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Richard Tice is using a millionaire amputee with private healthcare, as a reason for cutting the financial support that keeps 250,000 disabled people out of poverty. Richard Tice, Craig Mackinlay and the Reform Party are EVIL!

An absolute scorcher from @johnjcrace. Do read! “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be Dan was very heaven! O wondrous day. One of which dreams are made. Especially if you’ve been taking large quantities of hallucinogenics.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't forget what Ukrainian men, and women, are going through.

America in 2025.

I've written a short piece on the Reform UK "Britannia card" proposal for the far-left magazine the Spectator: buff.ly/7THNSJF

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

"It's enough to make one move to Spain. If only I could". 🤣🤣 bylinetimes.com/2025/06/23/n...

It is worth reminding every American today that the people who hid Anne Frank were outlaws. The people who sent her to die in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were law-abiding citizens.

The Washington Post just released the audio of Israeli operatives threatening to kill the children and families of Iranian officials. Once again, the Israeli government is the largest and deadliest terrorist organization in the Middle East.

They brought the slave trade back.

On the eve of the #NATO summit, my latest piece for @cepa.org takes a fairly direct and candid look at the major challenge posed by Trump's United States and its bromance with Russia to the functioning of the organization. Europeans cannot afford to sit back and do nothing. cepa.org/article/de-a...

Just checking you all knew that Iran has qualified for the 2026 World Cup in America?

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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

Of course: The £34 billion cost of Reform UK's "Britannia card" proposal.https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/06/23/britannia-card-tax-cost-uk/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? Rubio: That’s irrelevant Host: No, that's a key point Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence

In grim "there's always a tweet" news.

For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.

Please follow me on Instagram to see photos and videos relating to my investigations, speeches and discussions on Russian operations and atrocities by Russian paramilitaries across Africa www.instagram.com/philipobaji?...

Genuinely interested to know how food influencers have the bottle to film themselves in a restaurant and not feel embarrassed. Everyone else thinks you're a bellend. Just sit down and eat your fucking dinner.

Just before resigning and rejoining Reform UK, Zia Yusuf unveiled a bill to stop banks shutting accounts over legal crypto use, a move that would greatly benefit Reform’s top donor, crypto-linked Christopher Harborne.

“Tories only realised #Brexit impact on small boats ‘just before’ leaving EU…Chris Philp says in leaked audio that Tories ‘ran some checks’ just prior to Brexit and realised ‘around half’ of small boat arrivals could have been returned under EU law” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Truly shocking even by Reform standards

Trump kondigt grote fascistische razzia's aan, specifiek in anti-Trump-steden

The wilful disinformation being spread by Musk and others about the Minnesota assassinations on X is similar to what occurred after the UK's riots in summer 2024. Governments need to wake up to threats the platform poses to civil disorder and societal polarisation.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

The FIFA Club World Cup begins on June 14 at the Hard Rock Stadium & Newsweek reported that ICE will be deployed at the games Im telling you all: AVOID THE WORLD CUP AT ALL COSTS!

The media must do better at holding Farage and his cronies to account.

"🔴 .. Massive scandal in Hungary: Georg Spöttle, Orban's "top expert" who has been influencing public opinion for years, has been revealed to be a foreign agent (Russia), and his supervisor is Colonel Oleg Smirnov (GRU). The Orban regime has not yet commented!"

Moments like this are when you should be educating yourself, so I've put together this playlist of podcasts about the various philosophical ideas that I've based my work defining Verification, Deliberation and Accountability as pillars of healthy democracies around open.spotify.com/playlist/3NJ...

🔴 The astounding hypocrisy of the UK’s DOGE-obsessed politicians When we exposed obscene levels of fraud and waste – with billions handed to political donors and profiteers – Farage, Badenoch and co. were nowhere to be seen... 📝 New post 👇

We've had some great TACO memes. This is a Five-Star meme.

De memes houden maar niet op

Welcome to the archives.

“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy” And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and his fellow propagandists rejoiced about events in California, hoping they mark the beginning of a civil war in the United States they've long been rooting for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWo7...

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

This goes to the core of the Republican fears of the Democrats (“foreign”, “violent”) and is an attempt at both distraction and radicalization by embattled Trump 2.0. But excessive state violence against (non-marginalized groups of) own population often leads to massive popular backlash too.

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

Agree. Trump’s sanctions need a response. This would allow ICC judges to continue operating safely and independently, as demands the discharge of their mandate, shielded from unlawful interference with the international judiciary

6. Juni 1944, eine Gruppe linksextremer Antifa dringt illegal in Europa ein.

Ne prettez pas attention à #Musk, mais à Russel Vought, l'architecte du Project 2025 qui pilote la politique socio-économique de Trump, homme le plus influent avec Stephen Miller (le monsieur immigration). Il est derrière la "Big beautiful Bill" et tant d'autres choses. jacobin.com/2025/06/trum...