A good time, I think, to reprise in brief why we can be sure about what the research cheat Andrew Wakefield did. briandeer.com/fact-checking-investigation.htm

"Volunteer service informed me that my house had been destroyed. And everyone who was in it had died." The family of Ukrainian Defender of the 25th Assault Battalion, callsign "Batareika," who lived in Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region, was killed by a Russian missile strike on their house.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

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“problems began in early 2022, when a mass of sea ice detached from the … glacier’s front and its floating ice tongue disintegrated. The removal of this stabilising ice exposed the glacier to new stresses, causing its flow and thinning rates to accelerate” Coming everywhere 🔜 x.com/newscientist...

apnews.com/video/man-fi... films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte

This is real. Our govt is Tweeting like a 14 year old and calling Americans imbecilic morons. We worry about children being bullied but this is the example set by the U.S. GOVERNMENT. This is so shameful. I’m embarrassed for any of you that think this is okay or make excuses for it.

Mantra 1356 Z téhle fotky, pořízené po útoku 🇷🇺 pakáže na Dněpr, mrazí v zádech. rusko bylo, je a vždycky bude zemí nelidský, vražedný a zakomplexovaný svoloče. Pfuj!🤧 Ukrajina zvítězí. putinovi urvat hlavu a pohrdavě nachcat do krku! Volodymyr Zelenskyj je hrdina. Слава Україні! Героям славa! 🇺🇦

The campaign to destabilize the world's most trusted broadcaster? bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/bbc-bias-memo-lobbyist-trump-tech-giants/

The Panorama edit was poor journalism, not sure how it happened (more than 15 yo when I worked there we all had to go on a course because someone made the Queen look grumpy about something in the wrong order). But of all of it, this is the only piece I’ve read that properly nails the issue…

Brexit: the catastrophe is worse than anybody thought, this US universities report suggests. Their figures are staggering. www.nber.org/papers/w34459?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg8

In my view, the BBC Panorama Trump edit is also a manifestation of the astonishingly low standards - and often basic skillset - in the UK independent commercial sector. The programme was made by an independent contractor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLmSrqMKycw

The last time I heard a President getting booed like this was Ceausescu in 1989

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-lawyer-bought-hundreds-of-sheffield-freeholds-then-the-very-aggressive-letters-arrived/?ref=the-tribune-newsletter#comment-section Investigative journalism isn't dead yet. From Sheffield, UK

Britain's prime minister. So uselessly inarticulate, he can't even greet the election of his deputy without looking down every few seconds to a script. And people wonder why he's so unpopular. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Is it a ballroom, or a hall to hold torchlight rallies?

The president of the United States of America: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115398251623299921

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

I love this image.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

This week's podcast: journalist Brian Deer, author of The Doctor Who Fooled the World. We discuss his investigation, why misinformation remains prevalent today & the incredible scope of disarray and dysfunction playing in public health under RFK Jr. @briandeer.com

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

A recent victim of political assassination in the United States who is continually overlooked, deliberately ignored even, by some. Let's not forget her name anywhere in the world: Melissa Hortman This story always reminds me of our own Jo Cox over here in the UK.

Letter in Times today

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Common hair-loss drug consistently associated with higher rates of psychiatric harm

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How the charlatan Wakefield lies behind Kennedy's bloody idiocy. (£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... Quotes extensively @briandeer.com who exposed the fraud.

Curious about the modern attack on vaccines? @briandeer.com can explain. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social #Vaccines

For the first time in history,Prymary of the #Ukrainian Defense Intelligence burned down 2 Russian Be-12 Chayka anti-submarine aircraft on the territory of Russian-occupied Crimea The Chayka are equipped with expensive equipment to identify&combat submarines Russian Mi-8 helicopter was struck too!

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.

Antifa

Look who came with

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

It's still coming.... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...