Nicolas Chinardet

Robinson totally mangled Labour's response to Farage's attacks. It was incomprehensible but, apparently he didn't like it anyway, so it doesn't matter, does it? #r4today

So Melania Trump is better at negotiating ceasefires than her great dealmaker of a husband? Is that what you're saying, #r4today?

Three days' worth of essentials?! Turns out I've been a prepper for years without knowing. I only do food shopping once a week and could probably last another week if I really had to... do people have time (and inclination) to food shop every day?! #r4today

Farage's response is unsubstantiated vibes ("cobblers") and whataboutery... #r4today

Do those "patriots" live abroad or here, Mr Farage? Both can't be true #r4today

Over on FB we have people complaining that they won't be able to access Selfridges on a bus in a straight line any more. Or that less mobile people capable to walk from bus stop to shops, shops to shops, and within shops will suddenly find it too much to walk to Wigmore Street to catch a bus... 🙄

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🇫🇷 Plusieurs centaines de personnes se sont rassemblées dimanche à Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) pour rendre hommage à Pengo Bossio Wangi, espoir français du MMA de 26 ans tué par balles lors de l'attaque raciste des Yvelines ⤵️

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

Meanwhile the right is baying for Burnham to "cut Net Zero" and the oil industry, along with Trump, wants to continue to "drill, baby, drill"... Out-of-touch dinosaurs!

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.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

"Zachary Challis, 19, says that while riding the final bus down Oxford Street is in his “top ten” transport experiences, it can’t compete with being present for the withdrawal of the 549 & 347 routes." This whole article is London nerdery but this sentence is extra special & it made me laugh & laugh

52/48? A landslide, then... Right?

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

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Of course the BBC's angle in its reporting on the first day of pedestrianisation of part of Oxford Street is: "cyclists are breaking the new rules"! 🙄

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Exactly right. It's why the idea of "UK PLC" was so grotesque - as if a nation was just a limited company, that could be wound up, taken over, merged or dissolved, with no roots in the past and no responsibility to the future.

Suprising that the RW son of a traitor, both supported by Trump, should flaunt the democratic rule and refuse to accept the results of an election... #r4today

And now another round of our pet Tory economist... #r4today

It's a great idea, but is the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street really national news? #r4today

Some seemingly good news for lefties, this morning, coming from both Brazil and Serbia

"Foot-driven transportation"?! WTF is that?! #r4today

"We'll be talking to other parties in the coming days to also allow them to present their fantasy budget... Ah, no, our beloved Reform only gets to do that" #r4today

A Nice comme dans plusieurs villes de France, des cortèges de néonazis ont attaqué les manifestations du #24octobre sous le regard bienveillant des "forces de l'ordre". Toute la lumière doit être faite sur la complicité entre la police et ces milices d'extrême-droite.

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It's all fun and game to shoot 1,050 photos over two nights across four events, but then comes the reckoning when it's time to edit them all!

Les militants fascistes ont attaqués des manifestants rue de la Loge sous les yeux de la police, quand les manifestants ont répliqués, la police a chargé pour les protéger et les miliciens ont frappés les gens à terre ! #Montpellier #24octobre #ViolencesPolicieres @info.gouv.fr

Funny how the BBC News correspondent in Paris reporting on the protests keeps talking about "throwing money at the problems". The disdain...

This is important. Over the last few years, Putin had established 'unilateral deterrence': NATO was afraid to do things that might provoke him to use nukes, but he wasn't afraid of NATO's nukes. This is a step towards re-establishing the credibility of UK & FR nukes, regardless of what Trump does.

A Nice comme dans plusieurs villes de France, des cortèges de néonazis ont attaqué les manifestations du #24octobre sous le regard bienveillant des "forces de l'ordre"

I've lived 26 years in the country, paying tax throughout. But according to Jenrick I shouldn't be entitled to benefits should I need any... #bbclaurak

The rabid xenophobe is against FoM, shocker! #bbclaurak

Why do politicians of all stripe insist on lumping the welfare budget with defence spending? They are not intrinsically link. This is pure ideology #bbclaurak

Isn't it *since* Brexit that the number of NEETS has mushroomed, though, Mr Hunt? #bbclaurak

"Protecting women & girls by assaulting teenagers" via Julie Yarlett

Reform UK demands free speech for its chosen white supremacist while attacking & threatening to sue Channel 4, ITV, Guardian, Times for daring expose Reform UK racism, corruption, misogyny, hypocrisy ...

If only there had been some clue...

We've uncovered that this group of people, funded by a foreign country, are, in conjunction with previously convicted terrorist groups, organising killings, paid protest agitation, and masked rioting across the UK. But they do have some legitimate concerns, so,

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is