Exc: Surrey county council and its 11 districts to be abolished, ministers will announce today. The council, which has existed since 1888 and covers 1.2m+ people, will be split into East and West Surrey unitaries. Elections next year but councillors will not start until 2027.

"The Queen has her own interests. She is not a cuddly grandmother." Will Lloyd explains how the royals have been meddling in British politics for decades

🚨🗳️ SUMMARY: Here are some of the key results from last night’s election cycle 🔵 Zohran Mamdani elected as Mayor of New York City 🔵 Abigail Spanberger elected as Governor of Virginia (🔴->🔵) 🔵 Mikie Sherrill elected as Governor of New Jersey 🔵 Ghazala Hasni elected

Interesting: this is Morgan McSweeney's view, now apparently backed up by polling. "Even if they hate us, they hate Farage more," one ally of the PM's chief of staff told me recently.

STOP WARNING THEM LET THEM COOK

not the names that really matter for Gremlins. call me when you've driven the dump truck full of money up to Joe Dante's house

Some very weasel wording here, it feels like. I know Columbus wrote the original “Gremlins”, and he seems like a lovely guy, but he wasn’t involved with “Gremlins 2” and what even is the point of a “Gremlins” film without Joe Dante?

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 33% (+1) GRN: 18% (+1) CON: 16% (=) LAB: 15% (-1) LDM: 11% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via Find Out Now, 5-6 Nov. Changes w/ 29 Oct.

Martin Scorsese has done a new TikTok with his daughter where they read Letterboxd reviews and guess which Scorese movie they are about.

The name rather suggests it was...

Gremlins 2

Delighted to see it. One of the year’s best franchise films, with an ambitious premise and great execution, proving that audiences will turn out for well-made movies that take big swings with popular iconography.

Somehow, Woody returned…

I think Last Night in Soho is a fun and stylish movie and it didn’t deserve all the hate it got

It is so funny that the "Predator" cast contains two governors, and the "Predators" cast contains two two-time Oscar winners. It really is such a wonderfully strange franchise.

Westminster Voting Intention (18-25 year olds): GRN: 32% (+16) LAB: 25% (-18) REF: 20% (+7) CON: 11% (-1) LDM: 9% (-3) OTH: 4% (=) Via Savanta UK , On 4-7 November 2025, Changes w/ March 2025.

Hearing of a massive poll bounce for Labour

The only thing I’m concerned about being “pissed up the wall” is how the Streeting–Mandelson faction has squandered a once in a generation Labour govt. Mandelson has more in common with millionaires, billionaires and corporations than with the people our party was created to

Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7) 🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7) ➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5) ⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New) 🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7) Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

“Why do people all of a sudden love IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE? and treat as if it was a masterpiece? It was a huge bomb. Fans of Capra hated it, critics hated it.”