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UK did a great job of sucking-up to the school bully, and in activating the latent but potent deference-snobbery-flattery of the Crown. Good, short-term expedients. But in longer-term UK still needs to extricate itself from US, and minimise/eliminate exposure to its abuses of power.

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On the infringement action against Hungary's 'Foreign Agents Law'

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cc @dougbamford.bsky.social

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Researchers from the University of Cambridge say their solar-powered reactor could be used to make fuel to power cars and planes, or the many chemicals and pharmaceuticals products we rely on. It could also be used to generate fuel in remote or off-grid locations. 💚💚

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"Russian intelligence operatives posing as fruit pickers are suspected of flying drones over UK military bases in a possible espionage operation. New details suggest Russian involvement in drone swarms over military airbases, with agents accused of assuming false identities."

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Je Suis Macron

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We have Cooper on #r4today with yet another crime bill, which, I mean, sure… What about the crime that is energy bosses fleecing us for more than we’ve got?

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📈 It’s easy to grumble about shop prices going up, but they have actually fallen in real terms: average earnings have risen by around 28% in the last 5 years - that’s faster than groceries (c.25%) and non-food (c.20%)… …the real reason we’re all worse off is energy price rises (50%+) ⚡️

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Ofgem has failed utterly as an energy regulator and should be closed down.

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You can’t have independent agencies or an independent civil service in a fascist state. Therefore they are being brought under Musk’s and Trump’s control. The judicial system and the congress are next.

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I have just, seriously, heard Nick Robinson on Radio 4 ask if Germany can seriously call itself a democracy if the CDU/CSU continue to refuse to include the AFD from consideration for power. What. The. Actual.... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... At around 8:23:00 am

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Here they come. The Quisling fucking cowards, lining up to machine gun what's left of their reputation.

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Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has joined calls for the UK government to “reconsider and change course” when it comes to AI, warning that “no one believes the proposed ‘opt-out’ system will work”. 👇 #BookSky

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Superb from Private Eye

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🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

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A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov" Who would have guessed www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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Keep doing what you do @bylinetimes.bsky.social. You’ve got them worried

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Dear President Trump. In law, consideration can not be past. You cannot enforce recovery of payments in respect of past Ukrainian war support in contract law unless repayment of said amounts was agreed at the time . As a business man you should know in principle this to be true

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Yo DOGE, Found your waste! 👇🏼

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How much dosh would a 8% surcharge on unearned* income raise for the government, I wonder? * Excluding dividend income which requires separate and special consideration. An 8% surcharge would equalise taxes on income as between earned and unearned income. Surely the surcharge would be just

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Via private eye.

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Via private eye.

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How much dosh would a 8% surcharge on unearned* income raise for the government, I wonder? * Excluding dividend income which requires separate and special consideration. An 8% surcharge would equalise taxes on income as between earned and unearned income. Surely the surcharge would be just

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Walk away.

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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I'd say "Peak Spectator" ..but I'm sure that under Michael Gove there will always be new depths to plumb.. [and yes, the headline is a fair summary of the article]

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Overnight news: Trump has again raised the idea of a third term in office. Bannon has given a Nazi salute. No need to worry obviously- they’re just trolling the libs

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ICYMI: Is Trump a Populist or a Fascist? mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-t... Calling Trump a populist alongside people like Johnson or Farage grossly underestimates the threat he represents.

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Isn't it about time someone over there was willing to say Trump's a Russian asset? I mean it's flagrant, FFS.

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It's time for some Game Theory. The game being chicken. The UK/EU axis should stand up to the Putin/Trump axis. Who will blink first?

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Putin may well have secretly funded Trump's first election campaign illicitly. Putin thus has a hold over Trump who must now do Putin's bidding or Putin will break his silence about Russia's dark money used to fund Trump's campaign Trump is no more than a common criminal

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Will the UK and EU governments grow a pair and call Putin's bluff? #MoveEuropeanTroopsIntoUkraineNow

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UK: Ukraine's sovereignty must be preserved Ukraine: Good. We'd like you to station your troops on our land UK: Russia won't agree to that so we can't

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“After prisoner-on-prisoner murders at two of the jails where I worked, I waited for decent staff-support programmes that never came.”

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The Daily Star this morning is brutal.

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"Europe must stop kidding itself. Trump’s America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, and subversion. nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...

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Well said @alexmassie.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

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Why A Republican Congress may just roll over for Trump www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t... This is another reason why it may be more accurate to call Trump's government fascist rather than populist mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-t...

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Ukraine peace plan latest The new Private Eye is out now

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