Alan D Alien

Never again

Truss is clearly deeply wounded after her term as prime minister. It can be no fun to consider that, despite a serious effort from her predecessor Boris Johnson, she is widely regarded (and not just by the people she so despises) as the worst premier in the 305-year history of that office. Fabulous

No! I'm Fetterman!

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.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social someone is stealing your act! Mail on Sunday, UK, 25th October 2026

It struck me that almost every seemingly intractable problem on today's front pages could be substantially alleviated simply by taxing the extraordinarily wealthy people and corporations whose greed, short-termism and pursuit of power we protect at the expense of almost everything else.

Some in the DUP are, again, trying to collapse Stormont, as consequences snowball from the bizarre Parades Commission decision to allow the Orange Order parade to proceed down the Garvaghy Road for the first time in almost 30 years at what was a notorious parading flashpoint during the Troubles.

"The IMF intervened twice on their demented plan. The Bank of England rushed in to prevent a £1.5 trillion collapse of pension funds. The budget still cost pensions £75 billion. That’s £1 per second for 2,325 years. Or £3,600 per hour, every hour, since Hannibal marched his elephants over the Alps."

Leaks from Putin's office have revealed an extensive influence operation targeting JD Vance, which achieved everything it set out to achieve. Read all about how JD Vance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice

Al Jazeera uncovers links between unionist paramilitary force in Northern Ireland and UK far right

Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point UK and a former Conservative election candidate, has been suspended from the party in the wake of undercover sting by Al Jazeera reportedly showing him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers. Story from @benquinn75.bsky.social and me

And this, kids, is why you don't use AI for your homework 🙄

A massive chunk of ice, extending far below the water's surface, detaches from a glacier and is launched 200 ft (61 m) into the air. [📹 Skeater] Original post

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

#BrexitBenefits

CCR applies none of this transparency to itself. It doesn’t name any of its own funders, publishes no address, and appears to have no formal legal status. No charity or company is registered to it. The credited authors of its flagship report, “Charles Talbot” and “Zack Salisbury”, are pen names.

New post from Putin.

The Exposure documentary showing undercover footage of many Reform officials being racist and sexist is on ITV at 10.20pm tonight, so whatever you do, don't watch it.

"In a new article in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science, two researchers from the University of Kansas claim that a recent doubling in the rate of global warming means that we could blow past the Paris Agreement threshold as soon as 2028."

Wow! Trump is trusted even less internationally than his boss, Putin!

Looking at you @andyburnham.bsky.social 👀

"The chancellor could be more radical. The precedent here is not a socialist one. Margaret Thatcher taxed banks’ windfalls in 1981. A comparable 2.5% levy on today’s interest-free deposits would, a paper by the New Economics Foundation and Positive Money suggests, raise more than £11bn."

REPORTER: “Trump’s popularity is very low, diesel prices are very high, the war he started isn’t going well… is he using you as a scapegoat for his own problems?” ZELENSKY: 🙃🤐 (this is a YES)

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

"Trump confirms again that he stands on the side of a bloodthirsty thug and the enablers of Russia's war machine and against the majority of Americans, their representatives in both houses of Congress, and our European allies"

“Many countries realise that if Ukraine falls, we will all have very, very serious problems.”

The core Sovereign Grant for King Charles from public purse will rise to £99.9m (from 2027/28). 93% increase from £51.8m in 2024/25. 65% higher in real terms than in 2016/17. Did your income rise at that rate? 25.3m people live below minimum income standard. We are in it all together, aren't we

#WackyRacists

"In Trump’s second term, the US is far worse than unreliable. It’s becoming unhinged. It threatens its allies and begins trade wars with its closest friends, and now the combination of corruption and conspiracy drives an American president into the arms of one of our most dangerous enemies

"It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on Ukraine. But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping Russia win the war." #Krasnov the traitor

Out of roughly 2 million olive trees in Gaza before October 2023, only 150,000 trees remain standing. This is a loss of roughly 85% to 90% of the region's olive groves. 🧵

You may criticise The United States all you like but what I love about their citizens is the genuine respect they have for their constitution and their staunch belief in a free democracy. 🇺🇸✌️

Just sayin'