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Starmer is playing the board as he sees it. A game of strengths and weaknesses, wins and losses. And he's playing it well.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

All in all, Starmer’s first Trump White House visit looks like it couldn’t have gone much better. No 10 will be delighted and relieved, his enemies bitterly disappointed.

submitted 8 hours ago • 72 comments

For someone who “doesn’t do performative politics” that was a very good show. There’s still a lot more to be done rather than just said, but Keir Starmer - and the team who prepared him can be pleased with that. Where was Elon Musk btw?

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

There’s going to be a lot of hat-eating tonight. Critics will find a way to do the PM down, of course. Say he gave too much or too little. Was too fawning or not enough. They'd have done it better. Nothing will come of it. But in their black shrivelled heart they'll know Starmer played a blinder.

submitted 8 hours ago • 92 comments

This week's column asks a question that should be in everyone's minds, as Trump reshapes the world's alliances: How, given that our defence and security capacities are completely infiltrated by the US state, do we defend ourselves if the US becomes our opponent? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 22 hours ago • 142 comments

Just an hour after Elon retweeted claims Slim had ties to drug cartels, the Mexican billionaire announced the transfer of all of his projects with Starlink for the next 5 years – worth $22Bn – to companies in China & Europe. The genius co-president just lost his main partner in 25 countries.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

On his own social media platform, and without providing any evidence to back up his claims, Elon Musk indicates the skies over America are deeply dangerous for air travelers. And, of course, that his company - quite by chance, you understand - will be filling the breach.

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

Ultimately, growth means little if people cannot feel the benefits or see positive change. Our goal is to deliver economic growth in every corner of our city that helps to raise living standards, puts more money in people's pockets & enables us to invest in our public services.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

President Trump’s order abolishing the “X” gender marker and recognizing only birth sex has caused confusion and anxiety for trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming American travelers who are applying for or renewing passports. Here's what to know about the policy.

submitted 13 hours ago • 21 comments

"The Trump administration is saying: 'These guys are going against the woke agenda. Let's help them out'." Why did The White House help the Tate Brothers?

submitted 13 hours ago • 42 comments

Coastal Foam, 2019 by US Erin Hanson #WomensArt

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EXCL: Keir Starmer’s decision to cut foreign aid budget to pay for increased defence is a “strategic mistake” that will add to burden on Britain’s armed forces, former army chief tells ⁦‪@alethaadu www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

Andrew Tate has been accused of rape and human trafficking in the UK. An attempt by the Trump administration to stand in the way of Britain's justice system would be deeply wrong. The Tate brothers must face justice here in the UK.

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Every news channel has been saying all day the Tate brothers' history is one of misogyny, their return is shady, and the effect on victims traumatic. AND YET... all of them are standing by to livecast any remark the Tates care to make after landing, live and in full. You are part of the problem.

submitted 14 hours ago • 68 comments

It is about separating and creating an enemy within and what's sad is that Suella Braverman is doing this to herself. Suella Braverman claims despite her British birth, education, and decade as an MP, she is not English.

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

Royal Academy could cut 60 jobs amid ‘serious financial challenge’

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The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But nearly 20% of the time, the American organ transplant system is skipping over hundreds or even thousands of people when it distributes kidneys, livers, lungs and hearts, a New York Times investigation found.

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3070 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 14 hours ago • 425 comments

Andrew Tate has left Romania for US by private jet, reports say

submitted 22 hours ago • 182 comments

There are reports that Andrew Tate and his brother have left Romania for the USA via private jet. Despite facing charges including human trafficking and sexual misconduct, it would appear the Trump administration has helped him to go home. Tate is a vocal supporter of Donald Trump.

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

I imagine Suella Braverman who says the point is to defend Judeao-Christian heritage has not even noticed she is saying 99% of British Jews can't be English, including the third and fourth generation who have identified as English since they were in primary school

submitted 22 hours ago • 29 comments

🇬🇧 NEW: Lone Starmer State 🇺🇸 Beloved occasional Quiet Rioter, @mrjamesob.bsky.social, joins @pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social to discuss Starmer's trip to Washington and this new "Axis of Dicks" ©pimlicat. 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6vIO... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

The White House limited newswires in a takeover of the press pool. The AP, Reuters and Bloomberg News released a statement objecting to the decision

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."

submitted 1 day ago • 1543 comments

The editors of Reuters, the AP and Bloomberg, the three permanent wires in the White House press pool, have issued a joint statement warning that moves to exclude the AP threaten the public access to information about government that is "essential in a democracy" reutersagency.com/resources/st...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

In Peterborough Cathedral there is a panel explaining that during the Reformation, when soldiers came to smash the monuments, steal the gold and burn the books, a monk managed to save just one book from the library, claiming to the illiterate soldiers that it was a bible that must not be burned.

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EXC: Ministers discussing a range of options for changing (but not removing) the 2-child-benefit cap. Exempting parents of under-5s, exempting parents in work, higher child benefit payments, all in play. Story with @alethaadu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

submitted 1 day ago • 590 comments

And heres the source. Happy now JK Rowling fans? www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/26/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Charge women who miscarry with murder, but allow parents to slowly kill their child with vaccine preventable diseases. Fuck Jenny McCarthy and RFK and everyone in between.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

NEW: President Trump says the US will soon impose 25% tariffs on imports from the EU- “generally speaking on cars and all other things.”

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of Bezos' move, the WashPo was a liberal paper and its readers identified as such. It's always a bold move to sack your readers. Ordinarily I'd assume Bezos worked off the data but this feels different

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Midweek Article on an Important Topic — Read If You Can: (In The Face of Increasing Global Discord and Polarization, Let's Display Togetherness and Kindness Harder) gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/kindness-h...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Caring has shaped my life, from looking after my mum and my nanna, to caring for my wonderful son, John. In May, I'm releasing my new book Why I Care. It’s my story, but it’s also the story of millions of carers who give everything for those they love.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Democracy dies in deference

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled briefly was Ebola prevention, which was nice.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions & humiliations of all the people who cheered this in & sneered about ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ etc would be absolutely hilarious.

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 2 days ago • 9565 comments

These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction. Will he seize it? New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Let's hope this means there is a good chance of criminal proceedings and not something more troubling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

We must get serious. Now excuse me while I wang on about pronouns in a speech about defence

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Still makes me SO FKN ANGRY that Johnson ‘purged’ the Conservative Party of decent, thoughtful people like Burt, Gauke or Grieve, to replace them with Gullises, Bentons and Andersons. This idiotisation of the Tories led DIRECTLY to Truss/Badenoch - and a golden chance for Farage’s latest grift.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments