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A Tyneside pizza company boss who fraudulently secured £150,000 in Covid loans to support his business has been jailed | Peter Morris

“Tricky things” that Chris Mason has really got a way with words 🙃

Huge headlines around the world. In major US media, unreported. Something's fishy here.

Junior fascists and mini premierships 😂

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

2/ Nandini Raj (Patient Partner/Parent): lnkd.in/p/ghkK9Gjx Why children and youth need more than endless cycles of symptom management. We need clearer pathways that move beyond managing symptoms toward investigating underlying causes and pursuing recovery.

This is objectively very very funny

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Of course he has...

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Brazil is showing me that two-round system for elections is basically VAR in the sense of most people hate it in principle but it does function fairly well as a “yes, but are you SURE about this?” approach.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Tory activist in 'contract killing broker' claim had worked for party HQ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Via Euronews: Student List wins Serbian election in political earthquake as Vučić concedes defeat www.euronews.com/2026/10/25/v...

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Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

So he’s not leading from the front, but at least he’s pointing the way.

Never have I seen an A&E Waiting Time as high as this. 1812 minutes 😔 Urgent care waiting times | University Hospitals #Plymouth NHS Trust share.google/w35R5hKeQ3YQ...

Doesn't sound mild. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

📣 @npr.org interviews Dr. Akiko Iwasaki on reactivated viruses in Long COVID NPR has had some really insightful coverage of LC over the years- and this piece does not disappoint! 1/ www.npr.org/2026/10/23/n...

Elon Musk says the limit on Ukraine’s drones came from “ultimately POTUS.” Trump says he has no idea who did it. One of them is lying.

In just five days, Uganda vaccinated 8.3 million children against measles and rubella. The nationwide drive, which ended on 5 October, covered every child aged nine months to five years, whatever their vaccine history. The Cooperator buff.ly/7VnZOYR #ShareGoodNewsToo

Former president Barack Obama blistered his successor and delivered Democrats’ closing argument during a midterm rally on Saturday. “We have never seen a president excel in straight-up grifting on your dime like this,” Obama said about President Trump.

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Please do not use blue surgical masks which leak air round the sides. Please use FFP2/3 (or N95/99) which are close-fitting and give much better protection against AIRBORNE VIRUSES.

President Trump said Obama's rally was "empty" while local Michigan media reported an attendance of at least 4,300 people.

University of Würzburg researchers studied 323 Long COVID patients and found low-dose prednisolone modestly improved fatigue, but benefits faded after treatment. B vitamins showed no benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

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This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...

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Interesting timing #Markle

The right’s obsession with ‘civil war’ in Britain ft.trib.al/XUcjIab

There’s a very interesting take on this decision from Dale Vince, whose opinions I respect, suggesting that this is not as harmful as it may first appear. 🤔 lnkd.in/p/ekzKY4yQ

Rosebank would be good for the Norwegian government, but not for us.

Olympian Beth Dobbin Calls for ME Research Funding: After revealing her ME diagnosis, the former Team GB athlete wrote to Andy Burnham urging the UK government to invest more in research. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

"Legal migrant numbers are at a historic low and small boat crossings have halved, yet that didn’t stop anger at asylum seekers spilling on to the streets. "There is no level of migration low enough to satisfy some people. There is, however, a level of migration low enough to make us all poorer."

Are repeated infections a “Fact of life,” The constant battle against misinformation, The burden of Long Covid, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/are-repeat...

Risk aversion is expensive!

What Ukrainians are experiencing is not an exception – Britain needs to accept that an adversary would do exactly the same to us in times of war trib.al/Dkuibjg

For me, Joan Hickson *is* Miss Marple.

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

A new villain is emerging in the closing stretch of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election: Meta Platforms.