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It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
September 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
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In decades to come, there will be many books written about how European states with well over 500 million people and an economy more than 20 times the size of Russia and approx equal to the USA, end up a group of sad bystanders in the making of their own destiny.
August 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In decades to come, there will be many books written about how European states with well over 500 million people and an economy more than 20 times the size of Russia and approx equal to the USA, end up a group of sad bystanders in the making of their own destiny.
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I genuinely do NOT understand the idiocy of having Putin proxies on TV News, like Sergei Markov just now screaming Russian propaganda on Sky News for ten minutes.
We are at war with Russia. When before has UK media ever platformed enemy states who attack our allies and poison people in our streets?
We are at war with Russia. When before has UK media ever platformed enemy states who attack our allies and poison people in our streets?
August 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I genuinely do NOT understand the idiocy of having Putin proxies on TV News, like Sergei Markov just now screaming Russian propaganda on Sky News for ten minutes.
We are at war with Russia. When before has UK media ever platformed enemy states who attack our allies and poison people in our streets?
We are at war with Russia. When before has UK media ever platformed enemy states who attack our allies and poison people in our streets?
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Israel is starving journalists.
BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT:
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families.
"They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "
July 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Israel is starving journalists.
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Amazing journalism. Time for a Salt Path sequel in which Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play really angry versions of themselves. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...
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July 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Amazing journalism. Time for a Salt Path sequel in which Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play really angry versions of themselves. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants
April 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants
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April 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... In forensic prose a historian lays out the facts of a scandal far worse than Watergate. Trump’s top officials spilled the most sensitive secrets of an operation, put military personnel at risk, then lied about it. And apart from one paper it’s not on UK front pages
March 26, 2025
Monday’s astounding story that the most senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration planned military strikes on Yemen over an unsecure commercial messaging app, on which they had include...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... In forensic prose a historian lays out the facts of a scandal far worse than Watergate. Trump’s top officials spilled the most sensitive secrets of an operation, put military personnel at risk, then lied about it. And apart from one paper it’s not on UK front pages
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I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
March 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I think the Atlantic piece is probably the scoopiest scoop of the last few decades. And it has clarified one thing - other than the total idiocy of sending opsec over group chats - Hegseth and Vance have a genuine animosity towards Europe. Something for us all to ponder.
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Powerful 🧵
NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
This is the people’s response.
Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷
(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Powerful 🧵
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BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.
March 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime.
Keep sharing everywhere.
Keep sharing everywhere.
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If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
March 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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McGregor raped a woman so violently her tampon had to be surgically removed.
He punched a pensioner in a pub when he refused a whisky shot from him.
He regularly stirs up racial tension with false and inflammatory accusations.
He doesn’t represent Ireland, in fact, unites us in our hatred of him
He punched a pensioner in a pub when he refused a whisky shot from him.
He regularly stirs up racial tension with false and inflammatory accusations.
He doesn’t represent Ireland, in fact, unites us in our hatred of him
March 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
McGregor raped a woman so violently her tampon had to be surgically removed.
He punched a pensioner in a pub when he refused a whisky shot from him.
He regularly stirs up racial tension with false and inflammatory accusations.
He doesn’t represent Ireland, in fact, unites us in our hatred of him
He punched a pensioner in a pub when he refused a whisky shot from him.
He regularly stirs up racial tension with false and inflammatory accusations.
He doesn’t represent Ireland, in fact, unites us in our hatred of him
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I do hope European leaders understand what is happening here. Trump and Putin are carving up Ukraine and making fundamental decisions on the future of Europe--and not a single European leader is taking part in the call.
March 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I do hope European leaders understand what is happening here. Trump and Putin are carving up Ukraine and making fundamental decisions on the future of Europe--and not a single European leader is taking part in the call.
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Putin & Trump have choreographed a scam where Trump will announce tomorrow that he persuaded Putin to allow a Ukrainian army surrounded to return home, and will use that to try to legitimize Putin’s demands so they can blame Ukraine when they don’t accept them. It is all a lie.
March 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Putin & Trump have choreographed a scam where Trump will announce tomorrow that he persuaded Putin to allow a Ukrainian army surrounded to return home, and will use that to try to legitimize Putin’s demands so they can blame Ukraine when they don’t accept them. It is all a lie.
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The discourse JD Vance uses towards Germany, Ukraine and Europe is a deliberate ideological othering that is a step towards declaring Europeans as the supposed civilisational enemies of the United States
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The discourse JD Vance uses towards Germany, Ukraine and Europe is a deliberate ideological othering that is a step towards declaring Europeans as the supposed civilisational enemies of the United States
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I think I speak for everyone on this continent when I say, “Fuck off Vance & take your interfering hatred & bigotry with you’
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I think I speak for everyone on this continent when I say, “Fuck off Vance & take your interfering hatred & bigotry with you’
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the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable
March 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
the authoritarianism is bad, but the loser energy is absolutely intolerable
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
March 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
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Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
March 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Starlinks for Ukraine are paid for by the Polish Digitization Ministry at the cost of about $50 million per year.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
The ethics of threatening the victim of aggression apart, if SpaceX proves to be an unreliable provider we will be forced to look for other suppliers.
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Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
March 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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I just looked up French senator Claude Malhuret online and saw that he represents Allier, a department in central France. Its second largest city is … Vichy.
Times have changed.
Times have changed.
March 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I just looked up French senator Claude Malhuret online and saw that he represents Allier, a department in central France. Its second largest city is … Vichy.
Times have changed.
Times have changed.