Olivier Assayas’ new film ‘THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN’ to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin.

‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nuns

‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction
Test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks & necrophile nuns. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h... RFK Jr. cancels $500 million of funding for developing new mRNA vaccines. He cancelled a $600 million contract to develop bird flu vaccine, too. Wealthy former drug addict and dealer from a famous family, with no scientific background, has a brainworm and a hunch.

Researcher Obtains Grant to Study mRNA Therapy for Colorectal Cancer - InventUM The Colorectal Cancer Alliance awarded Kevin Van der Jeught, Ph.D., a two-year $200,000 grant to investigate an intratumoral mRNA vaccination.

A mRNA colon cancer grant story: news.med.miami.edu/researcher-o...

"Gaza is 25 miles long and 12 miles deep.. onto that area has been dropped around 100,000 tonnes of explosive, thats more than was used in Dresden, Hamburg & London in WW2, over a much larger area"

Emma Murphy was on a recent air drop flight over Gaza & describes what she saw

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Speaker Johnson Calls Illegally Occupied West Bank 'Integral Part' of Israel | Common Dreams "International law is completely unambiguous on this question," said one critic. "What settlers call 'Judea and Samaria' is the legal property of the Palestinians—Israel has zero legal claim to the la...

www.commondreams.org/news/mike-jo...

Justin Webb talking about immigration policy being "interfered with, to put it mildly, by judges".

What an impartial presenter would refer to is immigration policy coming up against the law.

#r4today

The trouble is Vance is also having a dysfunctional adulthood

#BBC #R4Today

Steve Witkoff is expected to visit a #Gaza food distribution point today

If he had ANY integrity (or balls), he would do it as a ‘secret shopper’, wearing a keffiyeh and approaching from the #Palestinian side, to see for real how the #US #mercenaries treat desperate, starving people.

Family pleads for release of Palestinian-American teen held in Israeli prison Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim, 16, has been detained for five months on accusations of rock-throwing and has reportedly developed scabies

Palestinian hostages that aren't mentioned.

#r4today #wato ##bbcpm

Family pleads for release of Palestinian-American teen held in Israeli prison www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Disappointed at BBC presenters on TV & Radio being unable to pronounce Midtjylland when announcing the Europa League football result v Hibernian.
Don’t they have a pronunciation guide for Danish? #r4today

Our five principles for SEND reform Ed Davey Munira Wilson have written to Keir Starmer setting out five principles for SEND reform, and offering to work on a cross-party basis with the government to ensure the reforms deliver for child...

Liberal Democrats' five principles for SEND reform

www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

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Portobello Road residents ‘trapped in their homes’ by terror curbs A legal challenge is being launched on behalf of by residents and traders over anti-terrorism measures that bar vehicles from access during the day

www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Donations to RNLI rise 3,000% after Farage’s migrant criticism UK lifeboat charity raises £200,000 in single day after CEO hits out at Nigel Farage’s ‘taxi service’ claim

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has raised more than £200,000 in a single day after... its chief executive hit out at Nigel Farage’s claim that it was running a “migrant taxi service”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...

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Farage’s firestarter politics A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

“Farage, Anderson, Goodwin and Pearson frame their interventions as warnings – do what we say to prevent this deplorable violence.

“That is certainly how they would choose to frame it. But the more you read and the more you hear of what they say, it sounds instead like a threat.”

The level of overt racism being experienced by friends and family especially outside of London is crazy. The UK is changing rapidly. Monkey noises, being kicked out of Airbnb's, racial slurs and a general hostility. People of colour have always had these experiences but it is ramping up.

In my pre-Bellingcat days, I worked for an organisation that housed asylum seekers, and I'd challenge anyone who think they get an easy time to spend a few months living in the same conditions and see how they feel about it then.

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

"By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements."

Powerful piece by @yairwallach.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The moment I knew Remain campaign was in a bad way when I was invited to a “get out the youth vote” meeting in Downing Street with tech bros/yoof media. Cameron walked in to ask ideas and an older person started shouting in a very posh voice… “GRIME ARTISTES! DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GRIME ARTISTES?”

Police seek Tommy Robinson after alleged assault at London station Far-right activist is thought to have left UK after claiming in video that injured man had attacked him at St Pancras

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new ‘dossier’ reveals extensive pro-Israel bias among reporters, editors and executives at the ‘NYTimes’ New York Times reporters are supposed to follow a strict code of ethics to avoid even the appearance of bias. A new report shows how the paper ignores this when it comes to covering Palestine.

A new ‘dossier’ reveals extensive pro-Israel bias among reporters, editors and executives at the ‘NYTimes’ mondoweiss.net/2025/07/a-ne...

It’s Friday! So, time for some seriously chonky otters.

This item from Jemima is excellent, and well worth the FT subscription.

Proper job!

The Very Online Right has come for Britain too [FREE TO READ] New media repackages old fashioned bigotry for the modern age

For this week's column, I wrote about *that* GB News documentary and the problem of, dare I say it, eChO cHaMbErS

The brilliant illustration is by Ben Hickey

on.ft.com/4lNPCZZ (gift link)

'Please don't come to Epping to protest - it has gone too far' Enough is enough now, the people of Epping do not deserve violence on their streets

Robinson is surely right that his presence would delegitimise the local protest - because his presence + followers would be broadly unpopular in the town itself + link protest more strongly to organised far right.

Essex News editor: Please don't come to Epping.
www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid The internal U.S. government analysis challenges the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

USAID "found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian militant group Hamas of U.S.-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation".

#R4Today #Mencer

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I wish I'd been able to see Nick Robinson coming down after his interview of David Mencer.

But he needed his privacy.

#r4today