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Unfortunate realities: 1. Climate change impacts are here, and getting worse 2. Brexit is damaging and will continue to be so 3. Our population is aging 4. Our fertility rate is dropping 5. The US President is authoritarian, quite mad, and rapidly deteriorating

I find "people pleaser" quite an interesting category. Suspect it's something that right of center folks would use as a hammer to bash progressives - too soft/ wishywashy/niceynicey - without considering whether their own leading figures are also people pleasers, just targeting a different audience.

What will change under a new government?

Reform’s chaotic governance of Staffordshire County Council continues. It’s about to get its fourth leader in 16 months.

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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."

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

"Hey younglings, we all thought a 1.5C was the limit but I'm afraid we couldn't be arsed to do anything about it. No idea if it's even possible to maintain our current civilisation with a 3C rise - but you're all very clever beans so we're sure you'll figure something out..."

Dear Jeremy "Special K" Hunt, You say Burnham should not reopen the Brexit debate. Can you have a word with Kemi Bad Enough who wants to leave the ECHR, which may cause the collapse of the post-Brexit deal with the EU and the Good Friday Agreement, threatening peace in Northern Ireland?

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

“Eighty per cent of Reform donations in past two years from overseas donors In comparison, Labour and the Conservatives received just 0.15 per cent and 3.57 per cent during the same period” app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

It's just "Pilot" now.

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

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...

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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/

Safe travels, Mr. Chekov. And thank you.

We (rightly) mock the Americans for Trump, but we probably do need a little more introspection as to how our own system allowed Truss to become PM...

Important that folks don't think the genocide has ended should Netanyahu lose. Yes, a Netanyahu loss would be great if it means those corruption cases finally proceed, but it does nothing to reduce the suffering of the Palestinians in and of itself. The rot sits much deeper in Israeli politics.

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.

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

When folks say our problem is distribution of wealth rather than availability of wealth, this is the kind of thing they mean. The rewards of economic growth are not shared equitably.

Late night, but worth it. #seahawks.

BRAZIL'S LULA: WE DEFEATED FOREIGN INTERVENTION THROUGH DIGITAL PLATFORMS

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Looks like two good results, one in Serbia, one in Brazil. Positive start to the week!

Good to see the next generation taking matters into their own hands.

Incredible. Student List are candidates selected by groups of students to form an anti-corruption party. Another youth-led movement overthrowing an authoritarian government in Europe.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Former Tory candidate suspended over contract killer claims was adviser in Kemi Badenoch’s office www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s one of those irregular verbs: I embrace a blockchain-based alternative payments system, you engage in money-laundering.

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Hi, dictator expert here! this is not funny, dictators only do this when they’re in extreme distress