Jane Paxton

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

via John Adams

Yes!! Where can you get the kit?

🏥 Blood test could reveal #prostatecancer risk more than a decade before diagnosis Distinctive proteins in men’s #blood can signal a higher risk of prostate #cancer more than 15 years before diagnosis, Oxford researchers have found. www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/b...

Come on @bathnes.bsky.social let’s do it.

Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

Iniquitous www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Part of Simon Heffer’s review of Liz Truss’s book. 🤣🤣🤣

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 😅

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

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

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Lovely graphic explaining what happened to my husband when he came off his bike and hit his head on a stone wall

Bring back the dinosaurs - oh they’re already here

BBC happily interviews lots of Zionists saying they are offended and fearful about Green Party rehashing a 1975 UN motion saying Zionism is racism But not Palestinians living in apartheid Israel about discrimination they face in jobs, housing, education every day of their lives meme via Dave Toller

Surprise surprise

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."

Did Today lead with a story about Reform as per usual?

Excellent!! Ditto mine

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Serbia and Brazil though.

Why is R4Today giving a long interview to a notional Reform government when it has a handful of MPs? WTF??

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

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Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

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To all our Serbian, New Zealand, US, Brazilian, and Israeli friends, good luck in the upcoming elections. Our thoughts are with you. And the results matter for us too.

New post, on the predicted end of the world happening in 3 weeks time, and the perils of extrapolating growth, from populations and pathogens to running and revenue: kucharski.substack.com/p/is-doomsda...

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What???

Learned nothing from Covid obvs

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Multi Applicable

One woman scientist named in UK’s GCSE science syllabus. Three named in A level science. How many men? 85 and 178. Funny that. Half of my 50 PhD students have been women; four of them (and one man) are now professors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ll tell you what. The first Genoese banker who sets up stall in my city with a lockbox and absolutely no website is getting ALL of my money instantly.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.

During Covid 12 died in my mum’s care home including the owner.

This was my vision of a pedestrianised Oxford Street during my 2015 campaign to be mayor

UK Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax. UK wages taxed at 20%-45% + NIC. CGT 18%-24%, no NIC. Subject to ifs and buts: Denmark 27%-42% Norway 37.84% Netherlands 36% Ireland 33% Finland 30%-34% France 30%-34% Sweden 30% Spain 30% UK hits workers, showers gifts on the rich.

This says it all - the difference between the haves and the have nots. Until we sort this it will get worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

Feeling proud to be an American! It’s been awhile…