Jim Wildman
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China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed | Simon Tisdall
China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed | Simon Tisdall
The Doomsday Clock is ticking ever more loudly as arms control mechanisms fail and leaders become more reckless. The time to be alarmed is now, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
China is leading the charge to nuclear Armageddon – and Starmer barely noticed | Simon Tisdall
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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"We shouldn’t stop believing in the good in people, but we should also heed the warnings of history. What The Effingers teaches us is not to underestimate the danger of the fascist menace, and to fight on all fronts against it"
https://bit.ly/4sbp2O1
https://bit.ly/4sbp2O1
In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger
With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning, says journalist Tania Roettger
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"We shouldn’t stop believing in the good in people, but we should also heed the warnings of history. What The Effingers teaches us is not to underestimate the danger of the fascist menace, and to fight on all fronts against it"
https://bit.ly/4sbp2O1
https://bit.ly/4sbp2O1
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Peter Rhodes, of the mighty Express & Star, gave me my first break in journalism. I'm so sad to read his final words in print. Thankyou Peter for your work ❤️
www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/12...
www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/12...
Legendary columnist Peter Rhodes writes his last words for the Star, after 40 years of keeping readers informed and entertained. Here are his reasons why
Peter Rhodes, one of this newspaper's best-loved writers for more than 40 years, is finally packing away his pen after revealing he has been diagnosed with cancer.
www.expressandstar.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Peter Rhodes, of the mighty Express & Star, gave me my first break in journalism. I'm so sad to read his final words in print. Thankyou Peter for your work ❤️
www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/12...
www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/12...
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Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace
Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace
You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s support for far-right nationalists. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How many more warnings will it take before we wake up and finally act on climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
How many more warnings will it take before we wake up and finally act on climate change?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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"To ensure the BBC’s independence, impartiality and trust, Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the new director general"
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"To ensure the BBC’s independence, impartiality and trust, Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the new director general"
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff
The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff
The civil liberties argument against giving the state more power over our lives becomes more urgent by the day – just look to Trump’s America, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff
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Appalling editorial judgement
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Appalling editorial judgement
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"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland
It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people" 🎯
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/donald-trump-us-abyss-nigel-farage-britain
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🤐"Former GB News presenter Darren Grimes, has proposed a motion to rescind a declaration of a climate emergency, a UK first."
Reform are pushing a brand of anti-intellectual populism - fostering distrust in science and deepening divides within politics.
Reform are pushing a brand of anti-intellectual populism - fostering distrust in science and deepening divides within politics.
Reform-run councils once known for green policies expected to scrap climate pledges
Former Durham county council climate lead calls motion to rescind climate emergency declaration ‘reprehensible’
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July 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🤐"Former GB News presenter Darren Grimes, has proposed a motion to rescind a declaration of a climate emergency, a UK first."
Reform are pushing a brand of anti-intellectual populism - fostering distrust in science and deepening divides within politics.
Reform are pushing a brand of anti-intellectual populism - fostering distrust in science and deepening divides within politics.
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The media must do better at holding Farage and his cronies to account.
Why does Nigel Farage get to play British politics on easy mode? | Andy Beckett
The UK’s electoral system traditionally makes it hard for new parties to succeed. Not Reform. Sitting back from the fray, it sets the agenda, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
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June 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The media must do better at holding Farage and his cronies to account.
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We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
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He's the latest PNG Courier, for those too time poor to click through to my Substack...
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May 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
He's the latest PNG Courier, for those too time poor to click through to my Substack...
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substack.com/@mrhenrymorr...
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GB News spewed out almost 1,000 anti-climate attacks in 7 months - that’s like 5 every single day. Climate denial should be a crime in my view - it does enormous harm. At the very least GB News should have some regulatory scrutiny. We don’t need toxic media in our country.
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April 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
GB News spewed out almost 1,000 anti-climate attacks in 7 months - that’s like 5 every single day. Climate denial should be a crime in my view - it does enormous harm. At the very least GB News should have some regulatory scrutiny. We don’t need toxic media in our country.
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buff.ly/0DUA2yU
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Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland
Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland
This presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland
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‘We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?’
Good piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on a political trend that’s been ignored in favour of the media’s bias towards a) Farage b) men in general
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on a political trend that’s been ignored in favour of the media’s bias towards a) Farage b) men in general
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green? | Gaby Hinsliff
Desire for a politics that cares about global and local injustice is sharpening the political gender divide, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
‘We obsess over the angry young men going Reform. But what of the anxious young women going Green?’
Good piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on a political trend that’s been ignored in favour of the media’s bias towards a) Farage b) men in general
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good piece by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on a political trend that’s been ignored in favour of the media’s bias towards a) Farage b) men in general
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
Trump's betrayal of Ukraine is complete
Ukraine simply cannot accept this peace deal with Russia
inews.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If these Ukraine peace terms are as reported, they are a historic betrayal. Nothing in American history would come near to it. It would side the US squarely and definitively with dictatorship inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...