Ben Fenton

I wrote a thing about how the folk-hero-worship of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of a health-insurance CEO, is a result of our profound instincts of fairness and unfairness. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

The rich are running out of places to park their yachts ft.trib.al/BvE7T1O #FTEdit

George Galloway/Saddam Hussein re-enactment is v strong here.

Given the current struggles of our French neighbours, it seems only appropriate to say: Happy Trafalgar Day to those who celebrate.

Pedants Corner aka RIP BBC subs. Heading says whale takes in 'thousand of tonnes of water' But 18K gallons is a bit >180Klbs of water(adjusted for sea water density) =a bit >80 tons. (Plus "on off" typo). Trust is based on reliability accuracy and care of reporting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I also feel that "Charles Barry built Parliament really quickly and now it's falling down" might not prove the point she thinks it proves.

Stasi internal investigation finds Stasi never intended to invade anyone’s privacy.

Ah well, that's okay then www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It ought to be reassuring to know that these greedy deceitful awful people dodge taxes in their own land too, but it isn’t. How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

So nearly a David and Goliath moment. 3 mins after this pic taken Richmond (salary bill £0) dropped the ball with Ealing (salary bill reportedly£4m) line at their mercy. Would have drawn level. Heartbreaker. Ealing went down the other end and scored twice. Final score 36-19. What could have been!

So it seems Spurs actually finished 16th in the past two seasons.

Spotted by my brother in Brighton: the nihilism of fly-tipping.

Just as good as usual: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Personalise an epic film... e.g. Harriets of Fire Ty Tanic

I don't follow Formula One, but good on them for using subtitles for the hard of hearing… 

‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence

We have about 2 years to stop Britain turning into feeble, broke, absurd, malfunctioning and risible version of the worst of the United States.

Gabriel Pogrund, Sunday Times say that Reform gave the story to the Telegraph + other outlets, after Sunday Times inquiries about it

25 years ago tonight I went to bed in my Washington DC home not believing what I'd seen that day: the Pentagon burning; F-16s screaming over the Potomac at 150 feet; a city gridlocked in its roads and its mind; a society unable to answer 'Why Us?'; war in American; a worldview brought tumbling down.

Hurrah for the Blackshites!

Turns out the Daily Mail are enemies of the people too.

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

The race for London's scammiest address is on! We found one building is responsible for a quarter of all trading standards complaints in Islington. Another in Camden is close behind — but weirdly is where Andy Burnham registered his new company. Read: www.londoncentric.media/i/214696641/...

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

Interesting choice of photo by the FT.

Nigel Farage insists Reform has ‘broken no law’ after key advisers step down ft.trib.al/j8n71w9

Netflix has put its prices up by more than 10 per cent for UK viewers. Maybe now people will start to question what it gives them that the free services of ITVX, Channel 4 and BBC iPlayer don't. The answer is, in my opinion, not much for up to £21 a month.

I’ve so missed Nadine Dorries’ unique and dynamic approach to live television interviews. Channel 4 News.

There really, really, ought to be a hyphen after the word "illicit" in this headline. Most unlike the FT. Best subs in the business in my experience.

On X too. Transcending the culture wars.

Dolly Parton, all the good things about America. Kind, generous, selfless, sincere, moral, talented, imaginative, a distributor not a hoarder, a teacher not a taker. The antithesis of the man who normally hogs America's headlines and global attention. Bathe in the memory of a lovely American.

I took this photograph in County Kerry this afternoon and everyone will think it is a postcard. But things like this do happen here. Free the Portmagee Two!

From BBC’s former Director of News. An indictment in my opinion.

A former director of BBC News speaks:

A former director of BBC News who is full of wisdom and understanding (and patience). When he gets post-y about something, you know it's serious.

The trouble with government by TV personalities is that they don’t fully grasp that things happen even when the cameras are off.

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

Having received a few of these letters, including from Carter Ruck, always worth looking at what the lawyer is willing to commit itself to vs where it says "as instructed by our client". Also, how much is pompous language vs how much is substantive factual denial. Creating fear is the point.

The BBC weather forecast said there was a 0% chance of what just happened happening. It has now stopped happening. I know it has a name, but I can't remember it. And now it's gone. And the BBC says there is a 0% chance of it happening again. Pain.

While we fret about AI, are we all missing a more immediate threat to humanity's future? Has anyone even considered the ramifications of allowing an intergalactic space warrior to sit in our legislature? What if he sits on the defence select cttee? "Intergalactic!" "Warrior!" - Wake up UK!!!

July's leaderboard📊   Burnham tops the charts on favourability with a net score of +1. Count Binface features in the leaderboard for July, with 25% favourable towards the intergalactic space warrior. Farage also sits on 25% favourable, followed by Starmer on 22%.

@philipstephens.bsky.social Congratulations, Phil. They were the better team and to beat this Kerry team they needed to beat history too. Fantastic game. I am not glad they won because I am a Kerry man, but it is such a moment for the game. Really pleased for you and yours.

Many eyes for an eye makes the whole world blind a lot faster.

Credit where and when it is due: this is a fair and balanced front page of the Telegraph website.

If Andy Burnham's first move has been to make Hot Podium Guy redundant, I fear for his chances of re-election.

Pretty clear that Andy Burnham is going to spend the first few months of his premiership laying out what a mess he has inherited. Or was that the other guy?

It’s 25 years since we lost Douglas Adams. I am happy to have been able to get a reference to him into this piece in the FT about why the humanities are essential www.ft.com/content/fbde...