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Huge protests today in Belgrade and Budapest. In Belgrade half a million people joined protests against corrupt, pro-Kremlin Aleksandar Vučić. In Budapest, hundreds of thousands marched against corrupt, pro-Kremlin Viktor Orban. Many millions across Europe stand against autocracy and corruption!

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🔴NEW Cabinet Office Misled the Public Over Michael Gove’s Involvement with VIP Lane’s Biggest Winner Unispace Global's £679m PPE deals “came through” Cabinet Minister Michael Gove – contradicting Govt claims of no involvement, reports @russellscott1.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/03/10/c...

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There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

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🔴Conservative Peer Lord Feldman Helped ‘Good Friend’ of Michael Gove Win VIP PPE Deal Documents released by the Covid Inquiry reveal a network of connections between senior ministers, advisers and those handed lucrative Covid contracts bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/c...

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Brutal. 🔥

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Norwegian government announces that it's more than doubling its support for Ukraine this year, up from €3bn to €7.2bn. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it, and it is a solid contribution to peace and stability in Europe."

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

If this had been Biden there would have been weeks of coverage about his cognitive function.

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Love it.

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We are thrilled to share that Orla is taking on the #ParisMarathon in April to raise vital funds for Lyme Disease Awareness inspired by her sister, Grace, who has suffered from Lyme disease since 2019. You can read more about her amazing challenge, Grace’s story & donate here: gofund.me/12803496

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Have to hand it to the Guardian’s Washington Bureau Chief, David Smith. This is hard hitting stuff that won’t exactly put him on the White House Director of Communications Christmas card list. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

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Man in green, "Tax evasion is a far bigger problem in this country than benefit fraud" #BBCQT

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Democracy dies in oligarchness

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In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

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This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status. The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.

submitted 42 days ago • 43 comments

We've just closed our Airbnb account, which also means taking our Airbnb offline (potentially forever). Please consider closing your accounts, if enough people do it, it might send a message.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

Time to evict AirBnB from your life, if you have't already.

submitted 31 days ago • 208 comments

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... Absolutely essential piece on why journalism is broken just when we need it most and what we can do to fix it. Please read - or you could click on a story about a man with three nipples. Your choice…

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When people ask what Putin has over Trump, remember the Spycraft acronym MICE which describe the four key weaknesses which allow someone open to be being recruited M - Money I - Ideology C - compromising material (Kompromat) E - Ego All four are probably factors in Trump’s subservience to Putin

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This fake tweet is doing the rounds on here. Please do not spread disinformation - it only makes those doing it as bad as all the other liars out there...

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

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Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power | Jonathan Freedland

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"A billionaire bully shouldn’t be able to use his social media platform as a propaganda tool to amplify lies and advance the cause of the far right. Nor should social media companies be able to evade responsibility for algorithms that maximise and monetise hate" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why is our taxpayer's money going to the Royals in so many ways? Empty Dartmoor prison pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year & has another 24 years left on its lease Charities which the Royals are patrons of also pay millions to them in rent Make it make sense www.thetimes.com/article/ddf3...

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Tiktok has been banned in the US on the grounds that China could use it "to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation." In other words, China might do exactly what Elon Musk has done with X. It's a blatant double standard.

submitted 61 days ago • 61 comments

‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

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Tulip Siddiq was supposed to oversee anti-corruption, not auntie corruption.

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Shadow Treasury Sec, Gareth Davies: Rachel Reeves inherited a brilliant economy. Wilf Frost: She didn't though, did she. It was terrible. Gareth Davies: Ok. Yes. It was terrible. But none of it was our fault. And it was ABOUT to be brilliant. That took less than 90 seconds to fall apart. Oof! ~AA

submitted 64 days ago • 51 comments

And this is what a journalist who takes their preparation seriously looks like. Bravo, Wilf Frost!

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

No one ever lost money by telling billionaires what they want to hear.

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This is the best thing you will read today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after. Quite probably the best, the most important thing Lewis Goodall has ever written. Read it. Share it.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…

submitted 74 days ago • 198 comments

Compare the sheer scale of the coverage handed by the BBC this morning to Nigel Farage and his party, with its grand total of five MPs, to its coverage of other similarly small parties.

submitted 73 days ago • 62 comments

This is extremely shoddy poll reporting.

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🔴The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...

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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

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Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news

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🔴Hot Type: The Cult of the Billionaire Instead of glorifying hoarders of vast un-spendable wealth, the world must finally wake up to the huge damage they are doing, writes @heidicuda.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-t...

submitted 95 days ago • 35 comments

This - not spoken about enough

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