After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

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UK rightwing voters more anti-immigrant than Trump supporters, survey finds - www.ft.com/content/81b8...

"the FBI director used taxpayer funds in a government shutdown to fly his country singer GF to sing at a Hulk Hogan-founded wrestling event aired on Fox Nation" is not the flashiest Trump-era headline but pound for pound it can compete with any contender

The state of the 2,000 Palestinians released as part of Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has cast a renewed spotlight on the abuse of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and how it has worsened in the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on.ft.com/4hBxyAY

Is $3,000 any more silly than $300?

So he'll be distributing all his wordly goods to the poor? That's good...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Interesting study from researchers at UCL on how wind power has held down energy costs in the long term.

The key argument is that it has lowered gas prices in Europe by reducing demand for gas. And actually most of the savings are on gas, not electricity bills

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Farage: epic grifter

Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

'Smart beds'? People have 'smart beds'? That seems to be asking for trouble in an increasingly dysfunctional world. Be happy, keep it simple...

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

The hard task of exiting the populist trap [FREE TO READ] Javier Milei’s plight in Argentina demonstrates how difficult it can be to rescue economies

'Populism is often triggered by bad economies, but then makes what is already bad still worse. This is true of both the left- and rightwing varieties. The former attacks economic elites; the latter assails foreigners...' Martin Wolf on populism - on.ft.com/47hvI3j

Leaving aside the patent absurdity of the whole thing, the Trump administration would presumably have a tiny, weeny bit more credibility on this if they had ever shown any interest whatsoever in whales, the oceans and the rest of the natural world.

🚨BREAKING: today UK healthcare workers were joined by Amnesty activists to demand the release of Dr Abu Safiya and all of the 105 Palestinian healthcare workers who remain illegally detained in Israeli prisons.

Happy Diwali to all, and may the light drive out the gathering darkness in our world!

Extraordinary testimony of Palestinian journalist Alaa al-Remawi detained without trial in appalling conditions by Israel for 2 years. Among 100s of journalists killed and imprisoned in this indiscriminate war of vengeance in Gaza. From min 29.40 ...https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172zw8b88dw541

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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The Philippines' Nuclear Gamble Stationed on the western coast of Bataan near the foothills of Mount Natib, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) has lain dormant for nearly forty years. Commissioned during President Ferdinand Marco...

www.theenergypioneer.com/post/the-phi...

French PM Sébastien Lecornu survives no-confidence votes [FREE TO READ] Result marks opportunity to pass budget for 2026 in deeply fractured parliament

French PM Sébastien Lecornu survives no-confidence votes - on.ft.com/3J7jTVw via @FT

Three book covers on top of a blue background. The first shows a shattered pattern on top of the French flag colours with the title 'Fixing France', the second is a blue cover with a lit match on top of the Eiffel Tower and the title: 'Far-Right France' and the third cover is a red cover showing 3 images of Marine Le Pen, exactly the same but in different colour gradients next to each other and the title: 'Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen'.

As the political crisis continues in France, check out our titles below that offer a context for the current state of the country and shed light on how a better future can be achieved. 👇

A blue book cover with a lit match on top of the Eiffel Tower and the title: 'Far-Right France'.

Rassemblement National is favoured to win France's next presidential election.

'Far-Right France' by @vjmalletft.bsky.social explores the far right’s unstoppable rise—from the woes of a broken society to the powerful personalities upending the status quo.

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Least surprising revelation of the week

But graphs do show big rise in disability and incapacity payments?

The sinister disappearance of China’s bosses Detentions, public shaming and suicides intensify the country’s corporate gloom

It's not always fun being a Chinese business mogul...

The sinister disappearance of China’s bosses
www.economist.com/business/202...

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

Like probably most people of a centre-left inclination with ties to New York, I’ve been entranced by Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable rise. But this piece tells me an almost perfect point I didn’t know: he formed citywide friendships as a teenager through cricket:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

And while China was surging ahead on solar power, Kemi Badenoch was pretending climate action doesn't really matter.

France's Fifth Republic is looking very ragged these days, with Macron having lost his 4th prime minister in just over a year. The far right thinks its time is coming... as it has already come in the US, Czechia and elsewhere

French premier names Macron loyalist as finance minister in bid to pass budget Roland Lescure is a former industry minister who entered politics in 2017 as part of the centrist En Marche movement

Lescure as French finance minister, Le Maire returns as defence minister in latest Macron cabinet from PM Lecornu. French premier names Macron loyalist as finance minister in bid to pass budget - on.ft.com/47a2JzI via @FT

You're right. It's all a bit pathetic.