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UK hits Russia with fresh sanctions as part of ‘triple whammy’ to tighten the screws on Putin www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Huge ad in Dortmund, Germany. "Do the right thing!"

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

"Different Russian campaigns are trying, on the one hand, to discredit established parties," says Julia Smirnova, a senior researcher for CeMAS. "They're also trying to boost the far-right AfD." news.sky.com/story/german...

In these difficult days thank goodness for the Daily Star. Please share this with Trumpy friends

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams

🔴Hundreds of Protesters Jailed Under Anti-Protest Laws Could Appeal Convictions if Court Challenge Succeeds Campaigners are challenging the lawfulness of restrictions brought in by the former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/h...

Israel receives shipment of heavy bombs cleared by Trump www.reuters.com/world/israel...

Lord Sumption, "The Unites States is now a very very unreliable ally, and we have to make ourselves less dependent on the US"

George Monibot criticises Jacqui Smith for Labour's refusal to open safe and legal routes for asylum seekers and so avoid small boat crossings #BBCQT

A truly bizarre Tory performance at PMQs today, even by the party's standards

Our friend Mahmoud Muna has been arrested, he runs bookshops, wonderful places of curiosity and knowledge. With love and solidarity to the Muna family x www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

A woman in the audience: “What we’re not talking about is the Israeli determination to takeover the Gaza Strip , supported by the US & UK, who are arming Israel... we’re mealy mouthed about the whole ethnic cleansing thing, & I think its wrong" Well said #bbcqt

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?

VOX POPULI VOX DEI

This is unbelievably horrific Democratic Republic of the Congo: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/democratic-republic-congo-goma-women-raped-burned-death-prison-m23-rebels-rwanda

"Reducing trade barriers is of mutual benefit to the UK and the EU, especially at a time when our economies need a kick start," Nick Thomas-Symonds says. "There is a clear opportunity to upgrade the relationship to deliver for businesses and citizens." 👏🏽 ~AA #Brepair

It has been 1000 days since Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on May 11, 2022. Despite efforts for justice, no one has been held accountable aje.io/56v4aj

"There was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing death or injury in any of the 17 cases in the trial." "There were serious problems related to medical care of patients at this hospital." news.sky.com/story/lucy-l...

"The first thing to understand about Brexit is that it is defined by lying. It was itself a lie, at its base, as a concept. It was sold through lies. It was delivered through lies. And it has now served to place the notion of lies right in the heart of our politics"

Last week the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, announced the "biggest ever single investment" of £10million to tackle the capital’s rough sleeping crisis – which City Hall says is more than any London Mayor The funding will expand a network of ‘Ending Homelessness Hubs’ (1/x)

“Never in the entire 20th century was there a time in which as many countries were simultaneously subject to autocratization…” www.wzb.eu/en/article/a...

If you care about animal welfare, please consider buying only higher welfare foods. And don't forget this applies to dairy cows and laying hens too, not just animals reared for meat. www.ciwf.org.uk/your-food/yo...

Dozens of Palestinians released from Israeli jails show signs of torture and starvation, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said following the latest batch that was released on Saturday.

Get yourself on the stem cell register. You get sent a swab kit, takes 30 seconds to wipe on the inside of your cheek, send it off and you’re on the register. Could save lives. news.sky.com/story/mum-of...