The UK economy has grown by only 0.1% over the last three months? Don't tell Rachel Reeves but I know a way to increase GDP by 5% and put £40bn more a year into the tax coffers.

Footage of the devastating shootdown of a Shahed drone with an M134 "Minigun."

Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.

Kemi's Open Goal: my SKETCH of a government inflicting wounds on itself so hard that it's baffling.

There's no HIGNFY or News Quiz this week. You could do worse that watch this on a loop instead. I can't hear a word he's saying. 😂

Jst released by House Democrats - emails written by Epstein From Epstein to Maxwell 2011: ‘I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked yet is Trump… VICTIM spent hours at my house with him…’ Donald Trump has always emphatically denied any wrongdoing

Long been calling for this. The news is not - shouldn't be - an opportunity to PR the shit out of what's being sold, or a [whatever]-washing exercise. Really, no contracted industry spokesperson or interest group lobbyists. If they're specifically paid to say it, it's not even opinion. 1/2

Well done Currys. You're now selling illegal vehicles. Roll, up. Roll, up. Buy an electric scooter you can't use on any public thoroughfare. 🤦‍♀️

Today in our "You can't make this stuff up!" news segment: Despite the Speaker's encouragement to hurry back to end the shutdown, members of the House who helped create the shutdown are having difficulty getting back to DC because of flight cancellations caused by the shutdown.

Hello @support.bsky.team I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended. Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable. cc: @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/

Sorted. DG: Angela Rayner. Head of News: Ian Hislop.

Trump sues Everybody!

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Sticker shock.

Nurse! He's escaped again.

Physicist here. We do know what magnets are and how they work. Nothing is mysterious about them. This is the most embarrassing display of ignorance about science I have ever seen. This man would fail third grade science. This interview is a disgrace to the president and to his country.

Hilarious that Tr**p's threat to sue the BBC is not only without merit but out of time according to English law. The 26th October was the deadline. [Sad trombone]

The BBC ought to pass on Tr**p's threat of legal action to Scam Interceptors who can explain the term "shake down".

Hear, hear. We need to remove the fascist undermining the BBC from within!

Oh, that was funny. First a scam call from some Asian blatherskite pretending to be a telecoms company and then the call I was waiting for interrupted him so I was able to say "Please hold, I have to take another call" though he just carried on regardless. Oh, he hung up. I am shocked.

🤔 Why have the Tory stooges at the BBC decided to resign now? There's no #HIGNFY this week, nor for a while. 😆

The great thing about the right-wing culling of the right-wing at the BBC is that it's likely to get worse before it gets better but anyone else who's pushed out is also likely to be right-wing; like recruits like. Johnson's belched out opinions in the gutter press may be doing us all a favour.

I was thinking earlier that my windows need a wash and nature is having a go at the windows at the back for me.

If Angela Rayner was made BBC DG, she'd make sure every region had to watch Look North and not London local news when something goes wrong in transmission.

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

The more I think about it, the more I think Angela Rayner would make a great DG of the BBC. The first thing would be to make half a dozen of the right wing anti-BBC mob have a stroke.

New DG for the BBC? Angela Rayner is looking for a job.

#BBCBreakfast have spent hours pulling out the BBC's belly button fluff and everyone agrees that it's blue.

BBC Director General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness have both quit. Getting rid of a former Tory candidate and the woman who wanted to change output to gain the trust of Reform voters should definitely sort out any left wing bias.

I don't remember two BBC goons resigning over this dishonest right-wing bias.

I am nine years younger than Tr**p. I have been eating and drinking too much today and just dozed off in front of some crap on TV. Same:

Hello again. I am refreshed😊 It feels like days since my last post, in reality it was just 8 hours ago. That's when there was a lively end to the previous day's thread. Without further ado, here is the Ukraine🧵on Day 1355 of the defence of democracy against fascism + Nazism.

Elon Musk’s AI service Grok is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Dear BBC News Don't forget that when Johnson makes a tit of himself today, you can always splice in his appearance from previous visits to the Cenotaph. Just like you've done before.

Anyone who supports a party who wants to take the UK out of the ECHR should not be within 100 miles of the Cenotaph today. I am not going to witness their witless hypocrisy.

So, to sum up the current American presidency: Dopey diaper dementia Don's disgusting diorama of diabolically deranged dimwits.

Dear Reforms & Tories I remember. My grandfathers fought in WW1, one was injured at the Somme. My father and his brothers fought in WW2. My dad helped liberate Italy. Today's Reform and Conservative parties embody the very things they were fighting against. So, kindly go fuck yourselves.

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well it is that time of year again...

Are You a Robot?

Well Bill Gates doesn’t need to shut up entirely. He needs to tell us in detail how regularly he visited Jeffrey Epstein and what exactly he did there on his visits.

House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.

Definitely happening in the budget, according to the press: 1p, 2p or 3p + in BR income tax, A cut in NI, Punishing people in big houses with more council tax, Driving people out of the country with high taxes. Definitely happening in the budget, according to the Chancellor: 🤔

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