Chris Brewer

Right at the end of today's programme (when most people have gone to work) Webb said that Councillor Malik had been in touch to say that he had mistakenly shared the offending post, and had repeatedly apologised for it.

It would have been good if Webb had said this when he interviewed Polanski.

Coming to Britain if Badenoch wins.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Meanwhile the @greenparty.org.uk say a lot of sensible things at their conference but they are buried so deep on the BBC web site you would need specialist mining equipment to find them.

Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain

Excellent cycling skills, made the goons look like right berks.

Various shops selling tat.

The grim reality of Cornmarket Street -

I looked for it on the BBC's home page, but, strangely, it wasn't there. I had to go to the Wales page to find it. Not good enough.

It is nonsense to say the British are happy with CCTV. Some are, some aren't. I'm not.

Looking forward to reading your book.

Queen Anne's lace made me think of Larkin.

Multiple credible sources confirm that foreign state actors, among them the Russian Federation and Belarus, have deliberately weaponised illegal migration as part of their hybrid warfare strategy, targeting EU Member States.

www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Photo of page in Private Eye LATEST 'BIG BEAST' DEFECTS TO REFORM by Our BBC Correspondent E.Z. Questions FOLLOWING on from Nadine Dorries, Reform was celebrating another big-name defection to the party after their conference in Birmingham, as rumours swirled that Chris Mason had defected to Reform. "Chris's breathless coverage of our conference could have come straight from our press office," said a jubilant Reform spokesman. "Watching him fanboy Nigel Farage and talk up his prospects to be the next Prime Minister, despite Reform only having four MPs, left us in no doubt that Chris was one of us." Chris Mason, however, played down the prospect of him defecting to Reform, saying, as a senior BBC political correspondent, he must remain totally impartial and in favour of the Conservative party at all times. ---+++--- REFORM MEMBERS ASK: WHY ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE BEING ALLOWED IN? by Our Man In Birmingham Lee Vurr

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Also very much an Oxford favourite. Lardy cake from Vallis's in Headington was wonderful.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Disgusting. And really shows who the Govt really are.

"Ooh look we've found another way to blame the Europeans whilst taking no action ourselves"

Also puzzling why Nick Robinson refers affectionately to 'Charlie' not his full name 'Charlie Kirk'. Not very professional.

The whole idea of massively increasing parking provision in 2025 is preposterous. With the new development they should be looking at slashing the number of parking places and instead providing the best possible provision for active travel.

On freedom of speech - the reason the police were attacked was they were trying to stop the fascists physically attacking the counter-protesters. Freedom of speech wasn't 'alive and well', it was hanging by a thread.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Rue Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions. No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial. I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms, by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Israeli strikes in Doha We, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, condemn Israel’s strikes in Doha on 9 September, which violate Qatar’s sovereignty and risk further escalation in the…

”We, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, condemn Israel’s strikes in Doha on 9 September, which violate Qatar’s sovereignty and risk further escalation in the region.“

Joint Statement by the 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 Foreign Ministers 👇
www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/...

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk.

What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

'Let's call it a draw'.

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

The depths of evil www.bbc.com/news/article...