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Another pointless unfunny cartoon from the Telegraph's Patrick Blower. He's understood he should try and connect two bits of news together, but has no idea how to do it with aplomb or humour. Morning.

Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

Makes sense to scrap standing charges on gas bills. It will reward people trying to use less. It's a redistributive policy but also one that could reduce gas use overall Will also help people switching to heat pumps who still occasionally use gas for cooking (currently over £100 p/a for the option)

New post: The Big Picture for the forthcoming UK Budget that the media largely ignores mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-... Because of tax rises already set in place, as well as recent data and current plans, the UK has the strongest 'fiscal credibility' of all the G7 economies.

this phrase "without Arab parties" ... I have questions. And I think I am likely to have follow up questions.

28 October 1893 | A Pole, Karol Kumuniecki, was born in Żywiec. A Polish Army officer. In #Auschwitz from 7 January 1941. No. 8961 He was shot in the camp on 25 January 1943. --- Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/VBgDxkWLMa

The once sure-footed Reform leader is struggling badly after a summer of horrible headlines and plummeting polls ✍️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis. They profit from polluting industries, and through the ‘adaptation economy’. Super-rich buy govts, control means of production and think tanks. Victims pay higher prices for food, homes, relocations. Who governs?

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

Prime Minister @andyburnham.bsky.social is right. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK and Nigel Farage knows it

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

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 😅

It's easy to mock Andy Burnham choosing to fix small annoyances when Britain has so many huge issues. I get the sentiment. At the same time, as he fixes more and more and more small annoyances, it does start to boost positive feeling.

🎯 George was spot on ….. #BBC #MemeForToday

Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, American democracy has been unwound at frightening speed. Analysis by the V-Dem Institute shows the rate of democratic backsliding in US is faster than we saw in Hungary, India, Russia or Serbia And if we don’t take urgent action it could happen here too

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

Droughts in winter……how crazy does the climate have to get! The biggest thing we can all do about it? Stop eating meat and dairy.

🚨 Cary Mitchell, Director of Strategy at Best for Britain: 👏 “Our polling shows clear support for the advantages it would bring. That’s only logical when the reciprocal benefits include opening 27 doors onto priceless opportunities for young British people"

Under Lula, deforestation dropped to lowest level on records Lula’s Win Rules Out U-Turn by Brazil on Climate, Deforestation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dire midterm polls, sackings, a dodgy deal with Putin... all looks bad for the president. But he might take the US down with him ✏️ Nicky Woolf

#Onthisday 2021. Standards committee accuses Owen Paterson of “egregious” lobbying breaches The 30-day recommended suspension was enough to trigger a recall petition. But Boris Johnson whipped Tory MPs to delay and overhaul the standards system. Facing a furious backlash, the govt promptly U-turned

🔴 NEW The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit By Sergei Cristo Read below. ↓

The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit A 'diplomat' who launched the 'Conservative Friends of… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the-conviction-of-estonias-lord-haw-haw-links-russian-intelligence-to-moscows-interference-on-brexit/

The election in Brazil was rigged. And the Right still lost. No wonder they are mad.

Breaking News: A Manhattan judge ruled that Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor, was unlawfully fired last year by the Trump administration. nyti.ms/4swdPby

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

including all the French friends I had in London :(

"The Prime Minister is right to ask for an honest debate, and honesty starts with the numbers. Brexit didn't end migration, it swapped a fluid two-way exchange for a one-way visa ratchet leading to more permanent settling" | North East Bylines

Before he was a senator, Jon Ossoff worked with Ghanaian journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela on a documentary about corruption and bribery in African soccer. In 2019, Divela was killed by two gunmen. No one has been convicted in connection to the killing.

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Exclusive: A second member of staff working under Reform UK mayor Luke Campbell has claimed they were suspended from their job after raising concerns about threatening and racist behaviour in the workplace observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

She yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. Almost immediately, she was tackled and punched by male rally-goers. Why has no one been charged? nyti.ms/3Ukw1b8

@ottoenglish.bsky.social 😳😩🤣

free speech absolutist says what

Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?

Very impressive that he's talking about this.

How it started. How it's going.

Kushner will be dragged in front a lengthy, detailed, congressional investigation? This is some ‘real bad’ skullduggery

If you’re in favour of ‘no unions’ and ‘low taxes’, frankly I’d much rather you did leave us alone and take your greedy, grasping, selfish selves to Dubai as quickly as possible.

There is being fair, and there is being credulous.

At this point it's just a case of vote Talarico because Elon Musk, the most hated man in America, hates him.

Musk doesn’t want anyone to see it.