Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE
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"Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance": GBS
“I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope.”
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“I am so well acquainted with despair, I know not how to hope.”
Retired engineering manager. Garden designer, BSc Eng. Left of centre. Art dabbler. Cats👍🏼
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Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.
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Un conseil
Je crois qu’il faut suivre cet homme politique, on va en reparler, c’est le maire de Minneapolis, il s’appelle Jacob Frey et il est absolument remarquable. À suivre...
Je crois qu’il faut suivre cet homme politique, on va en reparler, c’est le maire de Minneapolis, il s’appelle Jacob Frey et il est absolument remarquable. À suivre...
January 19, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Un conseil
Je crois qu’il faut suivre cet homme politique, on va en reparler, c’est le maire de Minneapolis, il s’appelle Jacob Frey et il est absolument remarquable. À suivre...
Je crois qu’il faut suivre cet homme politique, on va en reparler, c’est le maire de Minneapolis, il s’appelle Jacob Frey et il est absolument remarquable. À suivre...
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This is darkly funny. But part of the problem with Donald Trump is that this is how people have dealt with him for the past 75-plus years.
Long story short (and friends in Europe, please take note):
This approach DOES NOT WORK.
Long story short (and friends in Europe, please take note):
This approach DOES NOT WORK.
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 PM
This is darkly funny. But part of the problem with Donald Trump is that this is how people have dealt with him for the past 75-plus years.
Long story short (and friends in Europe, please take note):
This approach DOES NOT WORK.
Long story short (and friends in Europe, please take note):
This approach DOES NOT WORK.
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The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
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To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way)....
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way)....
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
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A good reason to avoid Spotify..
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 7:31 AM
A good reason to avoid Spotify..
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I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
January 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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Red State Texas has 2.1M undocumented immigrants.
Red State Florida has 1.6M.
Blue State Minnesota only has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about undocumented immigrants!
Red State Florida has 1.6M.
Blue State Minnesota only has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about undocumented immigrants!
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Red State Texas has 2.1M undocumented immigrants.
Red State Florida has 1.6M.
Blue State Minnesota only has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about undocumented immigrants!
Red State Florida has 1.6M.
Blue State Minnesota only has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about undocumented immigrants!
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Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”
What?
What?
January 19, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.”
What?
What?
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I'll be live on Sky News talking Trump and Greenland shortly.
Greenland row: What Trump tariff threat could mean for Europe's economies
Greenland row: What Trump tariff threat could mean for Europe's economies
"A trade war is in no-one's interest".
news.sky.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I'll be live on Sky News talking Trump and Greenland shortly.
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📌 ICYMI — How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration…
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration…
January 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM
📌 ICYMI — How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration…
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration…
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Les violences commises vendredi à Argenteuil par des fonctionnaires de police sur un homme plaqué au sol et maîtrisé sont injustifiables.
En République, de tels agissements ne peuvent rester impunis. Je saisis le Procureur de Pontoise au titre de l’article 40 du code de procédure pénale.
En République, de tels agissements ne peuvent rester impunis. Je saisis le Procureur de Pontoise au titre de l’article 40 du code de procédure pénale.
January 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Les violences commises vendredi à Argenteuil par des fonctionnaires de police sur un homme plaqué au sol et maîtrisé sont injustifiables.
En République, de tels agissements ne peuvent rester impunis. Je saisis le Procureur de Pontoise au titre de l’article 40 du code de procédure pénale.
En République, de tels agissements ne peuvent rester impunis. Je saisis le Procureur de Pontoise au titre de l’article 40 du code de procédure pénale.
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I hope there are UK groups taking notes for how to organise under a Farage government
If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:
thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I hope there are UK groups taking notes for how to organise under a Farage government
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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Keir Starmer says he does not think Trump will use force to take Greenland.
I think Starmer has exceptionally poor judgment.
I think Starmer has exceptionally poor judgment.
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Keir Starmer says he does not think Trump will use force to take Greenland.
I think Starmer has exceptionally poor judgment.
I think Starmer has exceptionally poor judgment.
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Starmer is not working in Britains best interest when he does deals with palantir.
I suggest everyone does their homework on who they are and who they support.
www.thenational.scot/news/2575969...
I suggest everyone does their homework on who they are and who they support.
www.thenational.scot/news/2575969...
Who is Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley and why is he everywhere?
PALANTIR UK boss Louis Mosley has appeared in the news and on political panel shows recently after the UK Government shook hands with the firm on a…
www.thenational.scot
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Starmer is not working in Britains best interest when he does deals with palantir.
I suggest everyone does their homework on who they are and who they support.
www.thenational.scot/news/2575969...
I suggest everyone does their homework on who they are and who they support.
www.thenational.scot/news/2575969...
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Anne Applebaum: "Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." I fully subscribe to this analysis.
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Russian propagandists Solovyev and Dugin are "the phenomena of ... [sh*t] on stick," Armenia's National Assembly president, Alen Simonyan, said.
This was an answer to Russian propagandists taling about a "special military operation" in Armenia and other countries.
This was an answer to Russian propagandists taling about a "special military operation" in Armenia and other countries.
January 19, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Russian propagandists Solovyev and Dugin are "the phenomena of ... [sh*t] on stick," Armenia's National Assembly president, Alen Simonyan, said.
This was an answer to Russian propagandists taling about a "special military operation" in Armenia and other countries.
This was an answer to Russian propagandists taling about a "special military operation" in Armenia and other countries.
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“[JD Vance] said there's absolute immunity. This is not true… maybe he's deliberately lying, maybe he just doesn't know. I figured a Yale-trained lawyer would know.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Prem why there is no 'absolute immunity' for ICE agents.
🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Prem why there is no 'absolute immunity' for ICE agents.
🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
January 19, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“[JD Vance] said there's absolute immunity. This is not true… maybe he's deliberately lying, maybe he just doesn't know. I figured a Yale-trained lawyer would know.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Prem why there is no 'absolute immunity' for ICE agents.
🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tells Prem why there is no 'absolute immunity' for ICE agents.
🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
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"The underlying hum at the moment is how Americanised we’ve become, how much the far-right has penetrated our so-called mainstream politics, and how far we’ve generally shifted to the right," @zackpolanski.bsky.social tells Byline Times
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Zack Polanski - An Outsider Going Mainstream? – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
In September, Zack Polanski – a Member of the London Assembly since 2021 – was elected to the Green Party’s top job. His leadership has seen its membership double to more than 150,000 – overtaking tho...
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January 19, 2026 at 3:02 PM
"The underlying hum at the moment is how Americanised we’ve become, how much the far-right has penetrated our so-called mainstream politics, and how far we’ve generally shifted to the right," @zackpolanski.bsky.social tells Byline Times
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🔴How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...
How Neo-Nazis Posing as 'Ordinary Parents' Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
🔴How Neo-Nazis Posing as ‘Ordinary Parents’ Embedded Themselves in Anti-Immigrant Protests
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...
A year long investigation by Katherine Denkinson exposes the Neo-Nazi and far-right extremists operating openly inside anti-immigration protests
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/h...
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Lachlan Macrae, of Calais Food Collective said his group had found water containers stabbed, or with soap poured in to render the water undrinkable.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/theyre-emboldened-british-far-right-activists-step-up-harassment-of-asylum-seekers-in-northern-france
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/theyre-emboldened-british-far-right-activists-step-up-harassment-of-asylum-seekers-in-northern-france
‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France
Aid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migr
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Lachlan Macrae, of Calais Food Collective said his group had found water containers stabbed, or with soap poured in to render the water undrinkable.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/theyre-emboldened-british-far-right-activists-step-up-harassment-of-asylum-seekers-in-northern-france
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/19/theyre-emboldened-british-far-right-activists-step-up-harassment-of-asylum-seekers-in-northern-france
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The UK economy in 2026: my predictions in the form of a thread of my answers to the FT Economists Annual Survey, reported here (1/15 or so):
www.ft.com/content/bdf5....
www.ft.com/content/bdf5....
Taxes will need to rise before next UK election, economists predict
Majority of respondents in FT’s annual survey say economy will not be strong enough for people to feel better off
www.ft.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The UK economy in 2026: my predictions in the form of a thread of my answers to the FT Economists Annual Survey, reported here (1/15 or so):
www.ft.com/content/bdf5....
www.ft.com/content/bdf5....
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Fair point from @adambienkov.bsky.social
“When Trump last ran for office, there was no shortage of senior UK politicians and commentators who predicted that his re-election would lead to a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.”
Where are they now?
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/i...
“When Trump last ran for office, there was no shortage of senior UK politicians and commentators who predicted that his re-election would lead to a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.”
Where are they now?
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/i...
It's Time for an Apology From the Trump Apologists
The politicians and commentators who mocked those warning about the threat posed by the US President as being "hysterical" need to face up to their own role in the calamity now unfolding, argues Adam ...
bylinetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Fair point from @adambienkov.bsky.social
“When Trump last ran for office, there was no shortage of senior UK politicians and commentators who predicted that his re-election would lead to a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.”
Where are they now?
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/i...
“When Trump last ran for office, there was no shortage of senior UK politicians and commentators who predicted that his re-election would lead to a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.”
Where are they now?
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/i...