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The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

After nearly 60 years, the AJ’s legendary cartoonist, Louis Hellman, is stepping back from his regular slot. To look back on his contributions to the AJ, we'’re revisiting Will Hurst’s 2017 interview with the cartoonist, highlighting some of his best work

www.ft.com/content/afec... The Imperial, Bloomsbury: a modernist landmark brought bang up to date

I blame King Charles for this

The question was why there was no public information campaign here, as there is in most European countries, about what simple steps people need to take and provisions to keep, in case of some disruption; why is the British public so peculiarly infantilised on this issue? Today we have our answer.

Hegseth’s staff broke Eisenhower’s globe. The symbolism is too much to bear. (And of course, they ignored the TRAINED EXPERTS WHO HANDLE HISTORICAL ITEMS. Because EDUCATION? EXPERTISE? WHO NEEDS IT?….im going to get some coffee…)

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

JD Vance on Vladimir Putin: "He’s more soft spoken than you would necessarily expect. The American media has a particular image of him." Putin is still wanted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. What the hell is going on? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/d-vanc...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."

The Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing bid for Peter Barber Architects’ award-winning housing in Bow, east London, in a last-ditch effort to prevent its timber window frames from being replaced with uPVC

Solve the corner problem by doing whatever the fuck you want

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.

“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”

"Yeah, in Germany today, you can't even support far-right efforts to ban Holocaust memorials without someone calling you a Nazi! What is this country coming to?" (www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Yeah, poor Justice Alito. Losing friends after delivering death sentences to desperate women across the nation. Sit all the way back down with this. And stop glazing him, CBS. We see you, Bari Weiss.

POV: it's 2010 and you're dead now, but you refuse to stop showing up for work

POV: it's the mid-1980s, your lucrative privately held industrial firm is in need of a new exurban HQ building, and you decide to get a little funky with it

This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.

⚡ Hidden among Scotland’s spectacular landscapes are the buildings that helped power a nation. On 15 October, Dr Harriet Richardson Blakeman explores the architecture of Scotland’s hydroelectric stations and the ambitious schemes that transformed the glens. Book: buff.ly/zEAwg4a

The government, banks, utilities and similar services MUST make it easier for those with Power of Attorney to manage stuff online. I find I'm having to do a lot of stuff by phone. It's like being back in the 90s except without the 90s infrastructure to help.

🚨 Brand new post: high ideals, regretted compromises, harsh realities - a study of Huddersfield's housing and civic history from 1951 to the present ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/a...

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

Hooray! Late architect Robert Hill's incredible Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 is back online thanks to a recovery. I think Robert would be happy that his decades of work have been preserved. canadianarchitects.org/about/

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this.

New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social

A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed

Days apart. -Burnham doesn’t cap donations. -Reform get record donations. In addition: - Voter ID will remain (needlessly), it’s estimated that 400k were denied a vote in 2024 as a result - Proportional Representation not part of the “Representation of the People” bill making it an oxymoron

Hitler turning to Marx and asking "who's this cunt?"

Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

BREAKING NEWS: We're delighted to announce that 1 Embankment Place (1986-91) in the City of Westminster, Sir Terry Farrell's Post-Modern 'Palace on the River', has been Grade II listed by DCMS following support from C20 Society. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/farrell...

First on energy and now on West Bank settlements, the UK's Ed Miliband has emerged as that rarest of center-left Anglophone politicians: a guy who actually does stuff www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Important piece from a great rabbi, Rabbi Jeremy Gordon Do give it read if you want a more balanced understanding of our community - the JLC and BoD do not speak for us all rabbionanarrowbridge.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-o...

NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...

If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...

History. Do you believe in historical facts? How dare you?

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Yes, but there's a key difference. Biden needed Republican support in the Senate (and to a lesser extent, House) to pass his legislative agenda. Burnham has a huge majority in Parliament and the House of Lords can't stop him the way a Senate filibuster can. He could do both but he's vibing.