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🇬🇧🇺🇦 "Did you hear people cheering you on the street? You can see the support. And we will support as long as it takes. We want long-term peace," — Starmer to Zelensky

🚨 BREAKING: After torpedoing yesterday’s meeting with Zelensky, JD Vance fled to Vermont for vacation—only to be met by hundreds of furious protesters. Couldn’t have happened to a better guy!

Donald Trump has betrayed America. If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.

It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

Does America have any idea what people around the world are thinking of it tonight? Where are the protests? Where is the opposition? Heartbreaking to see a nation's moral collapse like this.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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.

"Under weaknesses, you've put 'Accidentally stopped the fight against Ebola'?"

"Shameful. I can't think of any other word than shameful." Jim Townsend, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for European and NATO Policy from 2009 to 2017, reacts to the US voting with Russia against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war. #Newsnight

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

Together we're pushing back against GB News - and it's working đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news

Chalk one up for the Pope. He tells Vance that from a theological perspective he is a moron.

The world's richest man - perhaps the richest man who has ever lived - gloating about shutting down aid for the world's poorest people. All while posing as the champion of the common man. The great lie of populism in its most naked and morally putrid form.

Now GB News has started pushing a toxic suggestion that the NHS has a "diversity obsession" which is "killing patients". This is what Sky, Trailfinders and Trivago are enabling by supporting GB News It will only add to concerns about efforts by GB News to bring Trump's playbook to the UK.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Americans are about to learn some economics.

Emma Trimble, "1 in 12 people in London are illegal immigrants" Professor Jonathan Portes, "Emma has taken that figure from a story in The Telegraph.. That story was a lie.. The Telegraph has corrected it, The Times has corrected it.. The Sun has corrected it.. And The Daily Mail has corrected it"

“No return to the customs union, to the single market or to free movement and that remains the case” says Home Secretary Yvette Cooper It’s simply impossible to reconcile the governments stubborn & entrenched position on Brexit with its policy of “growth, growth, growth”

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To those saying “It’s not the Brexit I voted for”, you voted for an impossible fantasy, sold to you by grifting gobshites with no interest in reality or what was actually possible. You got exactly what you voted for.

🔴Trump’s Return Must Be a Turning Point for the UK to Stop Pandering to America and Forge a Brighter Future With Europe Trump is taking the US in a dark direction and we must not let ourselves be dragged along with him, argues Green Party co-leader @carladenyer.bsky.social

I want to remind Londoners that our city is—and always will be—a place for everyone. We’ll continue to celebrate London as the diverse, open and welcoming city it is.

Alexa, show me a picture of what it feels like to sell your soul to the devil….

This makes me queasy on so many levels. Tax dodger extraordinaire visits food bank. 🤮 news.sky.com/story/large-...

Prince Harry and Tom Watson’s case against The Sun newspaper’s publisher finally makes it to trial over allegations of illegality, corruption, and cover-up Help crowdfund our full and fair reporting You know other news organisations won’t do it ▶️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/the-people-v...

🚨🚨 "Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government". Excellent piece by @blogwyatt.bsky.social outlining some options for the UK to move closer to the EU internal market arguing particularly for a Single Market Agmt with the EU. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2025/01/13/k...

The "Daily Show" host tore into Republican lawmakers for demanding conditions on aid to fire-ravaged portions of California.

Keir Starmer says UK Treasury will be "ruthless" on public spending cuts. It's continuation of Tory austerity. How many will be deprived of food, housing, healthcare, education ...? Lives sacrificed to appease corporations, the rich and neoliberal dogma www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK Ministers in limbo over 'ruthless' spending cuts - as Labour dissent grows. After 14 yrs of austerity, can't cut your way to growth. Govt boxed in by silly promises of reducing debt, no increase in most taxes. Can't rebuild without public investment and eradicating poverty. archive.ph/2D0Nq

NEW A close look at Truss's legal threat to Starmer The former Prime Minister has sent a glorious but seemingly hopeless cease-and-desist letter By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/a-cl...

Here is the key section of that train wreck of an interview by Robert Jenrick on #r4today. Robinson: Did you raise it when you were Home Office minister? Jenrick: We talked about it... I wasn't... My portfolio... But we talked about it. Only a minute, if you can bear it. ~AA

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.

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Literally all they had to do was calmly condemn Musk’s dishonest & inciteful attack on their parliamentary colleague, Jess Phillips. And they couldn’t even manage that. Absolutely shameful.

So, the Tory manifesto did not include an inquiry into grooming gangs and the Tories ignored ALL recommendations from the 2022 report, but they attack Starmer for smearing “those concerned” as “far right”. Which he didn’t. They’re just the most repulsive bunch of arseholes. And far right apologists.

I remember when the working class had more self respect than to let posh privately educated pricks brainwash them into being racist or believing mad conspiracies. They profit from your bigotry for fucks sake. That’s why they’ve got you fighting culture wars - to stop you from starting a class war.

The Royal Family is such a joke that the only person who has served on the frontlines wasn’t allowed to wear uniform, but all the people who didn’t were.

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

Let’s make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet and send Elon Musk packing