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Hopefully other media organisations will now report on this finding that there was no plagiarism in Professor Arday's 2020 paper - only a correction issue in 2024 - despite a successful campaign to reopen an investigation this summer

Lula "We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results." So many countries have this problem and need to slay this beast.

"Russian ballistic missiles struck the grounds of a university in Kyiv and the area around it — effectively the campus, Kyoto Park, the area near a metro station, and residential buildings," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Has anyone got any experience with finding a personal assistant for help with daily tasks for a few hours a week for autism and ME related issues. This is probably too specific for my relatively small audience.

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

For anyone wanting to understand the significance of the Serbian election result tonight, I recommend Katya Adler's Balkans documentary available on the iPlayer. An excellent and sobering overview of the recent history and ongoing challenges in the region.

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.

Vučić’s defeat could mark a geopolitical turning point for Serbia. It could also inject fresh momentum into EU enlargement across the W. Balkans, where progress has stalled for years. A Serbia firmly anchored in Europe would transform the region’s outlook and significantly weaken Russia’s influence

Beautiful scenes in Serbia tonight where a student-led protest movement has overthrown the corrupt and autocratic Vučić regime. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

No one elected Elon Musk to oversee foreign policy. Yet he was able to unilaterally slow down Starlink in Ukraine — because his enormous wealth gave him enormous power. Now he’s using that enormous wealth to buy another election and amass even more power. See the problem here?

Nature is beautiful.

At some point, if we survive this, there will be a Dr Strangelove-style movie about how Trump and Putin almost destroyed the world because they were constantly being fed false information of impending success by terrified and cowardly underlings.

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

We need to stop holding public referenda on established facts and statistical data - medical diagnoses, sexual orientations, religious affiliations, etc. The only thing these surveys reveal is the ignorance of the average person, which is not under debate either.

Profound autism campaigners have it wrong: Autistic adults who can speak/write are not getting funds meant for 'profoundly autistic' children. We’re usually not getting any of the money for services at all. @annmemmott.bsky.social, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2026/10/the-... #ProfoundAutism

Clean tech is not just about maintaining a habitable biosphere in the long-term, it's also critical to economic resilience in the near term.

I am extremely proud of today’s Money Box Live looking into the crisis at Capita. It was public service journalism that held a large company to account and is already inspiring parliamentary letters

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

Benefits and Work want to hear from people with ADHD, autism, anxiety or depression, and their carers, about the extra costs you face. Your contribution will help to build a case for protecting cash benefits for people with these conditions. buff.ly/dxqNZrs

Privatization is also key condition set by Western partners such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for continued financial support to Ukraine.

Would you take a job you can’t get to? Too many young people say no to work every year. Not because they don’t want to work. Tell the Transport Committee what your journey to work looks like by 16 October 📲 forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

If you're never willing to hand over any of the learning to the learners you will gradually make them passive in their thinking and turn yourself into someone who 'delivers' a curriculum and can therefore be replaced. I'm going to stick to interacting, relating and hopefully inspiring, thank you. 😉

Great & moving letters in response to what I wrote about the complete absence of disabled people from the govt's vision. - so far - of a National Care Service Remember the disabled adults who need social care | Letters www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Zelenskyy: “When our strikes reached Yandex data centres, there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations on social media. “Because there were fewer bots, it's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.”

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

The main lesson from Leuven is that cities don't necessarily need more road capacity to improve accessibility. Sometimes, they need to change who gets to use their streets, and for what purpose. After all, making a city easier to move through does not have to mean making it easier to drive through.🔚

Shetland Day 7: A quieter day with fewer thrushes (though still 1000+ Redwing, many Blackbird & 1 Ring Ouzel at dusk) & only Olive-backed Pipit remaining of the rarities. Still much to enjoy, including finding a late Pied Flycatcher at the top of Ward Hill, 2 Mealy Redpolls & a couple of Jack Snipe

You don't need to be able to understand French to get this. 🐌🦌

Shetland day 6: No question about bird of the day on Fair Isle, with rain at dawn sparking a big fall of thrushes, dominated by Redwing. All-island total around 12000 - huge groups of 500+ swirling around, also good numbers of Song T, Fieldfare & Blackb. Two YBWs and hrd only Olive-backed Pipit too.

The ringleader:

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

As an addendum, someone has clearly just shown him the mid-terms polling. Get ready for a few weeks of absolute insanity rather than the normal derangement.

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

"Show me a man's friends and I'll show you the man" The United States joins Iran and Afghanistan as the only countries to allow public executions.

We’re reaching a tipping point.

My dad doesn't know where I got autism from but my sister and I shared a room well into our teens because the other bedroom was the Trains Room