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Petrol prices are the lowest they’ve been since 2001, after adjusting for inflation. Excess supply and a strong pound have helped. But so too have 14 years of cuts to fuel duty. There’s just one problem: voters don’t seem to have noticed… @thetimes.com 1/3

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Well, that very ill-conceived notion that the US Minerals deal would act as a guarantor against RU aggression seems to be working out as well as every other WH policy considering RU has just blown up the Boeing offices in Kyiv. #TACOTrump

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump is about to heap pressure on Ukraine to agree deal. He would do well to watch @ozkaterji.bsky.social's film and remember who the agressor is. I have reviewed The Battle for Kyiv in @foreignpolicy.com. A timely reminder of how this war started. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/k...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I'd forgotten that, back in 2019, I adapted the shot of 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square. It feels even more relevant now. #nokings #nokingsday #protests

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Seeing Israeli planes roam at will over Iran highlights how tough a fight Ukrainian air defence put on early in the war.

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A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

submitted 18 hours ago • 129 comments

Starmer should have gone with.

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submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

Belfast shows up every single time for communities under attack in numbers. Facing down the far-right, fascists and paramilitary groups in the shadows is in our DNA. #BelfastIsAntifascist #NoPlaceForHate

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

You can't understand the behaviour of US elites - Democrats being too timid, Republicans debasing themselves, bureaucrats who behave like pushovers - without reference to the constant threat of political violence that has come with MAGA. Every day is January 6. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Yes.

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All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same". The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey. It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

My update for @tochnyi.info on the Russian economy from last Sunday, expect me to do a similar thing every Sunday. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/toc...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Worth a read to see all the ways Russia is manipulating social media and undermining Moldova's election in September.

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One for those that moaned about Le Pen being correctly barred from running.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

JFDI anyway. A test for European democracies.

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MENA twitter is great rn

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Because it's too terrifying to contemplate.

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Netanyahu's attack on Iran is about sparking regime change with just enough strikes on nuclear facilities to frame it as an act of preemptive self-defense. I doubt this will turn out well. My latest in @ForeignPolicy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/13/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Trump enjoys the aesthetics of diplomacy, but that's about it. Strategic empathy, compromise, and long-term cost-benefit thinking are beyond his grasp.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Unless Israel changes what it's targeting in days ahead, this is a regime-change strike with just enough targeting of nuclear infrastructure so Netanyahu can depict it as an act of preemptive self-defense. For the operation to succeed, I think the regime has to fall.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Well Wilders didn't manage to stop this at least.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

On the one hand - yes. Other hand, any Iranian efforts to assemble a weapon and test it are likely going to be as vulnerable, if not more vulnerable, as the hardened underground facilities that Israel just struck. Israel would certainly make every effort to interdict a rushed assembly. A #nukesky 🧵/

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

"America that is flailing, insulting its allies for no purpose, and flattering its enemies for nothing in return. Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to publicly show up Trump is the most blatant humiliation inflicted on Trump to date, but it is an inevitable consequence of the President’s own bluster."

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Listening to the terrible analysis of restrainer & Ukraine sceptic Emma Ashford on @ezraklein.bsky.social last night and lol, lmao.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is the way

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The @iaeaorg.bsky.social DG Rafael Gross says the Iranians "have also reported that at present the Esfahan and Fordow sites have not been impacted." If (big if) that remains the case, this is a decapitation strike and not a serious effort at degrading the nuclear infrastructure.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments