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Just been to see “Ocean With David Attenborough” in our local cinema. Beautiful photography but what an eye opener. Industrial fishing and also industrial farming - a lot to answer for.

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As we were saying @peterjukes.bsky.social youtu.be/M7O4Eh3Roe8?...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

🔴How Ukraine Used Cheap Drones and a Lot of Ingenuity to Strike a Major Blow Against Russia “I spent most of the early hours of Saturday in my hallway feeling the walls shake as the ballistic missiles exploded”, @chrisdyork.bsky.social reports from Kyiv bylinetimes.com/2025/06/02/r...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage is an economic car-crash waiting to happen

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

🔴 Populist Simplicity In A Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand? In an in-depth essay, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social talks to political scientist Brian Klaas on why Trump's 'alternative realities' don't stack up against real-world complexities A free preview from the new print edition ⬇️

submitted 107 days ago • 47 comments

🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Brexiteers Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up Government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind, writes @bearlypolitics.co.uk

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Navarro doesn't understand the deal they signed. The text reads: "The United Kingdom and the United States affirm that imported food and agricultural goods must comply with the importing country’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and other mutually agreed standards."

submitted 50 days ago • 134 comments

Oh dear.

submitted 50 days ago • 34 comments

Haphazard, profit-led waste collection in North East England harms the planet - public control offers a cleaner, fairer future.

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Latest in @theatlantic.com . Trump's plan is a no win for Ukraine. Whether Ukraine agrees or not, Trump will end sanctions on Russia and get back to business with Putin. Can we finally hear the end of the arguments that Trump is anything but Russia's ally? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 65 days ago • 23 comments

🔴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 80 days ago • 10 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 80 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 86 days ago • 948 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 89 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...

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"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 89 days ago • 8 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 94 days ago • 2048 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 97 days ago • 330 comments

@ledbydonkeys.org 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

submitted 102 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 110 days ago • 198 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 112 days ago • 31 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 112 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 116 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 119 days ago • 745 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 119 days ago • 1296 comments

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

submitted 119 days ago • 129 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 119 days ago • 234 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 119 days ago • 159 comments

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

submitted 119 days ago • 450 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 119 days ago • 11 comments

Glory to Ukraine.

submitted 119 days ago • 22 comments

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

submitted 122 days ago • 48 comments

Thousands protest in London ahead of third anniversary of Ukraine war

submitted 125 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 126 days ago • 24 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 127 days ago • 70 comments

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

submitted 128 days ago • 45 comments