Patrick Seurre

Coincidence corner: Tory peer Lord (Tariq) Ahmad and Qatar From the latest Private Eye, out now.

So here it is, why Made in Europe and the general air of major power coercion are key to Andy Burnham's rejoin and free movement talk. A world about as far as possible away from the Brexit vision as it could be - and an incentive for the pro-EU side. rejoinrejoin.substack.com/p/made-in-eu...

Advertising whistleblowers have just released a damning exposé of their industry's role in "incentivising and enabling" online hate /1

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

This is utterly damning, and yet still about as generous as possible

Lib Dems, third for most of my life, have never had anything like this. The party currently has over 70 MPs but is almost invisible. Yet when they do a stupid stunt for attention, the media gets very angry. Maybe, you know, stop just platforming Farage all the bloody time?

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

I started making a little painting website years ago and finally decided to finish it. I wanted to experiment with fluid simulation and different interactions. If you fancy having a look, I'd love to hear what you think! I've made it open source too. hendos.codeberg.page/canvas/

Someoen needs the guts to stand up to the tech giants. The EU can "Meta's new terms are clearly anti-competitive. Many business' effectively have no choice but to ​use Meta's services & these conditions would force them to sign away the rights to their digital content ​with no means of opting out"

The numbers aren't capped as such under free movement, but people cannot move solely to claim benefits and serious criminals can be expelled or refused entry - so "unlimited" is misleading

Garrett thinks all the people mad at Flock are not real: www.404media.co/in-leaked-au...

New details about another rape allegation against Trump, this time from a former Miss Switzerland.

The total number of satellites Russia has in is tiny compared to the US. This is even more the case once Starlink is included. It would be far easier for the US to cripple their satellite systems from the point of view of numbers alone than it would be for Russia to cripple the US.

Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

We’ve never learned this lesson in the UK. We still have to listen to the ‘legitimate concerns’ of a bunch of racists and fascists.

The claims were made on trips to London almost always paid for by the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA), chaired by Houchen and covering one of Britain’s most deprived regions.

Taken with claims for 19 days on which he has registered a vote or spoken (three times, including on his introduction to the House as Baron Houchen of High Leven), the total up to July comes to £33,260.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

My most joyless leftwing opinion is that any homework that is, explicitly and obviously, homework for parents is bad pedagogy, unfair on parents, particularly on mothers, bad use of the teacher's time and bad for social mobility.

A pretty straight choice here: regulate your billionaires, or billionaires will end democracy.

The stock markets and bond markets are no supporters of democracy, and we should never allow them to dictate the limits of politics.

This must be satire. I am really not anti-AI but if you need AI to come up with “the impossible task” of listing three points on what makes *your own child* special, you do deserve the robot apocalypse.

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

the 52:48 ratio is alive and kicking www.ft.com/content/7585...

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Oh my god @nytpitchbot.bsky.social he did the thing. "Republicans are about to lose the midterms by 12 points. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats."

Naomi has polling evidence, I have trade policy evidence that Made in Europe means the UK being further squeezed out of manufacturing supply chains, and that talking about Freedom of Movement is a response to that.

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Hungary - ✅ Serbia - ✅ Brazil - ✅ Machado back in Venezuela - ✅ PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3 Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.

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Andrew Burgess was sued for over £1m by dubious property "guru" Samuel Leeds, because he and many others criticised Leeds' business practices. Andrew won. The claim was struck out. But five years later, Andrew is still fighting to recover his legal costs. He needs our help.

Which would be great, but doesn't change that he currently presides over a government pushing the most racist and hostile anti-immigration policies in decades. This will play well with some, but does not change that this government is fundamentally anti-immigration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Trump Administration has advocated for Viktor Orbán to be UN Secretary-General, WSJ reports.

I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

More to come on this, but those Labour MPs opposing talking about freedom of movement need to be aware that they are also condemning UK manufacturing to more barriers and probably further decline. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...