Emma Yeomans

French police are forcibly separating asylum seeking families as they try to board small boats. On Saturday, this resulted in a 3-year-old crossing the Channel alone, his mother left behind. Full thread and story below: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I was having conversations with journalists just a few months ago about whether democracy was doomed. Look at this year: Orban defeated. Vukic defeated. Bolsonaro Jr defeated. Trump heading to likely defeat in midterms. That’s the beauty of democracy. Voters can respond. Don’t count it out yet.

A gambling company closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand "Posh George" Cottrell got its licence using a document which appears to have been faked. With @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Cormac Kehoe www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Sorta bonkers hearing in which a UK farmer keeps saying solar power on farmland is not the end of the world, won't take up that much land and provides a useful diversified source of income, while MPs keep instisting to him to that solar on farmland is a nightmare parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

It's easy, perhaps, to imagine that the days of open street homophobia in the UK are a thing of the past. And sure, things aren't as bad as they were even two decades ago, of course. But, as I find in a new piece for @thefence.bsky.social, abject anti-gay hate remains a familiar occurrence.

Absolutely insane story about the arrest of August Hanning, former head of German intelligence agency BND Added gimmick is that investigators only found out because Hanning is accused of involvement in another absolutely insane story of a German millionaire trying to abduct her own children

News🚨Ex-BND-Chef Hanning und festgenommen. Sein ehemaliger Büroleiter (auch festgenommen) soll ihm noch bis 2022 geheime Dokumente aus dem #BND verschafft haben. Landeten sie bei fremden Mächten? Unsere Recherche: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hann... #Geheimdienste #Spionage #Justiz #BKA #GBA

AI is poisoning searches, episode 9,000. I'm learning to sail and wanted a diagram to refresh a few rope skills. Search how to tie specific knots and you get shite like this: learn to tie a Clive Kot and a Sheeeeeet Ben

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

The five men arrested over a potential terror plot near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail, says head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor 👀

Someone in a local Facebook group is renting out this room for £450 a month. Presumably no refund if you get cursed.

If you're just coming to this, here's my in-depth piece on what happened in the Channel this week: a 40-hour small boat crossing, and a game of cat-and-mouse between Border Force and anti-migrant protesters. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🔺 BREAKING: Danny Tommo, an anti-migrant activist, has been arrested after a dinghy used by asylum seekers appeared to be slashed by a protester with a member of rescue staff still on board

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

This is a particularly baffling line of questioning given that we know exactly where the empty, used dinghies go: they are either destroyed, or in some cases held by the Home Office in an evidence facility near Dover. You can go there and see them through the fence. There's no secret here.