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Yesterday morning's early shouter

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The United States now playing the role that communist satellite states once played in the UN: sponsoring resolutions in its own name but on behalf of Moscow.

submitted 3 days ago • 361 comments

603,628 KM² 🇺🇦🇪🇺

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

No idea what these colours mean but I know Berlin well enough to know that the pink bit's pink, the grey bit's grey, and the blue bit's where you'll wake up handcuffed to a radiator.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

As Germany heads to the polls, this wisdom and clarity of this observation becomes ever more clear.

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A month ago, the idea that the new German chancellor would talk about "independence from the US" would have been unbelievable

submitted 5 days ago • 245 comments

Imagine a Tory saying something as principled as this

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

It's always who you most suspect. www.joemygod.com/2025/02/wa-p...

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

www.rte.ie/news/analysi...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Now James Bond is owned by Amazon, he's going to be made to do two missions in the time it would take to do one, and his Aston Martin will be fitted with a bespoke receptacle for him to piss in to avoid stopping while in pursuit of the bad guys.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

submitted 9 days ago • 85 comments

So good

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 13 days ago • 540 comments

Dear Justin, it’s a pleasure to see you in Brussels. Canada is one of our most trusted allies. Our partnership is strong and thriving. We are ready to take it even further. → europa.eu/!VkrXJm

submitted 16 days ago • 204 comments

Would highly recommend anyone with even a passing interest in Active Travel read “Carmageddon” by @dlknowles.bsky.social.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Hot coiling springs for train suspension.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

森永乳業、アイス「ビエネッタ」3月販売終了（無料記事） www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQO... ユニリーバとのライセンス契約が終了するためです。日本では1983年9月から40年以上販売しました。 #ニュース

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most terrifying, stigmatising things as a young gay man was having to have an HIV test. Things have changed a lot in the past decade, but it matters to see Keir Starmer take one - the first British PM to do so publicly.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Congratulations to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on desynchronising from the Russian electricity grid and fully switching to Europe’s - 10 months ahead of schedule! A landmark moment for energy independence and security in the Baltics and in the EU as a whole.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 20 days ago • 274 comments

This is pretty shocking. Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

submitted 21 days ago • 63 comments

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Sanctioning the ICC threatens the Court’s independence and undermines the international criminal justice system as a whole.

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

I’ve noticed that all sorts of longstanding technological effects, from movie CGI to treated vocals, get called AI now. You can’t just point at machines and say AI

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Typically good Bagehot from @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Must Leeds always lose? www.economist.com/britain/2025... But…

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

If we can make maternal deaths as rare as in the healthiest countries, we can save 275,000 mothers each year

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Trade wars with Canada, Mexico & China and with the EU still to come are a rare opportunity to quote Babylon 5 on a geo-economic issue. “Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts”.

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

✍️Despite being the world's biggest oil producer, America is v reliant on Canadian oil. And getting MORE reliant, not less. So what happens when tariffs get imposed on Canada? The answers are quite unsettling, for the American people... and for everyone else edconway.substack.com/p/america-st...

submitted 26 days ago • 48 comments

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

submitted 26 days ago • 78 comments

Hey Bluesky! I’m here. Yes, I’m still a bit stunned by my prescient tweet (below) 14hrs before the tragic DC crash, after which many of you encouraged me to finally gravitate to here. Happy to belatedly join the community. Tom

submitted 27 days ago • 299 comments

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman "I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

submitted 29 days ago • 939 comments

In a highly unusual move Angela Merkel strongly condemns Merz‘ move to win a motion in parliament with the support of the far right in Germany. She is right.

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

If Joe Biden fired 100 FAA employees and a plane crash happened just a few hours later, Fox News would bring Lou Dobbs back from the dead with wall-to-wall coverage blaming it on Biden.

submitted 29 days ago • 207 comments

The Prince Charles - a West End institution - is under threat. Support them, unless you want to see another fucking M&M superstore where this beautiful cinema is. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

submitted 31 days ago • 43 comments

Good on him. inews.co.uk/opinion/noth...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Today is NASA's Day Of Remembrance, a day to remember those who lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight. It is also a reminder to remember the lessons we were taught the hardest way.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations on your appointment as Taoiseach, dear Micheál Martin. Looking forward to working with you again. Together, we will make Europe and Ireland more competitive in these turbulent times. Comhghairdeas leat!

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

The UK Supreme Court will this week hand down a (rare) judgment on the scope of the ancient writ of habeas corpus. The Court of Appeal decision being appealed, however, has this remarkable passage, featuring a litigant-in-person and a considerable rebuke for the High Court judge at first instance.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The owner of The Sun offers a 'full and unequivocal' apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life

submitted 37 days ago • 29 comments

Thank the lord for Private Eye

submitted 37 days ago • 213 comments

Can someone print this up in poster size and deliver to Number 10 please? www.ft.com/content/44b2...

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

i genuinely wonder if a huge part of this is World War 2 slowly passing out out of living memory, so people don't get why the international global system exists

submitted 40 days ago • 72 comments