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The key thing I’m getting from my feed (which is natch full of very smart & politically savvy people) is the fundamental tension between relief at stopping fascists, for now, and the frustration that doing so means more of the same mediocre parties & leaders incapable of doing so in the long term.

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In 2019 Nigel Farage's Brexit Party voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda, calling claims of Russian interference "scare stories" One of his MEPs was Nathan Gill, who has just been accused in court of taking bribes in exchange for defending Russia in the European Parliament

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I have just, seriously, heard Nick Robinson on Radio 4 ask if Germany can seriously call itself a democracy if the CDU/CSU continue to refuse to include the AFD from consideration for power. What. The. Actual.... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... At around 8:23:00 am

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The German Foreign Office sub-tweeting the US - stressing that Europeans made sure this resolution passed "together with our partners" to which the US no longer belongs in this case. Then stating: "Sham peace deals will not last and will not make the world a safer place. They only help Putin."

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Today marks three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Donald Trump could learn a lot about leadership from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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"The court heard the statements, made in the European Parliament and in opinion pieces to news outlets such as 112 Ukraine, were "supportive of a particular narrative" which would "benefit Russia regarding events in Ukraine"". www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

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it'd be nice for one mainstream and prominent centrist/centre-left/left-wing party somewhere in the western world to actually try and consistently and vocally make the positive case for immigration for an entire term and see what happens - it may not work! but it'd be nice for one party to try it

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As ever, bold promises of benefits from an India trade deal are far in excess of what could actually be deliverable. Coming up nine years of this...

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Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges: Nathan Gill is accused of agreeing to receive money to make statements ‘benefiting’ Russian narrative on Ukraine. - Patriotic, just not for his own country! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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They learned something from their first term. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a grift is a good guy with principles. So this time they're firing all the good guys with principles.

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Grim news. I can't see the point of the UK & France not vetoing - even if they preserve their meetings with Trump, it's quite clear that he has swapped sides, & is now working with Putin against Ukraine & most of Europe. Better to stick to their principles, stay at home & plan next steps to save UA.

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See, these are the kinds of things we want suddenly to learn about TV writers and producers decades after we loved their shows.

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Insightful piece on the challenge a united Europe poses to the business interests of the Tech bros who now wield such influence in the Trump administration. Pity that the UK government already appears to have rolled over with the removal of the CMA Chair and its new strategic steer

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regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

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My prediction is that this will do nothing to stop the endless “why is the far right winning TikTok/Gen Z” stories.the fact the Greens crush Reform among under 25s in every poll here doesn’t stop the endless “why is Farage winning young people?” stories

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US military lawyers are famously flexible: for example, they gave legal cover for torture and other war crimes. DeSantis was a military lawyer. They are certainly not woke. So to get rid of them altogether is a staggeringly extreme measure, given what you can get away with them in post.

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Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

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New public management doesn’t save money. It costs taxpayers a small fortune to do basic things. Once state capacity is abolished, private sector rent seeking goes into overdrive.

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Brexit is a symptom of and also contributed to the American coup and the betrayal of Ukraine, I will never stop saying so, I will never stop being angry about it, and I will never forgive its backers, any of them, including the fools who voted for it in ignorance.

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1. Brought my kid to work 2. Waved a chainsaw around in a panel discussion 3. Posted frequently on social media

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I don’t suppose DOGE would accept four firm shits and a wank as five accomplishments for the week? #ChronicIllnessHumor

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Hope everyone in the UK remembers what Elon Musk is doing to the US government the next time Domminic Cummings writes a 30,000 word blog post on his plan to replace all the "NPCs" in Whitehall with 19 year old Nazi superforecasters.

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This is the first part of Character Limit that made me laugh so hard I had to put my phone down

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Whatever happens with German elections today, I thank Olaf for all he has done to help me to stay in this war for this long. His escalation management delays & drip feeding made the difference.

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Watched the CGI remake of The Lion King today and was struck by how confused that movie is in terms of constitutional morality, for want of a better term. 3 reasons in favour of Mufasa’s legitimacy over Scar as sovereign are suggested: divine right; superior strength; that he is a better ruler. /1

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just occasionally there is a news story to make you feel good 🥰

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ooooh I have a theory on that - I think a crucial difference between the centre left and centre right is that the former has more of a sense of where it stands ideologically and historically, eg away from wherever the Labour party is at that point in time, whereas the latter only ever tethers...

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All I keep thinking and hoping in the midst of extraordinary noise, is that Starmer, Macron, von der Leyen, Merz et al are all seeing the world as is and adjusting to that strategic reality. We are moving to a post-post-WWII world where liberal democracies must hold ground outside of Atlanticism.

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someone just do it, to them both. asap.

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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

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former Tory chief whip Simon Hart on the party’s current leader

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Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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This ought to be top of the UK government's thinking re Palantir's role in the NHS. The dependency risk is not theoretical under Trump 2.0

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He nails it.

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I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this. going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

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