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Still true: Britain is a success story Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well Multiculturalism is popular Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration Nostalgia is increasingly weird Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

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Brexit. 61% of us think it’s a failure. But there’s no majority consensus to go back. Honest to god. So much time, energy, cost… So much lost… So much hassle… So soul-destroyingly pointless. So endlessly tedious. But we’re stuck with it because facing up to this now is too damned hard.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

New data reveals that 40% of corporation tax due from small businesses isn’t being paid. It’s a hidden crisis that costs the UK £15 billion a year — and HMRC has quietly lost control. buff.ly/5Ah4fP4

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So Starship Ship 36 just detonated before the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

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This is - from a Finnish perspective - a sign of weakness of the US AVF system. Every single Finnish officer has started from private and gone up from there, including the CHOD. What I wonder is, how much is it also a sign of the harder hierarchy of the US military, compared to Finland...

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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

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⚡️ Russia 'on the verge' of recession, Russian economy minister warns. "According to current business perceptions, we are already, it seems, on the verge of a transition to a recession," Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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⚡️ '100 days of Russian manipulations' — Ukraine blasts Moscow over disregarding US ceasefire effort. A hundred days since Ukraine agreed to a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, "Russia continues to choose war," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on June 19.

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“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...

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⚡️'If we don't help Ukraine further, we should start learning Russian,' EU diplomacy chief says. Top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas cited a sharp increase in Russia's military spending, noting that Moscow is now allocating more money to defense than the EU combined.

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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound incredibly on, the subtitles will not help.

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An important thing to remember about a certain government official now being on bluesky is that he recently insinuated he’d send ICE after somebody on Twitter. It’s very fun to dunk on such a massive loser but keep in mind his response may involve the FBI

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

👇🎯 Again, the casual ease with which we’ve decided neither the law nor the constitution nor our int’l treaty commitments (which are also part of US law) matter at all is indicative of how far we’ve collapsed into authoritarianism & how not punishing things like Iran-Contra & Iraq 2003 got us here.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

After Luncheon, 1881 #morisot #berthemorisot

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in hindsight we probably should have seen this was a trap, but everything was so new and we were still just kids

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

🚨🚨 This is pure evil and heinous war crimes committed by the #russian war machine whilst the Western partners is looking passively on the sides. #Ukraine needs proper #airsupport and it is time for Europe/NATO to get involved on the ground with such support.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Despite everything I've seen so far, it's still astonishing that Trump, who is frequently and consistently crudely disrespectful to others, is lecturing world leaders about not hurting Putin's feelings.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.

submitted 3 days ago • 161 comments

Feeble Führer fails www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

According to every single person who's ever known him, worked with him or for him, his fans and his opponents, including the author of "The Art of the Deal," his single favorite thing to do is talk to people on the telephone.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 3 days ago • 469 comments

Badenoch says most of what was in Louise Casey's report 'I felt I had seen before' Yes because in govt they did bugger all about in

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Even as someone pretty pro-immigration, I never quite get the point about the deployment of point 2 in arguments about immigration. It’s kinda always presented as “sauce for the goose, eh?” but ok, the argument is over how we manage our immigration here, those fuckers have already left?

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

this is all the analysis you need, nails it

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America's descent into suppression of dissent 🧵 I've been tracking Trump's actions since Jan and have included 93 actions that I consider to suppress dissent. They fall into 4 domains and their use is quite different over time. 1/16

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Lololololololol

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

These numbers are quite impressive, especially given that Helsing was funded, like, yesterday.* on.ft.com/4jQd6fa Spotify’s Daniel Ek leads €600mn investment in defence start-up Helsing *that’s four years ago

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Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos Nigel Farage's band of newly-elected councillors are already starting to struggle, reports Josiah Mortimer Who would have guessed bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...

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US President Donald Trump complains that Russia is not present at the G7/G8 Your reminder that Russia was kicked out in 2014 after it invaded Ukraine

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In March–April 2025, European military aid to Ukraine exceeded U.S. contributions for the first time since June 2022, according to the Ukraine Support Tracker from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. www.ifw-kiel.de/publications...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

"Real academics don't hallucinate like ChatGPT does"

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Note that implementation of the UK-US trade deal wasn't finalised last week. Israel-Iran happened. But - sign of the centralised nature of this White House that only Trump can make such decisions at least on trade. Good luck with those 90 deals by July on this basis.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Mike Pence: "As Vladimir Putin continues his brutal and unprovoked invasion in Ukraine using drones provided by Iran, I would say respectfully to the administration, we ought to be looking elsewhere than Vladimir Putin for advice on how to deal with this situation."

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Wrong question: What is Israel's "end goal" in attacking Iran? Right question: What is Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu's "end goal" in attacking Iran? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

It’s funny cause you could’ve asked anyone who’s ever been posted as a diplomat to a slightly tinpot country and they’ll tell you that long parades are incredibly boring. But Trump‘s greatest aspiration is to be the dictator of a banana republic.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

#BBCNews - Anti-racism rally in Belfast after days of violence www.bbc.com/news/article... People in the crowd held signs with slogans such as "racists go home", "refugees are welcome" and "diversity makes us stronger". #Ballymena

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Presidents Putin & Trump held a phone call about the situation in the Middle East. According to the Kremlin, Putin "condemned the Israeli operation." But the two leaders "did not rule out a return to negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme." Putin wished Trump happy birthday.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Live images from Trump's birthday parade. Surreal. The US we knew is gone and is probably never coming back.

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Trump’s Putinesque vanity parade today is going to cost US taxpayers upwards of $45 million (£33m). This from a government that has already spent ca $170 billion more than the Biden administration in the same period last year. So much for DOGE huh

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com

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