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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain

From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain | Claire Jones

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy YouTube video by Michael Spicer

My goodness, I missed this by @michaelspicer.bsky.social. It is as near to perfect as a thing can get. I actually did an honest-to-Betsie spit-take at the Poundland joke. And the meta coda is out of this world.

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The Room Next Door - Prince Andrew YouTube video by Michael Spicer

oh ok then

Huge applause as Starmer declares Britain has moved beyond the Brexit years. One of the strongest EU speeches by a PM in decades - yet barely covered by the BBC or MSM. While serious leadership is ignored, airtime still goes to Farage and recycled outrage. Kuenssberg, Zeffman, Mason, Gibb - out.

Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️) YouTube video by Avie Sheck

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

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this may be the most English man ever to exist.

BREAKING: Rachel Reeves insists Labour can win political argument for closer relationship with EU, calling it “biggest prize” for UK economic growth 👏

The government doesn't care about what is coming for you and your children.

There is no climate action or leadership.

Facebook launched 22 years ago this week.

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record.

Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech.

Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

It’s £5.50 per year.

Watching Andrea Bocelli sing in the closing moments of the opening ceremony made a very sh*tty week a bit better.
💙 🏳️‍🌈 #FridayThoughts #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #KindnessMatters #Motivation #Bluecrew

Starmer vows to take UK deeper into EU single market Seemingly buoyed by a positive reception and a smaller-than-anticipated backlash, the British PM is now doubling down on his Brexit reset.

🇨🇦 PM Mark Carney put it well in his book Values: society has confused “value” (market price) with “values” (social, moral and ethical principles).

The EU is a values-based system: rule of law, democracy and human rights, checks on power...

Align wisely, UK.

🇬🇧 🇪🇺

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“Not quite fair”!! What an insult from this desperate & despicable opportunist!!😤🤬

‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump In a speech at Davos, written by Carney himself, the Canadian prime minister laid out his doctrine for a world of fractured international norms

Distressing that Canada, which has the most to lose from this change, is ready to face reality, whilst Starmer bets on Churchillian nostalgia for the 'special relationship' and actively rejects meaningfully closer economic engagement with the EU, which must be where our future lies.

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It was just an admin error. Two admin errors. A few admin errors. Seventeen admin errors worth £380,000.

Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.

Full: PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos YouTube video by FactPointVideo

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Honestly, @mark-carney.bsky.social is already the GOAT of Davos!.

His speech was monumental!.

Take a half hour to watch and listen.

It was brilliant.

If only our Government and others around the world would be so brave!.

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Amid the rather vague debate about whether Britain is "broken" or not, a reminder that - while some crimes spike at various points - the overall picture in England and Wales is of crime falling over recent decades.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch.
DMs open.

Trump and Vance are constantly trashing Europe. Maybe this is why.

Jeez. This is completely insane. How has this been allowed to happen?

if you want to understand the misinformation about Net Zero estimates this is a great starting point

Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df

I have always liked Cher, and she has now gone up in my rankings.

Here’s the Samaritans - who work in Ireland & the UK. The phone number if the same in both. There’s a click-down button, for Ireland, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales, in this link : www.samaritans.org/ireland/sama...