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It’s quite simple. President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin

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Reform UK's plans to increase taxes and make people pay more for their energy bills goes down like a tripe cake and an axe wielding horror clown at an eight year old's birthday party. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

Well let’s face it Farage showed the same degree of economic ignorance as Truss when he raved about her budget👇🏼😂 So any policies of his will have more flaws than diet water❗️🙄

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The sheer number of hitherto unbelievable things that indicate this is a a US government gone rogue under the influence of right-wing techbro cultists.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Excellent as always @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the US 'Chamberlain' moment - peace in our time 2025 is a sign of US giving up on friends, acceding to foes. snyder.substack.com/p/affirmativ... Who knows why in absurd Trumpian world.

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NEW: A moment in Munich. Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.” He ends hoping for peace. A long, standing ovation. What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.

submitted 7 days ago • 68 comments

Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-arti...

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

What Keir Starmer risks with his Reform blitz Latest for @politics-co-uk.bsky.social on how Labour's immigration messaging could further destabilise its fragile electoral coalition Featuring the insights of @luketryl.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social 👇 www.politics.co.uk/politicslunc...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Once again, everything points to Kemi Badenoch's tenure as truly transformational for the Tories. She'll convert the Conservative & Unionist Party from the most successful entity in world politics, into a desiccated husk & feeder team for Farage's far rightists.

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Very good @the-independent.com Sean O'Grady edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c... on Rachel Reeves mis-steps but why she will stay in office. After 14 yrs of Tory absurdities, UK thought it would be on the mend. More like in an NHS corridor still waiting to be diagnosed.

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💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...

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🚨🚨 Significant news on EU-UK #reset as Keir Starmer become first UK PM to join EU meeting since #Brexit. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be looking everywhere for opportunities for growth but are ignoring the solution right under their noses. A new UK-EU Customs Union would turbocharge our economy, tearing down the trade barriers holding British businesses back.

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

Here is Musk quote-tweeting yet another pro-Russian account and parroting Russian propaganda about bioweapons. Musk is working with Putin to destroy democracy. Defund Fascism - Boycott Tesla

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🔴Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted ‘Pride Swastikas’ and Racist Rants Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

Elon Musk has announced the impending closure of USAID. In an X Spaces conversation, he asserted that Trump agrees with this reckless plan. It’s outrageous how these elites can toy with critical agencies, showing a blatant disregard for the people who rely on them. www.newsweek.com/usaid-shutti...

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

"America First" becomes "America Alone" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 days ago • 85 comments

🔴Labour MPs Pile Pressure on Keir Starmer to Reform the UK’s ‘Unfair’ Voting System Record low turnout and skewed results fuel calls for reform as polling suggests a collapse in support for the current system bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/f...

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I think the fact that Brexiters now have to invent comedy metrics, by which #Brexit has been - somehow - a success, speaks volumes. Don’t you? It’s like someone losing their home, then trying to style it out by pointing out how much less vacuuming there is. ~AA

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

At last! One ex-Trafigura briber gets sentenced. www.ft.com/content/9685... Tragura was known for its incessant bribery. First of many it is hoped.

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The world's biggest company isn’t Apple or Amazon—it’s a UK firm called Novateur, with £100 trillion in assets. Incredible? Yes. True? Kind of. Real? Not remotely. It's a blatant fraud. Here’s how Companies House missed it - and how they could stop these frauds for good.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

Abramovich tax dodge must be probed, HMRC urged. UK rarely tackles tax abuse by billionaires. Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, HSBC Leaks, LuxLeaks, Panama Papers, Offshore Leaks have led to little action. Govts chase little people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

Over 21 million votes cast in 2024 were ignored or wasted. After the most disproportionate election ever, there is a crucial parliamentary debate on 30th Jan on changing the voting system. Write to demand your MP attend and support fair votes: actionnetwork.org/letters/pr-d...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"Is the PM proud of our role at the Battle of Agincourt?" An absolutely genuine question put to Keir Starmer's spokesman at the morning lobby briefing just now

submitted 26 days ago • 231 comments

In honour of Holocaust Memorial Day tomorrow, I've written an essay about the town of Oświęcim, where I stayed in November 2021. I try to celebrate Polish and Jewish life as well as remembering the evil that was done here. lewisbaston.substack.com/p/a-small-to...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

I’ve seen enough. Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Spineless Republicans won’t do it. But it absolutely needs to be said, right now. My Friday Post:

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🔴Donald Trump is Assembling a 'Titushky' Style Maga Mob As the US President pardons violent Trump-supporting rioters, Alexandra Hall Hall finds disturbing parallels with the methods deployed by Georgia's authoritarian regime www.bylinesupplement.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 29 days ago • 13 comments

Merz, the favorite to become Germany’s next chancellor, said he wants peace in Ukraine, but not at the cost of offering up Ukrainian sovereignty to imperialistic Russia. I agree www.kyivpost.com/post/46000

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

He's also basically admitting that he endorses the insurrection. We all know he instigated it.

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🚨🚨 "In today's please let us end this stupidity", EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said the UK does not "currently have plans" to sign up to a pan-European trade agreement. Another depressing #brexit 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

Trump is such a vile, disgusting, cruel, selfish, and heartless man. He doesn’t have a shred of human decency — none whatsoever. No compassion. No mercy. No shame. No heart. No soul. Of course, everyone knows that, but it still needs to be said at every opportunity.

submitted 31 days ago • 669 comments

We've supported this amendment. The Bill to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords is a welcome step forward. The next logical step is to remove the Bishops, ending the outdated feudal overhang of the Church of England’s privileged and guaranteed place in our Parliament.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump just pardoned this POS. Absolutely disgusting.

submitted 33 days ago • 141 comments

This puny effort from Emily Sheffield in @the-independent.com edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c... about the need to embrace Trumpism in the UK needed a caveat about the writer's backstory at Vogue, Standard, sister married to David Cameron. Loosely defined Trumpism is no way forward for UK

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Doom loops, rage, hopelessness... We may not be able to change what the next few years bring, but we can choose to hold on to an integrity within ourselves – recognising that humanness & life is complicated & conflicting, and we are living through phenomenal change. My editorial on Trump's return 👇

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Here we have a former chair of the Tory party, a man still with a government verified tick, pretending that cases aren't set by the courts. Misinformation in desperate search of a TV booking

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

Seriously grim. Breaks my heart that fellow Jews can't see the obvious parallels. Even if in their own self-interest. A world of hatred based on identity never works out well for us.

submitted 34 days ago • 52 comments

“Tufton Street’s so-called think-tanks refuse to answer a simple question: ‘Who funds you?’ Now we can see why: charities – which are supposed to support the public good – have effectively been acting as fronts to funnel money into Tufton Street bank accounts.” goodlawproject.org/a-good-cause...

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

Have we ever considered… That maybe fact checkers feel left leaning …because the left aligns itself more with fact?

submitted 34 days ago • 126 comments