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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

The Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) has linked the September 14 fire at the Carfil industrial platform in Brașov, near a state-owned arms plant, to a Russian-coordinated sabotage network. European arrest warrants have been issued for three suspects (two Belarusians and one Ukrainian).

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

From The Archives #263 As Refukker 'Honest' Bob plans to bring back imperial units, a reminder of that time 5 years ago when the Tories brought back pints of wine, calling it a great Brexit benefit. And that time the wine industry called it b*ll*cks.

Judge Reyes says this started as a case about golf -- now it’s about whether a president follows court orders @democracydefendersfund.org & partners are staying in this fight well past Nov 15 I’ll get into it w/ @aliciamenendez.bsky.social on @ms.now at noon👇 -TN

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Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

May this mean another Trump domino falls!!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Russia’s intense and systematic bombardment of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is intended to inflict harm and suffering on civilians and amounts to a crime against humanity, United Nations investigators said on Monday. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...

It is worth understanding the enormity of students win in Serbia. Their party was formed just 6 weeks ago. No student was a candidate on their list. The students from 5 university towns chose possible candidates (non politicians), met and vetted them. No influence on who will be in Goverment!

Really happy - just got shortlisted for the British Journalism awards - “specialist journalism”. Thank you!

No more surprise chainsaws at East Potomac Park The court says not one more tree comes down & the administration owes 10 business days’ notice before any other move it can’t undo Our @democracydefendersfund.org statement w/ @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates👇 -TN

"Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged. If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy."

Just released: a new Nobel Prize lesson to share with your students. It's a deep dive into the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, which turned a giant block of ice in the south pole into a detector for mysterious particles from space. Use the Nobel Prize lesson in the classroom: https://bit.ly/4sB3oDp

Brazil court orders probe into foreign funding of Bolsonaro campaign

Finally, a good word for Meghan! The private torment of Meghan — and the trauma of family secrets Thomas Markle and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor cast shadows over the Sussexes’ life even before they married. But worse was to come Read in The Times and The Sunday Times: apple.news/AGmiVsdmnS-q...

Not just good news, it's the best news. 👏👏🙏💙🔔 #PresidentBiden #JoeBiden

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

The king has a throne. Everyone else? Has to show some reverance. 🤢

The difference in the speed between our procurement process to buy weapons for Ukraine and our own weapons, is extraordinary...

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

“The auction winners were not Trump Jr’s only companions in the Mongolian wilderness this summer. He also spent two days with Umar Kremlev, a businessman with a criminal record who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal security service…” www.ft.com/content/f41f...

Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at CarersUK, welcomes the Government’s plan to end the Carer’s Allowance earnings cliff edge. This however should be the start as carer's allowance is 5x less than minimum wage, and that is something that needs to be addressed too.

Democrats call for special counsel to probe Trump's ties to Epstein

Harry Kane is the first Bundesliga player to win the Ballon D'or in 30 years. The last Englishman to win the award while playing overseas was Kevin Keegan, who also played in Germany, at Hamburger SV. Could King Kane follow in Mighty Mouse's footsteps and win it back-to-back?

Was good to get to dive in the latest report on how care home residents and staff were let down during the pandemic

Please God get rid of Netanyahu. I know the alternative isn't great but it's better than more of him with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

Also, pay attention to what Elon Musk is now saying and doing in US politics. This is extreme, extraordinary and unprecedented.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

An excerpt from Casey Michel's new book focuses on how Jared Kushner landed $2.2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund after all professional advisors concluded his request was unqualified, thus launching Kushner's role as an agent for the Saudi government.

Susanna Reid, "Why have you brought up rejoining the European Union?" Andy Burnham, "We have a decade of experience now looking back at Brexit, and I don't think it has played out as people said at the time"

Wow! I was not expecting that.

“I'm not sure we've processed the trauma of the pandemic as a society; the ripple effect of the terror and paranoia that we all felt the first few months; how frightened we were for our loved ones. I don't think we have reckoned with it at all. People just don't want to talk about it - or hear it.”

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I’m delighted to see England captain and Londoner Harry Kane crowned the winner of the Ballon d’Or.

Follow the money…

🇵🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦 Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: The United States has now adopted a strategy of ending the war on whatever terms are necessary, so that it can return to economic cooperation. But you can end any war by surrendering. So the terms matter.

Yet BBC News broadcast it. Anyone asked why?

New post: Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025. He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement. samf.substack.com/p/whitehall-...

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Bolsonaro's party recognizes Lula's election win in Brazil

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.