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If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…

Starting to look like a major Ukrainian offensive. Now explosions have been reported in Severomorsk, where the Russian Northern Fleet, including subs with nukes, is based. #explodey

⚡️'He was kidnapped' — Georgian opposition leader detained as ruling party continues crackdown on dissent. Leader of the Georgian opposition party "Coalition for Change," Nika Melia, was detained on May 29, NewsGeorgia reported, citing Melia's associates.

The eurosceptic right no longer wants to destroy the EU, but run it. This was inevitable and in many respects an own goal by the Tories. Britain would be incredibly powerful in the bloc right now.

Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

Farridge to send his mini-DOGEs into councils to wipe out unnecessary spending #r4today

This ‘lovely family man’ came within metres of mowing down two of my children, so perhaps he isn’t.

“Jaguar Land Rover deserve to go bust” – #Farage, because he didn’t like an advert. Nigel Farage prioritises culture wars over your jobs – and over backing #BritishBusiness. He will not protect #jobs - he will destroy them.

Whatever way you swing this, this is excellent. And the figures for trust in the euro are particularly impressive. www.reuters.com/world/trust-...

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

Increasingly curious to see if ‘very big tax rises’ is considered to be less politically painful / difficult than ‘much closer to the EU’.

A photo of the establishment doing all it can to stop Nigel Farage

💥 The Russian war criminal responsible for thousands of Ukrainian civilian deaths during the siege of Mariupol appears to have been killed in Russia by a remotely-detonated explosive carried by his acquaintance Nikita Penkov who may not have known he had a bomb.

⚡️11 more Ukrainian Children rescued from Russian-occupied territories, Yermak's advisor says. Among those rescued is a young girl whose mother and brother, both defenders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, spent more than three years in Russian captivity.

#ProudBlue Bravo! 👏 More of this, please.

She is an American citizen, the daughter of a U.S. Navy service member from Illinois, who was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. This is fascism, plain and simple.

After 127 days in office, Trump has still not ended a war he claimed he would end within 100 days, and has yet to take a single concrete step to pressure the one person refusing to agree to the ceasefire he himself proposed — Putin.

#CartolineRomane #Roma #Rome #Italy #photography Isola Tiberina

Has he considered taking a job in Greggs

Where US diplomats now adopt Far Right narratives that accuse the EU and UK of betraying a Western civilisation that Trump's elites believe is now only embodied in MAGA American supremacism. Anti-European fanaticism as American state dogma statedept.substack.com/p/the-need-f...

Britain's journey back to Europe will be a long one - ask the Political Editor of the BBC! Latest Inside-Out column philipstephens.substack.com/p/britain-ca...

🚨🚨This is an under-reported burgeoning corruption scandal in #Greece: Greece’s government announced yesterday it would shut down a state agency being investigated by the #EuropeanPublicProsecutor over a major alleged fraud involving the EU's massive farm budget.🧵 www.politico.eu/article/gree...