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The Covid Inquiry's decision not to call PPE suppliers to give evidence smacks of a whitewash. Inadequate PPE killed thousands while enriching a few wealthy individuals. Now, those individuals are being protected from public scrutiny. news.sky.com/story/potent...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Nigel Farage is once again parroting US interests over our own, all while cosying up to Putin. This is disgraceful from a leader of a UK party, and goes to show that the British people are far from the top of his priority list.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Farage then proceeded to punch himself repeatedly in the face; a gesture celebrating the Brexit vote that he orchestrated because there were too many brown polish people in the U.K.

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

"...actually, I think you'll find it was more of a 'Sieg Hi'..."

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submitted 9 hours ago • 76 comments

Trump. Telling it like it isn’t.

submitted 58 minutes ago • 2 comments

Truth

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

Pretty bad look for the UK ambassador to be making comments so out of step with UK policy on Ukraine - now is the time for UK to be absolutely steadfast in our support for Ukraine, not flip-flopping. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 hours ago • 20 comments

Anyone who thinks Cuomo will stand up to the Musk-led AI coup might want to read my article about how he tried to use the pandemic to do that very thing in NY State. www.theguardian.com/news/2020/ma...

submitted 53 minutes ago • 1 comment

Trump has taken sides for us. The simplicity is not in the mind of the 'unserious' observer, but forced on us by what Trump has done and said. He no longer represents the 'side' Starmer has in mind as our ally.

submitted 57 minutes ago • 13 comments

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submitted 52 minutes ago • 12 comments

We need to boost defence spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP. One way of paying for it would be to claw back (most of) the 4% of GDP we lost to Brexit. It would of course pay for a swathe of other things too. Goodbye all that Austerity 2.0 nonsense. But getting started MUST be the first step.

submitted 52 minutes ago • 3 comments

We shouldn't comment too much on individual universities' situations as their difficulties get even more acute. But let's face it: the reason you give extra money to unis is to lower their lenders' threshold for more loans. That's not a long-term solution. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

submitted 51 minutes ago • 0 comments

So we’ve established vaccines are beneficial, now we’re just haggling about how often.

submitted 2 hours ago • 97 comments

Yet another U turn / more lies from Labour. www.thenational.scot/news/2497484...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I saw the Radio Times Facebook page at it, last week.

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NEW: The Ukrainian community in Scotland gathered on a night of sombre reflection marking the three-year anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

A reminder that only Iran (and the U.K.) have we unelected clerics in national government Reform of the Upper House is a @greenparty.org.uk policy

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

😂

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

Do you know those 1930s burlesque entertainers, whose act consisted of swapping the position of fans or balloons, so fast that nobody could see their fanny? Well, here is Nigel Farage trying not to criticise Trump and Vance's disgraceful treatment of Zelenskyy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 65 comments

#billionaires #forthemany #wealthtax

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Murmurs in UK press that Starmer was invited yesterday to Thursday's EU summit. But EU side is briefing the opposite. "Starmer has not been invited to the 6 March European Council," an EU official with knowledge of the preparations confirmed to @euractiv.com. All in our Ukraine liveblog 👇

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

The US Department of Education has established a hotline to report schools that subject our precious children to the horrors of wokeness and DEI. I encourage all concerned parents to do as I did to keep them busy. Glory! enddei.ed.gov

submitted 20 hours ago • 183 comments

Given the volume of material we hold (and the independent notifications I received from civil servants that the Cabinet Office had instructed them to destroy records*) I am shocked we have not been contacted by the Covid Inquiry and I am assuming it will be a whitewash. news.sky.com/story/potent...

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

European leaders have shown that they grossly under-estimated Trump. In an FT editorial his morning, that paper reveals that the media is similarly guilty. When are neoliberals going to realise we are facing fascism, and react accordingly? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

Writing tomorrow's newsletter filled me full of dread. Things are unbelievably, horribly unsustainable, and there's one giant signal that suggests a major pullback from AI by Microsoft, the largest buyer of NVIDIA GPUs. Meanwhile, SoftBank is taking out loans to fund OpenAI. Wheresyoured.at

submitted 18 hours ago • 24 comments

NEWS: Gannett fired the editorial page editor of The Palm Beach Post, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, after he published a cartoon about the war in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/b...

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Pay attention : Do not trust an American contract - especially a US Government contract.

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

DACHAU OPENED LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER HITLER BECAME CHANCELLOR!

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

I wish commentators would stop tiresomely repeating “transactional” when they should be using “venal”.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

When you think of Nazi Germany the good Germans that didn’t vote for Hitler aren’t the first to come up in your heads. The same goes for the US or Russia. Don’t want to be represented by evil? This is your turn to show what you would have done under Nazi rule.

submitted 18 hours ago • 141 comments

Translation: "We are containing the geopolitical damage done by President Manbaby and the eyeliner wearing sofasexual."

submitted 1 day ago • 729 comments

Just saw Kuenssberg parroting Trump regime lines about “apologising” to Zelensky, absolutely disgusting client journalism. Trump & Vance should be apologising for their childish, insulting behaviour. And Kuenssberg should apologise to the UK public for yrs of PR work under the guise of journalism

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Fuck the #BBC and especially Laura Kuenssberg for how she accosted President Zelensky trying to pressure him to apologise to the orange shitstain when he did nothing wrong. How fucking dare you, you incompetent twat! You're no proper journalist, go work for GB News. Another #putinsBitch

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

And now Kuenssberg is badgering Zelenskyy about apologising to Trump. What's going on with the BBC?

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

"Why would we discuss KILLER WHALES???" #AUKUS www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZiy...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

“I thank the people and government of the United Kingdom for their tremendous support from the very beginning of this war” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

fortune.com/2025/02/21/t... The recall is for certain 2023 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles operating software prior to 2023.38.4, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. You know #DOGE is coming for them next.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Just “Killing” will cover it

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Today marks a special milestone for the Newport Wetlands Nature Reserve - marking 25 years since it was first established - on a site that once housed storage lagoons for pulverised fuel ash from a neighbouring power station wp.me/p8Mk4U-W35

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Some famous tech podcasters talking about how the Tesla protests are one thing but Starlink losing business would be a bigger deal. FWIW- they missed this. It's already happening. mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/c...

submitted 21 hours ago • 42 comments

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because Israel has broken the Ceasefire treaty and refused to start withdrawing their troops from Gaza. Blocking Humanitarian Aid and starving people is a War Crime, but you won't hear any of the Media reporting it.