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Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

submitted 7 hours ago • 28 comments

President Macron, "The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine" "That's not the case with Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time"

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

“Far from being dismissed as a useful idiot to hostile foreign powers, the British press continues to allow Farage to portray himself as a true British patriot, while he spends as much time as he possibly can outside of this country telling lies about us for money” open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

“If Musk succeeds, and move fast and break thingsbecomes the principal gospel of US public institutions, cataclysm will follow”. @brianklaas open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Just been thinking. In some respects, we non Americans may have more power than many in America to push back against Musk and Trump. They can't touch us, we are out of their jurisdiction. Boycott everything American you can. Cancel subscriptions, close accounts, holidays, goods etc.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

First, take over the media, replace officials and judges with loyalists, silence the opposition, and then take over the military. I've never seen a country slide into authoritarianism this quickly before.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Putin “loved Brexit, cheers on the far right in Europe and backed Trump because he wants to see the crumbling of the western bloc that has stood firm against him. For a US president to follow that script….is a huge win for the Kremlin” Trump-the traitorous patsy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

The government of the USA is openly racketeering. And that is not even the worst thing about them. ‘Owning the libs’ is doing a heck of a lot of heavy lifting right now…

submitted 13 hours ago • 111 comments

Trump could never in a billion years hold a cabinet position — yet somehow the most unqualified, uneducated, narcissistic, adjudicated, rapist, and 34x convicted felon was elected president.

submitted 19 hours ago • 69 comments

We warned them this would happen! But Labour still took progressives and Remainers for granted. 😡 "Labour’s progressive centre has collapsed. The party is appealing to a socially conservative base at the cost of its more liberal-minded voters." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

This made me so angry I have to not actually say what it made me think.

submitted 21 hours ago • 258 comments

Once more, Farage is claiming that he stood up in the European Parliament in early 2014 and predicted the Ukraine war. In fact, he stood up in September 2014, AFTER the annexation of Crimea, and blamed Europe for Putin's actions. I kept the receipts. Listen here 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/77cz...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

So, Farage struts around on stage in the US, slagging off the UK and the EU, blaming anything but Brexit for us being poorer and unhappier and crawling up Trump’s backside… What a repulsive spectacle he is. If you actually could be put in prison here for ‘saying anything’ he’d be my top pick.

submitted 15 hours ago • 62 comments

How the #BBCNews & the rest of the #UKMedia have the temerity to express concern about the rise of the farRight in Europe, when they’ve relentlessly platformed & normalised Fuhrage & his cronies these past ten years is way, way beyond irony!

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Worth remembering that Russia, with an economy the size of Italy’s, the world’s longest borders to defend, rampant corruption & a mostly sub-par military could be stopped by the rest of Europe, if Europe doesn’t just roll over & submit to the will of the Kremlin’s boy in Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

This is good and not so good news: 1. Glad for the young people who can enjoy it. Even if it isn't full free movement. 2. Why can't everyone have free movement anyway? 3. Starmer had to be dragged to this mini-step kicking and screaming. 4. Labour are desperate to NOT have it called free movement. 🙄

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

submitted 22 hours ago • 823 comments

When I said “The Republicans will turn on Trump soon” three weeks ago, it wasn’t a guess. I can’t emphasize this enough: I KNOW these people. I used to be one OF them.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

The UK is facing the harsh reality of life outside the European Union. Trade has plummeted, businesses are struggling, and the economy has lost billions. The promises of prosperity and sovereignty have turned into regret for millions of Britons. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruti...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

The costs of Brexit. To dishonestly push Brexit as a solution to our myriad of problems - when it was always clear that it would make food more expensive, trade more difficult & employing seasonal workers far more difficult - at best unforgivable, at worst criminal. apple.news/Aff8G1H1sSrq...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Ed Davey comments on Starmer talking to Trump #r4today Acknowledges the difficulty of his position but stresses the need to be firmly honest and to protect our interests. Managing to be both supportive and oppositional. A very welcome change from the twatty point-scoring we get from the Tories.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Yet, all that McConnell's considerable years of service did, was get him INCREDIBLY wealthy and enable him to betray our nation by supporting a traitor, and hand off our nation to Trumputin with no protections. Retiring so you don't have to see the damage you did, Mitch? You are a TRAITOR too.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

UK offer to negotiate youth mobility treaty with the EU, says Times (although it quotes UK government as denying it) - unlike EU proposal, UK position includes numbers cap, NHS surcharge, higher tuition fees and three years maximum (not four) www.thetimes.com/article/f5e7....

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Trump has undermined the post-war consensus. It has never been clearer that Britain's future lies with Europe.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments