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tapping the sign

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Friends fear he is once again boarding the 'radical candour' bus, etc: but I do think they would be better off if their line to take had just been 'it was this or raise taxes', if nothing else because it would a) concentrate minds and b) be some useful advocacy for raising taxes and c) is true.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

You don’t say

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

‼️ Trump suggests Putin may have territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine. Other key statements from the U.S. President: Putin is “confused”. He also noted past tensions with Zelensky but called him “very nice,” and said the U.S. may consider supplying Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine.

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments

Hey! Hey! RFK! How many kids did you kill today?

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

🇺🇸 “As for funding for Ukraine, we’ll see what happens,” — Trump on future U.S. support. “I want us to be able to provide you with air defense,” — he said when asked about Patriot systems for Ukraine.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

NEW: While mainstream news goes wall-to-wall on a performative Iranian attack that harmed no-one, Israeli forces have shot dead another 33 starving Palestinians queuing for food. Aid as bait, death by firing squad. Posting this here because I’m fucking sure you won’t see it elsewhere.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

🇺🇸 Trump's approval rating falls to 41%, lowest of current term, - Reuters/Ipsos poll ‼️ 79% of Americans worry Iran may target US civilians.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Zelensky announced agreements with UK PM Keir Starmer on joint defense production and strengthening Ukraine’s air defense.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

#Gaza: Our supplies are running critically low due to Israel's restrictions imposed on entering goods. Doctors Without Borders calls for Israel to allow the entry of sufficient medical supplies and fuel: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“People working for Israel’s security services who speak Persian, Iran’s primary language, called [20+] senior Iranian officials on their cellphones and warned them that they, too, would die unless they ceased supporting the regime of…Ali Khamenei” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: Iran emptied the nuclear site at Fordow of its enriched uranium (400kgs) days before the attack. They did this because Trump told the world on Twitter he’d attack. The location of the uranium is now unknown. Galactically inept.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The British government's plans to ban Palestine Action is the first time a rarely-used arm of its legal definition of terrorism, covering "serious damage to property", has been the basis for proscribing a group Human rights groups and MPs have raised concerns www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Oil majors pull staff from Iraq amid fears of retaliation by Iran https://on.ft.com/4nx27dR

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Lots of Labour MPs following Rachel Reeves in Spending Review claiming that in 10 months under Labour, real wages have grown more than they did in 10 years under the Tories. It's accurate, though...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Great timing for a points failure at #wimbledon 🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine has submitted a multibillion-dollar weapons purchase list to the US government, requesting urgent authorizations for critical air defense, artillery, and drone systems. However, Donald Trump’s administration has halted all new military aid approvals for months, despite bipartisan promises👇

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I don’t want Khamenei to have access to a nuclear weapon. But then I also don’t want Putin, Netanyahu, or Xi Jingping to have access to a nuclear weapon. And I definitely don’t want Kim Jong Un or Trump to have access to a nuclear weapon. The only person I’d trust with one is David Attenborough.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Before-and-after satellite images, provided by Maxar Technologies, show damage visible at the three Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by US airstrikes. Initial damage assessments to the three sites are ongoing, according to the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. cnn.it/4effURX

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

NEW: Anti-war protests erupt in cities across the US after Trump bombs Iran. Protests have been seen in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and outside the White House in DC. These are the current scenes in Times Square, NYC.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

submitted 5 days ago • 329 comments

🥈 Yaroslava Maguchikh does it again! With grace, strength, and unshakable focus, she soared to 1.97 meters — winning silver at the Diamond League for the second time in a row. Even as her country fights for survival, Yaroslava keeps lifting the Ukrainian spirit higher and higher.💙💛

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

It is 'just asking questions' but will Matthew Goodwin, Rupert Lowe [already?], Robert Jenrick, Badenoch (a No, I guess) & David Goodhart himself say whether they think there is, do suggest a % or a year when they want to move the UK capital from London for too many darker people + where it would be

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

(+ energy consumption and resource problems. Increasingly think this is the red line: mass use for trivial applications is simply unsustainable.)

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Russian attack on Odesa last night A residential building was completely on fire.While rescuers were saving people,parts of the building fell on them,injuring 3 rescuers Another residential building caught fire after the attack.600 people were evacuated 5 more buildings&three vehicles were on fire

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

🇺🇸 There is always a tweet...or three

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Brilliant statement from the Durham Miners Association on why Reform is not welcome on the platform for the Durham Miners Gala https://www.durhamminers.org/statement_durham_miners_gala_and_reform_uk

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Have written up some interesting research from @johnspringford.bsky.social - he's warning that tighter immigration rules could jeopardise the government's net zero and housebuilding plans: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 “Not For EU” Label. Check your asparagus. 🇲🇽 Mexican asparagus in @sainsburys may be grown with pesticides banned in the EU, including carbofuran and paraquat. 🥵 No EU label = No EU safety standards. 🇬🇧 Post-Brexit, UK rules are weaker. 🧪 Lower testing. Less traceability. More risk.

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

Definitely not bugged

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

According to Reuters, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down an interagency group in recent weeks that had been tasked with developing a strategy to increase pressure on Russia. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

"Absolutely not me, I have never turned a blind eye." Jess Phillips MP, Safeguarding Minister, on criticisms that politicians buried their heads in the sand over grooming gangs. #Newsnight

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

"Liz Truss, who started it, and then Elon Musk carried it on." Jess Phillips MP, Safeguarding Minister, is asked about the Prime Minister's comment that politicians were jumping 'on a bandwagon of the far-right.' #Newsnight

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

It's not "mission creep" if it was the core strategic mission from the start

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

🇰🇵🤡 Shoigu came to bow to Kim Jong-un again. Shoigu humiliated himself by asking for a new batch of missiles to bomb peaceful cities in Ukraine. According to Shoigu, Kim Jong-un promised to send 1,000 sappers and 5,000 military builders, allegedly to restore the Kursk region.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Just out, an astonishing tribunal judgment. A taxpayer's adviser, Apostle Accounting, submitted a fictitious tax refund claim. HMRC investigated and the taxpayer complained. Apostle's response? They reported their own client to the police. I'll write more about this soon.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Asked on Air Force One about that assessment from Gabbard, that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, Mr. Trump told reporters: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having them." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Microcosm of a bigger issue. Nobody actually knows how the modern economy functions. There are all manner of black box systems which ensure food in supermarkets, drugs in pharmacies, energy etc. These become ever further optimised away from human knowledge.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

NEW ANALYSIS: Reform UK now runs 10 counties across England, putting 6GW of new clean-energy capacity at risk (mostly batteries) However, Reforms' ability to block planning consent looks weaker than its leaders hoped By Molly Lempriere & Josh Gabbatiss www.carbonbrief.org/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I think I got caught up in some kind of weird timeloop in which what was said about Iraq in 2003 is now being said of Iran in 2025, and nobody wants to remember that it didn't exactly go to plan in the first instance.

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments