Rebecca

The John Sebastian is a lightship (a floating, moveable lighthouse) built in Bristol in 1885 and now permanently moored in Bathurst Basin. Over her distinguished career she is believed to have saved the lives of hundreds of seafarers. She is now the home of Cabot Cruising Club.

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.

The German-owned chain's low prices are winning over shoppers — and pushing competitors to respond. n.pr/4i9rRfD

Very much on board with cheaper gherkins 👍

Netanyahu: "They are trying to steal the election from us."

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.

This my friends is why AI is not taking over just yet. (Machine translated from Portuguese.)

Booked a delivery slot 9-10 and they're only 2 stops away just round the corner. Chances they turn up before 8? (This happened a couple of weekends ago when the guy arrived at 7.30 and didn't even apologise for being 90 mins early!)

“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @bobbywdean.bsky.social 🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/brit...

We get similar emails at Bellingcat, usually from peolle who have been scammed and have asked ChatGPT for help.

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Of course the UK 'doing a better job' has meant that, instead of 60,000 'unelected bureaucrats' as employed across all EU bodies to serve 27 countries, the UK now has an extra 100,000 bureaucrats aka civil servants to cover the same jobs just for 1 country...

Still haven't properly turned the heating on. It's come on overnight a few times because we have a 15C minimum. Think I put it on at the start of October last year!

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

Hate when someone figures out my password and I have to rename my cat

Yes, most of the public have no idea how far-reaching the loss of FoM is for British nationals. It's more than not being able to work, marry, live, retire, or study in another EU nation. It deeply affects UK workers, artists, musicians, business people, and, of course, the free movement of goods

With all this talk about freedom of movement & lazy journos writing up it could hurt Red Wall MPs, I’m resharing my article from early Oct. Playing it safe on EU is riskiest thing Labour can do for those MPs. labourlist.org/2026/10/play...

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."

Talking about Rejoin certainly flushes out all of the people who must be allowed nowhere near any Rejoin campaign that intends to win.

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.

Not for the first time I'm on a train which is terminating at a different station to the one the train manager thinks it does. I do wonder how the app knows before they do? Last time I had to break it to him.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Die Stimmung in Belgrad ist unglaublich. Die Menschen feiern keinen Wahlsieg, die feiern eine Befreiung.

Lula leads Brazil runoff election with 51.83% of the votes after 2% of the votes counted

Dear Aunty Pam Thanks for the T-shit.

Look fuckwits, none of us want to hear your videos or phone calls. Use. The. Fucking. Headphones.

Luis Sandoval, a 48-year-old Salvadoran man, died in ICE custody at a Georgia detention complex, the 60th death in immigration custody since Trump began his second term, according to the report. The death comes amid a hunger strike by detainees protest... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

I have only been able to follow the England men's match very briefly today but wtf was that?

Canada is moving away from Elon Musk’s Starlink, committing roughly $5 billion to Telesat and expanding satellite partnerships with Europe, South Korea and Norway. Carney cited Ukraine’s Starshield restrictions as a warning against relying on one provider.

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

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

Kaylia warmed up the Nemour half so don't know what changed.

I posted earlier today about Iain Stamp, a conman who was sentenced to 12 months jail and fled to Northern Cyprus. He's suing me in a Wyoming court for $795m (!), and told the court he lives in the UK. I just used the stupidest trick ever to find out where he really is.

They are making too much of a deal about the 2-minute enquiry business. Absolutely ruining the end of every competition. Though now they are ruining it even more with Sweet Caroline.

Is Shopify single-handedly propping up the podcast advertising landscape atm?

I regret to announce that a state of war now exists between Britain and Germany

Lucky Ed.

BIG JET TV IS LIVE, PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE STORM HAS HIT LONDON.

"If Badenoch had said she wanted to provide a free breakfast for all schoolchildren, she would instantly have been asked where the money was coming from. Instead she went on TV and demanded less immigration, so no- one bothered to ask where she'd find the money to pay for it. "