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Brexit is the mother and father of all evil. Oh, and Putin. And First Past the Post. And Murdoch. Could go on and on but I'm confined on Blighty, exiled from X and in search of a new home. Bluesky, I'm ready packing 🧳📦💼🛍️
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If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

Britons’ big issues remain broadly the same this week - with cost of living maintaining the top spot it has held since the pandemic. But compared with last week, the proportion of Britons selecting “war in Ukraine” as a top 3 issue has almost doubled, from 5% to 11%.

The truth 👇

Amazon gains full creative control of Bond. I'm not even particularly a fan, but it was impressive to see decades of fairly rigid quality control. You can now kiss that goodbye under this simpering halfwit. Just more sludge to be fed into the content engine. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Of all the things Elon Musk has said, this is the worst. We cannot rely on Trump and his shadow president Musk. The UK must boost defence spending and take the lead in Europe.

🔴Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow. Please get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested

A GB News host has announced that "it's over for groups like Stop Funding Hate". Meanwhile our Crowdfunder page has raised *double* its initial target and there's still time to chip in 👏👏👏 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

Ukraine did not choose “to go into this war” you utter fuckwit and embarrassment to America. Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine and you are such a coward you are planning to reward Russia with Ukrainian land. You first, fuckwit. Hand over Mar-o-Lago to Putin

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

This is the REAL "Weaponized Justice System" that we warned you about, described in Project 2025.

Council tax is outdated, unfair, and regressive – it's time to replace it with an income-based system that ensures fairness for all | John Hall @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Prof.Alf Baird knows his stuff when it comes to Freeports, I had the honour of taking part in a public speaking event with him a year or so ago on the dangers of deregulated Freeports and SEZs coming to Scotland. yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2023/08/03/t...

Victoria Coates is President Trump’s former deputy national security advisor, now at the US Heritage Foundation think tank. I asked her *how* President Trump wld go about getting 2m Palestinians out of Gaza

Thousands of investors in Trump’s crypto scheme lost $2 billion in just weeks while the Trump Organization racked up $100 million in trading fees. Just so happens that the CFPB, which Trump is trying to kill, recently announced new regulations for the crypto industry. Hello?

You may be looking to pundits to tell you where all this is going. Well, I have not a clue, other than US is nearing a constitutional crisis. And if so: nobody can know what will happen next. For that is the nature of any genuine crisis: it is a situation the outcome of which cannot be foreseen.

This isn't a surprising but it is devastating. The great betrayal of Ukraine begins. We, in Europe, are in a place of danger. We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

All the talk of what the US will do or won't do towards Europe or Asia misses the point that the Trump administration is ripping out so much of the basic wiring of the its state capacity that very soon the US won't be able to do very much at all

2024: Keir Starmer, "The special relationship between the UK and the US will continue to flourish for many years to come" 2025: Donald Trump, "Simplifying our tariffs on steel an aluminium.. 25% without exceptions or exemptions.. That's all countries"

By offering the same old rhetoric on benefits, migrants and spending, Keir Starmer looks like the continuity Sunak

🔴Keir Starmer Urged to Back Law Blocking Foreign Billionaires Like Elon Musk From Bankrolling UK Political Parties It follows reports that the billionaire Trump backer could donate up to £80m to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK bylinetimes.com/2025/02/12/k...

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, on Elon Musk's offer: SA: "The company is not for sale. Neither is the mission. We are happy to buy Twitter if he wants to talk about that." Q: "He called you a scammer." SA: "He calls a lot of people a lot of things. This is not a serious person." ~AA

Karelia, once seized from Finland, now ranks as Russia's most depressive region. In contrast, Finland consistently tops global happiness rankings. This reflects the Russian tendency to conquer territories at great human cost, only to neglect them afterward.

Blackpool delivered the largest pro-Brexit vote in the North West. Many believed that ending EU Freedom of Movement would lead to a Blackpool "renaissance". But 8 years on, the town's bathing water has gone from excellent to poor, and despite public investment, the town continues to decline.

Keir Starmer’s consultants reported the public mood had never in the past 30 years been more demanding of true radical change. The opportunity Labour had been looking for. But...

England's water industry owned by companies with over 1,100 criminal convictions since 1989. Examples: United Utilities 205 Thames Water 187 South West Water 174 Anglian Water 128 Yorkshire Water 125 Southern Water 119 People forced to hand more money to criminals? Now they are not even fined.

Seen on the other place.

Email to Keir Starmer this morning…. Dear Mr Starmer YouGov says 60% of those who voted Labour last time would not do so again. Polls also show increasing majority for rejoining the EU. 2+2=? Kind regards

Just a little poll in The Express. You know what to do —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

This is so good.

Some actors capture an aspect of their historical moment. The combover, the knitwear, the wheedling and fussing - Brian Murphy was the absolute exemplar of a certain kind of postwar masculinity - the salaryman born slightly too early for the Permissive Society. RIP.

Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester

Europe needs a surge in defence. For years, we have underinvested in defence. We need to catch up. And strengthen our defence industrial base. Read my statement here → europa.eu/!Vw3d69

Embarrassing reporting from the Daily Mail. Canada announced this billion dollar border plan almost two months ago

"A YouGov poll on 21 January asked ‘Who would you rather have as a closer trading partner to the UK…?’ Of all adults, 53% said the EU, and 21% said the US. The younger you were, or if you were a woman, the more likely you were to say the EU. Even 20% of Reform UK supporters said the EU!"

Farage, faced with our MRP @yougov.co.uk poll showing a majority in every constituency prioritise closer EU ties over US trade, admits UK-EU deal needs improving, but can't say how, other than "let's be friendly". EB: "What does that mean? We're not mates in a pub." ~AA youtube.com/shorts/P1OoB...

If you've had enough of Starmer both-sides-ing Trump and the EU and you think a country with our proud history of standing up against fascism should choose we have the job for you. goodlawproject.org/vacancy/eu-c...

The most frustrating thing about continuing failure to skewer Farage is that his grasp of detail is non-existent. It’s why he gets petulant when exposed to even mildly decent questions. Interviewers just need to zone in on one element of the bullshit & interrogate it until his ignorance is exposed.

Above us, nothing but the stars.

Michael Heseltine says Brexiteers sold Britain a “pack of lies” and called for the UK to rejoin the EU. He said the UK should be “at the heart of Europe” and that returning to the bloc would be “in the best interests of a generation of young British people”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

We're returning to where we started - the UK's relationship with the EU. Labour needs to put the national interest first and we have plans to 'encourage' them. We're looking for someone to lead on this work at @goodlawproject.bsky.social. jobs.theguardian.com/job/9445657/...

It is more likely that this batshit insanity will be contained in some way, but the issues around US-Mexico relations are where the risks are highest that an impulsive Trump brainwave could be seized on by the wider American Right and turned into dangerous reality