Jasdev Sekhon

Are there any journalist contacts of the BBC's Helena Humphrey? Her twitter account has been hacked and is pushing crypto scams.

aljazeera.comMelania or the pope: Who brokered Russia-Ukraine ceasefire in Oleshky?Competing claims over the ceasefire mark the latest tensions between the White House and the Vatican.

The BBC World Service's Newshour programme reported on "a localised ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump" in Oleshky, Ukraine... come on guys, seriously. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

youtube.comAsif Hasan: Hero Surgeon Who Performed More Than 400 Heart Transplants On ChildrenYouTube video by Pride of Britain Awards

Love this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzyz...

Prince William on The Graham Norton Show! Has a high-ranking heir to the throne ever done likewise?

Based on the replies, Bella’s fighting a losing battle

A unit previously leased by the British Heart Foundation is being converted to a Popeye’s Chicken, so in a nice twist, we’re going from tackling heart disease to promoting it 😅

I've been receiving plenty of spam lately along these lines: Title "Study in the UK" and body "BestFit Universities has successfully placed students to leading Universities in Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, Germany & Australia" I hope no-one actually falls for this scam/service.

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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

HELL YEAH!

reddit.comFrom the HarrowOnline community on Reddit: Burglary at Boots Opticians in HarrowExplore this post and more from the HarrowOnline community

The replies are worth sharing www.reddit.com/r/HarrowOnli...

Hey chat, if five fire engines blare past you, is that bad?

Six

Boy, Britain must be severely constipated, huh?

Somewhere, a security alarm is ringing, with no-one to deactivate it. Before that, a succession of car drivers engaged in competitive horn beeping. And above all this, a speaker blares out the sounds of a Christian preacher, to everyone and no-one in particular. Just another Saturday in Harrow…

It’s so windy outside I could do with a pair of goggles!

Is Radio 3 too high-brow for a dachshund?

Harrow High School says maths is cool and promised “old-fashioned face-to-face teaching” 🫠

It still baffles me that Reddit Inc, a public company, gets away with hosting so much pirated content. Users will share links to articles that bypass paywalls, before they banned it there was a sub for sharing OnlyFans content, it's like anything is game if you're a corporation and not an individual

Being racially abused in Instagram comments by an account that appears to belong to someone in Pakistan? Okay, checks out, I’m ethnically Indian and the countries are often at odds. By an apparently self-hating (against minorities) black femme boy? Damn, the Internet really attracts all sorts.

That's the themes for tonight's BBC Any Questions? then!

instagram.comFinancial Times on Instagram: "For Israelis watching the emergency landing of Flydubai flight 1073 on Wednesday, the events of the attack echoed a painful history of aircraft hijackings.⁠ ⁠ Swipe, or ...551 likes, 193 comments - financialtimes on October 1, 2026: "For Israelis watching the emergency landing of Flydubai flight 1073 on Wednesday, the events of the attack echoed a painful history of air...

90%+ of the comments at time of posting are conspiracy theorising that this was an Israeli plot. Not sure that leaving comments open on this post was wise, @financialtimes.com www.instagram.com/p/Dd93XaADBi5/

Anecdotally, two relatives believe they've just had COVID again, and a recruitment agent I spoke with believes his family might have caught it recently as well.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk

Would you consider the coronavirus pandemic in Britain to be over or still ongoing? Over: 56% (+11 from Mar 2024) Still ongoing: 30% (-14) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

ft.comThe quiet tragedies of young old ageYour fifties aren’t fabulous, but they can be quite funny

"EnglishRose", one of the most infamous commenters on the Financial Times' website, strikes again: www.ft.com/content/30f3...

Surreal moment as a white man lounging outside a Romanian restaurant shouts out to someone behind me “What’s up my n***a?”

There is a betting app with an advert on Spotify that is genuinely noteworthy; set to a banging house/techno beat, a robotic male voice says "Train toilet door, didn't work. Train toilet door, didn't work. Lock broken, everyone has seen me on the bog." and then a female singer comes in to segue to

the app. I hate gambling and gambling apps, they're a pervasive and harmful influence on society, but the first time I heard this advertisement I had to admire the creativity.

Oh come on!

Founding member of US Delta Force, SGM Mike Vining, invites views on AI as an intelligence gathering tool over on the other site. I can’t comment but there’s opportunity for non-protected accounts to contribute their views.

One for the AI slop fans

I confess I've been had, I thought this account was genuine the first few times I encountered it www.instagram.com/numbertennor...

And now I’m getting Chinese FPV drone and interceptor manufacturer content in my Instagram feed, proving once again that the algorithm is a law unto itself.

I want to write a review that does this book justice, as I consider that those least likely to pick up this book and read it are those most in need of it. I think this may be one of the most important contemporary non-fiction books. What does it mean to be anti-semitic?

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"We… do not expect anyone to request, on our behalf, that our right to exist in the land of our fathers, be recognized. It is a different recognition which is required between ourselves and our neighbours: recognition of sovereignty and of the mutual need for a life of peace and understanding."

"It is this mutual recognition that we look forward to: For it we shall make every possible effort.”

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Are the commonly-used definitions of anti-semitism reasonable or have they been perverted by those with an interest in linking anti-semitism with anti-Zionism? I close with a quote from the book by Menachem Begin, on taking office as prime minister of Israel in 1977: “The right to exist?"

"It would not enter the mind of any Briton or Frenchman, Belgian or Dutchman, Hungarian or Bulgarian, Russian or American, to request for his people recognition of its right to exist. Their existence per se is their right to exist. The same holds true for Israel."

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Have I been mistaken to believe that Israel exists because there is no safe place for Jews? And what of Arab Muslim opposition to Israel? Do you assume it is based in prejudice, or are there, were there, less hateful reasons for the Arab states to oppose Israel?

What of the centuries of prejudice faced by Jews in medieval and later Christian states, and the tolerance afforded Jews under Caliphates? Where is the line drawn between legitimate criticism of the Israeli state and racism against Jews?

Does it mean the same thing today as it did 100 years ago? What about Zionism? Would you be surprised to learn that most Western Jews were opposed to the idea of a Jewish nation-state? When did that opposition transition into support, and why?

I think this might be one of the most beautiful songs ever written: No. 2, Baïlèro, from Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne.

Slumdog Millionaire is such an emotional rollercoaster, and Dev Patel was such a talented actor so young. The film also echoes City of God in the portrayal of Jamal’s brother, Salim. It was weird watching the first time in a Japanese cinema where laughter is discouraged.

I've only this Summer resumed paying the Licence Fee, so that I could watch the World Cup. What is this, BBC News? Is the Earl Spencer story really in the public interest to this extent? Are there no other stories of significant interest worth mentioning? Imminent escalation in the Persian Gulf, etc

I see the lead story on the Financial Times' website is about off-balance sheet guarantees for data centres. So I'm going to make a cheeky little plug for my friends' work, in which they've explained AI and data centres, among other things, from a banker's perspective, as part of a series:

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19 Sept

Just spotted that if I type "Ed" into the search bar in Spotify, Macklemore comes up recommended

18 Sept

Man standing in the middle of the road talking into his phone suddenly begins to shout “Israel is dead!” for reasons I can’t fathom.

17 Sept

“If you had to name your kid after a finance term, what would it be?” is the question www.instagram.com/reel/DdW-9cc...

bbc.co.ukMet Police officer Idominik Efeotor sacked for social media postsIdominik Efeotor used derogatory language and broke an anonymity order, a hearing on Monday is told.

15 Sept

I'm surprised at the defence here, "Davies [defending Efeotor] told the hearing: "In this country, we have something called the freedom of speech, which means you are allowed to say things outside of work which cause offence or upset to other people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...