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Some time medical man, now relaxing in the West Country
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Goes and looks up that Mitchell & Webb sketch, "are we the bad guys now?"

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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

Why the closed roof at Cardiff? Is the weather bad? Sunny here in Gloucestershire

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A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

submitted 20 hours ago • 82 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 1 day ago • 2770 comments

"Give us your resources or we'll shut off your internet" is a potent threat. A cautionary tale for countries where Starlink use is growing. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Good morning. After a rough few days, this week's Blind Date was perfectly timed to fill you with joy. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 14 hours ago • 92 comments

Take Russia's frozen assets now (written in December 2023, now even more urgent) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

Hobnob, custard cream, Viennese

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Good news! Hope we can push onwards. The world has changed radically since July 4. If Starmer wants a combined fiscal and poll boost, closer alignment to SM and CU will help.

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My interest in ice hockey is zero but this makes me so very, very happy!

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All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

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I can vouch that it has made it down to the Market Garden greengrocer in Cirencester (two weeks ago).

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

submitted 1 day ago • 717 comments

Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

If Glasman is the answer, Labour are asking the wrong questions. Why is British politics so useless?

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Yes, and we need to move quickly- not get bogged down in legalistic tripe

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For anyone who feels confused about how the war in Ukraine was started.

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And "Europe" is a coalition of the willing- in and outside the EU. Ignore Orban if he's not willing etc.

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The modern GOP was defined by Reagan at the Berlin Wall. It is now defined by supporting a dictator invading a European nation. This is the Republican Party’s legacy.

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking life­saving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it's happening www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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We seem to be living through a modern version of "The plot against America"

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments