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Royal Mail should be back in public hands. After years of missed delivery targets, Royal Mail has proven it can’t be run effectively by the private sector. That’s why I’ve called on the Government to renationalise it. If we fail to act, we risk losing Royal Mail for good.

Elon Musk says he has ‘cyber psychosis’. Do you too? | Arwa Mahdawi

Scotland's annual alcohol deaths will be published tomorrow. Most years, more people die in Scotland from alcohol than they do drugs, but you wouldn't know given the focus on drug deaths. Charities are now calling for the same attention from SNP ministers. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

4. He also doesn’t say whether reporting fraud committed by one of his own supporters would qualify for the reward. At least 16 defendants in voting-related cases were Trump supporters, self-identified Trump voters, or people who submitted unlawful ballots for Trump.

The finale of Hacks. Oh boy.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

OBAMA: They can't hear your boos. They'll hear your vote

“Crickets” #Obama 🤣

“Drain the swamp” eh?

We’ve put together a guide to the laws, the regulations and the rules that apply if you’re filmed without your consent – and the things you can do to protect your privacy 👀 https://goodlawproject.org/resource/filmed-without-your-consent/

NEW: The EPA is quietly killing its web archive. Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump’s climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

The pensions dashboard in brilliant news. Sooooo long overdue.

Six months ago, Hungary voted for a new chapter. Turning the page on years of eroded freedoms and trust. And the banks of the Danube saw people march and die 70 years ago.

A Windrush claimant who first received nothing was awarded £295,000 once pro bono lawyers took the case. Floella Benjamin challenged the government to fund legal advice for victims facing a 44-page claim form and over 100 pages of guidance. @floellabenjamin.bsky.social

When asked why we should mourn the turn away from Black Lives Matter it is because this continues. And institutions are now emboldened to simply disregard even the killings of black babies. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

🗳️ Stella Parton (Dolly’s Sister) is among the Tennesseans reporting voting machines tried to flip her @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social vote to Marsha Blackburn🤔😕 www.instagram.com/p/DewwVI9ERq...

25th Amendment now.

Comedian and satirist Munya Chawawa has hit out at the ‘racism, xenophobia, and homophobia’ he witnessed while working in Chichester, claiming a homophobic attack on one of the cast members was “just the tip of the iceberg”. Read more 👇

CNN legend Christiane Amanpour, the network’s chief international anchor, said that she will sign off from CNN next June

At 5 in the morning the president and his party are focused on the really important things for every day Americans: a luxury golf course

This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Amanda Bland not saying why she's quit Reform, only that the decision was hers and made "after careful deliberation". The MSP also makes clear she will not be quitting Holyrood.

Youth services in parts of England in state of emergency, children’s commissioner says

United for Georgia. Atlanta. 10.28.26. RSVP here: unitedforgeorgia.com

25th Amendment. Just do it.

I’m old enough to remember his summer book tour, where he claimed his Christian faith had humbled him and vowing that he will lead with love and kindness.

Feeling rather sorry for @scaramucci.bsky.social! The Mooch’s record has been surpassed.

Trump has backed out of a scheduled deposition for his defamation case against the BBC, which is trying to compel Trump to sit for a court-ordered interview. www.washingtonsun.com/legal/trump-...

Quite the way to spend an evening. How he still remains able to hold on to hope is quite something.

Character.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble. Read the story here: https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski is taking on MAGA anti-Ukraine propagandists.

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

Rishi Sunak swore on the Bhagavad Gita. Suella Braverman used the Dhammapada. Forty per cent of MPs in 2024 chose to affirm rather than swear an oath on a religious text. It all counts. It is all part of the British political tradition.

Going to run for parliament for the sole purpose of being sworn in on my sacred text: this 2015 article by Matt Goodwin announcing his resignation from the Cameron government's anti-Islamophobia taskforce because it wasn't serious about tackling the issue. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It has been a horrible night for Kyiv, with ballistic missile attacks throughout the night. Again, Russia struck energy facilities, on top of killing & injuring civilians. According to the Ukrainian authorities, there was no intelligence sharing by "partners" (=the US). The threat persists.

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA

TRUMP TODAY: "She wasn't a member of my family. She I guess dated my son a long time ago" TRUMP NOT EVEN 2 YEARS AGO: "Kimberly has been a close friend and ally"

There’s a major problem with Katie Zacharia’s claim: In 2011, the year she graduated from Pepperdine Law and moved to Beijing, China’s Ministry of Justice expressly required anyone registering for the National Judicial Examination to “have nationality of the People’s Republic of China.” Oopsie.

What the fuck are we doing here, guys??

It’s prevalent through most of the contestant shows, just take a look at who goes home first in Bake Off, Sewing Bee, Pottery Throwdown, etc too. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

I see someone is challenging The Mooch for his record. @scaramucci.bsky.social

When flatbreads are confused with Welsh cakes #GBBO

REMINDER: Rep. Ilhan Omar came to US in 1995 when she was 12 with family as part of asylum program. She became a US Citizen in 2000 at 17. She got married 9 years LATER on Feb. 12, 2009 at 26 years old. She did NOT marry her brother or anyone to become a citizen. She ALREADY was a citizen!

Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation

Highlights from new @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social polling out today: 📉51% of Scots think Scotland is heading in the wrong direction (+6 v. May). 🤝Net support for collaboration between ScotGov and UKGov is now +18, up from -4 in May. 38% of SNP voters support such collaboration, just 29% oppose it.