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"It’s far harder for the Greens, with their four MPs, to claim the same kind of plausible dominance [as Reform] over a governing party with more than 400."
Yeah, cos Reform have five MPs which is obviously completely different to the Greens' four.
Yeah, cos Reform have five MPs which is obviously completely different to the Greens' four.
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
They may lack Labour’s party machine, but Zack Polanski’s burgeoning popularity could have seismic consequences for British politics, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"It’s far harder for the Greens, with their four MPs, to claim the same kind of plausible dominance [as Reform] over a governing party with more than 400."
Yeah, cos Reform have five MPs which is obviously completely different to the Greens' four.
Yeah, cos Reform have five MPs which is obviously completely different to the Greens' four.
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This isn’t a scene from Mad Max: Furiosa - it’s more like Mad Maxim: Alcohosa, featuring Russian assault troops in Pokrovsk rolling in on hacked-up motorcycles and jery-rigged civilian trucks
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
This isn’t a scene from Mad Max: Furiosa - it’s more like Mad Maxim: Alcohosa, featuring Russian assault troops in Pokrovsk rolling in on hacked-up motorcycles and jery-rigged civilian trucks
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That’s a lot.
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
That’s a lot.
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
67% of Germans say that “When in doubt, we can and should no longer rely on military assistance from the US.”
Study: www.moreincommon.de/wp-content/u...
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Ukraine’s application to join the EU has so far been blocked by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Now Brussels is hatching a plan to ensure precious time isn’t wasted.
Today's Brussels Playbook reveals details of the latest gambit. 👇
Now Brussels is hatching a plan to ensure precious time isn’t wasted.
Today's Brussels Playbook reveals details of the latest gambit. 👇
In the shadow of war
Presented by Amazon By GABRIEL GAVIN with ZOYA SHEFTALOVICH PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Contact us on X @gerardofortuna @NicholasVinocur | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser WHILE YOU WE…
www.politico.eu
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Ukraine’s application to join the EU has so far been blocked by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Now Brussels is hatching a plan to ensure precious time isn’t wasted.
Today's Brussels Playbook reveals details of the latest gambit. 👇
Now Brussels is hatching a plan to ensure precious time isn’t wasted.
Today's Brussels Playbook reveals details of the latest gambit. 👇
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The decision to sacrifice Ukrainians as disposable, second-class people for the sake of "avoiding escalation" has been an act of strategic idiocy. The consequences are now clear: Russia is more battle-hardened,its drone production is in overdrive, and its desperation makes it more dangerous,not less
On the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, President Zelensky called NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg from a bunker in Kyiv, pleading for a no-fly zone to stop Russian airstrikes.
He cited NATO’s past interventions in Bosnia and Iraq, but
He cited NATO’s past interventions in Bosnia and Iraq, but
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The decision to sacrifice Ukrainians as disposable, second-class people for the sake of "avoiding escalation" has been an act of strategic idiocy. The consequences are now clear: Russia is more battle-hardened,its drone production is in overdrive, and its desperation makes it more dangerous,not less
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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⚡️ Ukraine will start building a European-gauge railway from Poland to Lviv in 2026.
Ukraine to Build EU-Gauge Rail Link From Poland to Lviv Starting in 2026
Ukraine will start building a European-gauge railway from the Polish border to Lviv in 2026, enhancing EU transport integration and logistics capabilities.
united24media.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
⚡️ Ukraine will start building a European-gauge railway from Poland to Lviv in 2026.
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Russia's oil revenues collapsed 27% year-on-year in October—888.6 billion rubles down from expectations. Moscow now projects shortfalls through 2028.
Ukraine's response? Push the 20th EU sanctions package targeting energy profiteers, child abductors, and weapons component suppliers.
Ukraine's response? Push the 20th EU sanctions package targeting energy profiteers, child abductors, and weapons component suppliers.
Zelenskyy demands tougher sanctions as Russia’s oil revenues plunge 27%
Ukraine proposes targeting energy profiteers and child abductors in 20th EU package
euromaidanpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Russia's oil revenues collapsed 27% year-on-year in October—888.6 billion rubles down from expectations. Moscow now projects shortfalls through 2028.
Ukraine's response? Push the 20th EU sanctions package targeting energy profiteers, child abductors, and weapons component suppliers.
Ukraine's response? Push the 20th EU sanctions package targeting energy profiteers, child abductors, and weapons component suppliers.
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Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau says it's investigating the country's energy sector, alleging a $100M kickback scheme involving the state nuclear power company. Four months ago, Zelensky tried unsuccessfully to restrict the bureau's independence, before being forced into a U-turn by protests.
Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau says large-scale operation underway in energy sector
Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale operation to uncover corruption in the country's energy sector.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau says it's investigating the country's energy sector, alleging a $100M kickback scheme involving the state nuclear power company. Four months ago, Zelensky tried unsuccessfully to restrict the bureau's independence, before being forced into a U-turn by protests.
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My latest piece → For a few months now, arms deliveries to #Ukraine by Germany are for the most part classified, but a Facebook post by the 33rd Assault Regiment suggests that they may have recently received new infantry fighting vehicles from Germany.
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
Did Germany recently deliver additional Marder 1A3 IFVs to Ukraine? | GAU
A Facebook post by the 33rd Assault Regiment suggests that they may have recently received new infantry fighting vehicles from Germany.
deaidua.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My latest piece → For a few months now, arms deliveries to #Ukraine by Germany are for the most part classified, but a Facebook post by the 33rd Assault Regiment suggests that they may have recently received new infantry fighting vehicles from Germany.
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
deaidua.org/news/2025/11...
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Slovakia’s prosecutor has ruled that the 2023 transfer of MiG‑29 jets and air defense systems to Ukraine was not a crime. The move, made under former PM Eduard Heger, faced legal challenge from the current pro-Russian government of Robert Fico. Politico reports the case is now closed.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Slovakia’s prosecutor has ruled that the 2023 transfer of MiG‑29 jets and air defense systems to Ukraine was not a crime. The move, made under former PM Eduard Heger, faced legal challenge from the current pro-Russian government of Robert Fico. Politico reports the case is now closed.
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Here come the 'Midas tapes', named after the vast corruption scheme within Ukraine's...energy sector. There couldn't be a better - for anti-corruption agencies & Ukrainians - and worse - for the officials involved - timing for those revelations to come up.
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Ukrainian anti-corruption agency releases part of the "Midas tapes" on large-scale corruption in energy sector
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have published part of the audio recordings from Operation Midas, an investigation into a larg...
www.pravda.com.ua
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here come the 'Midas tapes', named after the vast corruption scheme within Ukraine's...energy sector. There couldn't be a better - for anti-corruption agencies & Ukrainians - and worse - for the officials involved - timing for those revelations to come up.
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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⚡️ 'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2.
The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.
The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.
'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2
The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.
kyivindependent.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
⚡️ 'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2.
The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.
The additional funds raised will be distributed based on a public vote.
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Genuinely impressed by how the small Hunterian and Horniman museums have managed to position themselves as agents for positive social change while owning up to their monstrous origins.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Genuinely impressed by how the small Hunterian and Horniman museums have managed to position themselves as agents for positive social change while owning up to their monstrous origins.
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The BackAndAlive Foundation is funding the upgrade of 16 ZSU-23-4M “Shilka” ADS to the A1 standard for ₴337.5 million ($8.06 million).
The modernization adds a new “Rokach-AS” radar and digital fire control, doubling detection range and allowing tracking of up to 20 targets, including small drones.
The modernization adds a new “Rokach-AS” radar and digital fire control, doubling detection range and allowing tracking of up to 20 targets, including small drones.
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The BackAndAlive Foundation is funding the upgrade of 16 ZSU-23-4M “Shilka” ADS to the A1 standard for ₴337.5 million ($8.06 million).
The modernization adds a new “Rokach-AS” radar and digital fire control, doubling detection range and allowing tracking of up to 20 targets, including small drones.
The modernization adds a new “Rokach-AS” radar and digital fire control, doubling detection range and allowing tracking of up to 20 targets, including small drones.
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Ukrainian FP‑2 drones struck Shahed warhead storage sites at Donetsk airport. One warehouse was completely destroyed, another damaged, satellite images confirm.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Ukrainian FP‑2 drones struck Shahed warhead storage sites at Donetsk airport. One warehouse was completely destroyed, another damaged, satellite images confirm.
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Zelensky says Ukraine plans to order 27 Patriot systems from U.S. manufacturers. Asked if he fears Trump, he replied: “No. Only enemies should be afraid, and we are not enemies of the U.S.”
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Zelensky says Ukraine plans to order 27 Patriot systems from U.S. manufacturers. Asked if he fears Trump, he replied: “No. Only enemies should be afraid, and we are not enemies of the U.S.”
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“SMO" now is just 2 months shorter than the "Great Patriotic war" 1941-1945 against Germany. At the same time Soviets were almost in Berlin. Russia is around Pokrovsk, town 41km from Donetsk from where they started invasion almost 4 years ago. Thats the perspective.
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“SMO" now is just 2 months shorter than the "Great Patriotic war" 1941-1945 against Germany. At the same time Soviets were almost in Berlin. Russia is around Pokrovsk, town 41km from Donetsk from where they started invasion almost 4 years ago. Thats the perspective.
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Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...
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Lutsk. Children sleep in the basement to the sound of explosions.
Every day, parents in #Ukraine shelter their children in basements as Russian drones and missiles target our cities. Many young children have never experienced peacetime
Russia must be stopped.
📹: ruslana_sunbeam / TikTok
Every day, parents in #Ukraine shelter their children in basements as Russian drones and missiles target our cities. Many young children have never experienced peacetime
Russia must be stopped.
📹: ruslana_sunbeam / TikTok
November 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Lutsk. Children sleep in the basement to the sound of explosions.
Every day, parents in #Ukraine shelter their children in basements as Russian drones and missiles target our cities. Many young children have never experienced peacetime
Russia must be stopped.
📹: ruslana_sunbeam / TikTok
Every day, parents in #Ukraine shelter their children in basements as Russian drones and missiles target our cities. Many young children have never experienced peacetime
Russia must be stopped.
📹: ruslana_sunbeam / TikTok
Why do both sides keep doing this?
This Week, The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on a deadly Russian strike that killed Ukrainian soldiers and civilians allegedly during a military ceremony, prompting outrage and an internal investigation into security lapses.
Negligence scandal in Ukrainian military | Ukraine This Week
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Why do both sides keep doing this?
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Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. No. 158--which amazingly enough comes out almost exactly three years after the first one. Its been quite a trip.
Today, the focus is on blackouts. Darkness is coming early to both Russia and Ukraine this winter. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Today, the focus is on blackouts. Darkness is coming early to both Russia and Ukraine this winter. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #158: The Long Dark Winter Has Come Early
Pokrovsk Update; Sanctions Bluster Unravelling
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. No. 158--which amazingly enough comes out almost exactly three years after the first one. Its been quite a trip.
Today, the focus is on blackouts. Darkness is coming early to both Russia and Ukraine this winter. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Today, the focus is on blackouts. Darkness is coming early to both Russia and Ukraine this winter. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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My Maltese great-grandfather Paulo Calleja died aged 41 fighting for the British Royal Navy. He was on the HMS Diamond when it was bombed while evacuating Allied troops from Greece. His name is on a war memorial in Plymouth, though he never set foot on UK soil.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
My Maltese great-grandfather Paulo Calleja died aged 41 fighting for the British Royal Navy. He was on the HMS Diamond when it was bombed while evacuating Allied troops from Greece. His name is on a war memorial in Plymouth, though he never set foot on UK soil.