Barry C Smith

Oh ffs. MPs must stop romanticising this absolute horseshit. Brexiters promised a land of milk and honey and delivered contaminated water and broken biscuits. We don’t want it. And we mustn’t be tied to failure and lies just because politicians want to cover up the utter mess they’ve made.

In Alfred William Hunt's picture from 1871, Vesuvius emerges from mist over the Bay of Naples; ships dot the bay as a single figure, accompanied by a white cat, stands by the golden walls in the left foreground to gaze over the city.

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.

Farage tying himself in angry knots here ... as he refuses to answer the basic question: Is it racist to call Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer"?

He is so close to getting it

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Bonus!

Disappointed to learn that Cheesecake Factories are real things. I thought it was Obama’s surreal imagination.

“The case for Rejoin must be a case for Europe as our home: a continent…prepared to take on and defeat Russian imperialism, an economic union which can shelter countries from the storm of a global trade war” A team we want to belong to. Because it strengthens us all. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

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.

Francis Cadell first visited the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in 1912 and returned every year afterwards, frequently in the company of Samuel Peploe. He felt the light was of the same quality as that in the south of France. This is from 1928.

Could this victory, like Lula’s victory in Brazi be revealing how voters around the world people are turning away from the politics of Trump? Hope so!

'Ten Cents a Ride.' (1942) Louis Bouché is known as a painter of the American scene. In a 1962 New York Times review, the art critic Stuart Preston described him as 'an American realist who finds poetry, but not obvious poetry, in the commonplace.'

The best news yet!! Thank you, Brazil! Parabens! Live Updates: Brazil Re-Elects Lula, Rejecting Predecessor’s Son www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

The 170 year old Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow had pretty much a full crown of foliage yesterday, but now stands naked and leafless after last night's wind. Other than that it seems unharmed, which is always a relief after any storm. #glasgow #argylestreet #argylestreetashtree #stormboelo #tree

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

A sunset reflected in the glass wall of Zaha Hadid's 2011 Riverside Museum on Pointhouse Quay in Glasgow. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #zahahadid

A deserted Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow turned golden by autumn leaves stripped from the surrounding trees by Storm Boelo as it passes across the city this afternoon. #glasgow #kelvinway #stormboelo #autumnleaves #glasgowtoday

That wouldn’t be much of a burn, which is why I didn’t say that . Point is that plenty of physicists have offered their views on consciousness. Oh, and he’s not a psychologist!

Worrying cognitive trend: get a Nobel Prize then believe you have solved the problem of consciousness. So many casualties this way lie

What a morally degenerate scumbag

This year’s Jacobsen Lecture at the University of London is given by Prof Helen Steward FBA on whether there is a metaphysics of causations introduced by Jacobsen Committee chair, Prof Veronique Munez-Darde

A pleasure to welcome UKRI Future Leaders Fellows to the Institute of Philosophy for an FLF Development Network event on navigating the media landscape

Day One of Demistifying the Media, a series of discussions and practical sessions for UKRI Future Leaders Fellows as part of their Development Network. Fellows given practical media training by Chris Jameson

Amen to that

Guy who pardoned insurrectionists says what?

Good.

In troubled times Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

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Me coming home from kindergarten

Quite right! Trickle down savings

A monstrous narcissist and a tyrannical infant

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro vandal. As with higher education, this type of move might be tolerable if there was *any government policy at all* on what the ultimate plan is. But there isn't.

We are pleased to welcome back @ip-sas.bsky.social visiting fellow Maria Jose Frapolli to speak about Russell vs Frege on paradoxes

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

Feeling proud to be an American! It’s been awhile…

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

Sunset tonight on Pointhouse Quay in Glasgow, with Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum on the left, the tall ship the Glenlee in the middle and in the distance on the right, the Science Centre complex, created by the Building Design Partnership. #glasgow #sunset #glasgowtoday #riversidemuseum

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

The Met’s Roman and Greek statues at night looking like a stage set

Tea Diplomacy as soft power. A talk by Kent Calder in discussion with International House of Japan chairman, James Kondo, in the spectacular setting of Grace Farms, Connecticut

Sometimes, it seems, Americans take Halloween too seriously. Skeltons, including gold ones, seen while driving through Connecticut

Halloween bling in Connecticut. It’s a mad, mad world

Outstanding

Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit vote is a patriotic disgrace really. Her view seems to be that because she approves of the outcome of the referendum, no-one can mention that there was very likely to have been foreign interference in it.