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submitted 3 days ago • 197 comments

Disappointing linguistic news: the Spanish football federation has declined to rule whether or not f*** off is an insult, deciding instead that there is no evidence that is what Jude Bellingham said www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Daily reminder of who Musk is:

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

North Northants councillor Matt Binley has been expelled from the local party after admitting to a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 2009 while he was a police officer. PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of Cumbria, Tower Hamlets, Lincolnshire, Waltham Forest and Wiltshire in the new Eye.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Jenrick and Philp put UK judges’ ‘lives at risk’ with attacks on integrity, former extremism tsar says

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

On 10 July 2025, two big cricketing rivals meet at an iconic venue 🏏 No, not England vs. India at Lord's. We mean Iceland vs. Ukraine in Warsaw. The match is for Ukrainian humanitarian causes – and to support @icelandcricket.bsky.social's push for ICC membership. Watch this space for updates 🇮🇸🏏🇺🇦

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Number crunching: Fine handed to Barclays by FCA over ‘reckless’ fundraising in the 2008 financial crisis v bonus pool shared by Barclays’ bankers in 2024.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime. Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy. I’d like to hope Republicans, who used to believe in resisting tyranny, would disavow the things Trump is saying & doing.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 7 days ago • 60 comments

Vance was right on just one thing: Europe lacks a clear positive vision of what it wants to defend. The answer must be "the things Vance rejects": truth, science, liberal democracy, rule of law, resisting dictators, climate action. It will have to do that without, & sometimes against, the US Govt.

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 8 days ago • 583 comments

Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out (Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

The US has sold Ukraine down the river – and shown Britain what ‘America first’ means in practice | Gaby Hinsliff

submitted 9 days ago • 43 comments

*Incomes* (as opposed to GDP) actually grew quite strongly in Q4 and in 2024 as a whole. Wages and salaries were up 5.8% (nominal) [compare to CPI growth of 2.5%].

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments