Friedrich Merz has worked hard to curry favor with the U.S. president.
But their Oval Office meeting begged two important questions:
How far is German Chancellor willing to go to stay on Trump’s good side — and at what political cost?
Greens ahead of Labour for first time, comfortably in second place, and only two points behind Reform. Meanwhile, the left-leaning bloc is on 51% while the 'scrap net zero' Reform-Tory bloc is on 41%. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526368...
This week's column: the Green surge is in part because Labour consciously decided they didn't want the votes they got in 2024:
Reform UK are now down on average five points in the polls from where they were six months ago
On the TV and radio explaining how our economic plan is working - with support on the cost of living and unlocking investment.
In an ever volatile world, we are building a modern Britain that is richer, fairer and stronger.
Investors slash BoE rate cut bets as Iran crisis overshadows Spring Statement ft.trib.al/FKIkzdC
Trump 2.0:
-Bombed Iran (twice), Venezuela, and Yemen
-Allowed Israel to repeatedly violate a ceasefire and kill civilians
-Ripped healthcare and SNAP away from millions
-Deployed masked ICE agents to terrorize American cities
The "Peace President."
kind of astounding to consider that Trump won the 2024 election to a significant extent because Biden's support for Israel became so politically toxic, then he decided a good governing strategy would be to become full on a client state of Israel
HANNITY: There are people who say Israel dragged Donald Trump into it. Your reaction?
NETANYAHU: *evil laugh*
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.
Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
www.ft.com/content/31bf...
"Farage would be meaner" isn't going to cut it as an argument especially after Lab get whacked in London in May.
Interesting @labourbusiness.bsky.social AGM yesterday with a video from #LabourParty Small Business Minister @blairmcdougall.com & Q&A from Political commentator & Pollster @pkellner.bsky.social chaired by @emilywallace.bsky.social.
The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to American billionaires who control much of US media, writes @arusbridger
Even right-wing media hated Pam Bondi’s bizarre behavior at the Epstein hearings www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/quic...
Brian Allen
Scottish comedian Lewis MacLeod did a Trump impression so painfully accurate it feels less like comedy and more like a deposition transcript. 😂🤣😂🤣💙😎👏
Plus a Slovenian superstar called Sesko - who scored the equaliser!
What Jim Ratcliffe meant to say is ‘how fantastically immigration has transformed this country in all spheres of life.’
The Express hopes people believe that Brexit reality is punishment by the EU, when it was the Express and other right wing press who pushed for Brexit to punish Britain.
It is pure misdirection.
The EU isn’t “wreaking havoc in revenge”. It’s doing exactly what any economic bloc does:
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✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any.
It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.
Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
Excellent piece from @alexanderrose.bsky.social on @frasernelson.bsky.social article. Could also have been called ‘How Hate Makes Money for Tech Bros’ - well they much be feeling the pinch…
The Tory refusal to be honest about the scale of their Brexit disaster and associated trade-offs has utterly discredited the party, perhaps permanently, radicalised the right and raised the spectre of a Faragist Trumpian tyranny. The country risks being trapped in a doom loop.
Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster
🚨 Attention to any and all LabourList followers campaigning in Gorton & Denton 👀🚨
🔴 LabourList is sending a reporter to Manchester this weekend to catch up with campaigners in the run up to this month's crucial by-election...
🙌 Let us know if you're there too!
How the Brexit “European Revolution” was created by Bannon, Farage with Epstein as their patron and donor. Superb piece by @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social #Brexit #Farage #EpsteinFiles
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
Board of Peace - Season 1
President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed
‘ICE Out’: Protest Songs From Bruce Springsteen, My Morning Jacket, NOFX, and Others
Bon Iver have released a new charity single to benefit the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
✊ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
🔴Reform UK’s Plans For a British ICE
Key figures in Nigel Farage’s party are demanding a UK version of Trump’s immigration enforcement agency, in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/r...
