Rick

Netanyahu going full Trump. Must be looking bad for him.

Economist Vicky Pryce on what's coming in tomorrow's Budget: “It is entirely possible that the promise to look at all options for the UK’s future relationship with the EU, including rejoining, could lift the nation’s mood, making the Chancellor’s job that much easier.”

Hopefully morale is collapsing as well. A weak man blames his minions. Farage has been playing on easy mode for far too long.

US voters and Trump’s overflowing swamp ft.trib.al/r1BWsVR | opinion

“On Mondays, people who run businesses tend to be rather busy” How would he know?

This is when you know an organisation is screwed. The company is collapsing and the boss blames the staff.

And this week’s #MandyRiceDavies award goes to…

Of course it isn't. The question is who has the courage to rein him in? From the consistently excellent nixons.substack.com/p/musks-powe...

Every so often I’m reminded that, despite the debacle of 2024, some of those buggers survived.

can't believe Simon Heffer and the Telegraph have joined the woke conspiracy

I feel like this should be a song title.

Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.

I’m sick of headlines treating these forays as something done independently. No. Anthropic created it. Anthropic did this. And they should be held to account, not some supposedly autonomous AI www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

I wouldn’t want to bet on that.

Rajan’s dumb while thinking he’s smart because he swallows the AI industry’s marketing whole. He’s dumb because he thinks — as Emma pointed out — that regurgitating the same tired talking points will excite an audience. And he’s especially dumb because he didn’t realise how much BBC clout made him.

As excellent as you’d expect from this source. Lots of drive-by humour. The bottom line is Trump admires Putin, wants to exploit the business opportunities in Russia, but has thrown away his leverage to end the conflict because no one now trusts him. samf.substack.com/p/ukraine-wi...

"[Trump] said in a press conference on January 3 that Machado had “no support” inside the country...Machado remains the country’s most popular politician, with a September survey finding that she would win 61.2% of the vote against Rodríguez’s 3.1% in an election" www.ft.com/content/f691...

In both Brazil and Serbia one of the ways the rightwing were defeated was by garnering larger turnout. Here’s looking at you, America, to do the same. 70% of you don’t rate Trump, so show that by the one opinion poll that matters bsky.app/profile/medu...

Nice to wake up to some good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Western Canada’s provinces are not putting their clocks back this year. They are staying on summer time. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/16/l...

Meet the new lords, same as the old lords.

It's the people and politics that are against being a signatory to the ECHR that proves the need to be a signatory to the ECHR.

Musk is panicking about his recent anti-Ukraine moves following bi-partisan demands to bring his business under scrutiny, and perhaps control.

Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

Just when you thought Canada was a bastion of anti-Trumpism….

Interesting thread. Northern Soul was a precursor to the 80s/90s rave scene. The DJs were the stars, it was fuelled by drugs, rather than alcohol, and the gigs carried on until the sun came up.

Abandoned cordons sanitaire everywhere you look:

The agony of liberal Europe www.economist.com/leaders/2026... I don't think I've ever read such an advice free closing paragraph anywhere. Unless you think "confront your failures" is helpful From The Economist

But never-knowingly-right Hannan (I was in EP at same time as him), is a useful guide: whatever he supports/proposes is likely to be a disaster, so steer clear!!

Apologies, there was a third idea

Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?

More evidence that FB is an important tool of radicalisation. Extraordinary.

When you add back in the scale of US healthcare premiums, wouldn't this make the UK about as highly taxed as the USA? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I thought it was ‘and when he died, all he left us was a loan’ until quite recently.

Does anybody know why we are being advised to buy FM radios to prepare for a national emergency? Are digital transmissions more vulnerable?

“Farage campaigned for Trump in the last 3 presidential elections and notably came to his defence at a low moment when Trump fell badly behind in 2016 over his grotesque “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks” Farage will never dump Trump. He owes too much to MAGA money and the far right oligarchy.

Yeah rise up if you want to be a client statelet of a US Kleptocracy this should be an inspiring message

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Another one.

One of the finest examples of Populism's fast-thinking simplism. 'I've seen an answer to this and it instantly hits an "instinctively right" button (as long as I don't think about it too hard). And it owns the libs. So I'm now going to use it myself.' Now multiply that. The echo chamber effect.

If I were emperor of the universe any candidate promising to balance the budget or fund expensive programs by "cutting inefficiency, waste and fraud in government" would be immediately slimed like a Nickelodean host.

I wonder if the Mark Littlewood on "Any Questions" who is suddenly so worried about this country's security... is related to the IEA's Mark Littlewood... who scoffed at concerns about post Brexit security and called them Project Scared. #BBCAQ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop...

This is excellent!

So the new Reform newspaper - The Reformer - is under the "Editorial Leadership" of Mick Hume - former leading light in the Revolutionary Communist Party, Editor of Living Marxism until it folded after that ITV libel case. As I've said many times ... Farage’s various parties always attract the RCP

Not sure why Europe hasn't upped the pressure on Putin by saying that Russia's frozen assets will be used to fund Ukraine in stages until a ceasefire holds. Yes there are legal problems, but European security surely trumps them.

Republicans kill kittens. That should be enough to nail the bastards.