Max Colbert

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

Thanks Ashley!

The Telegraph is an embarrassment to journalism as an industry.

Move aside Hemingway, Freecycle brings its own tragedies

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Grim update on the 'man who was hospitalised after consuming 3kg of cola bottle sweets' story:

oops! he's a racist

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Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison Paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has died after being attacked in prison.

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins dies after attack in prison

Calls for transparency on political funding after first c... Electoral Commission notified of financial contribution, which is rumoured to have been handed to Reform UK

Exc: The Electoral Commission has been given early notice of the UK's first ever crypto donation

The has been "made, but not declared", to a party understood to be Reform

Reform spox said: "All donations above the reporting limit will be disclosed in the usual way"

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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

I used to be disparaging of the Green Party media operation, but it’s fair to say that since Polanski took over in England and Wales it’s now firing on all cylinders.

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

Just got a flu jab and my NHS surgery is just so phenomenally efficient at those sorts of things. Was in the building for about 60secs tops. Just waned to share some positivity for once!

Every developed country in the world has an "exit tax" - you leave with unrealised capital gains, and you're taxed on them.

Except the UK and Italy:

'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...

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

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

also - one last datapoint before I take HS for his morning walk. I posted the column on X, too. it has sunk without trace because it has a link in it. even ignoring the owner and the politics, that was a good reason to stop feeding the beast.

I was on LBC to discuss this story and pointed out that a source got in touch yesterday after we first published to say no further action would be taken by the government against Johnson.

A govt spokesperson noted that in future ex-ministers who break rules could be asked to repay severance.

The new Green Party leader told PA it was “unrealistic for now” for the UK to leave Nato but said he is in favour of starting conversations with European neighbours about an “alternative”.

He has clarified it

Sign you live in a police state

So impressive

Rooting for salmonella at this point

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
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tbc the Peace Prize has many nonsensical awardees (de Klerk, Kissinger, Obama), my point is the Committee is not exactly joining the #resistance here

Palestinian poet Asmaa' Azaizeh grew up in the shadow of banned books. She joins #BannedBooksWeekUK to remind us what it means when authorities try to control the narrative by banning books. Pick up a #bannedbook today! www.indexoncensorship.org/bannedbooksw...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

'Recent appointments include Axel Heitmueller, a former senior associate at the Tony Blair Institute, while Harvey Redgrave, another TBI alumnus, has been put in day-to-day charge of the team.'

Starmer pushing out last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform narrowly hold a ward where their previous councillor had to resign due to toxic racism allegations, assisted by a split on the left between Labour and the Greens (who have over 50% of the vote here between them).

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

'As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in recent weeks, according to the American Association of University Professors. Many were targeted by rightwing campaigners, who seized on remarks they wrote or shared, and pressured their employers to take action.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Millions of Ukrainians have lost their homes — 4.6 million displaced within the country, 6.9 million forced abroad.

The struggle to rebuild lives and communities will last long after the war ends.

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine