Dame Judi Dench: 'I can't do a play, a film or read anymore' bbc.in/4eGtPSf

🚨 NEW: Teachers could be allowed to work a 4-day week under the Government's plan for greater flexibility [@thetimes]

🚨Cyber Alert ‼️ 🇬🇧UK - 𝗣𝘄𝗖 The Everest hacking group claims to have stolen 590.69 GB of data from PwC, comprising 108,426 files allegedly originating from its internal HR and learning systems. The data reportedly includes employee information, employment and training records, internal audit methodologies, confidential documents, and SSO source code. The alleged breach affects multiple PwC regional operations, including Australia, China, Canada, and the UK, with one HR dataset reportedly containing 213,084 records. Threat actor: Everest Sector: Professional Data exposure (claimed): 590.69 GB of data (108,426 files) Data type: Employee records, personal data, training records, internal audit documents, SSO source code and configuration files Observed: Oct 22, 2026 Status: Pending verification ESIX©: 6.37 Full details and impact assessment on HackRisk.io

Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O’Connor are among the actors in the mix to be the next James Bond. They are currently doing final auditions. (Source: Deadline)

BREAKING: More than 30 UK government services have gone offline, with four others partially unavailable, amid a global cybersecurity issue involving PHP

Couvre-feu : un hélicoptère survole la Place de la République.

Kim Jong-un ‘in coma after suffering brain haemorrhage’, according to wild rumours, per The Sun.

BBC pauses civil service secondment scheme bbc.in/4yUXKOF

Read this powerful article by @thetimes , and reflect on what has been shared.. This is not just “persecution by (extremely clumsy) process” imposed upon active-duty SAS operators fighting to detain vicious ISIS thugs in an active war zone, but also an example of performative self-immolation initiated by the most senior UK Special Forces officer at the time (G Jenkins) as self-serving exercise in what HE calls ‘transparency’…… So, if someone, anyone (quite possibly an enemy) within an active war zone says the SAS killed an unarmed man, then the so-called ‘senior leaders’ (some, as in this case, with near-zero combat experience) within the Whitehall-based ‘UK system’ desperate to demonstrate something that they call ‘transparency’ (or whatever else floats the MOD’s boat), will automatically launch an aggressive RMP operation to detain the SAS men involved…. Not on the basis of any hard evidence (there is no crime scene, no bodies, no bullets etc), but purely on distant, uncorroborated hearsay and remote, delayed analysis of operational reports; all supported by desk-bound, chinless leaders that seemingly care more about how they will (personally) look in an MOD promotion board than trying to properly understand the circumstances faced by the SAS men and defend them accordingly. What a gift this utterly pathetic weakness, low threshold investigative process and twisted self-defeating system gives to our many enemies….and what an awful message it sends to those that still volunteer to fight on our all of our behalves….

Aucune place pour la violence dans notre République. Ceux qui ont cassé, attaqué les préfectures comme les commerces, pillé jusqu’à nos mairies, seront poursuivis et punis. Aux forces de l’ordre, garantes du droit à manifester, je dis le soutien de la Nation. Nous ferons tous bloc face aux semeurs de chaos, qui ne cherchent qu’à abattre nos institutions et empêchent ceux qui expriment pacifiquement leurs revendications de le faire.

NOW - Chaos at Place de la République in Paris, France.

OBAMA MEETS UK PRIME MINISTER IN MANCHESTER Manchester, UK, same day: Obama photographed leaving the Stock Exchange Hotel on 15 October. The Manchester Evening News reports he met UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham in the hotel's Sterling Bar. This was ahead of his Co-op Live show. [Photo: Manchester Evening News]