It’s due to be 34 degrees Celsius in Seville in the coming days. 34 degrees well into the second week of October

This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.

Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · yesterday

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

Speaking to Democracy for Sale, Daniel Charest, a US-based lawyer representing clients in a class action against Delo BitMEX filed in New York in July, said he believed their conduct was “illegal, unethical and immoral”.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d ago

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

‘In fixating on the threat of “foreign” money, Labour has implicitly accepted that plutocrats can buy politics, so long as they are on the electoral roll.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

lrb.co.uk

Plaza Del Sol in Madrid. Last time saw it like this was Indignados a decade and a half ago

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d ago

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

No idea who this text is from but it definitely isn’t me. Am trying to get it stopped

Isabelle Roughol@isabelleroughol.com · 3d ago

The scammers are getting so good. Someone out there has my number & knows I work with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. The “I am in a meeting” bit came after I tried to call. I had earlier told Peter I was busy but could help later so totally believable he would check in. Almost got had 🤬

Why would anyone fly from London to Manchester!?!?

Not only a fringe view currently being aggressively promoted for desperate reasons, it’s not even an interesting talking point as most pub conversations settled this decades ago. Less than 16% support for the (nonsensical in the case of Englishness) race essentialist view. Boring as well as nasty

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d ago

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

It was the "balanced debate" between two writers for right-wing outlets that really was the icing on the cake with this one

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d ago

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

What I didn’t expect the other weekend was the aging coach at boy’s football match who had a proper East End accent and was wearing a jacket that said ‘Scottish not British’ 🤔

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d ago

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

democracyforsale.substack.com

Having read this would put money on it being written by AI

Guess how the Institute of Economic Affairs - the dark money think tank behind Liz Truss - is covering the rise of the far-right in Brazil?

🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...

Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy

FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy

democracyforsale.substack.com

I’d question when Reform/Farage closed their ‘investigation’? Reform’s latest accounts, published last week, talk about keeping £440k plus VAT aide in relation to ‘two proposed defamation claims’ A week later Farage is talking about ‘aggressively’ pursuing journalists behind undercover sting…

Am shocked…. And when did ‘breaking laws’ become the barrier for workplace misconduct?

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 5d ago

🚨 BREAKING: An internal investigation at Reform UK has found Nigel Farage’s close aides broke no laws over the undercover documentary Farage now intends to “aggressively” sue the journalists

Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.

‘A decade ago, donations of a million pounds or more represented 1 per cent of party funding. Now they account for more than a third. But even by these standards Reform’s reliance on large donors is unusual.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on party fundraising. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Funding Reform

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to...

lrb.co.uk

It is, and he is, great. Luckiest Boy is one of my all time favourites. But here’s All the Umbrellas in London for those who don’t have Spotify: youtu.be/BqrQKss3p2g

All the Umbrellas in London

YouTube video by The Magnetic Fields - Topic

youtu.be

Ah this really is one of my favourite tunes, I think, ever Stephen Merritt is a genius, but even by his standards this is a cracker. The whole record is

Stephen Kinsella@stephenstroud.bsky.social · last wk.

This is extraordinary. open.spotify.com/track/41Vg41...

Same has happened in Britain. Speed with which such extreme ideas have become mainstream is concerning.

Vicente Valentim@valentimvicente.bsky.social · 7d ago

Harder to think of a clearer example of normalization of far-right discourse. The idea of remigration is now something that can be argued should be a priority of what might very well be the next Spanish government. elpais.com/espana/elecc... 1/2

Exc: Abu Dhabi has held talks with at least one minister since reports of the Man City verdict first surfaced Foreign office minister Stephen Doughty is among those understood to have been called by UAE officials, along with some of the UK's most senior diplomats observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Burnham’s former deputy says Manchester City ‘will prove ...

The former deputy mayor of Manchester criticises the Premier League investigation into the football club’s finances, after it was found guilty of numerous breaches

observer.co.uk

So the Conservatives are now presenting leaving the Aarhus Convention as "levelling the playing field" - when in fact it will remove the rights of citizens to access environmental information and challenge environmentally damaging developments. So... in fact giving developers more power.

Hadn’t realised that you could ‘attend’ GPEW conference - and seemingly vote - remotely just by being a member and paying a fee. Can’t see what might go wrong with that, at all….

Owain Sutton@owainsutton.bsky.social · last wk.

400 online attendees left immediately after that vote. Twice the majority by which it passed. Entryism at its finest.

Off to Madrid on Thursday. Spanish PM has just announced a general election. 😬

Yet again the far right polling well beyond expected in pre poll polling www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Brazil’s presidential race goes to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula

Far-right challenger and son of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro put in a stronger than expected showing, with Lula calling the result ‘unexpected’

theguardian.com