Bob Williams

Trump’s Gaza peace plan: what next, and where are the pitfalls? Releasing the hostages and a limited Israeli withdrawal are only the first steps in a process that has many hurdles still to clear

paywalled, i realise
but from someone with expertise in this area
it does make you realise just how many pitfalls and logistical problems there still are and how precarious the peace

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims The Atesh partisan group sabotaged railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, disrupting Russian logistics, the group claimed in a Telegram post on Oct. 12.

⚡️Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims.

The Atesh partisan group sabotaged railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, disrupting Russian logistics, the group claimed in a Telegram post on Oct. 12.

Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️

German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sighting...

⚡️German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports.

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sightings across Europe.

Is this #peace going to be everlasting, or will Israel resume where it left off once all the hostages have been returned?

Just so glad I don't live in the land of the free.

In Canada you can get abortions for free…. Just sayin

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Why does the NHS keep costing more?
1950 life expectancy was 69yrs it’s now 83yrs

14 more years of experience, living, grandchildren
14yrs of more costs £3600/person/year

5.6million people over 70yrs £20bn/pa

It costs to keep people alive with prevention, treatments, medicine

We should also hold the media - including the Times - for their role in Brexit. They failed to hold the Brexiters to account for their lies, instead pushing and supporting those lies.

I have negotiated the end to multiple conflicts over remote controls, the last piece of cake, the "good" side of the car, which movie to watch, the rules of Scrabble, and the failure to refill the toilet paper roll and have somehow been passed over yet again by the Nobel committee. Astounding

In praise of “rip-off” degrees | The Observer Kemi Badenoch’s attack on the arts and humanities isn’t just culturally short-sighted, it’s economically illiterate

I wrote an opinion column for the Observer! I never do opinion columns but I was just really annoyed by cultural vandalism and Kemi Badenoch.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

YLH update 10.10.25

143 nests
503 sightings
7 new nests this week

Now one nest away from double the 2023 & six times the 2024 nest totals

The red icons represent the last weeks nest locations (thanks for the suggestion)

Eye icon = sighting
House icon = Nest

This matters. It’s also another reason why we should be skeptical about the digital id plans.

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest. The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Paedophiles will love this - a great way to identify and target their victims.

Update on yellow-legged hornets
W/E 10 Oct

503 sightings in 2025.

7 more nests discovered

Kent

Northiam
Eastling
Hempstead
Deal
Aylesham

East Sussex
Lewes

Surrey
Coldharbour

143 confirmed nests this year

My quote of the day

We have managed to unite a country tearing down the barriers the regime built to divide us. Ours is a fight of a nation united against a criminal tyranny, in defense of its human rights, freedom, and democracy. That is why we have no alternative but victory

María Corina Machado

Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday said the recognition would instead go to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

Breaking: Trump has officially lost the Nobel Peace Prize.

Instead, the Nobel committee is awarding the leader of the opposition in Venezuela for supporting “democracy over dictatorship.”

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Starmer's sinking ship are losing a member every 10 minutes! 🥀 Meanwhile, @greenparty.org.uk have already breezed past the Lib Dems - at 60k they're even smaller than prev recorded.

We are surging by 2-3k every day! Your Party membership's a bit below Lib Dems, too.

Greens now dangerously close to 100k members.

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Next are Tories, shooting down at 123k 📉 Reform climbed to 260k if they're not LYING as usual, while Labour struggling at 309k 🥀

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”👇

The Labour trolls are out in force today. Zack has really gotten them rattled.

"Make ownership of large landholdings public"

Great report from the @digitalcommons.bsky.social with key recommendation that HM Land Registry should make the ownership of landholdings above a certain area threshold publicly available:

digitalcommons.coop/content/file...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...