Judith Walsh 🔶

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Believing that billionaires are fighting for the working class requires an almost comical level of delusion.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

🇫🇷President Macron holds a press conference that was long delayed because of a migration discussion prolonged by the theatrics of some national leaders.

He says it was a "bad debate" but the 🇪🇺migration pact is having a "good outcome".

"My view is that when we politicise this debate, we divide; and when we divide and fall back on national solutions, we become ineffective".

He points out that illegal crossings into the EU have fallen (by 37%) in 2026, and returns have increased (by 10%).

🇮🇹Meloni and 🇩🇰Frederiksen used the migration debate to call for language in the conclusions condemning ����🇸PM Sanchez (though not by name) for Spain's regularisation program for illegal migrants who are working (mostly from Latin America). Their demand for condemnation was eventually rejected after a heated debate.

Macron suggests the Ceuta crisis has been mischaracterised, describing it as “a humanitarian tragedy and an information attack against Spain”.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Russia launches a hunt for migrants: men are detained and handed military draft notices

Security forces cordoned off the area around Sennoy Market in St. Petersburg after Friday prayers.

Riot police and regular police officers checked the documents of foreign nationals. Those who had recently obtained Russian citizenship also had their military registration status checked.

Many men were issued summonses to the military enlistment office. The inspections also extended to nearby shops, cafés and hostels.

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

You can buy books from Ian Brady, Charles Bronson, and the Kray twins in the UK, but you can't buy books from Sally Rooney because she opposes Israel's genocide.

She should've done something respectable like serial killing and her books would be fine.

[GPC @GPC_Globall]

🚨 BREAKING:

Spain officially recognizes the State of Palestine.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU,

"There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left"

"They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"

"It has damaged our economic life, our social and cultural life"

"Wales alone has lost £1 billion net in regional and social funding which it would have received from the EU"

"And it has greatly weakened the opportunities particularly for young people, to work abroad, live abroad, to have the freedoms we had before"

"We could rejoin the Customs Union, or the Single Market, but if we did that alone we would be rule takers, we have to accept whatever the EU handed down because we would not be at the table negotiating and making decisions alongside other nations"

"As an audience member pointed out, yes the EU is changing. But that's not a reason not to rejoin, but that's a reason to be there in case it changes into a direction we don't like. We can help it be the kind of EU that we want it to be"

"I don't think there's any option but to rejoin fully"

My view: Brexit was sold as a way to take back control. In practice, it has often meant giving up influence over decisions that still affect us. Our businesses have to navigate rules shaped in Brussels, but Britain has no vote in setting them. That is not meaningful sovereignty; it is distance from the table.

Rejoining would give the UK a voice in the institutions where shared rules are debated and agreed. It would also restore a closer, more predictable relationship with our largest nearby market, making it easier for businesses to trade, invest and plan.

Those gains would not erase every problem facing the country, but they would remove barriers we chose to put in our own way.

The case is about more than trade. It is about making it easier for people to study, work and build lives across Europe; cooperating on research, energy, climate and security; and giving communities and regions access to shared opportunities.

These are practical freedoms and partnerships that matter in people’s everyday lives.

A halfway arrangement could reduce some friction, but it would leave Britain following many common rules without full representation in shaping them. If the UK wants influence over the direction of European cooperation, membership is the route that provides it.

Rejoining would not mean surrendering every national choice; it would mean choosing to make some decisions together, with a seat, a vote and the ability to argue for the outcome we want.

The question is not whether the EU is perfect. It is whether Britain is better placed to shape its future from within, alongside its neighbours, or to stand outside while decisions with consequences for us are made without us.

After the experience of Brexit, there is a strong case for choosing influence, cooperation and closer ties again.

And since Britain left, no other EU member state has followed it out. Instead, the Union has grown to 27 members, while 10 aspiring members are currently in the accession process.

That does not prove the EU is perfect or that membership suits every country. But it does show that countries see real value in joining: access to a huge shared market, stronger economic links and greater stability. European Commission

They are not signing up because the EU has no problems; they are choosing to take part in a shared project that can bring investment, opportunity and a stronger voice in decisions affecting their future.

If countries across Europe are working to join, Britain should ask why it chose to walk away, and whether standing outside has made us better placed to shape what comes next.

[Dan De'Ath @DeAthCardiff]

The tabloids have invented this alternate-universe Britain where you phone the DWP, tell them you’ve got a peanut allergy or a sore finger, and suddenly they’re paying your rent and buying you a free car - and somehow, people believe that’s how it actually works.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

If you're Jewish or Non-Jewish,Please, let the World know:

Israel is not a Jewish state

Jews are not a nationality

Judaism is an ancient religious collective.

Zionism is a nationalist movement created in 1896 by ppl who were pronounced atheists

They wanted to be called Jewish but without actually believing in Judaism

That's Zionism

[BBC World Service @bbcworldservice]

The BBC has witnessed Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and set fire to olive trees in the occupied West Bank. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod https://t.co/mynZWQwC0O

[GPC @GPC_Globall]

🚨 BREAKING:

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has officially recognized Palestine as an independent state.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity has hollowed-out high streets.

Famous names, jobs, supply chains destroyed.

Aided by the state:
PE gets tax relief on interest payments.
No tax on dividends paid to owners holed up in tax havens.

No inquiry into serial bankruptcies.
https://t.co/cEVWyXXYmC

[Trussell @TrussellUK]

Hunger in the UK isn’t about access to food, it’s about income.

People literally don’t have enough money to live on, bills, rent and fuel have skyrocketed, jobs don’t pay enough, and Universal Credit is just a measly £98 a week. #WorldFoodDay

[GPC @GPC_Globall]

🚨 BREAKING:

France officially recognizes Palestine as an independent state.

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

China just mapped Israel's GPS spoofing using FREE flight tracking data

A university tied to the Chinese military took the same public flight tracking data anyone can pull online and used it to find Israel's electronic warfare units off Haifa and Gaza, then published how they did it.

So what?

Israel's GPS spoofing is the hidden shield over its cities and the thing that knocks incoming drones off course. It only ever worked because nobody could see where it was. Now anyone with a laptop can.

Iran does not even need China to share it. The method is public, Iran can run it itself, and it now knows which of its drones Israel is trying hardest to blind.

This is aimed at Israel, and Washington is meant to read it too. China stripped the cover off the most sensitive layer of a US ally's defence for free, with nothing that traces back to it, and handed it to the world.

China does not need to fight this war. It wants Iran's oil moving and America stretched thin, and it gets both while Israel and Iran bleed each other.

If the war reopens before Israel's 27 October election, Israel's spoofing will change within days, and the same free data will show it.

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

God you cretin. The ECHR and the EU are TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS! How, after 10 years, do you STILL NOT KNOW THIS? Fuck sake, read a book.

The UK is swamped with morons who have no clue what they voted for.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

All water companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage dumpings within the time required.

Water companies routinely ignore laws, have more than 1,200 criminal convictions, no exec prosecuted, no licence cancelled.

Govts do nothing.
https://t.co/9QhY5ax398

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gent in blue who moved to France with his family before Brexit said that if Brits living in the EU were allowed to vote in the Brexit referendum, it wouldn't have gone through and we would have remained in the EU #BBCQT

My view: David Cameron’s government chose to base the referendum electorate on the existing general-election franchise, which excluded British citizens who had been abroad for more than 15 years.

That was the government’s stated approach; it wasn’t a special rule for people in France or elsewhere in the EU.

The 2015 Conservative manifesto had promised to scrap that limit and give British citizens “votes for life”. But Cameron’s government did not bring that change in before the referendum.

So people could be told they were entitled to a vote in future, while being denied one on the decision that would directly reshape their lives.

The Commons Library estimated that around 700,000 British residents in the EU may have been affected, and said most were thought likely to have voted Remain.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

UK under-30s set to work in the EU again in major Brexit deal breakthrough https://t.co/qaQC9LglLz

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

"I don't know what the fuss is about. Zionism is of course racist. .... Zionists ... decided to establish their self-determination on the territory of another people. .... There's no way that the state of Israel could have been established without the expulsion of the people already living in the territory ... Why is this so difficult to understand?"

The indomitable Ghada Karmi, driven from Jerusalem as a child, cuts through the crap at this morning's Greens4Palestine press conference. /1

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

BBC Question Time appearances

Zarah Sultana 1
Jeremy Corbyn 1
Mick Lynch 1
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Nigel Farage 38

Very, very biased selection, even more than Fiona Bruce.