I post infrequently and this is my last. Musk's toy has been colonised by narcissists, the brain-dead and advertisments. I shall nonetheless miss the 'wit and wisdom' of the best among whom I have friends. The latter I shall still see. To the rest, goodbye. Life is too short.

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old Russian content factory to make six figures trashing America’s democratic institutions. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

Why isn't he going to the first safe country? Shouldn't he stay and fight? Where are the women? (Am I doing this right?)

The Tim Pool/Tenet Media story is obviously fascinating. But... An FBI affidavit unsealed this week says the Russians are maintaining an active list of 2,800 influencers, 600 of whom are in the US The FBI has not released the list Who else is on it? wired.com/story/project-…

John McCain told us that Rand Paul works for Putin. He made the announcement on the Senate floor, to give Paul a chance to rebut the claim. Paul abruptly left the Senate chamber without saying a word.

Trump drops his pants and takes a dump on stage in the middle of speech. Normal people: This man has lost his mind! MAGA: At least he is on stage unlike Kamala hiding! Media: Trump takes campaign in bold new direction.

This is developing in really quite extraordinary ways and highly relevant to the UK. In this latest missive, Rubio claims that it's okay for an enemy state to fund people in a foreign political system, provided they already held the views the Kremlin wants promoted. REALLY? ~AA

'That was the most undiluted gibberish you have ever heard a senior political figure publicly share.' 'We spent weeks talking about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.' James O'Brien reacts to Donald Trump's 'breathtakingly bonkers' answer to a question on childcare.

With them in spirit. ~AA

It pains me to write this, as a Spurs fan, but well bloody done Arsenal. I hope every club follows your example. ~AA

EXCL: Landlords banned from removing tenants without cause within months as government launches long-delayed package of measures for renters - ⁦Kiran Stacey⁩ theguardian.com/money/article/…

Another one for the "they're all the same" crowd. theguardian.com/money/article/…

Genuinely incredible that, but for our work on QR, a political obsessive like me would have no idea, from national coverage, about Wales constituencies being merged into ‘superconstituencies’, basically changing the electoral system there! Nor about all the Andrew RT Davies saga.

Wind into the weekend with a dose of Wales 👇🎧

Nine years ago this man was an atheist campaigning for Corbyn. He is now praying for Trump on stage with Tucker Carlson. What a journey. ~AA

Johnson 2024: "I want you to think about the children, because we are in danger of getting hardened to the horror." Johnson 2021: "Let the bodies pile high." 🧐

Just imagine that an editor at a formerly respectable newspaper looked at this and agreed to publish it. Even in the most feverish brain, the idea that upsetting the newly-irrelevant British right formed even a miniscule part of Macron's thinking, is a new level of comical. ~AA

“We didn’t want to involve the regulator. We hoped that the Daily Express would agree to correct the claim in line with the Editors’ Code, or that Richard Holden would agree to correct it in line with the commitments he made to honesty as an MP.” Well done, full fact! ~AA

Nikki Haley Lauren Chen I would laugh but you’re still supporting Trump