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The BBC lunchtime news has the Westminster chancellor of the exchequer being interviewed by a 'journalist' whilst they're jogging together. WTAF?

BREAKING NEWS | Fatalities Reported in Jordanian Airstrikes on Southern Syria. Seven members of a single family, including women and children, were killed in a Jordanian airstrike targeting the village of Lutf in the Lajat area of northeastern Daraa countryside, southern Syria.

Such a good idea to have a SAD light library - Orkney library is just the best. They're expensive things to buy, so you might as well borrow one to find out if it helps you, and if you can't afford to buy you can just keep renewing your loan all winter.

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

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.

This is cool! There is a now a place that you can send all unwanted bricks, breezeblocks, and other hefty items. #SlavaUkraini

My Glastonbury Tor 2027 calendars still available online and in my shop in Glastonbury. These are very good quality calendars with great reviews. All images were taken in the months they represent. Double A4 opening to A3 Slimline calendars now sold out. www.visionsofsomerset.co.uk/product-page...

What an absolutely wonderful and deserved victory. May this be the long last start of the youth revolution in Europe. ✊

So among Putin and Trump-backed candidates in Central and Eastern Europe we now have Orban as well as Vucic driven out of power by the kind of popular mobilisation that Putin and Trump do not seem psychologically equipped to understand

Lula re-elected in Brazil, defeating Bolsonaro junior www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

🧵1️⃣ There are officially 17 885 homeless people in Ireland, and that's only adults and children living in Emergency Accommodation provided by the State. The number of actual homeless people are way higher, as the official numbers does not cover those living rough, with family and friends or have

This is how rumours start because we now know that fact checking is as rigorous as Reform's candidate vetting procedure. And as Josef Goebbels once said ''Repeat a lie often enough, People will believe it''.

Somewhere down the road, people are going to look at this screenshot and say, "WTH?"

“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

Ryan Bridge of Raise the Colours has been issued with a £48,000 fine for the flags they have raised. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. 😂 dorseteye.com/councils-beg...

This is a Tibetan Cherry Tree. The bark peels itself off to reveal branches that are red and gold and look metallic. It is amazing and seems unreal. A few more pics below... #trees #love #nature #Seattle #pnw #nokings #omg

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

There it is. Elon Musk admits it. “That loophole was closed last week.” In a deranged post on X, Musk openly acknowledges that SpaceX recently restricted Ukraine’s ability to use Starlink.

Real post from the mountain rescue Facebook page

These calendulas have been lovely just outside my front door, so bright and cheerful. I'll definitely do them again next year. This will be the last of them after tonight, but they've been pretty resilient to moderate wind battering so far.

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

🇬🇧 Remember when uk Gov Health Minister Matt Hancock was arrested & prosecuted for corruption, after he awarded a £30M Covid PPE contract to his pal, next door neighbour, and owner of his favourite pub? Dim Matt even hung a picture of the pub on his wall, for Covid TV interviews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are you YES yet?🇪🇺

Painting by John Moore ‘Shipyard’ 2018. Oil on canvas. Size 137.2 × 182.9 cm

Just a cute bumblebee reminder that the clocks go back an hour tonight 🐝🔙

If only there had been some clue...

Lil Marco is busy preparing Bay of Pigs 2.0, but in the meantime most of the Cuban leadership think they can buy off Trump with a hotel and casino franchise exclusive. And they're probably right.

‼️ Zelensky: There are countries that are not ready to believe Russia is very dangerous for them. They understand that Russia is dangerous for Ukraine, for Western values and perhaps for the Baltic countries and Poland.

Women in politics are 33 times more likely than men to be targeted by AI-generated fake nudes. A new EU ban on nudification apps takes effect in December 2026, but gaps in the law and weak enforcement could leave victims exposed.

THIS SHOULD BE GETTING MORE ATTENTION Wedgewood Polls admitted that the vast majority of its election polls were based on fabricated data. And these major news orgs fell for it: The New York Times, POLITICO, Newsweek, MS NOW, The Hill, The Daily Beast & Breitbart.

🚨Ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt has called for the “immediate removal” of Donald Trump’s son-in-law from “every diplomatic assignment” following an explosive report alleging that Jared Kushner secretly had access to roughly $1.75 billion in Gulf money while serving in the White House.

I fervently want America to mend, and for the millions of decent Americans to take back control of their country and society - for their sakes and for all of ours. But I can't even begin to imagine what's to be done about that element of America's politics and society that is as broken as this.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

An undercover investigation by Al Jazeera has exposed the sinister underworld connections of Turning Point UK boss Jack Ross, who was filmed apparently brokering contract killings through a convicted criminal linked to the UVF. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/10/turn...

What are you reading today?

The Aristocats, I think. There was still a little cinema in the village where I grew up in the early 70s.

Currently wondering what message the UK govt thought it was sending by dressing up the Minister for Net Zero in a literal Shell logo.

Living somewhere very remote, I have many years' experience of keeping stocks of stuff that's not locally available, so I'm prepared to meet the apocalypse with plenty of animal food, moisturiser, and Brazil nuts... Seriously though, what are people with no storage space and/or money meant to do?