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Today’s #Ukraine rally in Notting Hill

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

He nails it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1316 comments

US starts reacting to overreach of Trump administration….

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Let's say their names: * General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: FIRED FOR BEING BLACK * Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Chief of Naval Operations: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE * Admiral Linda Fagan, Coast Guard Commandant: FIRED FOR BEING FEMALE All replaced by less qualified white guys.

submitted 22 hours ago • 82 comments

The charity Medical Life Lines Ukraine has delivered 91 aid-filled ambulances to #Ukraine. Please donate. www.medicallifelines.org.uk

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Strong words from Dmytro Kuleba. I'm not sure there is a 'West' after the last 10 days of US bomb-throwing. But it's time for Europeans to realise that Ukraine’s success is our vital national interest too - we cannot leave Putin & Trump to destroy the foundations of post WW2 European security.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Britain must choose between an unstable alliance with Trump or aligning with a resilient, unified Europe”

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

The charity Medical Life Lines Ukraine has helped save Ukrainian lives by delivering 91 ambulances from the UK to #Ukraine. Please donate to help them deliver more www.medicallifelines.org.uk

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Please spread the word - a great opportunity for an early-career researcher with an interest in foreign, security and defence policy to work with @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social's outstanding team, getting exposure to experts & policy-makers in London, Brussels & Washington.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage. Be there if you can to support them 🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

If you are not following Heather Cox Richardson, you should! @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

'We have to stand up' Murkowski calls on Congress to resist mass firings by Trump administration www.adn.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Europeans need to work on the assumption that Trump won’t support us militarily and he won’t uphold NATO. But we are almost 600 million people, have the army most experienced in fighting Russia (Ukraine), advanced technology and two nuclear powers. Time to get to work. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

If you are not following Heather Cox Richardson, you should! @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This seems significant

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The media must stop doing headlines that give credibility to this victim blaming propaganda. This is from the BBC #LBC @mrjamesob.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

🔥 Has Zelenskyy just played Trump? Yes. Yes he has. 🇪🇺🇺🇦

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

When the PM visits the White House next week, he must challenge Trump on his Ukraine lies in the strongest possible terms. It's alarming to see the leader of the free world parroting Putin's propaganda. Trump spoke in Mar-a-Lago but his words could have been written in Moscow.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

If Winston Churchill were still with us, he would surely be advising… Zelenskyy to ignore international pressure to call elections… Every October for five consecutive years, the wartime British government led by Winston Churchill obtained legislative consent to postpone scheduled elections #bbcpm

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn says Ed Davey “It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies” 👏

submitted 3 days ago • 103 comments

Be not afraid The UK’s GDP is 50% bigger than Russia’s and GDP per capita three times as great (as with most EU countries). The economic power of the EU alone (without the UK) is EIGHT times larger than Russia. The EU is a superpower. Russia is not. And should not be treated like one

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

Mario Draghi barrels into European politicians and leaders for their inaction: "You say no to public debt. You say no to the single market. You say no to create a capital market union. You can't say no to everything...You ask me what's best to do…I don’t know, but do something"

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

In response to Trump's latest bollocks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #wato

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Must-read piece. Europe cannot afford to be the chorus in a Greek tragedy, wringing its hands on the edge of the stage while horrors unfold elsewhere. Ukraine’s success is a vital interest for European countries, including the UK. They need to act, not wait for Trump to harm their interests.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Sir Sadiq Khan says a youth mobility scheme “would help aid economic growth across London” while giving under 30s the chance to work abroad. He also argued that closer ties with Europe would help counter the economic impact of threatened US tariffs. ~AA www.bestforbritain.org/sadiq_khan_r...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Rare sighting of an endangered species in Richmond Park. #SaveTheParksPolice #RichmondPark #BushyPark

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

@theroyalparks.bsky.social

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Rare sighting of an endangered species in Richmond Park. #SaveTheParksPolice #RichmondPark #BushyPark

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Someone has found their mojo!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Via Extinction Rebellion just now: "Today, Extinction Rebellion climate activists are occupying McKinsey & Company’s London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit." extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/02/17/c...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

“Russia has not achieved its military goals, its economy is under immense pressure, and combat losses continue to grow. […] Now is not the time to ease this pressure”, - former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

A critical point.

submitted 7 days ago • 604 comments

Well worth a read - I’m learning a lot from Ezra’s articles and podcasts.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Good for AFP

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

He who rambles on about Hannibal Lecter, Arnold Palmer’s dick size, windmill cancer, and turning Gaza into a real-estate play, and thinks he’s saving the county, should have his head examined.

submitted 6 days ago • 947 comments

Friends, May we never forget that while negotiations,statements, addresses and the rest of the (undoubtedly important) diplomacy track are happening,exhausted #Ukrainian men &women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines. Without them,there would be no diplomacy track at all.

submitted 6 days ago • 332 comments