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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...

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If you are thinking of eating at Bill's or The Ivy or any of Richard Caring's other restaurants you might want to think about this. They're demanding a mandatory retroactive discount from all their suppliers, even on food already supplied and paid for. Fuck that.

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Not sure whether they’ve just not taken this sign away for 9 months or they are really early in warning us

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Well no one else was going to write it

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East Berlin, 1 August 1960. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #DDR #GDR #tram #streetcar

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Baltic countries agree a joint mass evacuation plan. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are peaceful, prosperous and successful democracies, utterly unlike next door Russia, and so obviously Putin hates them www.politico.eu/article/balt...

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Pete Hegseth was different after Signalgate, according to six people in a position to know. He was more prone to anger and less likely to be clean-shaven in the morning. He seemed reluctant to make decisions; scared of doing the wrong thing, paralyzed as he awaited orders from the White House.

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As part of my continuing efforts to cheer everyone's otherwise doom-laden timelines, here's some footage of the 1982 Ballinlough Festival disco dancing competition.x

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Civil judgment against Trump for sexual assault and defamation stands

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Making American Culture Great Again

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The Dictatorvision Song Contest

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Heads-up if you're thinking about a rail-based holiday this year: If you book before 25 June, Byway are offering complimentary 1st class upgrades on eligible trips booked before 25 June for departure between 01/09/25 & 30/04/26. T&Cs on their site. www.byway.travel/seat-61-enqu...

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P&O has a turnover of almost £1bn. So why have they just hired an audit firm with four employees? It’s deeply, impossibly, weird. I spoke to an auditor at a firm with 200 employees who said he’d never dream of acting for a company of that size. So what’s going on? www.itv.com/news/2025-06...

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Good thing we had real estate investor Steve Witkoff negotiating deals with Russia and Iran.

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🚨🚨SUPER CHEAP PRICING ALERT!🚨🚨 Tomorrow's Prices: 14th June Overnight low ~ 17p Morning peak ~ 19p Afternoon low ~ 1p Evening peak ~ 35p

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Holding one's breath for the moment of "constitutional crisis" is within the Schmittian imaginary of the Decisive Moment. In other countries that autocratized, there was no clearly identifiable tipping point; things happened incrementally, and one didn't immediately see how they interlocked.

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Madeley’s kicker here is superb. No notes.

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These days, if you say you’re a senator, you get thrown in jail

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everyone appreciates a greeting card

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I see #Farage is more trusted than #Reeves on the economy. Where was the survey conducted? A Wetherspoons in Skegness or Mansfield?

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Again, this won't happen because this is an authoritarian loyalty test and she's passed with flying colours. Loyalty trumps accountability, just keep repeating that over and over until you get what's happening.

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i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

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There were just some mumbling noises and a suggestion of a handshake.

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Neil Kinnock, Sheffield, 1992:

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The entire governing body of America's major overseas scholarship programme resigns, as many of those selected are illegally refused entry by the US government. I'm proud to be a Fulbright alumnus, but I'm not sure I'd recommend studying in the US to anyone now

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Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

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brother i strongly recommend you revisit your logo design

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It struck me yesterday that Trump’s appointees look like evil versions of the eternally delightful Guy Goma whenever they appear on TV & now I can’t stop seeing it. youtu.be/e6Y2uQn_wvc

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AI chatbots are increasingly being used by online users as fact-checking tools. But incorrect answers by ChatGPT and Grok are misleading users about the origin of photos showing National Guard troops, sent to Los Angeles during the recent unrest, sleeping on floors.

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Slade before they switched to glam rock, by Nico van der Stam.

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The NHS is in crisis. We support extra investment to help turn it around, but without fixing social care, no amount of funding will solve the problem. I urge the Prime Minister to ensure the Spending Review finally delivers for social care and family carers.

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Wow. What a political humiliation for the UK government and their strategy towards Trump. The news that the US will consider dumping the Aukus programme comes not much more than a week after the UK proposed expanding the programme in its Strategic Defence Review #laughorcry

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…also worth remembering the Reform UK treasurer’s firm was also referred onto the PPE VIP lane 🤦🏻‍♂️ democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-... Worth a read 👇

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The height of refinement, 1977. (And apparently still on sale today) ‘Cooking’, 1977

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If I had to sum up the Trump White House comms department in two words, it would be “proudly unprofessional.”

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This is incredible

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"Ice Breaker Session"

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With pure joy, we can finally say that after 7 years of dogged campaigning, this barbaric law will be consigned to the history books. A petition by Oxford students began the campaign, which has ended in real change for society's most vulnerable. Our voices do matter. www.oxonld.uk/vagrancy-act...

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Bus cap extended to 2027 is good. Shame it wasn't at £2 but they've basically made it permanent now.

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“Late last year, Verizon Communications got an unusual message from a media company that wanted its business: Spend your ad dollars with us or we’ll see you in court … It worked. Verizon, which hadn’t advertised on X since 2022, pledged to spend at least $10 million this year on the platform.”

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There is a huge health story here Andrew. GPs across England are refusing to carry out prostate cancer tests on men, despite Prostate Cancer UK encouraging men to come forward for testing @andrewgregory.com

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Big opportunity today for Rachel Reeves to put Britain on a path to renewal by committing the government to liberating the Postcode Address File.

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No wonder the Treasury had some doubts about her spending plans if that’s what she’s been funding

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