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Ukraine has launched a swarm over a 150 drones hitting military targets all over Russia again. Russian air defences are overwhelmed and accidentally bombed residential apartments trying to stop the drones.

submitted 21 hours ago • 93 comments

Dear BBC,I don't care what Nigel Farage thinks about anything but especially not budget expenditure issues. He leads a party with 5 MPs: stop treating him as PM elect.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Boris Johnson’s ex-wife urges Starmer to take ‘radical’ steps to correct Brexit mistakes Marina Wheeler has announced plans for a new book which will criticise the Brexit deal struck by her ex-husband www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud. Laws against the rich are not always enforced. Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers. It is class war

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Blue Sky absolutely rocks! I just want to say thank you for the polite, thoughtful & intelligent interaction on here. It’s just so refreshing, reminiscent of the “other place” a decade ago. I really do believe that together we are creating something special here, let’s keep going! 🙏

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Brexiters love to talk about how the EU is broken. Today, their unemployment rate hit the lowest on record, both for the whole population and for young people in particular. sofiaglobe.com/2025/05/23/e...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Doctors & journalists have risked their lives to make this BBC Gaza doco which had passed editorial and legal compliance. The BBC should either air it or allow filmmakers @BasementFilms @bendepear to take it to another broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Please sign and share the new #RejoinEU petition mentioned at the end: bit.ly/RejoinPetition2

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

La Vache!

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

WHY DO WE HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SECOND BEST? No half-arsed agreement with the EU will restore the amazing advantages that we enjoyed - and celebrated - with free movement. Let’s stop pissing about and rejoin the SM & CU and get free movement back. Only Starmer is stopping this.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

"The Constitution prohibits public officials from accepting a present from a foreign state" -- Mike Pence has discovered the Emoluments Clause!

submitted 15 days ago • 671 comments

War on the poor. If the DWP makes error and overpays certain benefits, the Bill allows Ministers to recover money from the claimant’s bank account. No court order is needed. What if benefit claimants can't afford to repay, or face hardship? No equivalent law for fraudsters and scammers.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Yes, we noticed. You're still here.

submitted 16 days ago • 1591 comments

Nigel Farage 'on side of bad bosses not workers' with pub banter comment www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Are you on Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Employment Support Allowance? UK govt will compel banks to hand information to it about your money. You can't prevent it even if you never committed fraud. Same won't apply to PPE, tax, subsidy fraudsters, corporate crooks, disqualified directors.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

If you live in Dubai to avoid paying UK income tax, you're an economic migrant. Tell me I'm wrong.

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

This is a cruel and self-defeating policy that will harm our services. It's time for Scotland to have its own immigration system rather than us being stuck in a nasty race to the bottom between Labour, Tories and Reform. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

Guess which is going wind up killing more Americans.

submitted 21 days ago • 703 comments

Excellent. This needs to happen. Well done @libdems.org.uk The Liberal Democrats have set up an internal “Reform watch” system to monitor Nigel Farage’s party in local government, with Ed Davey saying Labour and the Conservatives are too scared of the threat from Reform to hold it to account.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

👇☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

submitted 24 days ago • 92 comments

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

submitted 25 days ago • 330 comments

Some Titanic passengers didn't believe it was actually sinking until it was too late, because they were told “it was impossible.” Today we call them MAGA. Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

We’re looking forward to welcoming the @europarl.europa.eu UK staff team in Edinburgh this weekend to celebrate Europe Day and to join the #FestivalOfEuropeScotland Grab your ticket for this weekend here festivalofeuropescotland.org/whats-on 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #EuropeDay2025 @europeanmovement.co.uk

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Will never tire of watching Carney’s face listening to the imbecile. Art.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

TheNational.scot: How successful are Donald Trump's Scottish businesses? We opened the books www.thenational.scot/news/2513545...

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submitted 29 days ago • 161 comments

Today we celebrate 25 years of the EU’s motto ‘United in Diversity’. More than words - it’s the heart of Europe. 🇪🇺

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

When Adolf Hitler came to power he released his imprisoned supporters from jail, opened concentration camps, ripped up labour laws protecting workers and crushed social security programmes in return for tax cuts for the rich... See any similarities?

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submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

“Farage is Hated Here”. I’d quite happily have that on my headstone.

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

First Germany, then Canada, and now Australia. Antifascists are making a global comeback.

submitted 30 days ago • 315 comments

UK Court of Appeal says Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman did not have the power to create a new law to lower the threshold for ‘serious disruption’ and enable the police to ban/restrict protests. Parliament didn't approve the law, Braverman sought to override it.

submitted 31 days ago • 16 comments

Violette Simpson, Reform UK's candidate in #Calne Central, #Wiltshire. Her candidate statement doesn't include her love of this, unsuprisingly.

submitted 34 days ago • 104 comments

CBC finally calls Carleton - the Canadian Tory leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his own seat

submitted 34 days ago • 445 comments

Fruitcakes and loonies youtu.be/0o1VPM-GKbI?...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Watch the story of an 18-year-old 🇺🇦girl who escaped russian occupation. Source: x.com/United24medi...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

China has returned two Boeing jets, each valued at $55 million. With $69 million in tariffs applied, the cost per plane increased to $124 million. Orders for an additional 130 jets have been indefinitely suspended.

submitted 38 days ago • 2217 comments

This guy is crashing out hard

submitted 42 days ago • 1774 comments

Nobody meets the devil and survives...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role.”

submitted 42 days ago • 62 comments

Brexit! The gift that keeps on taking! Europe benefits from golden age of pioneering research & novel treatments, Britons with cancer “lost out” thanks to rising prices & red tape Brexit “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via ink clinical trials

submitted 43 days ago • 9 comments

📌UNDERSTAND: Now that we have learned Pete Hegseth shared classified information about imminent strikes in Yemen in another group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, he should be arrested. 📌This was no one-off, this was treason.

submitted 42 days ago • 412 comments

All the ways Donald Trump could be removed from office www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Reform UK activists hand out flyers outside a mosque, then get defensive after being called out by worshipers for their party’s record of anti-Muslim activism.

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

“Farmers groups have urged the government not to let hormone treated beef or chlorinated chicken into the UK as a trade deal with the US seems to be edging closer.” Yorkshire Post 18th April.

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 47 days ago • 234 comments

British Steel shut site after Richard Tice's firm threatened to hike rent www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

The Guardian: Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Only 11% of England is built on—but land use is still a national concern. The government is preparing England’s first Land Use Strategy to balance housing, food, nature, and climate. Here’s what it’s all about & how you can have your say. By @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Today is the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. One of the great political achievements post WW2. For those of us growing up in the 1970s peace, albeit an uneasy one at times, was unimaginable.

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments