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Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The achievements of the Serbian student movement will be studied for decades. This was their blueprint for revolution. The recipe for throwing a corrupt authoritarian from office. Read, learn, implement. (📸 Save and Saclony)

A stable liberal government is a tail possibilty as is a rerun of the current coalition. Which brings us to the final days of the campaign by a very stressed Netanyahu. There is a growing consensus he's looking for military escalation that will postpone the election or force a unity government.

And because this is percentage based and not absolute number based, the more people vote, the higher the threshold. At least on the liberal side, a lot of people are going to vote, including upwards of 60,000 Israelis who flew in to cast a ballot against this government.

The shift away from the US continues. Ten countries have now signed on for Macron’s Forward Deterrence initiative, including the UK, Germany and Poland, WSJ reports. Under the plan, France would station nuclear-capable fighter jets across Europe as trust in the US erodes.

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

I’d like to take this opportunity to post Jay Rayner’s takedown of Toby Young and Sarah Vine. Enjoy.

Hungary - ✅ Serbia - ✅ Brazil - ✅ Machado back in Venezuela - ✅ PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3 Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

The numbers aren't capped as such under free movement, but people cannot move solely to claim benefits and serious criminals can be expelled or refused entry - so "unlimited" is misleading

I feel this, whenever i hear my mum yelling or going "Urrghh" my blood goes cold thinking i did something wrong even if i didn't. Same when she's stomping around the apartment bc her footsteps r loud

Them tryna stop Brazilians from voting Lula by stopping buses, airports, etc These mfers are TRASH

Pleased to report that Ghosts The Possesion of Button House is absolutely brilliant. 10/10. Funny, emotional, and perfectly written and performed. Nice to see @gmcgiv.bsky.social popping up in it a couple of times too! We love Barclay....he should have a spin-off series.

Yup. Can confirm. Small screen transfers to the big screen don’t always work. But I’m extremely happy to report that isn’t a problem in this case.

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We are now at the point where Trump is comparing the asses of Jon Husted and Nicki Minaj.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

And coming soon - a Reece Shearsmith episode about 12 Days of Christine and more - exclusive to Tier supporters at patreon.com/robinince

And much of Oxford Street is going car-free from tomorrow! I don't even live in London anymore but I'm genuinely excited about this. If it works well, it could be one of Khan's big legacies. People have been talking about doing this for literal decades, and now it's happening.

Wow. Vučić has conceded Serbian election. Massive moment for the entire Balkans

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

The early results out of Brazil might look surprisingly good for Lula because of a clusterfuck caused by the Supreme Court announcing an extension to voting just as a lot of poll stations were closing AIUI.

Lula leads Brazil runoff election with 51.16% of the votes after 5% of the votes counted

Today, the people of Serbia turned out in record numbers to shape their country’s future. Congratulations to the Student List on its victory in the parliamentary elections.

Voters do not share Westminster’s sense of scale Burnham’s micro-policy blitz is designed to address the little dysfunctions that fuel public disillusionment

🚨🚨This could be a turning point. Amid #Starlink crisis, #Finnish tech giants #ICEYE and #Nokia signed a letter of intent with #Ukraine's Defense Ministry yesterday formalizing a partnership aimed at developing Ukraine's own #satellitecommunicationssystem. kyivindependent.com/amid-starlin...

Inspired by @edjefferson.com's excellent Local Wiki, I made a version where you can see where everything is on the map: www.neil-scott.com/localwiki/

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wut?

🔥 MEMPHIS to the city council: “YOU WORK FOR US NOT ELON MUSK” What a pic. (H/T councilman @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social — who voted for the moratorium, which failed 6-6)

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

Canada enters the EU and just as the ceremony ends you hear him mutter “eat that David Davis” under his breath

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Pleeeeese let this be so.

RSS feed for all my recent podcasts #science #poetry #comedy #books www.patreon.com/rss/RobinInc...

Trump oligarch Mark Zuckerberg has suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the national day of action.

Tbf to Emily this actually starts at the top. If Andy Burnham, the government and all his MPs moved across to another platform what's likely to happen? Journalists stop reporting on them? Obviously not. They'd follow them.

We need laws in Europe outlawing this

Farage promised voters the bad apples would be “long gone”. Tonight, ITV caught Reform doing the opposite: tell them to say sorry, tell them to hide it, and keep them in the party. Reform UK must publish the vetting files. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Wonderful picture of somebody I ought to recognise but don’t. Winnats Pass, however, remains unmistakeable.

To quote @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social’s excellent blog post: “..when he discovered that the paraplegic Hasan would have to be shot while sitting in a wheelchair, Trump began to fret about the optics.”