US geopolitics is just an endless WWE storyline now.

The platform architecture forces convergence: authentic conviction expressed through the same escalating, performative patterns. Which isn't great for functional democracy.

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.

Where’s Nigel? And why won’t he answer our questions? Who introduced his good friend Nathan Gill to a Russian spy? 🧐 Cracking new film from @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social & @sheridanflynn.com for @thenerve.news

A wee film I shot with the great @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social for the brilliant @thenerve.news youtu.be/y5OwzvIOFEM?...

How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

When politics can provide no real solutions for people's lives, welcome to 'The Carousel of Scapegoats': distracting, psychological projection to make them feel 'better' – because the lives of 'others' can be made worse New Byline Times print edition available in shops / subscribe.bylinetimes.com 👇

This a make or break for Starmer. If he doesn’t clearly stand up for the British tax payer, for British institutions, British culture, and free speech he’s done for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

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Hopefully everyone is adequately appeased by now and we can all just casually move on.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Fucking hell.

Why the Caerphilly by-election result shows Nigel Farage's party is much weaker than most of the coverage of Reform suggests bylinetimes.com/2025/10/24/t...

Got to watch the first 2 episodes of Marco Bellocchio’s new HBO drama Portobello at the Carson Soho. Going out on a limb here and say it might be in the same league as 2019 Chernobyl. youtu.be/xWfP35FJ0vQ?...

Every accusation is an admission. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

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Got to see the brilliant and inspirational Power Station film last night in Hackney. A beautiful toolkit for activism and people power ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 youtu.be/TaoJzRiZ25s?...

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Finally hit middle age, middle class, and middle England all on the same night.

Odd that this isn’t top of the news headlines like every other Reform story.

Some discourse on the other site led me to this typically outstanding Emily Witt essay, which is both worth your time and IMHO not why Trump won www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

9/24/45: Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City From back when everybody understood that fascism was bad More: @kristinmjones.bsky.social: www.wsj.com/articles/mas... Rosenbaum: jonathanrosenbaum.net/2022/08/rome... @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/article...

Being a trust fund baby can unleash incredible superpowers in adulthood.

Yes 👇🏼

Seriously if Labour - *Labour* - is going to tacit condone the far right what is the point of them? No wonder the worst people feel emboldened

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s defence committee: “Denmark yesterday announced our biggest defence investment ever. We will buy air defence for 8 billion euros, and it will all come from European producers. It has been a strong political desire to buy from reliable and non-threatening partners.”

Unfortunately their inability to understand the signals and communicate them to their audiences means understanding will be replaced by the agendas of whoever is talking about the shooting.

The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.

Folks, as someone who watched an enormous amount of graphic footage in my time as a journalist and developed PTSD because of it, please do not watch the Charlie Kirk footage. Trust me. Once it's seared into your memory you cannot delete it.

While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some journos need to understand the difference between ‘revenue’ and ‘investment’. Byline Times runs at a profit on revenue. A lot of the media, including Press Gazette, only functions because some oligarch burns money on them

Odd that Tice isn’t subject to the same scrutiny.

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Social media algorithms prioritise engagement, not accuracy. That means the most aggravating and divisive content dominates public discourse. Politics is filtered through this distorted lens, not through truth.

Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

These fuckers hate Democracy.

Odd that the media is never interested in Richard Tice’s vast wealth.

Former IDF undercover special ops officer and now media personality Aaron Cohen leveraged the mass shooting of children at a church to tout his AI mass surveillance and threat detection product. Cohen previously infiltrated and disrupted the pro-Palestinian anti-genocide encampment at UCLA in 2024.

Establishment media casually priming the population for mass deportations.