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🔴Woman Arrested in Fraud Investigation Linked to £25m ‘VIP’ Covid Deal Referred by Conservative Minister The director of a firm awarded a multimillion pound Government contract was arrested on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy to cheat the public revenue and tax evasion bylinetimes.com/2025/04/09/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

One of the things that will confuse people looking back on this era in a few decades, will be how exactly Donald Trump convinced people he understood business and economics.

submitted 12 days ago • 31 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 18 days ago • 964 comments

Hi All, sent out this free post as people (once again) lost their mind when Trump said something that seemed anti-Putin. Its happened regularly in the past 3 months--and every time he walks it back (as he has done already). He is toying with Ukraine and Europe. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social Hi Chris, good news this morning on moorland burning - hope this thread might be of interest: bsky.app/profile/guys...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"Hopes are growing in London and Brussels that a crucial summit in May will open the door to a UK-EU defence pact and wider economic deal, and that it will not be derailed by a dispute over fishing." “I think we are in a very good place.” ~AA www.ft.com/content/2fe9...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 25 days ago • 2078 comments

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

submitted 28 days ago • 332 comments

@ledbydonkeys.org 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

submitted 42 days ago • 204 comments

We can surely rule out stupidity, senility, madness and kompromat - can’t we? But what else explains Trump’s behaviour? My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/...

submitted 44 days ago • 32 comments

Hi All, I released the first part of my weekend update early (it’s all free) because what we are seeing is so extreme it needs to be said now. The USA is now openly admitting to helping Russia kill Ukrainians. Indeed, Trump seems to be enjoying it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 44 days ago • 45 comments

The "minerals deal" is basically meaningless. There aren't lots of minerals in Ukraine waiting to be dug up by eager American miners. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 51 days ago • 757 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 51 days ago • 1308 comments

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

submitted 51 days ago • 130 comments

Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin.

submitted 51 days ago • 238 comments

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

submitted 51 days ago • 159 comments

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

submitted 51 days ago • 459 comments

I #standwithUkraine! I stand with Zelensky and the brave Ukrainian people. DJT and JD Vance aren’t fit to lick their boots. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Glory to Ukraine.

submitted 51 days ago • 22 comments

This is grotesque and no, Today Programme, it isn’t funny - as the excellent Lyse Doucet made very clear

submitted 54 days ago • 49 comments

Thousands protest in London ahead of third anniversary of Ukraine war

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 58 days ago • 21 comments

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

submitted 59 days ago • 70 comments

Brilliant simple clear explainer by @sheridanflynn.bsky.social of the threat Russia poses to Britain youtu.be/M7O4Eh3Roe8?...

submitted 59 days ago • 45 comments

Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 72 days ago • 108 comments

🔴Trump’s Gaza Plan is a White Supremacist Agenda, and the Homeland is Next Trump’s Gaza plan ‘does not come out of the blue’ argues @nafeez.bsky.social , it is ‘part and parcel of a broader white supremacist agenda’ bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/t...

submitted 72 days ago • 15 comments

“Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die” Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 73 days ago • 38 comments

Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

submitted 74 days ago • 411 comments

This petition to stop Musk pouring his cash into UK politics is currently the most popular on the parliamentary petitions site It’s leapt from under 30k signatures yesterday evening to nearly 40k now You know what to do: keep signing & sharing! bsky.app/profile/guys...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for the Tech Autocracy of Trump and Musk “Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according… https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/how-russian-information-warfare-primed-the-world-for-the-tech-autocracy-of-trump-and-musk/

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

submitted 87 days ago • 224 comments