Infrared Forty-four
@infrared44.bsky.social
Spend time with people not like you. People, intelligence, passion, integrity, music, science & originality. Evidence based politics. Dad. Business owner. Hybrid United FC, less often there now.
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Farage flees the hearing right ahead of Goldman's questioning
September 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Farage flees the hearing right ahead of Goldman's questioning
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Yes, I'm a journalist who's critical of Farage and Reform UK. But I'm an accredited journalist with a press card, I'm the political editor of a weekly magazine, and when I registered back in May I got confirmation it was "successful". Until today, when it's now "declined". Here's the pics:
September 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Yes, I'm a journalist who's critical of Farage and Reform UK. But I'm an accredited journalist with a press card, I'm the political editor of a weekly magazine, and when I registered back in May I got confirmation it was "successful". Until today, when it's now "declined". Here's the pics:
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Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
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Negotiations have been underway for some time and there is confidence all round that fish will not be an obstacle to a UK-EU defence agreement.
"The French position, restated during the EU ambassadors’ discussion on Friday, is that any push by the UK to renegotiate the level of EU access to British fishing waters would cloud the broader negotiations, including on defence." www.ft.com/content/34cc...
UK and EU close ranks on defence amid Trump turmoil
British PM next month will host first summit with bloc’s leaders since Brexit
www.ft.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Negotiations have been underway for some time and there is confidence all round that fish will not be an obstacle to a UK-EU defence agreement.
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On the one hand it's offensive and wrong. On the other, it's a tell that he's realised he promised loads of things he hasn't got a hope of delivering and he knows that people either already see this or will do soon - Canada as 51st state, lower prices, a growing economy, peace in Ukraine...
April 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On the one hand it's offensive and wrong. On the other, it's a tell that he's realised he promised loads of things he hasn't got a hope of delivering and he knows that people either already see this or will do soon - Canada as 51st state, lower prices, a growing economy, peace in Ukraine...
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Please support www.1team1fight.org/fundraisers Ukraine team if you can and have a listen to today’s show too 🙏🏼🎧👇
March 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please support www.1team1fight.org/fundraisers Ukraine team if you can and have a listen to today’s show too 🙏🏼🎧👇
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‘Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is’: fatigue and anger in Odesa
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is’: fatigue and anger in Odesa
Russian attacks on Ukrainian city that was initially spared worst have increased since Washington-Moscow detente
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
‘Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is’: fatigue and anger in Odesa
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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🚨🚨🚨 On Xitter, Roger Sollenberger unpacked the Github of one of Elon's DOGE boys.
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
February 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🚨🚨🚨 On Xitter, Roger Sollenberger unpacked the Github of one of Elon's DOGE boys.
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
It includes:
1) A script to download X DMs
2) A script to filter HR data by union membership
3) Data on undersea cables and valuable minerals
xcancel.com/Sollenberger...
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This is an indication of the kind of political consensus that can be built if Labour makes the right case for breaking its red lines: Uniting right wing concerns about defence & patriotism, left-wing demands for investment & independence from the US, and widely-shared commitments to Ukraine.
March 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is an indication of the kind of political consensus that can be built if Labour makes the right case for breaking its red lines: Uniting right wing concerns about defence & patriotism, left-wing demands for investment & independence from the US, and widely-shared commitments to Ukraine.
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Lots of real sense being talked here - some of it really needed.
🏫 NEW Sunday School: With Friends Like These ⛪️
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss the week's awful events, how to leave a mobster🇺🇸 safely + an emotion we haven't felt in a while: being proud of Britain🇬🇧.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5dck...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss the week's awful events, how to leave a mobster🇺🇸 safely + an emotion we haven't felt in a while: being proud of Britain🇬🇧.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5dck...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: With Friends Like These
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 02/03/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Lots of real sense being talked here - some of it really needed.
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It’s needed! New working group led by former AG, Dominic Grieve will provide "guidance to govt & other bodies to support further action on tackling religiously motivated hate"
Announcing the new review, Rayner said: The rise in anti-Muslim hate crime is unacceptable & has no place in our society
Announcing the new review, Rayner said: The rise in anti-Muslim hate crime is unacceptable & has no place in our society
Ex-Tory minister to lead review of Islamophobia definition
Dominic Grieve is to lead a new working group, following a rise in incidents of anti-Muslim hatred.
www.bbc.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It’s needed! New working group led by former AG, Dominic Grieve will provide "guidance to govt & other bodies to support further action on tackling religiously motivated hate"
Announcing the new review, Rayner said: The rise in anti-Muslim hate crime is unacceptable & has no place in our society
Announcing the new review, Rayner said: The rise in anti-Muslim hate crime is unacceptable & has no place in our society
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‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump.
Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, retired senior colonel Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US’s reputation “more than all of his predecessors combined”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, retired senior colonel Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US’s reputation “more than all of his predecessors combined”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says
Exclusive: Zhou Bo says harm done to US image may make Taiwanese reconsider their attitude towards Beijing but says he sees Trump as overall being ‘rather friendly’
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump.
Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, retired senior colonel Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US’s reputation “more than all of his predecessors combined”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Speaking to the Guardian in Beijing, retired senior colonel Zhou Bo said that Trump was damaging the US’s reputation “more than all of his predecessors combined”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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NEW: This is a powerhouse summit gathered in London.
Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine.
Trump has disqualified himself & the US.
UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏
Leaders attending:
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺
Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine.
Trump has disqualified himself & the US.
UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏
Leaders attending:
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺
March 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NEW: This is a powerhouse summit gathered in London.
Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine.
Trump has disqualified himself & the US.
UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏
Leaders attending:
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺
Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine.
Trump has disqualified himself & the US.
UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏
Leaders attending:
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺
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“Vance skis in jeans” is such a brutal takedown.
March 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Vance skis in jeans” is such a brutal takedown.
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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.
UK no longer the desirable destination it used to be, thanks to Brexit.
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/steve-angles...
How Brexit damaged UK tourism
As the industry says visitor spend has slipped behind our European rivals, an insider’s view of why some EU tourists have dropped Britain from their travel plans
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Wanting the PM to NOT be cautious at such a critical moment is incredible to me. Wanting him to always add heat, escalate the rhetoric, make strident media statements before thinking them through *is the Trump way*. This may be less satisfying to you, but it is a better way to protect a country. 2/2
March 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Wanting the PM to NOT be cautious at such a critical moment is incredible to me. Wanting him to always add heat, escalate the rhetoric, make strident media statements before thinking them through *is the Trump way*. This may be less satisfying to you, but it is a better way to protect a country. 2/2
March 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Wanting the PM to NOT be cautious at such a critical moment is incredible to me. Wanting him to always add heat, escalate the rhetoric, make strident media statements before thinking them through *is the Trump way*. This may be less satisfying to you, but it is a better way to protect a country. 2/2
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Risks of Trump doing a succession of blunders that shake global confidence in US Treasuries are underpriced
February 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Risks of Trump doing a succession of blunders that shake global confidence in US Treasuries are underpriced
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In 14 years of Conservative misrule, they never spent 2.5% defence, Conservative Government last spent more than 2% on defence was under Sir John Major when British forces were on active deployment in the North/NI & were also deployed on overseas territories and in post cold-war Germany #bbclaurak
February 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In 14 years of Conservative misrule, they never spent 2.5% defence, Conservative Government last spent more than 2% on defence was under Sir John Major when British forces were on active deployment in the North/NI & were also deployed on overseas territories and in post cold-war Germany #bbclaurak
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🔴Like Brexit, Trump and Musk's Agenda is 'Ideologically Incoherent and Ultimately Self-Defeating'
The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Like Brexit, Trump and Musk's Agenda is 'Ideologically Incoherent and Ultimately Self-Defeating'
The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🔴Like Brexit, Trump and Musk's Agenda is 'Ideologically Incoherent and Ultimately Self-Defeating'
The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
The disaster of Brexit is now being replicated on a global scale by a US administration determined to shoot its country's own interests in the foot, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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You scratch my back; I’ll scratch yours. Case was worst Cabinet Secretary I can ever recall. Completely failed in his duty to uphold the core principles of the UK civil service- integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Played a huge role in the growing rot of our political establishment.
So, after Nick Timothy on "How to win an election" and David Frost on "How to do a great trade deal", the Telegraph adds another to its list of star columnists...
January 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You scratch my back; I’ll scratch yours. Case was worst Cabinet Secretary I can ever recall. Completely failed in his duty to uphold the core principles of the UK civil service- integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Played a huge role in the growing rot of our political establishment.
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Multiple lawmakers in Munich told the Washington Post’s @joshrogin.bsky.social that the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves. Zelensky politely declined to sign it.
February 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Multiple lawmakers in Munich told the Washington Post’s @joshrogin.bsky.social that the U.S. Congressional delegation presented Zelensky with a piece of paper they wanted him to sign which would grant the U.S. rights to 50% of Ukraine’s future mineral reserves. Zelensky politely declined to sign it.
Ok folks, deep breaths.
There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
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There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome.
(A rather long 🧵, obviously)
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February 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM