Dave Madden

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Do you need to know what you think before you start writing? Not necessarily, argues historian Lynn Hunt. In a 2010 #AHAPerspectives essay, Hunt explores how the act of writing itself generates new ideas and why getting words on the page is essential to the thinking process.

I'm sure that Bolsonaro Jnr leaving Brazil on his second passport is not at all an indication of guilt and that he just wanted to relax and let off steam after a hard fought and honest campaign.

Talarico: "If you've seen an attack ad on your TV, that was Elon. If you've gotten lies in your mailbox, that was Elon. If you've received a text message saying scary things about me with scary black and white photos. That was Elon too."

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Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

Wonder which country Trump will flee too come the day?

Argentine media says he may have crossed into Argentina to board a private jet to the US. An ally denied he had left Brazil. The investigation follows a Supreme Court order revoking his passports and banning him from leaving the country.

“Flávio has given up. He’s terrified. He is worried his father will die in jail, that he himself will be jailed this week and that he may have a long prison term ahead.”

Could centuries of secrecy about who owns our land soon end? A new government consultation proposes revealing who owns up to 95% of England and Wales. To stop this being blocked by big landowners, I need your help to send in supportive evidence. Here’s how: whoownsengland.org/2026/10/27/c...

This is objectively very very funny

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Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein

Pretty wild: Even some MAGA figures are now panicking about the early vote. And for good reason: The electorate is 11 points more Dem than at this point in 2024, and Latino vote is surging. On the pod @simonwdc.bsky.social is very illuminating on what the data shows: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

It is a dark stain on American voters and the Republican Party that despite a range of criminal convictions, plus successful civil actions for rape - let alone the Jan 6th insurrection he encourages that the Republican Party allows him to stand for a second term & American voters elected him.

Gratified to see widely respected journalist Margaret Sullivan endorse my view that major media must depict Trump’s abuse of power as a “five-alarm fire” – because it is.

Yep, no return to stale arguments, and no tying voters to their 2016 votes. A positive case for Europe, and a scornful repudiation of those who *sold* the false prospectus, not those who bought it.

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.

Yes. We must not be pushed back into the arguments of 2016 by a media too invested in Brexit to change tack. It’s been a shitshow. The world is a very different place. Voters know this. Let’s put the ‘Brexit betrayal’ crap firmly in the bin and tell today’s story. Which is that Brexit is for losers.

Saying that a culture or a people “have no literature” is a very special kind of dogshit take. He thinks there is none because he does not know any. But he probably doesn’t know any Ukrainian literature or Bulgarian literature either. Would he announce to the world that they have no literature?

RFK Jr, on the other hand, has won all those prizes and he did it without any connections or economic head start.

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

“We all bet we’d get to destroy the Amazon and workers‘ rights, our shareholders are furious“

Thank you to the hundreds of devoted supporters who were there to cheer me on at the press conference today.

“Crime is spiralling out of control under Labour” says Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp. It’s a lie. According to the new Crime Survey: -violent crime DOWN -knife crime DOWN -robbery DOWN -overall crime DOWN -shoplifting DOWN Yet Tory/Reform liars say it’s surging…

Playing defense in a state Trump won by *23%* in 2024

Ireland has some responsibility on this. One of the greatest contributions we could be making to collective EU & global democracy & security (far more useful then disastrous attempts to remove the triple lock) would be having the courage to step up to our role as digital regulator in a serious way.

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Perfect.

Jenrick was a Minister when the Government tried something similar back in 2022. How did that go? www.gov.uk/government/c...

Getting out and voting makes the difference. Let that be a lesson to us all. Not voting is not neutral or non political. bsky.app/profile/tani...

Hungary, Serbia and now Brazil successfully fighting back against the Putin/ Trump axis of evil All that effort, corruption and money Trump/ Bolsonaro groupies and Meta algorithms put into swinging the election in the Bolsonaro direction a fail. Will Israel be next? www.ft.com/content/7585...

I mean, it literally does make you an American. In law. That lil thing that ya'll seem to have forgotten about. In his soul, Abdul El-Sayed is more American than any of you lot could ever hope to be.

This is excellent!

This man is leader of the free world.

Tackling antisemitism means more than responding after incidents occur. We must challenge prejudice before it takes hold. That's why City Hall has invested £17m through the Shared Endeavour Fund, supporting groups like the Anne Frank Trust to educate young people and build resilience against hate.

Is there better evidence of a financial market bubble than this?

Grouse moors are still being burnt - and it's killing us. Guest blog by @bobberzins.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/23/g...

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

(Musk, cont.) 9. Fomenting anti-immigrant hate that led to rioting in Belfast.

Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “Our support for Ukraine is not charity. “It is an investment in our own security and in the future of a democratic and peaceful Europe. “We cannot allow Russia to succeed. The fight for freedom must continue.”

A big thank you to everyone who attended our first UHI Institute for Northern Studies Lecture 'Scottish Generals in the Aftermath of the Thirty Years War (1648-1721)' given by Professor Steve Murdoch of the Swedish Defence University at UHI Perth

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I can't believe a landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

This is really big news: not that the Trump administration is corrupt (but more evidence for this is now in), but also just how amateurish they are. Putin is pretty much reading their texts.