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Delighted to see Melanie Reid has a fortnightly column in the new @theobserveruk.bsky.social & that it’s going to be about caring (her husband now has Alzheimer’s). Such an under explored subject and I really think she will do it justice.

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Crimea is UKRAINE 🇺🇦

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Trump: I will end the war in Ukraine on Day 1 Day 93:

submitted 3 days ago • 266 comments

How is Trump still unable to grasp that if the terms of 'peace' are surrendering your land after the invasion, rape & murder of your people, then you have nothing left to lose? This is the art of Putin appeasement, not deal-making.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

❗️Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “The U.S. reaffirms its policy of non-recognition of the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force.” A timeless reminder: Might doesn’t make right.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

8 out of 15 MPs sanctioned by Russia are Lib Dems Proud HT @simonmcgrathld.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Chances that there were only two seem pretty low.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

It's rare, in politics, even in authoritarian regimes, that the chief executive just comes out and says, "I AM GOING TO DO AN AUTHORITARIANISM" on social media. But here we are. A total & comprehensive constitutional crisis, right in front of us.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Hegseth has just spoken about this. He didn’t deny any of the allegations. Instead, typically and predictably, he blamed the media. Pathetic stuff.

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right?

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Make mine a double this time too, Pete. Enjoy it while lasts buddy, you're running out of rope

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The kids are really not buying it!

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

My daughter Rebecca was born 32 years ago today. She brought joy to the world.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

🥰🥰

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total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 13 days ago • 193 comments

"Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone physically taping a threatening note to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone" uhhhh

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“Over ten months since he left office, Sunak is still shaping our democracy by packing even more allies into the Lords. It’s shocking that someone no longer in power can still appoint unelected legislators for life – with no public scrutiny and no say from voters” @electoralreform.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

Incredible

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 13 days ago • 1622 comments

Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

They violated a court order to keep the AP out of the event where they publicly violated a different court order

submitted 13 days ago • 57 comments

Trump says "home-grown criminals are next" to be sent to El Salvador. Weird way to announce your next state visit.

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Just asking questions, Stephen!!

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 13 days ago • 2847 comments

Trump is still saying Ukraine started the war. He built his whole political career on lies so I suppose we shouldn’t expect anything different.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

mad mad mad mad warranted! but completely insane

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

EU sanctions Iranian judges, prison and court on human rights grounds (arbitrary detention and executions) www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I do hope the Free Speech Union are onto this rabid censorshop of British Libraries, rather than encouraging people to sue others they don't like www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

submitted 14 days ago • 17 comments

The millions of people who don’t give a damn that an innocent man who broke no laws was sent to a concentration camp without any due process are all Nazis. They are the people we spent generations warning our children about. They are the people who are so xenophobic they lost their capacity

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

This is deeply shocking. I feel for Wera, on a personal trip and unable to meet her baby grandson. Her only crime? Being a British MP. David Lammy must demand answers from the Chinese ambassador for this initimidatory behaviour.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Trump signs order to 'make America's showers great again' by easing rules restricting water flow, which conserved resources He criticised the "ridiculous" amount of time he says it takes to wet his hair in the shower.. Why not leave his toupee in the shower while he has breakfast, then put it on 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Bravo!

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Good to be in touch with trusted allies like Canada, I told @mark-carney.bsky.social. The EU remains committed to open, predictable trade. The same principles that enabled success stories like CETA. We discussed deeper cooperation on security & defence and our strong support for Ukraine.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

submitted 17 days ago • 74 comments

Yes Layla, in fact it's long overdue. When will Netanyahu be taken to The Hague to face charges?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The French government has announced they could recognise a Palestinian State in June this year. The UK should prepare to stay in lock step. It’s time.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

The wheels of justice... @bylinetimes.bsky.social first broke the story of the Luxe Lifestyle £25m contract 5 years ago, for which our journalist was harried constantly by their anonymous PR guy bylinetimes.com/2020/07/02/l...

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

While I see all your conspiracy theories I regret to inform you that the horrible truth is that an old man with a tariff obsession has been given almost unlimited power in the world's richest country.