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Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive. But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Dear journalists. When the US President is openly accused of paedophilia the story is either impeachment or defamation. If not, the story is how words have lost all meaning, truth has lost all value, and journalists are now completely desensitised to lying and corruption.

submitted 3 days ago • 323 comments

US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Yes, BBC. It's been genuinely heroic the way Starmer and Lammy have hidden their anger towards Israel so completely until today – 19 months into the slaughter and starvation of Gaza's children.

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Cheap response from Starmer to a fully justified question from Plaid's Liz Saville-Roberts

submitted 27 days ago • 169 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 29 days ago • 82 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

BBC News: "according to the Reuters news agency, the missile that killed at least 8 people in that aerial attack on Kyiv was a North Korean ballistic missile" Are you going to start reporting the origin of all the bombs & missiles that Israel uses to kill Palestinians in Gaza?

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

submitted 53 days ago • 291 comments

me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 62 days ago • 404 comments

Conservative Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says that Trump's 10% trade tariffs on the UK, which are forecast to do 0.4% less damage to our GDP than if we were part of the EU, is a "vindication" of Brexit, which is forecast to have already reduced our GDP by... 5%

submitted 68 days ago • 22 comments

UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was being interviewed on Irish radio & the host quoted a US org that denies Israel is committing genocide, so Frances asked why he didn't quote experts on genocide like Omer Bartov, Amos Goldberg, Lee Mordechai or Raz Segal, instead of groups with vested interests

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

"It's not up to me to strive for equidistance among the parties, because here there are no parties. There is an unlawful occupier & an occupied people.. there is a state that continues to advance what has the hallmark of settler colonial practices & it's committing intl crimes"

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I think we over complicate the ideology and the politics etc. Everything you’re told as a child is that the bullies don’t win. Including, and especially, while you’re being bullied yourself. And then the whole of 2025 has been a circus of geopolitical bullying. So it’s deeply distressing.

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

I keep reading that Zelensky shouldn't have risen to the bait. The man is human. He's seen tens of thousands of Ukrainians murdered, their cities blown apart & their children stolen. He was sitting by a man who's looting his country's minerals & praising Putin. And for 40 minutes, he held it in.

submitted 102 days ago • 110 comments

Welfare Queen

submitted 104 days ago • 58 comments

To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."

submitted 105 days ago • 8 comments

One of Trump's most repeated lies about Ukraine is his claim that Europe has provided only $100 billion in aid, while the U.S. has given $350 billion. This is an outright lie.

submitted 107 days ago • 80 comments

They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general. They’re not hiding the racism.

submitted 107 days ago • 223 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 108 days ago • 256 comments

I think @owillis.bsky.social likes to point this out: In DC Comics, when Lex Luthor ran for president, he divested from LexCorp because the idea of him winning an election without doing that was obviously just crazy.

submitted 109 days ago • 8 comments

This is a new level of madness. I don't know how it can be stopped

submitted 110 days ago • 634 comments

War crimes are bold & proposing war crimes requires courage & vision.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 115 days ago • 157 comments

The most corrupt president in US history is policing conflicts of interest for the billionaire donor who he's allowed to take over key government functions. What could go wrong?

submitted 117 days ago • 45 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 118 days ago • 747 comments

By “go into”, he means “get invaded.”

submitted 118 days ago • 134 comments

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 120 days ago • 167 comments

The most frustrating thing about continuing failure to skewer Farage is that his grasp of detail is non-existent. It’s why he gets petulant when exposed to even mildly decent questions. Interviewers just need to zone in on one element of the bullshit & interrogate it until his ignorance is exposed.

submitted 126 days ago • 190 comments