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A guy who’s been around a bit, now retired and enjoying a quiet life in Brighton (is that possible?). I follow Green politics, Ukraine, Palestine, North-South issues, economics, agriculture and much else besides. Author of “Making Poverty: A History"
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wtf - my feed is so full of outrages in the US but this is not ICE, this is the UK. The Met storming a Quaker meeting house and arresting people I appreciate the detail that no, they didn’t try ringing the doorbell first Three women still held, apparently

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Labour feel like there's no real threat to them on the left so they're pushing 50,000 children into poverty. They are threatened by Reform & things are going to get much worse. None of this is inevitable though. We can stop it. We need to grow. Quickly. Join.greenparty.org.uk

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

This claim by Putin that he can "finish off" Ukraine is pure bluster. Actually, Russian advances in Ukraine are slowing and losses are rising. Unfortunately, though, Trump seems to believe the BS. uk.news.yahoo.com/putin-calls-...

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037

submitted 13 days ago • 546 comments

A pro-Kremlin blogger Patrick Lancaster was eager to film a story about "Ukrainian atrocities" in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region. However, locals told him that the Ukrainian military did not treat them badly, did not hurt them, but on the contrary always greeted them& brought them bread and water

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

The World Cup in 2026 should definitely be taken away from the US. ⚽️🏆 America is clearly not safe to travel to. 🇺🇸 ❌ Note that it was a joint US-Canada-Mexico bid that won… so Canada and Mexico have serious leverage here. 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 v 🇺🇸 Failing that - mass boycott will cost the US more than it earns.

submitted 12 days ago • 394 comments

Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 169 comments

#BREAKING G7 reaffirms 'unwavering support' for Ukraine 'territorial integrity', threatens Russia with new sanctions if it doesn't back ceasefire: joint statement

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

"We have always been told since childhood that Russians don't start wars, that we don't hurt old people, women and children, that we don't abandon our own people. And all these points collapsed in this war. We attacked Ukraine. I'm complicit that I didn't speak out loud sooner."

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

La doctrine de l’isolationnisme guide la politique étrangère des États-Unis depuis quelques semaines! Objectif atteint en très peu de temps donc : isolés ils le sont. Clairement.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The kind of #peacewithrussia that Western saviors hoist upon Ukrainian people. #UkrainianView

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

No need for more austerity from Labour! How to raise £60 billion for public services: 1. Apply a 2% tax on assets over £10 million. Raises £24 billion a year. 2. Require multinationals to declare & pay tax on profits wherever they operate. Raises £15 billion a year. taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The incoherent raving of a man who’s obviously deranged. And millions of Americans voted for him????!!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

While Russian and North Korean forces were distracted in the Kursk area, Ukrainian forces further liberated Ukrainian soil. This time the village of Shevchenko near Pokrovsk has been liberated. This is now the 6th settlement in the Pokrovsk sector which was liberated by the Ukrainian army in weeks.

submitted 27 days ago • 54 comments

Ukrainian forces have liberated substantial parts of Toretsk, punching into the southern parts of the ruins. As I wrote a few days ago, I suspected Russians had to concentrate their troops in Kursk and indeed they did, while getting pushed back in the Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar and Kupyansk.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

🇵🇹✈️❌ Portugal Defense Minister announced that Portugal will not purchase F-35 fighter jets from the US, citing geopolitical uncertainty and the unpredictability of American policy.

submitted 27 days ago • 369 comments

Russian media report a drone attack on Moscow this morning Reportedly,a drone fell very close to the route Putin usually takes to the Kremlin Drone attacks on Russia are becoming increasingly more frequent.Turns out,even the most air-defense dense Moscow region aren’t fully protected by air defense

submitted 26 days ago • 77 comments