboards, announced that he is transferring his businesses and most of his assets held in private equity funds to the state. 😲

AccessNow has opened up about how pressure from Beijing led to the cancellation of the world's largest digital human rights conference

Almost enough to make you pity Mahmood when her media cheerleaders are writing such dreck.

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

Farewell, Tokyo. What a mind-bending city.

Israeli airstrike kills Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil Rescue workers were fired on by Israeli forces so they were forced to halt attempts to reach Khalil, Lebanon's health ministry said Khalil’s body was retrieved at least six hours after the strike apnews.com/article/leba...

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

Pleased to be @europeanpressprize.bsky.social nominated with @ahnidzara.bsky.social and Maryam Ashrafi for our reportage on migration, minefields and memory in Bosnia for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/mines-memory...

Pleased to be @europeanpressprize.bsky.social nominated with @ahnidzara.bsky.social and Maryam Ashrafi for our reportage on migration, minefields and memory in Bosnia for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/mines-memory...

We should support the wild boar in this fight.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The notion that Orban was “right” on migration needs to be dispelled. His unilateral border fences created a colossal market for smugglers on the Balkan Route and prompted humanitarian crises in Serbia and Bosnia as routes diverged. A beggar thy neighbour policy.

The notion that Orban was “right” on migration needs to be dispelled. His unilateral border fences created a colossal market for smugglers on the Balkan Route and prompted humanitarian crises in Serbia and Bosnia as routes diverged. A beggar thy neighbour policy.

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

🎵“Nobody knows what it’s like…to be a Fabergé egg…in Soho…” 🎵

As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

Great social media policy for the BBC small boats correspondent to keep allowing comments under his posts on X. Fruitful engagement.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

Orban’s mate Vucic conveniently reporting explosives found by a pipeline carrying Russian gas on the Serbian border a week before the Hungarian election.

You split the G with Guinness, I split it it with Gewürztraminer. We are not the same.

Why is the Frontline Club hosting apologists for Putin and Assad?

Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

As the Hong Kong Free Press reports, four booksellers in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of selling “seditious titles” centering jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai. buff.ly/jHLaKAb

Now all those times last year Morgan McSweeney wanted to meet me on Belgrave Road while waving his phone around muttering "never a robber on a moped when you need one" start to make sense.

Our report from Turkey's border with Iran where we spoke to Iranians about their fear and anxiety about the future of their country: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Tony Vaughan MP says the settlement reform should be abandoned, not tinkered with, as @ippr.org analysis shows it will increase child poverty by 60,000 - 90,000 yet not make a net fiscal saving at all, because 300k children will wait longer for settlement www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...