On the UK-France ‘one in, one out’ deal on small boats – insufficient, and serious logistical questions remain. 🧵 1/

This is a new one to me: Blackmailing journalists … by saying that if they report on certain basic things, food (a tiny bit of dangerously delivered aid) will be taken away from starving people

Presumably Tom Skinner’s “graft” (selling tat from a lorry) brings in peanuts compared to his “grift” (media appearances, speaking gigs, monetisation of ragebait tweets, saying bosh). But he must continue the former to justify the latter.

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

Bosnia’s state court has confirmed a verdict giving Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's a one-year prison term and issued a six-year ban on him holding the office of president of the Republika Srpska entity. Read more: balkaninsight.com/2025/08/01/bos…

Borrell bravely denouncing those spineless and ineffectual EU leaders, five minutes after he left his role as a senior EU leader.

The court is pleased by its jester.

That’s outrageous, they should come by small boat instead.

A stolen Ukrainian minibus spotted in Dagestan.

It's hard to fathom that it's been 5yrs since the #BeirutBlast devastated our city. Even harder to fathom is that no one has been held to account While I was at Human Rights Watch our research showed that responsibility extends to highest levels of govt. We deserve answers, we deserve justice

Farage’s “go back to Afghanistan” implies the UK recognising and making a returns deal with the Taliban. He knows this but will not say it and the cheerleaders in the media will not call him out on it.

Cc Future Adam Curtis B-Roll

A man has been arrested in Germany for allegedly torturing migrants and killing a teen in Libya. The suspect is accused of operating a detention facility in northern Libya, where he and others allegedly held migrants who wanted to cross the Mediterranean infomigrants.net/en/post/66166/…