Ben

@atrupar.com did you see Ted Cruz get hugely booed at the US Grand Prix in Texas. An enjoyably humiliation

I'm always reminded of when Dominic Cummings got brought in and some Johnson stan said this is revolutionary, what we really need is a radical young guy shaking up all the suits at No.10 and I just posted this picture and got blocked

Utterly vomitous.

The UK already doesn't buy oil or gas from Russia or Iran. Opening Jackdaw will not stop other European countries – such as landlocked ones with Russian pipelines – buying from Russia. Other than that, great argument.

Everything Lindell does is an absolute train wreck. Here is the Zoom call he had, talking about Trump possibly coming to campaign in MN, and there is a guy above him actively chewing, zoomed in on his mouth. This is a freaking master's class of unintentional comedy.

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“Offensive views from start” Ain’t that the truth #itv #reformuk

TERF now a slur somewhere between cis and batty boy, for those keeping up at home.

V For Vendettarey-wettery

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.

So from @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social's life blog, Zia Yusuf has said that "We’re not going to be sending people back to be tortured or killed." Which presumably needs a process for working out if that's going to happen to someone or not. Which starts to sound a bit like an asylum process?

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

A decade on, British politics and society still doesn’t grasp the nature of the threat posed to it by Russia.

There is 73% support in Britain for the principle of refugee protection - including in the UK - while 20% are opposed to this. The peak of support was 2022 at 80% (largely because the images from Ukraine had more impact than images from the Channel that year, though boats + migration were high)

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

Huge respect for Caroline Lucas this week, repeatedly standing up to antisemitic entryism while remaining staunchly critical of Israel and the government's failures on that front. You can see why she used to be leader

My statement on the Green Party's 'Zionism' motion 👇

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

Imagine deciding to go out and pitch that the Pope is the Woke Antichrist because he has concerns about AI, when you look like the lovechild of Satan and the guy whose face melts in Robocop. If a homeless guy gave this 'lecture' in Hyde Park, he would be sectioned. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Many of us were persuaded not to campaign publicly for these ends" feels like an extremely significant phrase here.

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

Absolutely damning comments on #Newsnight about Polanski, leadership and the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, from @carolinelucas.bsky.social

Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

Don't know what's funnier, the Tories absolutely cannonball diving on trustworthiness on the economy, or the Greens no longer being seen as the most trustworthy on the environment and climate change

Restore is such a weird mix of fascism and random mad boomer Facebook shit.

The Tories call them "savings". They are cuts. On BBC Radio 4's PM yesterday, Julia Lopez put the planned total at £71bn. Every £ is lost income, a lost service or a lost job. Let's look at who pays, who gets the tax cuts, and why it is fantasy economics. 🧵 #bbcwato #wato #PoliticsLive

🗞️ Can old-school journalism get us out of this misinformation hell we’re in? According to two BBC veterans, yes… yes it can. HARDtalk legend @stephensackur.bsky.social and former Newsnight presenter @gavinesler.bsky.social discuss how to take down the fake news merchants 🎧 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Lol ok Ed.

This section about fiscal discipline would be a lot more convincing if they didn't keep announcing spending commitments funded by the same set of ruinous welfare cuts over and over again.

Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:

I cannot tell you how many times in the last year I have said to folks here: Politics changes very fast nowadays; do not pledge devotion from party to party easily; leave yourself the intellectual and emotional space to assess things in the round much closer to an election, armed with more data.

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

Ahahahaha, zut alor eet ees Chris PHIiLP

OH MY F'ING GOD #CPC26

A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election

I've created a motivational doomsday device. After dealing with awful customers, I send them an email calling them all sorts of profanities, but I add a 5 year delay. It's to ensure I quit this crap job & pursue my dream move to Perth. Got 3 years left from the 1st email I sent

EXC: Tories plan cuts even greater than the £47bn already announced, says Tory shadow chancellor in a recording leaked to the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Has she made any mistakes? “Everybody makes mistakes,” she says. Like what? “You’re putting me on the spot. Nothing comes to mind.” www.ft.com/content/267c...

This is insane.

One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.

NEW: Lunch with the FT with Kemi Badenoch:"It's my Conservative Party now." Tory leader on self doubt (nah), how the party was "on fire", moist bread, Farage, being "judgy", culture wars. Over dinosaur bone slow cooked rib and Dark and Stormy cocktail www.ft.com/content/267c...

Amol Rajan: ‘I know a lot of people think of me as that nice, warm man from the news…’ #CelebrityTraitors

James Blunt huge transmasc energy