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...and... I'm waiting for this to be reposted by all the usual suspects...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

@matthew-wright.bsky.social so good to hear you raising the issue of the damage that pet spot-on treatments can cause to our waterways. However, it's worth noting that it doesn't stop there! www.songbird-survival.org.uk/post/bird-mo...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Special assignment for me: a night out in Blackpool in Britain's first Reform Pub. The owner told us he'd now vote Remain, if he knew then what he knows now. The story though was the same as everywhere: the most profound rejection of politics itself. youtu.be/4sUKHr9KauA?...

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

On Friday, hearing that @mrjamesob.bsky.social was away for a week, I did wonder what major event was on the horizon. Now we know...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Immigration: @zoejardiniere.bsky.social & I debate Matt Goodwin and Nadim Zahawi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbQ...

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Exports down £27bn. GDP down 5%. Trade down 15%. That’s the Brexit legacy – and now they’re complaining someone’s fixing it. Read this punchy letter to the whingers. ⤵️

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Has anyone caught a clipped up post of ‪@mrjamesob.bsky.social‬ wonderful summary of the reason why the Chagos Islands situation is where it is today please? It was an engrossing and fascinating history and explanation.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper." @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.

submitted 28 days ago • 110 comments

How very dare they try to take away my right to not be able to use E gates. Seething I am.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

There are issues being highlighted here right now, that I'm really struggling to even start to process - way, way, way beyond the whole Reform debacle. Perhaps things will be clearer in the morning.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Will never tire of watching Carney’s face listening to the imbecile. Art.

submitted 44 days ago • 33 comments

Utter gibberish as usual. "Family GPs" don't sign off SEND plans or disability benefits.

submitted 57 days ago • 57 comments

Really important, eye opening read. And threaded throughout is the role of dark money in warping politics www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

When enough, is never enough. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Oh boy.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Less than 24 hours after President Trump backtracked on his once-in-a-century trade war to prevent a meltdown in financial markets, frantic selloffs hit US stocks, bonds and the dollar yet again as fears of a worldwide recession engulfed Wall Street www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

When you are super wealthy, plummeting markets are entertaining How long do you wait, how low can it go before you buy. Then, you decide and you buy. Super low. If the markets don't recover then you haven't really lost anything. If they do, then....bingo! Of course,no good for your average Jo. .

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Lewis Goodall, "I can see what a Brexiter might make the argument that we've got preferential treatment" "We're in a net position where we've lost trade with the EU, we have a more distant economic relationship with the EU, and we've got 10% tariffs"

submitted 78 days ago • 15 comments

🚨TRUMP TARIFFS EXPLAINED: Donald Trump just introduced 200 NEW TAXES on US citizens. No foreign country will pay a dime extra on ANYTHING. Americans, however, will now pay more for virtually EVERYTHING. The US economy may be the first to collapse solely due to stupidity.

submitted 78 days ago • 38 comments

If you are going to report how "reciprocal" these tariffs are or how they quantify trade barriers and economic injustices... ... please keep in mind they're not, becuase that would have required work. Instead just did: COUNTRY'S US SURPLUS --------------------------- = Rate% ITS EXPORTS TO US

submitted 78 days ago • 19 comments

Hi All, sent out this free post as people (once again) lost their mind when Trump said something that seemed anti-Putin. Its happened regularly in the past 3 months--and every time he walks it back (as he has done already). He is toying with Ukraine and Europe. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 81 days ago • 15 comments

Well, that went well. It would be great to see their triumph shared far and wide.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Thought of the day.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent work from Tiverton MP Rachel Gilmour 👏👏👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

So how do those in control, keep control? By removing education and the ability to investigate and challenge.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

At what point do people on this side of the pond, really start to sit up and take notice - or are we still in the " it's not happening, it can't be happening" phase?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.

submitted 97 days ago • 132 comments

America, 2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Or, token Ukrainian perhaps.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

This is quite extraordinary. Read the whole thread.

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

It seems Moscow's quite pleased with how the last few days have gone. Today's Russian papers: · “Russia can't conceal its malicious pleasure…” · “The Western system is crashing like a house of cards.” · Kremlin “New US foreign policy configurations largely aligned with Russia’s” #ReadingRussia

submitted 109 days ago • 31 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 110 days ago • 3273 comments