'On May 1 2024, he became a “person with significant control” of Reform’s controlling company, around three weeks after the Harborne donation. It would need to be tested whether this would constitute “public office” under the law.' Running a political party as a business: public office or deception?

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

Obvious... but great that ex military people with credibility are pointing it out, so that voters can take notice

Mad reactionaries would rather imagine shrinking the economy by a fifth and watching the country physically disintegrate than admit that the public sector is good and useful.

are we going to talk about how the mail has pulled this article (2nd) or just move past it as everybody tends to do

This is such a wonderful book - do buy it for the young people in your life.

Good thread and responses.

canvassing today and it’s taking forever to get through lists bc everyone just wants to rant about how angry they are at Congress

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

Yemen’s Houthis have scored a direct hit on Terminal 3 of Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport. It’s now been evacuated.

Two people have died this week trying to cross the Channel. People’s suffering should not be reduced to a trivial and cruel game. Tell Apple and Google to remove Reform UK's ‘Small Boat Watch’ from their app store.

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

I’m tempted to do it anyway, Halloween names are one of my few remaining joys🥲

On World Day Against the Death Penalty, a reminder that Saudi Arabia continues using the death penalty, executing record numbers of people including migrants convicted of nonlethal drug offenses, men convicted of alleged crimes as children, and gov't critics.