Excellent investigative journalism by BBC Panorama, showing Russian involvement not just in arson attacks on Starmerās house but also in anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim attacks. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2ā¦
"Very poor white peopleā are being convinced that āvery poor, hard-working brown or Black peopleā are responsible for the āproblems caused by billionaire white menā, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
Footballās probe into West Hamās owner is welcome. We look forward to football officials now probing how an outfit which butchered and tape-recorded its murder of a respected journalist is fit and proper to run Newcastle United FC?
I've seen a couple takes like this from MAGA folks who can never muster any argument against me other than "you're trans."
You can think what you think about people like me, but coming out - despite those who can never seem to look beyond that identity - is about the most secure thing someone can do.
You must read Ben De Pear's superb, very moving, article about Jon Snow in today's Observer. It tells you so much about Alzheimer's, and about Jon: observer.co.uk/topics/nationā¦
Now Vance has joined in the US/MAGA disinformation campaign around British "two-tier policing", here's the EU DisinfoLab matrix of FIMI activities - I've highlighted every technique encountered from Farage, Robinson and their MAGA backers around the Southampton riot... 1/2
This is so insanely corrupt, I canāt even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trumpās $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And hereās the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. Thatās not a coincidence.
The White House wonāt even release the full donor list. Theyāre hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play canāt survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
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Notts-based photographer Harvey Tomlinson is up for a National Geographic Award for this lovely photo of Ratcliffe-On-Soar Power Station.
If you'd like to help him win then please take 1 minute to vote for him at natgeotraveller.typeform.comā¦
(He's no 31 in the 'Urban' category)
Number of people asking me to comment on the Henry Nowak case. His father said "We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension". If you can't respect his wishes, you're scum. That's what I think.
We analysed thousands of Donald Trumpās social media posts in 2026 - hereās two and half minutes on what we found. Produced by Katerina Karelli. Graphics by Sally Nicholls and Mesut Ersoz.