Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump
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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: βA party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.β I suppose I shouldnβt be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said βwe have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.β She said βmaybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when β¦
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?
This essay (kindly published by @samfr.bsky.social) is my attempt to trace five years of trans-Atlantic debates, to set out what I see as the stakes, and to analyse where these arguments have now gotten to:
β‘οΈRussian general shares photos of severed ears, discusses executing Ukrainian POWs online, investigation shows.
Russian Major General Roman Demurchiyev disclosed in private messages the ways the Russian army mistreats Ukrainian POWs, according to an investigation by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Hello All, Just sent out this piece, a case study of how Trump has gone to great lengths to help Russia in its campaign to kill Ukrainian civilians and freeze Ukrainian cities. Trump was deliberate and, sadly all to effective. The USA is helping Putin now. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Brazilian political system is, structurally, very similar to the American one. But when they elected a Trump-style authoritarian back in 2018, their Congress and Supreme Court actually fought back.
I went to Brazil to find out why. And what I learned surprised me.
www.vox.com/politics/479...
People need to understand what happened strategically in 2025. The US switched sides, helped Putin a great deal, which also encouraged the Chinese to help Putin. And Ukraine fought on, inflicting massive casualties on Russia and taking the war to the Russian economy.
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The Reform proposal to repeal the Equality Act + anti-discrimination laws (a proposal which Farage made and u-turned on in 2015, but which is back in 2026) has gone almost completely under the radar
β‘οΈ'Remembrance is not a violation' β third Ukrainian athlete barred from wearing helmet at Olympics.
Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat."
At His Kremlinβs not-so-secret Service
βFollow the moneyβ
The Pope may have no divisions but heβs got some generators π
Just sent out my free weekend update. The big, tragic, story of the week is that Trump was a direct accomplice in helping Russia commit arguably its largest war crime so far--a double mass attack on Ukrainian civilian life. Trump provided cover for Russian murder. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Today the winter Olympics open. Russia and Belarus are allowed to participate under neutral flag.
Picture by Gatis Ε ΔΌΕ«ka
I also took out of paywall this piece from May, in which I wondered why Trump was constantly acting like a Russian agent of influence even after the Russians humiliated him time and time again. I hope we do not have the answer. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Kremlinβs Epstein Kompromat? Who knows .. but as Phillips concludes βit would help explain a great dealβ ..
President Zelenskyy:
"In fact,the Russian army used the American proposal for a short-term pause in strikes not to support diplomacy,but simply to stockpile missiles&wait for the coldest days of the yearβ
π·Destruction at one of Ukraineβs thermal power plants following a Russian strike/Radio Liberty
Chat you made it possible to collect 33 drone detectors and I thank you but we are crazy so we expanded the fundraiser and thereβs $6k left to collect, thatβs 10 more detectors, so here I am again
dzygaspaw.com/monokate-and...
The *things* russians are doing: invading a sovereign state, murdering civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster in extreme cold, abducting children, razing towns to the ground, raping, torturing, looting
This is a great piece by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on why it is the President and not his evil counsellors that is to blame for ICE and its excesses - and why the media are pretending otherwise.
β‘15% of Kyiv residential buildings remain without heat after Russia's attacks, Mayor Klitschko says.
Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
Russian terrorism continues.
Terrorists never stop on their own. They can only be stopped. And only by force.
The attack lasted all night. Drones, ballistic missiles, anti-vessel missiles. Russia's goal is obvious: to deprive Kyiv and the central regions of power as much as possible.
The Kyiv Independent combed through microchip shipments, revealing that American and European microchips continued to enter Russia in large quantities β mainly from China.
Read here: kyivindependent.com/exclusive-am...
Another in a string of must-reads from Phillips
Kyiv is moving to a schedule of 4.5β5 outage rotations: power cuts may last more than 16 hours, according to Yasnoβs CEO.
Meanwhile, the weather is freezing. This is a humanitarian disaster caused by russia. Please do not look away!
βThe combination of extreme cold and wave after wave of Russian attacks are pushing Ukraineβs energy system to the edge,β Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, the largest private energy company, told FT. βWe are facing an unprecedented threat and fighting for every megawatt.β
www.ft.com/content/ec1b...
Just sent out my free weekend update. The joint Trump-Putin (or US-Russian) campaign to torment Ukrainians by depriving them of power and heat, reached a crescendo. It cannot be denied that Trump/USA has made the situation worse. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Russia is killing Ukrainians every day: burying us under the rubble of our homes, killing us on our streets, burning us alive in our cars. In offices, cafes, churches, kindergartens, and hospitals. Every day. All the time.
It happens so often, it doesnβt even make the news anymore.
