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Happily retired. Life spent between Edinburgh, York and Cyprus. Detest all the hate speak and terrified of the rise of fascism. I have precious grandchildren and always conscious of the need to protect the world I'm leaving them.
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submitted 1 day ago • 274 comments

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 786 comments

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

submitted 4 days ago • 1094 comments

Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

submitted 4 days ago • 659 comments

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 4 days ago • 1888 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 414 comments

Hugh Grant urges POLICE to investigate Sun owners And he’s absolutely right www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 29 days ago • 75 comments

Keir Starmer announcing Labour has hit NHS targets 9 months early, following an announcement we are ready to put boots on the ground in Ukraine. Kemi Badenoch giving a speech at a think tank saying western culture is under attack by woke. Richard Tice sending tweets doubting global warming.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Uncomfortable as it is I think we've got to ask ourselves WHY Trump & Musk (& Putin?) are interfering in European politics - do they have their sights set beyond the US? I don't believe this is just about Ukraine

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

🇺🇦 NOTE: It's not a fucking Ukraine "conflict." It's a criminal Russian invasion.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Oh no. The leopard ate their face.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Of all the daft 'opinions' that Brexiters could never explain or justify, opposition to a mooted European army was among the stupidest. Inevitably, Farage the Putin fanboy was the loudest heckler. Armies that you are actually *in* rarely turn out to be opposed to your interests...

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

JD Vance, vice president of a regime currently overthrowing its own democracy, lectures Europe on the "retreat" from "some of its most fundamental values". He cites the Romanian Constitutional Court annulling its recent presidential election. He doesn't mention this was because Russia interfered.

submitted 8 days ago • 123 comments

“Terrified of their own people” Remind me which leader asked about shooting his own people?

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

When we talk about clickbait, this, via Reach, is what we mean. Deliberately misleading headlines. The update? There are no plans to scrap bus passes, it's a fake news story. Toothless watchdog Ipso has ruled against this kind of thing but the same headlines largely remain live.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Remember when this constituted a major Presidential controversy?

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

Beautiful. Stay for the advert at the end

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

100% this. Cracking read. We either have morals and pride - or we don't.

submitted 8 days ago • 59 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 363 comments

I’m telling you again - Europe has a massive brain gain opportunity sitting here. Trump is going to absolutely shaft US science & we could & should be there to hoover up the talent.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

House Republicans have released a new plan that calls for cutting programs like Medicaid by $2 trillion while giving massive tax giveaways to billionaires and big corporations.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

Lawyers challenging Trump's aggressive use of executive power in the courts are turning to a familiar weapon in their armory: an obscure but routinely invoked federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments