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Omg He actually posted this from the White House account. He is not stable. Dementia

submitted 3 days ago • 540 comments

Killing off the university sector once and for all for a politcal battleground which Labour will never win… instead of reclassifying the immigration statistics as we always should have to reflect the fact the vast majority of foreign students leave the UK. Stupid. Unserious. Utterly self-defeating.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country

submitted 4 days ago • 421 comments

Just flat out lying from Treasury. Water utilities are highly profitable once you strip out debt repayments. And the statutory mechanism for rescuing broken water companies enables DEFRA to strip out debt repayments. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

‘Labour must start speaking about extent of Brexit damage’ – Andy Burnham www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/and...

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

It's interesting that Reform's councillor gains almost exactly equal Tory losses, and LibDem and Green gains almost exactly equal Labour losses.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. #TrumpTariffs

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

The conman who was forced to shut down his fake "university" because its operation was consumer fraud, is trying to undermine America's oldest, most prestigious, legitimate university through an abuse of presidential power.

submitted 6 days ago • 756 comments

Massive Russian drone strike on Zaporizhzhia. One person killed, three injured, there are still people under the debris. Awful. Russia continues terrorizing Ukrainian civilians.

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

Cover of The Economist just last October-the economy under Joe Biden was the envy of the world.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Old enough to remember when Brexit trade barriers were going to defy the laws of economics. And didn't. And amazingly enough the same is happening in the US.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

JUST IN: Kamala Harris accuses President Trump of abandoning American ideals in her first major speech since leaving office.

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 8 days ago • 1347 comments

UK Election Officials Are Not Keeping Any Records of How Many Overseas Donors Are Bankrolling UK Politics Democracy campaigners are calling for urgent reform of UK electoral laws bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

🔴 NEW 🔴 GB News Broadcast Almost 1,000 Anti-Climate Attacks Before and After 2024 Election Concerns have been raised about the channel’s “wild and paranoid conspiracy claims” ahead of May’s local elections. My report for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/04/28/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

The government has been busy making new laws. Lots of them. Across rail, education, planning, environment, housing... But most people have not noticed. So, here’s a very handy roundup of progress/changes, including a full list of those new laws and which ones have already had royal assent. 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Read this again & again “A U.S. citizen child suffering from a rare form of metastatic cancer was deported without medication or the ability to consult with their treating physicians–despite ICE being notified IN ADVANCE of the child’s urgent medical needs.” Depravity

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Fuck these cnuts. Seriously. How sick do you have to be to do this to a child with cancer ?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The American tourism industry is sooooooo screwed.

submitted 12 days ago • 940 comments

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

European MPs urge an end to "the policy of appeasement"& call for a united stance against Russia's terrorist regime. In a joint statement, the Chairs of 7 Foreign Affairs Committees said: "We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile;

submitted 12 days ago • 94 comments

This is something I genuinely do not understand. Why does Labour not do something about it now?

submitted 12 days ago • 124 comments

“With Brexit, Farage helped embed the poor growth and state dysfunction that are even now providing fuel for his return.Britain has already spent one decade struggling to get by in the world Farage created. It can ill afford a second” Ffs. How much failure can we take? economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

this is an amazing reduction from ULEZ!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Children with cancer can’t access vital drugs because of Brexit. And the government is still chasing a US deal over rebuilding ties with Europe? Labour voters, MPs, even donors are pleading: Choose the EU. @jennyrhodes42.bsky.social reports #Brexit #Trade

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

This little performance from Tory, Andrew Griffith, is politics at its most loathsome. The insinuations, the sly little dog-whistles he blows while trying to appear oh so reasonable, the sheer bad faith of his ‘arguments’… Ugh. If you go into politics to behave - and lie - like this, shame on you.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Funny how many of the people who supported the party which deliberately and gleefully put us on the wrong side of a hard border seem not to be enjoying the consequences of their actions.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A new article estimates that even a 10% DECLINE in MMR vax coverage in the US could lead to 11 MILLION US measles cases over 25 years. IF instead MMR coverage INCREASES by 5%, cases would falled to <10K. Given infectiousness of Measlies, it's VITAL to ⬆️ MMR vax rates. Measles info below 1/2

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.

submitted 12 days ago • 1640 comments

They’re arresting judges now

submitted 12 days ago • 3103 comments

"One NATO official, when asked for a reaction to the plan, replied, 'Did Putin write this for him?'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 13 days ago • 349 comments

Organisers of the London marathon show more leadership than the government. And should be applauded for doing so. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

submitted 13 days ago • 141 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 14 days ago • 858 comments

The mass firing of GSA staff and the potential sale of federal courthouses are not merely routine changes. These developments could meaningfully hinder the judicial system and need to be seen as part of Trump allies' attacks on the rule of law.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

2025: Nigel Farage makes the case for chlorinated chicken for a UK-US trade deal 2017: Michael Gove told us that there would be no chlorinated chicken in a UK-US trade deal

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Brexit has “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via international clinical trials” Extra rules and costs have a “significant negative impact” on UK cancer research… But yeah, “Brexit betrayal” is the real problem. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

Left: Nigel Farage criticises multiculturalism in his Easter message Right: The Pope promotes and supports multiculturalism in his Easter message

submitted 17 days ago • 66 comments

Liz Truss tanked the economy, sent mortgages skyrocketing and made working people pay the price. Nigel Farage thinks she’s someone worth listening to.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

I’m getting pictures in my head: Liz Truss and Andrea Jenkyns Together Forming a coalition Growing the pie Trickling down… Somebody help me…PLEASE!!! 🥵

submitted 19 days ago • 50 comments

I was once on an a train from to Budapest. In the middle of the night, officious men with epaulets were banging on doors demanding papers. As we pulled out of the station, I heard a passenger dragged onto the platform crying. I shortsightedly said, "I'm glad we don't live in a country like this."

submitted 19 days ago • 217 comments

Some people still seem to think sucking up to Trump will get us a trade deal with the US But we don’t want a deal on Trump’s terms that puts out food standards & our ability to regulate the US tech oligarchs on the table! Starmer needs to find a backbone! No state visit!

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

“If you had assumed we were incompetent, you wouldn’t be in this mess”

submitted 19 days ago • 47 comments

The curse of private equity. US senators investigate role of PE in higher cost of fire engines defective parts, delivery delays. Usual PE story- profiteering, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodges. It has destroyed UK high street, devouring healthcare, vets and more. archive.ph/QuulQ

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Reeves to make case for trade deal in first meeting with US treasury secretary. Must not sacrifice the NHS; food/environment standards, worker rights. Any deal must be approved by parliament in a free vote. Trade deal with the EU preferable to US. Can't trust Trump. Our future lies with Europe.

submitted 19 days ago • 69 comments

UK businesses writing letters directly to Maroš Šefčovič, EU Commissioner for Trade, begging for help, is not just a reminder that brexit is, still, not yet "done", but, how badly the UKGov is reading the room. The EU brexit summit on May 19th will be a huge sliding doors moment for the UK. 1/6

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Brexiters wail that any reset with the EU is a ‘Brexit betrayal’ as if that shitshow is hallowed turf. They’d also have you believe a US deal matters more. When the best we could hope for with Trump is not very much, let’s not risk progress with the EU for them. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

Britain, a trading nation, now has a vital choice to make about its priority trading partners: - the EU, where agreements are made, kept, reciprocal, based on international norms, & enforced by a court - the USA, where agreements are made, broken, changed & broken again at a whim, with no recourse

submitted 19 days ago • 126 comments