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Today on my LBC Sunday show I interviewed a former Trump adviser. She claimed that Putin wasn’t morally responsible for the war. I challenged her on that claim. She told me she didn’t like me and hung up. And they say the left are snowflakes. Watch the full interview here. youtu.be/tSsV7xyDyfY?...

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I hope that the first thing all those gathered for the meeting of Euro leaders tomorrow give Zelenskyy a standing ovation as he walks in the room and that it is televised.

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The Prime Minister should show British leadership on Ukraine by inviting President Zelenskyy to address Parliament on Monday. I'm proud that the UK has been Ukraine's staunchest ally from the start. We mustn't falter in the face of Trump's bullying now.

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

“Mr President, you’ve lost the Telegraph editorial page”

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

If there was any doubt about Trump's intentions, they've been laid bare today. He and Vance and their cronies are the scum of the earth. Worse than the Mafia.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

submitted 3 days ago • 255 comments

Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump. Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

The only upside to this Uriah Heap tribute act from Starmer is that Nigel Farage will be fucking furious.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Inviting Trump for a second state visit to the UK is the obvious way to butter him up, but it's still quite politically risky for Keir Starmer. Trump is already deeply toxic among UK voters, and who knows what else he might do in the interim. I'd anticipate much bigger protests than last time.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Even if necessary, how nauseating it is to see Keir Starmer fawning over Trump with another invitation for a State visit.

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Trump calls Ukraine's Zelenskyy a 'dictator', 'modestly successful comedian', who should ‘move fast’ or lose country. Part of the strategy to force Ukraine to hand territory to Russia, mineral wealth to US. What next? Can't trust Trump as an ally. UK must rejoin EU. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/z...

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments

HSBC made $32.3bn profit before tax in 2024. $26.9bn given to shareholders in buybacks & dividends. Jobs/branches slashed Banks fleece customers, engage in illicit financial flows; no curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. Their profit is our poverty. Govt deregulated.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Hey Brexiteers! How's that trade deal with America looking to you now?

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Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Donald Trump 'lives in a place of disinformation' He’s right

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.

submitted 15 days ago • 29 comments

We're shocked by Trump and Musk's antics because we judge them against the idea that governments should serve the people. But they have no such intention. Government for them is simply about seizing power and wealth. Let's stop being shocked, and build a global, democratic counter-movement.

submitted 14 days ago • 111 comments

September 5th. An absolutely gripping film from start to finish.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A fantastic Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 with the Stephen Mangan: moving, funny, honest and insightful. A great antidote to all of the crap going on in the world.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

There really hasn’t been as much coverage of Musk’s state capture as there should have been across the British media in last 24 hours. Not so on News Agents. Here’s today’s episode with 20 mins on the subject. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

submitted 27 days ago • 51 comments

I mean my German is rudimentary at best but I don’t think this means “he was sending his heart to the crowd”

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

Only someone with no understanding of liberal history would treat fact-checking and free speech as a binary opposition. The whole point of free speech is that it gets us closer to the truth. Where free speech has no purchase in the truth, its purpose collapses.

submitted 52 days ago • 47 comments

Being called a "half wit" by a man who is apparently unable to read a one sentence Tweet is quite something

submitted 52 days ago • 103 comments

Just in case you were wondering how things are going over at The Spectator, in the opening months of the Paul Marshall/ Michael Gove golden era... These were all published on Monday.

submitted 54 days ago • 118 comments

Sobering discussion on Today of the tech billionaires jostling to buy influence with Trump, so they can gut the regulation of their industries. It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court. The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.

submitted 58 days ago • 39 comments

As journalists we like to say that we tell truth without fear or favour That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments