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US asylum policy now exclusively focusing on the two most persecuted groups on the planet: white South Africans and Brazilian nepo-baby criminal failsons.

News coming thick and fast now at #Budget2026. There will be £2.5m for a new science park in North Wales and £18m for advanced chip design led by Edinburgh University. If you aren't already, follow all the HE and research developments live here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Yes. Also: support Dr Acton in all ways possible.

People often ask me "Who are the 29% of Americans who still support Trump?" It is people like this lady. They are all really dumb and there are tens of millions of them in America.

Lowe going full on vaccine sceptic. I guess he needs to keep himself in Musk's good books. The replies are very much as you might expect.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce James “Fergie” Chambers, an American communist, tankie and heir to the Cox fortune. He’s best known for bankrolling revolutionary causes, cheering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and supporting Hamas.

Hearing report after report. Bolsonaro’s allies are doing everything they can to suppress the vote. It’s the engine of fascism in action.

Amy Acton's mother is the first woman Republicans ever believe in a rape case.

Let us start with their individual starting points: 1. Trump want to grift money. 2. Putin want to survive the war that he foolishly started. 3. China wants to hump both Trump and Putin in the rearwards facing sphincter. This means that: 1/3

On the populist craft of fanning flames and posing as a firefighter www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Russian invasion was not about Donetsk. The Russian war is not about Donetsk now. All you have to do is listen to any Putin interview about the war. It is about the subjugation of all of Ukraine under a Russian-aligned puppet government.

My dad fought in the war and he wasn't a racist. My late mother was a teenager and dedicated her life to helping refugees. My cousin is in her 80s and "fucking hates racists". You don't get a get out of racist jail free card simply for being old and having happened to have lived during a war.

Cartoon in The Times

Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.

Five hen harrier chicks found dead on a grouse moor had injuries consistent with stabbing . . . YES , stabbing . Email your ‘victim impact statement’ to gamebirds@defra.gov.uk (subject: Call for Evidence) by 1 Nov . It can't go on . raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/16/p...

Elon Musk is the largest political donor in the history of the Republican party. But what are his politics? by Jeremy Peters

Wise words from @lordrickettsp.bsky.social on BBC R4 Today after Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine: UK gov’t has to start a conversation with the people about the threats from Russia & what it means for us. Europe can’t keep hoping that life will return to normal, as long as Trump & Putin are in power.

"And the drone ports we are now mass-producing are not intended for Ukraine. They are for them [Europe]. They may not fully realise that yet. Idiots," - Solovyev, a Russian propagandist, is threatening Europe with war and warning that 10,000 Geran drones could soon be launched towards Europe

Exactly Anton. Nailed it.

Obviously hard core tankies are a lost cause, but I don’t know how the softer ones - ones who nod along to Polanski on NATO or read crank columnists that still cling to mainstream platforms - can look at the far right applauding the same lies, and not feel intense guilt & horror.

Brexit and Russia… “I think you would have to start with Boris Johnson. “The reason why there is still this confusion is there was no public attempt to establish with confidence what actually happened because successive British governments declined to look closely at what was going on.” (Times)

At least in The Conservative Party we have a better class of idiot, racist, misogynist and extremist. 🇬🇧

STUPID SEXY RAMSAY MACDONALD

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Five years since Sir David Amess was tragically killed. A dedicated man devoted to his constituents and public service. My heart is with his family and loved ones. We owe it to his memory to challenge violent rhetoric. Violence must never be accepted in our politics.

Spent half an hour looking for my phone this morning and becoming increasingly confused, only to eventually discover the toddler had put it in her toy oven

After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944, a joke circulated: “All Germany was standing in mourning at Hitler’s empty coffin.” (From Victor Klemperer)

Remember when the US was lecturing the world about not using Chinese telecoms equipment because they would do the bidding of the CCP. Now Putin tells Trump to tell Musk what to do.

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.

I say we tally up all the times JD Vance has brought up the subject of transgender kids in public and all the times Talarico has brought it up to see exactly which one's hard drive we need to inspect.

this is an SNL cold open come to life. she can barely read

Zacharia: We have asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well.

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

People on X right now

This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing

Oh goody, another feckless lying vacuous twit as press secretary.

The ground quakes from the energy

The sychophantic belly rubs makes him drift off to la la land.

Tens of thousands of protestors are facing off against tens of thousands of police in the capital of India, as they demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner who has illegally deleted millions of people from India's electoral rolls. Biggest democracy story on the planet, not in BSky.