Robin Stafford

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

"When asked where this agreement had come from, Trump admitted that he had made it up. It was entirely in his head, which is where so many of his great diplomatic triumphs appear to occur." @ldfreedman.bsky.social

Do yourself a favor and watch a bunch of these Obama clips from his rally today in Ohio. He is on fire, just the energy we need.

NEW: Elon Musk gave his super PAC $76 million in just two weeks of October, and more than half of its new candidate spending went to one race: the Texas Senate fight against James Talarico. He’s now given more than $445 million this cycle, far more than he spent electing Trump.

How much more corrupt does the Trump regime have to be before any serious attempt to stop him happens? The most corrupt regime in any country in history substack.com/@jayinkyiv/n...

In the Kherson region, a russian drone dropped explosives on a man walking his dog. The dog was killed instantly. The man’s fate is still unknown. russian troops filmed it and shared the footage online. Deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime, and russia is committing it openly.

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"The generalised miasma of Team Trump’s conflicts of interest and complex business deals has been there for a long time. Even if absolutely everything is within the letter of the law, many Americans decided they’d had enough of such self-enrichment long ago."

In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

I don’t know if any specifics are really needed to argue that the UK government should not work with Palantir beyond a) Alex Karp is nuts, b) Peter Thiel is evil and c) it’s a US government backed company that could switch off vital infrastructure at the drop of the hat if we fall out with them.

I'd call this MoD corporate capture by Palantir / corruption...

“Trump's British apologists are finally starting to calculate… their potential reward for supporting this lame duck President in the US is no longer worth the growing cost to their reputations in the UK” Too late, Farage. Too much MAGA money. Too much fawning. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/trumps-apo...

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

⚡️️️️️️️Rubio reveals theory on Russia's war against Ukraine ahead of next US peace push. "People keep talking about it's a war in Ukraine. ... It's about one region of the country," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

"He's selling Ukraine down the river...” Trump, Putin and the mid terms assessed by former UK diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social with @goldbergradio.bsky.social Listen: pod.fo/e/6e7a5a Watch: youtu.be/L4Ln4R0O4Yk?...

The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...

The question is: Why did Trump derail peace talks?

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Poland’s Foreign Ministry Sikorski not only reminds Elon Musk that the USA haven’t been paying a cent to Ukraine in almost two years and in fact even benefited from the arms sales, but also schooled him that he is only damaging his brands when meddling in foreign countries.

I’m glad Congress isn’t alive to see this.

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

Jewish communities and their leaders (not all): ‘Criticising Israel’s genocide and apartheid is anti-Semitic’ Also: ‘Don’t attack us for Israel’s actions’ You can’t have it both ways. With great respect to those Jews who have called out Israel’s crimes. Especially those in Israel.

The treatment of the West Bank by Israel and its military is eerily reminiscent of the Nazis and the Warsaw ghetto. When Polish Jews fought back. Israeli Jews are free to kill, steal and destroy, supported by the Israeli state and military. Terrorism. But Palestinians resisting are the terrorists

Danny Tommo's 'patriot platform' vigilantes were refused service in The George Inn, Portsmouth. They demanded to know why, despite the fact they do not have to be given a reason. Always make bigots feel unwelcome. Show the pub some love for doing the right thing. Things you love to see ✊❤️

Musk should be in prison.

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukraine's victory at Hostomel airport, the resistance of the people of Bucha who paid for it under Russian occupation, Zelenskyy's courage to figt ... Russians made mistakes. Their biggest was assuming Ukrainians lacked agency and the will to fight.

"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

It’s been obvious for years that this was coming. The world’s richest man thinks he owns America. He will try to buy, gut, &/or sabotage any democracy that lets him. If our representatives try to “just move on” after midterms, do a pro forma investigation but take no meaningful action, we’re toast.

“Indefinite Leave to Remain means you can live on benefits for the rest of your life” says Nigel Farage Imagine his shock when he finds out just 2.8% of UC claimants have been granted indefinite leave to remain

substack.com/@liamrondi/n... Please share this widely the truth needs to be heard!

Russia’s Defence Ministry insists it strikes only military and related infrastructure.   Its latest target list includes residential buildings, medical facilities, a shopping mall, and a civilian metro station.   Propaganda does not erase the harm imposed on civilians.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

The international humanist society held a meeting in Nova Vodolaha

🚨🚨 "Donald #Trump has sold out #Ukraine. He makes appeaser #Chamberlain looks like a man of iron-principle". Great piece by Simon Tisdall on the massive human cost and shattering of world-order caused by the shattering #trump betrayal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Russian "humanitarians" struck a working market in Lozova, Kharkiv region, in broad daylight when it was full of people ‼️ ​At least 2 people are confirmed killed, and at least 34 are injured.

More russian nonsense propaganda. 👇

I'd like to remind Trump administration that after Iran war started, Ukraine deployed experts and technology to the Middle East to help Gulf states defend themselves against Iranian drones and protect US bases in the region, while Russia provided targeting information to Iran.

So tell me again why Europe cannot send "manufacturing help" to Ukraine? 🤬 Oh sorry... There's of course that tiny detail of having a spine.

“If Putin gets his way, the great dictators will carve up Ukraine, with America – once Europe’s ally – a willing handmaiden to European borders being redrawn to suit Moscow” Analyst and former diplomat @snellarthur.bsky.social on Maga’s masterplan to stoke unrest in Europe

“The Midterms present the last chance to prevent this outcome. They were critical before, but a victory for the GOP will free Trump and Putin to do whatever they want in Trump’s —perhaps — final two years. The damage that can be achieved in that time is incalculable.”