🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US military has ordered an additional 1,320 F10 FPV attack drones from Ukrainian company F-Drones, - Militarnyi The first batch of 2,000 drones ordered by the US military under the Drone Dominance program was sent to the Pentagon in July.

Reform have never said this, which makes this an exercise in mass self-congratulation - which makes the Tories even more contemptible.

It's perfectly possible to believe there's an English ethnicity but also to say people who aren't ethnically English may be perfectly accurate in calling themselves "English" in other senses & to reject the view those without English ethnicity should be deported or banned as MPs!

Meanwhile in Russia's Sochi

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center has issued an advisory after receiving a report of a tanker being struck by an unknown projectile causing a fire in its engine room while in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the 4th incident reported to the UKMTO in the last 24 hours.

For @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Many years ago, despite being Churchill obsessed (my cat is called Winston), I knew someone engaged to a German girl. When he visited her, her grandmother had photos of handsome young German men in military uniform around the house. Loved ones "shot down by the British". These were just working class German boys, just like my gradpa - a young mechanic from a fishing village in Cornwall, who ended up bombing Dresden and covered in excruciating burns his whole life. After the war, "every single German female from 8 to 80 was violently raped and gangraped" - Many to death - by the liberating forces. ‘The Russian soldiers raped every German female from eight to 80’ | Books | The Guardian share.google/ZoD0iygyHV5pvIr… Years later, I watched this film (attatched) about a little boy trying to keep his sister alive following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Grave of the Fireflies. None of these people wanted war. None wanted to fight ans kill others. I dont want my son to go off and murder Russian biys his age, and I dont want my daughters raped because all the men are dead or broken. If you and your rich tosser mates in Westminster want to pick a fight, send your own sons, and sacrifice your own daughters. You wont be getting mine. We wont be fighting anyone for anyone else's borders. We wont be fighting for any women and children but out own. You can start all the wars you want, pick up a rifle and fk of to Ukraine if it matters that much. To my followers, please watch this film, show your children and grandchildren, and help them understand that nobody wins from war except politicians and bankers. youtu.be/wy1dBvPeXlw?feature…

A friend of mine who works in Russia has just sent me a voicemail: St Petersburg is going to go into lockdown tomorrow because of the plague outbreak. Not joking.

"Water, the very stuff of life. Uniquely found on this one planet in the whole wide universe." Um, what? Its literally one of the most common molecules in the universe. Basically every single solid body further from the Sun from Earth has water ice on it. Multiple moons in our solar system alone are likely to have liquid water, in quantities that exceed the amount of water on Earth. The risk of committing to the "there is no planet B" bit is you end up getting basic astronomy very wrong.

Burnham really doesn’t get it does he? He’s going to crash and burn so hard. Mutterings from Labour about Healey too. They are going to try fudge hard decisions in the upcoming budget and the markets aren’t going to buy it.

✅ Good 🤩 NEWS! This is exactly what pragmatic Brexit repair looks like: both sides negotiating a workable route out of Brexit’s barriers. The EU has accepted transition periods so farmers and food businesses can adapt without facing £500–£810 million in sudden annual costs. Britain can temporarily continue gene-edited crop development, while wider alignment should remove checks, reopen markets and make food trade cheaper and safer. This news also punctures the claim that Brussels never compromises. Once Britain approaches Europe seriously, solutions become possible. The November summit is shaping up as the first substantial removal of Brexit damage: easier food trade, linked carbon markets and restored opportunities for young people. Not everything can be repaired immediately, but the direction is positive and every barrier removed delivers a tangible benefit.

I want to be honest about how we’ve got to a place where British billpayers are paying some of the highest energy costs in Europe. Over the past 40 years, we’ve given up control of our necessities, outsourced our essentials and privatised the basics. Water, transport, housing. And of course, energy. Now the public are paying the price. We haven’t invested in the infrastructure we need. Conflict overseas has pushed up energy costs and it’s hurting our businesses and families. That’s why we need to take back greater control of our energy system. This week, I announced Great British Grid, which will speed up connections and push down bills. We’re also giving mayors, local leaders and communities a stronger role. With funding for People’s Power projects, communities will be able to build solar panels on libraries and town halls, hydro schemes in rivers or publicly owned windfarms on local land. But it’s not just energy we need stronger public control over. It’s also water, housing, transport and care. So we’re repealing the ban on public ownership of water companies. We’re building more council homes than this country has seen since the end of World War Two. We’re reforming the leasehold system so families aren’t squeezed for every penny. And we’re opening up home ownership for first time buyers who can’t rely on the bank of mum and dad. This week I also announced my determination to introduce a National Care Service, to put people above profit and to give pensioners peace of mind. Together, we’ll rewire the country from top to bottom so that it works for all people in all places. That is the only way to put Britain back on the right path. It’s the only way to put power back in people’s hands. And it’s the only way we will bring hope again.

I’ll be honest, it never once occurred to me that ‘English’ was a race rather than a nationality. The English are a mongrel race of Normans, Germanic tribes and Anglo Saxons who themselves were a melting pot of old English, Danes etc

Agree with all of this, with the major caveat that we don’t need a ‘European campaign’ at all. Andy said he will look at options, decide the best for the UK, and put that to the country in a Labour manifesto, just as he will a social care service, council house building and more. Andy and the Government will argue for joining Europe - likely on the lines Ben proposes, reindustrialisation, growth in every postcode, a partner to devolution. They will need to he supported by business and council leaders, mayors and devolved nation leaders. But without a needless referendum there is no need for a ‘Europe campaign’ just as there is - for this we must be thankful - no need for an anti-Europe campaign. It was ten years ago. We tried it, it didn’t work. We move on. Andy is governing - dealing with this is rightly part of his programme. The public will choose the next UK-Europe relationship as part of choosing their government. We will all be the better for it.

I’ll be honest, it never once occurred to me that ‘English’ was a race rather than a nationality. The English are a mongrel race of Normans, Germanic tribes and Anglo Saxons who themselves were a melting pot of old English, Danes etc

Popped to Camden today to support Labour's brilliant local candidate in Keir Starmers old seat, @Sagal_AW is a wonderful person, real pleasure to meet...:)

BREAK: Joshua Kerry, 28, has been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage MP, Counter Terrorism Policing said.