Predictable and predicted
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Predictable and predicted
Agree with all this except honestly I'm less optimistic that anything will ever be done to prevent more harm. People in power simply don't care. It's only girls, whatever.
Big tech is deeply hostile to women and, ofc, #banthepervertglasses
- as.ft.com/r/da4838c6-4...
Goodwin says "I was never part of the Boris camp. I didn't understand why people found him endearing"
This is rewriting his own history. As I note in The New World he was very pro-Boris across 2019-22 until Boris fell, tweeting "if Boris goes, the realignment goes" into 2022
Ukraine war 4th anniversary demonstration in Amsterdam today
Standards matter. Every time a Labour MP - a Minister no less! - is able to say things like this, our standards drop little by little where they matter. Starmer should think about the political culture he wants to model from the top.
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
Agree on your character points up to a point but very much not on the class thing. He was a moderately nice toff but a toff all the same. Cameron’s upper class complacency very much did have catastrophic consequences, for public services and the ill judged referendum.
Screenshot of a post by Chris Lund a Norwegian singer popular in the USA Chris Lund chrislundartist "It's hilarious when Americans pity my Norwegian tax rate. And yes. We pay more to the state. In return, we get free healthcare, free college, and 49 weeks of fully paid parental leave. We do not have to crowd-fund our cancer treatments. Your 'low taxes' just mean you pay private corporations a premium for the privilege of still going broke when you get sick. Our system is an investment in human dignity. Yours is a GoFundMe waiting to happen. The math is really not that complicated."
Chris Lund, Norwegian singer (and no I hadn't heard of him) gives America the benefit of his view on their way of life compared to his
Maybe the UK could be a little more Chris Lund and less Farage/Trump?
Heute vor 83 Jahren werden die Geschwister #HansScholl und #SophieScholl gemeinsam mit ihrem Freund #ChristophProbst vom „Volksgerichtshof“ zum Tode verurteilt und noch am selben Tag ermordet. Sie sind die ersten Todesopfer der Widerstandsgruppe #WeißeRose: https://t1p.de/6iyrz
It may be a bit random, but, for example, the allegedly interesting commentator Henry Hill of Conservative Home. Has he so much as uttered a sound on Trump since Nov 24?
I'm more than happy to be corrected on this.
The US is not our friend.
This is a really, really good bit of reporting www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
So great to see Mandelson and Global Counsel introducing Epstein to Vincent Tchenguiz, an early investor in SCL (Cambridge Analytica parent company) and co-founder of a company with indicted oligarch Firtash
jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
For some Europeans, memories of the twisted intelligence backdrop to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 fuelled scepticism of this new war scare. One European foreign minister, who asked not to specify their country, recalled a discussion with Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that became heated: "I'm old enough to remember 2003, and back then I was one of those who believed you," the minister told Blinken. While the British and Americans were sharing more than usual, the really sensitive intelligence often came with its origin obscured, to protect sources. "They warned us, they really did," said the minister. "But they said: 'You have to take our word for it?"
But part of the reason they didn’t trust the US and UK intelligence was the long shadow of Iraq
Soon after Kahl arrived at his upmarket Kyiv hotel, the German ambassador to Ukraine received an order from the foreign ministry in Berlin to evacuate all remaining diplomatic staff from Kyiv by road immediately. The threat was too urgent to wait until morning, said the ministry. Even then, the German spy chief declined an invitation to join the midnight diplomatic convoy, citing his important meetings the next day. Unsurprisingly, those meetings never took place. Instead, Kahl had to be extracted from Kyiv on the day of the invasion with the help of Polish intelligence, along roads gridlocked with fleeing Ukrainians.
German, French and Polish intelligence agencies come out less well. They did not believe Putin would do it. Bruno Kahl, the chief of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service seemed to continue to believe this the night before the invasion when he arrived in Kyiv for meetings the next day
Let me say something as an oil and gas guy. If you don't have your own gas you are going to find yourself in the same old spot - in hoc to the countries that do. Nuclear, wind, solar...all better options if you don't have indigenous supplies of hydrocarbons..which Germany doesn't anymore (at scale)
Quisling.
The leader of Germany’s Far Right AfD Alice Weidel: “Peace in Europe is only possible with Russia, not without it. We have always stood for peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
“End this senseless dying in Ukraine.”
it's interesting that this one breaks out maga republicans and non-maga republicans, which is a difference that doesn't really exist in any meaningful way amongst elected officials
Very odd united English slash British people shout out at the end
I mean do you mean English? Or British?
A story that I've read four times now and every time it ends up in my feed my brain goes 'have I read this one right?'
At the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy showed former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak real-time casualty data from the front.
- 80% of Ukrainian kills are from drones
- Russia is losing 1,000 soldiers a day.
If you’ve been away for half term - like me - politics didn’t get any quieter… So here’s round-up of big political stories.
Keir Starmer said UK & Europe must step up Nato commitments & avoid risk of overdependence on US for defence - @peterwalker99.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Another important story unfolded this week: the cabinet office is now investigating.
By @henrydyer.bsky.social & @dansabbagh.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EXCL: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in Gorton & Denton byelection, was accused by woman working at GB News of making inappropriate comments which she viewed as sexually harassing - story by @helenahorton.bsky.social & me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This @theguardian.com piece is fantastic like everyone says. Bravo to those who worked on it. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Incredibly brave now everyone knows what the regime are prepared to do about protests
It’s really not *inexplicable*! As soon as you’ve gone full on anti immigration, you age no longer a progressive party!
This is either deliberately misleading or just ignorant/confused.
Ratcliffe's "colonisation" is worse than Starmer's "incalculable damage". But they are points on a (bad) spectrum
Reform/Tory settlement proposals are worse than Mahmood's. But they are points on a (bad) spectrum.
Not hard.
Violent abusers often are very charismatic. It's a skill they use to trap their victims.
Does Nigel Farage have a problem with women?
'Reproductive rights and equality campaigners reacted in horror after Farage hired James Orr, a rightwing theologian who opposes abortion even in cases of rape, incest or serious risk to health, as his head of policy'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
