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Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

submitted 4 days ago • 493 comments

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

I keep hearing from media elites how much better The Discourse is over at the Nazi site so I went to check it out and

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

Exclusive from PolHome's Harriet Symonds: Tory MPs are on Lib Dem defection watch as the Conservatives brace for a major internal rupture over the ECHR Lib Dem MPs tell PolHome they've had informal talks with Tories who are unhappy with their party's direction and tempted by a new political home"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

All of the complaints about BlueSky, even the valid ones, need to ask “compared to what?” For example, BlueSky does not routinely threaten companies with lawsuits and the implied threat of unfavorable treatment by the government in exchange for money! The business model is not based on blackmail!

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

SWAT shoot at a woman for filming them.

submitted 10 days ago • 700 comments

First glimpse of parts of the Russian Belaya airbase after a Ukrainian drone attack.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

"How would the punters get to them?" absolutely entering my political meme lexicon, thanks Ash

submitted 18 days ago • 61 comments

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Todays rental price statistics show the rate at which rents in the private rented sector have been increasing in recent years is out of control. Since Jan2020 rents have shot up by £300 a month, up 31%, over 2.5x the rate of growth in the preceding 5 years (12% growth)

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr) By 2024 vote Labour: -5 (down 34) Lib Dem: -13 (down 12) Conservative: -76 (up 1) Reform: -94 (down 5)

submitted 34 days ago • 73 comments

Screw Tom Holland doing Umbrella. This is the real "see it, retweet it."

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

submitted 39 days ago • 1128 comments

Note the way that decision is justified there. The cap is popular with “key voters”; that is enough. This isn’t governing. It’s campaigning. A rant which has been building for quite some time.

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

British property management firms are almost certainly helping Russians who own property in the UK to sidestep sanctions, a report has found "Once again, opaque corporate structures and enablers in professional services have been used to keep dirty money in UK property," said @joepowell.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Reporter: “The ports here in the U.S., the traffic has really slowed.” Trump: “That's good.” Reporter: “Now thousands of dock workers and truck drivers are worried about their jobs.” Trump: “…When you say it slowed down, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.”

submitted 41 days ago • 81 comments

$2.37 billion in fines and penalties is what Elon Musk companies faced as of Election Day.Today that number is zero.Inspector Generals investigating Musk were fired. Departments investigating Musk have been emasculated or closed by DOGE. This is what Musk’s $288 million to Trump bought. #ProudBlue

submitted 43 days ago • 49 comments

NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 42 days ago • 13 comments

lmao he really watched Escape from Alcatraz with Jon Voigt over the weekend and the two dumb granddads got to talking and this is what they came up with

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

This, from Lewis Goodall, is bang on the mark.

submitted 173 days ago • 25 comments

For what little it's worth, my contribution to this morning's "here's why today's result proves how I was right all along" discourse is that it feels increasingly clear to me they should have reversed the NI cuts and gone all out on trying to fix public services.

submitted 48 days ago • 22 comments

“Many of his actions are legal” is a hilarious statement, as it applies uniformly to every criminal and is zero percent exonerating. Imagine “building a coalition to condemn Jeffery Dahmer, it is important to note he also consumed vegetables”

submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments