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Berlin. Putin‘s horror feels so much close here. So trying to focus on all things small and beautiful.

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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

A thread of my opening submissions on behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families in Module 10 of the Covid-19 Public Inquiry

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Nigel Farage says he will always put "country" first. Here's a reminder of which country he's talking about.

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Despite claiming to love his country, Nigel Farage’s silence on Trump, Putin and Ukraine shows where his loyalties really lie www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/agent-farage

submitted 17 hours ago • 44 comments

BBC News on hour reporting straight that Trump has got rid of military chiefs because ‘they’re too mired in woke culture’ 🤯🤯🤯 Traditional liberal democratic media still hasn’t learned how to report on authoritarians, even now when it’s almost too late

submitted 18 hours ago • 81 comments

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 21 hours ago • 122 comments

This is definitely tax evasion!

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Grok’s gone woke 😉

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

Ah, the controversial Roman heart signal (according to the MSM)

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

Yup.

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This really is beyond shocking. Imagine if someone said this to every public sector worker in the UK

submitted 7 hours ago • 92 comments

Boycott American products. Boycott anyone that advertises on GB News. Simple direct action that hits them where it hurts. Financially. Express your disgust with your wallet.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

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Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

submitted 13 hours ago • 72 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 8 hours ago • 62 comments

Two Clacton constituents with housing issues scour the local newspaper for details of their MP's surgeries. No success so far.

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

We really don’t. That’s a plain fact www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1158 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Young #Carers need supporting, not punishing! 💔💔

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Good news. Deposit return scheme for plastic bottles approved in England & NI. Haven't seen this reported elsewhere. Can't come soon enough.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Sounds like a plan

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Patriotism? Sovereignty? No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity. V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

It breaks my heart that thousands of highly qualified National Park employees were indiscriminately fired yesterday. In addition to the devastating consequences that these reckless cuts in personnel will have for parks and communities, these people were passionate stewards of our treasured lands.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Now on the third volume of Hilary Mantell’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy and the chaos, madness and danger of the Tudor court suddenly does not seem quite so strange.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

European emergency summit on Ukraine planned - including Starmer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

As always @maitlis.bsky.social neatly sums it up

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

🎵 It Mastiff been love, but it's Rover now ... 🎵 #ASongOrMovieForBigAnimals

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Centers for Disease Control cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health in U.S EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 317 comments

‘Rupert Lowe MP has installed solar panels on his Cotswold farm, in order to save money; while at the same time his Reform Party claims renewables are more expensive.’ What does Reform UK really believe about net zero?

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

🔥 Lord Sumption says US is now “very, very” unreliable ally - - and the UK should disentangle from it. Absolutely right.

submitted 7 days ago • 165 comments

When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand. They see Canada, and the best of our values. Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦

submitted 7 days ago • 1133 comments

Andrea Martin #photography of #children & #animals #photos #LoveAnimals #VeganForTheAnimals

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James Murdoch on Boorish Johnson on Brexit “It struck me that everyone was just having a laugh,” James recalled. “Nobody thought it was going to win, including Johnson.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

It looks like Starmer has finally found the real special relationship #RejoinEU

submitted 7 days ago • 37 comments

Remember the days of "No one is above the law"? Seems quaintly constitutional now.

submitted 7 days ago • 855 comments

Sharp rise in cancer patients in England waiting months for treatment

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 9 days ago • 523 comments

Military historian Sir Antony Beevor on Times Radio on Trump-Putin: "We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those from WW2...but there is a really very frightening echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the idea that one can deal over the heads of a suffering nation"

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Dunno, but I bet they've got their trotters up...

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

A Telegraph journalist does not accept that judges make decisions according to the law, rather than the imbecilic whims of uninformed newspaper proprietors.

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

Brexit. Danny. Brexit. Liz Truss. 14 years of managed decline, Danny. Get a grip. #bbcqt

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First question on #bbcqt. With all that’s going on in the world atm and all the Tory corruption gone before the #BBC are wasting time ‘investigating’ Rachel Reeves cv from 10 years ago. Johnson, PPE, Italian villa, security detail, Russian report. BBC - do better.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments