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Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. www.ft.com/content/1511...

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Just in case people have forgotten, Trump has an abiding hatred of Zelensky for refusing to pursue Biden and his son, Hunter in an investigation Trump wanted opened in Ukraine, as he thought it would help Trump’s 2020 Presidential run. What you see now is spite

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Scientists of the world, this is happening on our watch and we need to face it down. Evidence-based medicine weaponised for overtly ideological purposes. We do not need randomised trials of 'vaccine' versus 'no vaccine' when those vaccines have already been shown to be safe & effective. #episky 🧪

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I'm not a scientist, but I have signed this, as someone who can see how awful this looks for the @royalsociety.org

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

submitted 10 days ago • 135 comments

Not actually from Papua New Guinea, but brilliant nonetheless… 😃

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

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I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I? Like if you do RT if you really do

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

The 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 tyrant understands the importance of taxing the rich and powerful, before they end up having power over you.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 21 days ago • 126 comments

I need everyone to see this photo of Terry Pratchett. Might genuinely make it my lock screen

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The UK needs to lead in Europe again. We can't rely on Trump, and Labour hasn't shown the urgency or ambition to fix our relationship with our closest neighbours. A UK-EU customs union is the first step repairing that relationship. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-starme…

submitted 22 days ago • 42 comments

From the CWS Archive. 31st January 2020 (Brexit Day). “Let’s fucking party!”

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me?”  Terry Pratchett; Jingo #Discworld #PotomacTragedy #TrumpsDEIProgramFailings #ItWasntMe #TrumpsAmerica 💔💙

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With Nigel Farage and Reform UK again calling for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights here is a reminder of why joining Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR is a very very very bad idea youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...

submitted 28 days ago • 84 comments

Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays. Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

submitted 33 days ago • 362 comments

Starmer warned not to cosy up to Trump as new poll shows Labour voters want closer EU ties instead www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 34 days ago • 66 comments

Cue the usual empty threats of legal action, followed by a PR campaign and eventual silence. What we need is a police investigation.

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

American Gothic by Chris Riddell

submitted 34 days ago • 41 comments

Thought for today, thank you, Nietzsche 👇 The Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged. Appropriate on the eve of the indoor inauguration of the orange one!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The older I get the more I relate to Havelock Vetinari is2g

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Repost so that we get this feature.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

My recent piece on #Musk in the Christmas @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

submitted 51 days ago • 34 comments

Hats off to @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and sod off to Elon Musk. Here's a 🎶 parody of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on the Wire" about Musk's recent spate of diarrhoea tweets about the UK, called "Turd on a Wire" (with an attempted nod to the wonderful k.d. lang version ❤️). youtu.be/G_N4UmUjJeo

submitted 45 days ago • 31 comments

I first learnt of grooming gangs from @theTimes in Jan 2011 I became chief prosecutor May 2011 I authorised charging Rochdale grooming gang June 2011 After convictions (May 2012) Starmer put me in charge of national response Far Right thugs attacked my home 1000s of rapists were brought to justice

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

This is an astonishingly ill-informed and amoral assessment for the political editor of the BBC to have reached, about someone spreading extremist conspiracy theories and using them to whip up hatred against elected politicians. I'd say I'm surprised, but sadly I'm not.

submitted 46 days ago • 171 comments

This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.

submitted 46 days ago • 180 comments

Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips. Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’ - exc from @ecourea.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

This needs amplifying.

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The Prime minister hits back at Elon Musk ‘Those that are spreading lies and misinformation…are not interested in victims’

submitted 47 days ago • 60 comments

Kemi Badenoch defends the right to speak freely and air a different point of view, by insisting those who disagree must stop.

submitted 47 days ago • 65 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 49 days ago • 200 comments

Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to place Nigel Farage in the House of Lords. RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.

submitted 49 days ago • 107 comments

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 231 comments

Another eX-Press Poll needing a lot of help. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

A reminder that Sadiq Khan successfully won three elections in a row by large majorities against Conservative opponents, one of whom, Shaun Bailey, was then given a seat in the House of Lords for life. Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"

submitted 53 days ago • 110 comments

King Rædwald: A warrior, a king, a man of two faiths. His dual altars explain why our Christmas rituals still echo pagan times. @annadamski.bsky.social tells us more

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We need to be on the lookout. 👀

submitted 58 days ago • 42 comments