(0656) Reasonable sleep … hoping yours was satisfactory too. (0931)

 

5. Steve at 1175

• Trump Warns Hamas to Stop Murdering Gazans – ‘We Will Have No Choice But … to Kill Them’
• Maccabi Tel Aviv Soccer Fans Informed They Are Not Allowed to Attend Europa League Game in Birmingham, England 
• Prince Andrew Had Multiple Meetings With Chinese Spymaster
• Upcoming Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Pulls the Rug From Under Zelensky’s Ambitions
• Bolton Indicted on 18 Counts Under Espionage Act – Shared More Than 1,000 Pages of Highly Classified Information
• Budapest summit. Putin’s risky travel route to Hungary.
• Putin Warns Trump On Tomahawks
• UK energy costs: We face an existential threat; it is either us or the Green Blob
• The public is being psychologically prepared for a great and terrible war
• Much more.

4. My main post of the day

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-main-purposes-of-this-random.html

3. DAD at 1175

a) Politics in France rather quieter after all the excitment of the last few days, but the financial markets are keeping a sharp eye on Paris.

b) Image of the week: Macron humiliated internationally. Discomfort is what the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump inspires in us.

c) The French Chief of the office for immigration and integration (OFII), Guillaume Larrivé, has resigned due to the “lack of ambition” to “reduce immigration by the new government”.

d) [Recently I read Alex Belfield’s book ‘Serviving the Slammer’ on the prison system in England. All the problems therein seem to be replicated in France. Young and inexperienced prison guards are controlled by the prisoners.]

2. When politics rules and ruins sport