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Britain celebrates foreign companies opening factories and creating British jobs. Yet some politicians talk as though foreigners arriving to work or start businesses only threaten employment. Why do we understand international investment but forget the people behind it?

None Pete Hegseth can't see his face in a mirror🧛

Sharing this poem again because I think the world needs these words now more than ever.

Robin on the move! 😀😍🐦 You can buy my 2027 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 🐦 And here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/sh...

October sees highest number of ship attacks on record, report says

MIND-BLOWING STATS: A record two-thirds of new cars in China are now electric (NEVs*), while combustion-car sales have fallen by two-thirds since they peaked in 2017 – In 2020, ~95% of sales were combustion-engine cars – By Sep 2026, they crashed to 33% – On the flip side, NEVs hit a record 67% 🧵

“Farage campaigned for Trump in the last 3 presidential elections and notably came to his defence at a low moment when Trump fell badly behind in 2016 over his grotesque “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks” Farage will never dump Trump. He owes too much to MAGA money and the far right oligarchy.

Another report that concludes that Britain’s best interest is to rejoin the EU :

Repairing Brexit economic damage should be Burnham’s top priority, business chief says Shevaun Haviland argues PM is right to revisit Labour’s EU red lines as current trading relationship is bad for business www.theguardian.com/business/202...

British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit NFU analysis of official data shows falls in exports to UK’s largest trading partner since 2019 include 70% for sugar and 74% for egg products www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Unless we are willing have an honest & open discussion about the negative impact of Brexit - which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the UK - Britain’s growth, productivity and living standards will continue to be weighed down by the structural handicap of Brexit

Well I am 7 minutes into the ITV Doc on Reform UK Ltd and I am already struggling not to smash up the TV. Am I surprised about their attitudes? No, many of us have been calling this out for years. But seeing a bunch of white supremacists so brazen is sickening.

At 25, you might dream of studying in Rome. At 45, you might discover a business opportunity in Berlin. At 65, you might want to retire in Spain. Freedom of Movement meant you didn't have to know your future in advance. That's the extraordinary freedom Brexit took away.

Not bombshells. Entirely on brand “appalling behaviour” and “extreme racism” from an appalling, extreme and racist party, led by an appalling, extreme and racist man. The apples are all rotten because the tree is. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.

Once again… This is not a vetting problem. This is a Reform problem. This is a Farage problem. Only grim losers like this are going to sign up to a racist, misogynistic, extremist, mass-deportations and tell-the-Royal-Marines-to-murder-people-at-sea kind of party. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... We can join the EU within a parliament

Zavodovski Island has lost 63% of its chinstrap penguins in just 15 years. Researchers say warming seas are pushing their krill food supply south, leaving even the planet’s most remote wildlife exposed to climate change, Stephen Prager writes. #Climate #Penguins

Again. Impeach him.

🚩🚩🚩“Are we in the middle of a new world war without realizing it? That's the question Lulu Garcia-Navarro wanted to explore when she sat down with Mirjana Spoljaric, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross.🧵 youtu.be/hDWdce9a6kY?...

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

Just to put this into perspective, the last public execution in the UK was in 1868. Now the US government is about to livestream its own snuff video. These aren't terrorists, this isn't Iran, Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, this is the USA, which persistently claims moral superiority.

#ResistanceEarth This breaks my heart. Between 2011 and 2025, the Antarctic island Zavodovski lost nearly two-thirds of its chinstrap penguins due to climate change. Scientists say the species should be designated as "endangered" because of these alarming declines. www.cbsnews.com/news/penguin...

Have been supplied with the supposed prompt. If this is Grok's output, Grok is spewing Russian propaganda. This bad, very bad, and why self-regulation of AI will never work, especially with a bad actor in the driving seat. bsky.app/profile/pete... HT @peterjukes.bsky.social

From the new Private Eye

Hegseth: “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. Trump recognises that.” The man who last week was manifesting the Christian god in the Pentagon and calling for a crusade.

It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.

Kemi Badenoch, "I don't want to live in a country run by people.. who debate whether my mixed race children are English" "We must not let these people take us backwards, that is not the country that we are" My view: For years, too many Tories indulged or amplified the same culture-war rhetoric

The next few months could determine Britain’s relationship with Europe for a generation. We can keep hard Brexit. We can settle for a Customs Union. Or we can start rebuilding what actually makes Europe work: Freedom of Movement of goods, services, people and capital.

We will not rest until the government of failure and abandonment goes home. We will not be silent until a state commission of inquiry is established. We will repair and rebuild.

Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .

It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...

Brexit in one picture #RejoinEU

Shocking: Trump officials are offering $2,500 or more to detained teens as young as 14 if they agree to leave the US. Kids also get a memo threatening long detention, and prosecution of noncitizen parents, if they press their legal case: “You will be detained for a prolonged period of time.”

Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting.

Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?

There are no decent Tories left. Johnson’s govt got rid of them all. Bad Enochs blue rinse TRumpers are as right wing as Reform. Just as narrow minded and bigoted. 15 years of Russian /Koch Bros funded ownership has corrupted the party beyond recall. Damn you Bullingdon Club Eton Elite Cons.

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

President Trump mocks climate change: “The ice caps have gotten bigger instead of smaller. They’ve gotten bigger.” My view: No, they haven’t. Greenland is losing roughly 264 billion tonnes of ice a year and Antarctica around 135 billion tonnes.

Here’s my checklist for Andy Burnham

A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."

Germany’s ambassador to the UK, speaking to The Telegraph: "It is, of course, for the British people to decide how close they want that relationship to be. But let me be clear: in Germany you will always find a partner for setting the ambition as high as we can."