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MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS

"I keep six honest men serving me. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What, and Why, and When, and Where, and How, and Who."
Rudyard Kipling.
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Important reading for every man
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Prostate Cancer UK
We want to stop prostate cancer being a killer. We fund groundbreaking research, drive improvements in treatment, and fight injustice in care.
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Companies aren't families, they're businesses, and their goal is to make money. If they can make more money by laying you off, they will.
February 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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The company you work for is NOT your family and you don't owe your job anything beyond the work you're being paid to do.

Prioritize your own growth and well-being. If you have an opportunity to better yourself, never feel guilty about taking it.
February 18, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Global markets now face an unsettling possibility: that an impulsive, deeply unstable and economically illiterate president intends to fiddle with the dollar

✏️ Jay Elwes
Trump’s next victim: the US economy
With his own man as chair of the Federal Reserve, the president opens up the most damaging prospect of all – that the White House wants to manipulate the currency for political ends
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Collapse of Cuba explained

Cuba is grinding to a halt as the Trump administration has moved to cut off its supply of oil from Venezuela and Mexico. Matt Frei explores the nation’s US relationship and what could come next.

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Cuba: How Trump’s oil embargo is bringing country to its knees
Cuba is grinding to a halt as the Trump administration has moved to cut off its supply of oil from Venezuela and Mexico. Matt Frei explores the nation’s US relationship and what could come next.
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February 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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US:
"We are all one Western Civilization sharing a common thread from Athens to Rome to America."

EU:
"We've actually been building institutions to bring Europe closer together, pooling our sovereignty around shared values and..."

US:
"No. Not like that."
February 18, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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The former chair of the US National Intelligence Council says that America’s security apparatus is so damaged the UK is holding back intelligence from the US

✏️ Greg Treverton
Trump has destroyed America’s intelligence system
The former chair of the US National Intelligence Council says that America’s security apparatus is so damaged the UK is holding back intelligence from the US
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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-Life of a millenial
-Recession at the age of graduation
-Pandemic at the age of independence
-AI layoffs at the age of career growth
-Housing crisis at the age of home ownership
February 18, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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🟨 Print Edition — ‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’

Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across…
‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across Greater Manchester. A day after he was blocked from standing as the Labour candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham gave the opening address
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February 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld

✏️ @lukemcgee.bsky.social
The unBrexited Britain that could have led Europe
London could have been the EU’s capital, leading the continent’s defence against Putin and Trumpworld, instead of a spectator to decisions it once helped to shape
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Exclusive: Police failed to stop serial rapist after report from own officer

Two rape victims have bravely waived their anonymity as part of a Channel 4 News investigation, exposing how Hampshire Constabulary ignored warnings about Bruno Sala, who attacked more women.

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Exclusive: Police failed to stop serial rapist after report from own officer
Two rape victims have bravely waived their anonymity as part of a Channel 4 News investigation, exposing how Hampshire Constabulary ignored warnings about Bruno Sala, who went on to attack more women.
channel4news.substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Fact Check:

Nigel Farage claims the FT ignored the Mandelson-Epstein scandal

it was on the front page for SIX days

(long before he appears to have even noticed it)
February 17, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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🔎 From the archive
“Has the BBC ever investigated the source of this leak?”

‘BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants — by @nafeez.bsky.social
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm…
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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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🟨 Print Edition — The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer

The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised.
The Downfall of Peter Mandelson and Morgan McSweeney Offers a Chink of Light for Keir Starmer  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The Prime Minister went against his own instincts by deferring so heavily to his former chief advisor – he now has a chance to offer the ‘government of service’ he promised. Adam Bienkov reports
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February 18, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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📌 ICYMI — Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction

Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley's most powerful founders knew they were meeting…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/17/big-tech-helped-elon-musk-meet-jeffrey-epstein-four-times-after-conviction/
Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction
Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley's most powerful founders knew they were meeting, dining and emailing with a convicted sex offender and were told to keep quiet about it
bylinetimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Banks prepare to discuss a new payments infrastructure that would remove heavy reliance on US firms....
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February 18, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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There's one simple trick to making regulations and government more generally significantly less painful:

Start rewarding officials and agencies more for a smooth 'user' experience than you punish them for errors.

At the moment the former is not rewarded at all and the latter can be career ending.
February 18, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled.

Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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She supported Trump, the January 6 riots and spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now she’s renounced the president and appears on liberal chat shows

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: MAGA’s No.1 heretic
She supported Trump, the January 6 riots and spouted antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now she’s renounced the president and appears on liberal chat shows – but is her conversion all it appears?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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And to really round out their genuine Cabinet of the People, Reform have just anointed former public school boy & current Cambridge theologian James Orr as Head of Policy
February 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Too good !
February 17, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…
Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class
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February 17, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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To expand the mountaineering analogy: Pu can't get to the top and claim victory (can't conquer Ukraine), can't keep trying forever (maintain the war), but he can't climb down fast either (end the war) because the mountaineering federation (regime) and the public will see him as a failure and end him
“Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed. It has entered the “death zone”—surviving by consuming its own future. Growth at 1%. Budget deficit rising. Military sector expands while civilian industry shrinks. Interest payments > education + healthcare. No climber survives this altitude forever.”
Russia’s economy has entered the death zone
Alexandra Prokopenko wonders how much longer it can go on metabolising its own muscle tissue
www.economist.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Republican Joins With Democrats on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons
Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons
"This amendment creates a narrow, commonsense check to ensure the pardon power is used fairly and responsibly regardless of who occupies the White House"
www.mediaite.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM