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Spain has effectively made the argument that their economy NEEDS migration. They don’t have the hostile environment which every govt. has kept despite Windrush promises. This could be us if we weren’t cooked.
Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Spain has effectively made the argument that their economy NEEDS migration. They don’t have the hostile environment which every govt. has kept despite Windrush promises. This could be us if we weren’t cooked.
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Guilty until proven innocent
Facial recognition cameras go against the fundamental principles of British justice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Facial recognition cameras go against the fundamental principles of British justice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's staff wrongly eject a man from a south London store over a facial recognition alert.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Guilty until proven innocent
Facial recognition cameras go against the fundamental principles of British justice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Facial recognition cameras go against the fundamental principles of British justice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is how wicked people think
Conservative figures such as Riley Gaines and Allie Beth Stuckey are urging their followers to ward off empathy for victims of ICE’s crackdown
The womanosphere urges dubious followers to back ICE: ‘Don’t let compassion cloud you’
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is how wicked people think
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Astonishingly it turns out criminals are human, and therefore actually do have rights. I don't need to but I will also say - if they can decide a class of person is exempt from human rights AND can decide if you are part of that class it's extremely bad news.
‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales
David Lammy also tells MPs he will draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
David Lammy also tells MPs he will draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales
David Lammy also tells MPs he will draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Astonishingly it turns out criminals are human, and therefore actually do have rights. I don't need to but I will also say - if they can decide a class of person is exempt from human rights AND can decide if you are part of that class it's extremely bad news.
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[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
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Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Labour and the FPTP mindset
February 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Labour and the FPTP mindset
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This is how the establishment "left" (scare quotes intended) have been functioning for at least a decade. Intense obsessive factionalism and career orientation over policy everywhere.
It's why minority groups are so fucked by it. If everything is about who your friends are principles don't matter.
It's why minority groups are so fucked by it. If everything is about who your friends are principles don't matter.
Labour's ruling committee, which is stuffed full of allies of Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney, has just blocked Andy Burnham from standing to be an MP in Gorton and Denton.
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
The odds of Labour losing this previously safe seat to Reform now look much higher
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM
This is how the establishment "left" (scare quotes intended) have been functioning for at least a decade. Intense obsessive factionalism and career orientation over policy everywhere.
It's why minority groups are so fucked by it. If everything is about who your friends are principles don't matter.
It's why minority groups are so fucked by it. If everything is about who your friends are principles don't matter.
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"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
Ernest Hemingway
It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
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that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
January 24, 2026 at 6:14 PM
that Farage and Badenoch want ICE-style action in the UK should be enough to end them
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Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Ultimately you're not supposed to believe it. It not mattering is the point. The bolder the lie, the greater the impunity. The ultimate victory for evil is not convincing you, it's the truth being irrelevant.
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Here we fucking go again, treating it like the white & gold v blue & black dress & isn't it WEIRD how the secret police street executionioners & their enablers are seeing something completely different to the footage of a street execution that we can all see ourselves. A difference of opinion is all
BBC having a totally normal one again, granting respectability and credence to their sworn enemies.
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Here we fucking go again, treating it like the white & gold v blue & black dress & isn't it WEIRD how the secret police street executionioners & their enablers are seeing something completely different to the footage of a street execution that we can all see ourselves. A difference of opinion is all
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The BBC is lost
The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
It leads on "sharply contested narratives"
It has a dramatic skew to the US government
It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue
January 24, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The BBC is lost
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.
January 22, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.
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If a random guy on the left told you that the government dreamt of using AI to build a digital panopticon so that the eyes of the state could be on you at all times you'd think that he was maybe a bit of a crank, and yet...
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
If a random guy on the left told you that the government dreamt of using AI to build a digital panopticon so that the eyes of the state could be on you at all times you'd think that he was maybe a bit of a crank, and yet...
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I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.
January 19, 2026 at 7:38 AM
I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.
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Updated for 2026
January 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Updated for 2026
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This is actually important: Trump (as far as anyone can tell) doesn't believe that *anything* is on the level. He doesn't as much oppose democracy and the rule of law as believe that they've always been a fairy tale that only foolish dupes fall for.
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This is actually important: Trump (as far as anyone can tell) doesn't believe that *anything* is on the level. He doesn't as much oppose democracy and the rule of law as believe that they've always been a fairy tale that only foolish dupes fall for.
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A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.
March 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A lot of people are going to have to get used to the reality that America is no longer our closest ally.
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These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
January 18, 2026 at 7:59 AM
These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America.
They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.
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I was an international conference with university leaders in Korea last year. Everyone at my table had studied in the US, and associated it with democratic values.
This was how soft power worked, but it only worked when the American actions broadly (and even imperfectly) aligned with the values.
This was how soft power worked, but it only worked when the American actions broadly (and even imperfectly) aligned with the values.
Simon Kuper in today’s FT on the bamboozled blue-suited governing elite: “Some tribe members did stints at US universities … and fell for a country that’s now outside their circle of trust.”
Blue suit Klaas Knot, also FT today:
www.ft.com/content/77f4...
Blue suit Klaas Knot, also FT today:
www.ft.com/content/77f4...
January 17, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I was an international conference with university leaders in Korea last year. Everyone at my table had studied in the US, and associated it with democratic values.
This was how soft power worked, but it only worked when the American actions broadly (and even imperfectly) aligned with the values.
This was how soft power worked, but it only worked when the American actions broadly (and even imperfectly) aligned with the values.
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The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
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For the nth time, reminded that practices that "the West" claimed epitomized the moral perfidy of the Eastern Bloc when I was growing up (such as violent repression, family separation, mass surveillance, restrictions on free movement) are now the common practice of the immigration-obsessed "West"
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
For the nth time, reminded that practices that "the West" claimed epitomized the moral perfidy of the Eastern Bloc when I was growing up (such as violent repression, family separation, mass surveillance, restrictions on free movement) are now the common practice of the immigration-obsessed "West"
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January 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge—built on a simple but powerful idea: show your sources. That commitment to citations is one of our favorite things about Wikipedia. ℹ️📚🔍
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#Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay @wikipedia.org
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