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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 2 days ago • 477 comments

Conservatives: We can't jump to conclusions about what the people Sieg Heiling from the CPAC main stage have in their hearts. Also Conservatives: Here's the 93rd book this year about how how liberals regulating sugar content in childrens' breakfast cereal "evokes" or "echoes" fascism.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

All pretences dropped now. The US government has shifted its allegiances to Russia, and the entire basis of our security, tied as it was to an illusory special relationship, has just gone overboard. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

BREAKING: US voted against Ukraine's UN resolution which branded Russia the "aggressor" & demanded withdrawal of its troops. US on list of 18 nations also incl Russia, Iran and North Korea to vote against. UK & most European nations among 93 states to back Ukrainian resolution. China abstained.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

My natter last week with @nickabbot.bsky.social on @LBC, as Musk's efforts to hold federal workers to account was over-ruled by several members of Trump's Cabinet. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/865862...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The proper name for a country next to Russia that isn't in NATO is "next".

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The main lessons the world will draw from the Ukraine saga will be: 1. Never trust any deal done with the Americans 2. Never give up nuclear weapons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapes...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’m assuming Boris Johnson has written two letters One in support of Ukraine & One in support of Trump

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

submitted 7 days ago • 64 comments

So, Farage is a spokesperson for Trump and Trump is a spokesperson for Putin. It’s, quite ironically, like a game of Russian dolls. Except instead of dolls they’re ugly treacherous cunts.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

I think I see a way through this "Ukrainian election" problem that is straightforward. Russia removes itself completely from all Ukrainian land, then Zelensky calls an election. There, problem solved.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

submitted 8 days ago • 271 comments

I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 9 days ago • 2371 comments

I don't see Trump demanding elections in Russia. ...ironically one year, almost to the day, after Alexei Navalny's murder.

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

From the other place…former Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace with this fact-based broadside against Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Morning Bluesky. Former UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace today launched a ferocious attack on Trump’s lies about Ukraine and repetition of Kremlin propaganda.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

A grotesque insult to the rest of the world, let alone Ukraine 👇

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If Labour had been in power in 1939, would Churchill have been giving speeches about pronouns?

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Putin can end the fighting anytime he wants. He just needs to take his nasty little pockmarked fascist arse and carry it back to Russia where it fucking belongs.

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

Ninety nine USAID public servants gave their lives in the line of duty.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Still internalising the Vance Munich speech. A sitting Vice President goes to Europe, barely says a word about the despotic murderous regime which has invaded its neighbour, and instead lectures his allies about freedom of speech. It’d be funny if it weren’t so serious.

submitted 13 days ago • 259 comments

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

MAGA is really a collection of cowards and incels isn’t it? They bully migrants and trans people, but whenever a vicious tyrant like Putin comes along, they get down on their knees and fawn.

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

submitted 14 days ago • 145 comments

UK being at the Weimar + meeting and signing this shows we can play a constructive role in Europe and that Europe is better when we do. A glimmer of hope for Ukraine? And for the EU-UK reset?

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

The story of two US Presidents. 1987 "Mr Gorbarchev, tear down that wall..." 2025 "Mr Putin, how much land in Ukraine do you want to keep?"

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Well, we've noone but ourselves to blame. We Europeans have been reduced to the role of spectators as the map of our continent is redrawn. 1/5

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 18 days ago • 170 comments

In what possible universe do low paid workers not contribute?

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

I have indeed explained why @rcolvile.bsky.social 'calculations are "erroneous". He has arbitrarily assumed, contrary to the data used by the OBR and that published by HMRC - that 2/3 of recent migrants are on very "low wages". His response below does not suggest he has much confidence..

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Very relateable 😂

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 20 days ago • 1039 comments

Having to fight Elon Musk at DOGE before we’ve even battled Trump feels like having to defeat the forces of Saruman first at Helm’s Deep.

submitted 21 days ago • 546 comments

Note that even this desperate grifter wouldn’t do exactly what Musk did, and how he currently has just enough conscience left to look briefly uncomfortable. I wonder who will go there first & what contortions fellow fascist sympathisers & apologists will undertake to pretend that they haven’t…

submitted 30 days ago • 181 comments

The perfect Monday #RecipeOfTheDay: Spaghetti with Marmite! And I’ll have you know that this is no Anglo act of appropriation but the invention of that great Italian foodwriter, Anna del Conte www.nigella.com/recipes/spag...

submitted 32 days ago • 63 comments

This blithering idiot reached the very top of the civil service system. Basically proof that something has gone terribly wrong.

submitted 34 days ago • 110 comments

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

submitted 37 days ago • 202 comments

Pearson is probably the most despicable of all these chancers. Perhaps because she's too thick to hide what she's doing.

submitted 37 days ago • 63 comments

Every right-wing podcaster discussing Elon Musk

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

Show me someone pretending that Prince Harry hasn't kicked Rupert Murdoch's arse from here to eternity & I'll show you a Murdoch lackey/Trump apologist/bare-faced liar. Some people may even fit all three categories!

submitted 37 days ago • 150 comments

She knew this would happen. That's what courage looks like. By contrast, look at the people in this shot. (With the possible exception of Vance's wife.)

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