Fiona
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Suggested EU response:
- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
1/5
- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
1/5
January 19, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Suggested EU response:
- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
1/5
- US airbases now represent an armed presence, inside our borders, of a nation that is openly threatening to invade our territory
- Withdraw the threat or we have no choice but to close those bases
- This turns USA from a global power to a regional one, overnight
1/5
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Something I've being saying for days, he isn't a political commentator, his words unlike all of ours have consequences and why was anybody asking for the PM's response, haven't they seen this statement??????
January 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Something I've being saying for days, he isn't a political commentator, his words unlike all of ours have consequences and why was anybody asking for the PM's response, haven't they seen this statement??????
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What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
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He’s a divisive little man, his vile rhetoric and sly innuendo is worthy of Goebbels himself.
His knuckle dragging supporters lap it up but sensible people can see the long term damage he’s doing to this great country.
He ain’t no patriot he’s a full blown traitor
His knuckle dragging supporters lap it up but sensible people can see the long term damage he’s doing to this great country.
He ain’t no patriot he’s a full blown traitor
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
He’s a divisive little man, his vile rhetoric and sly innuendo is worthy of Goebbels himself.
His knuckle dragging supporters lap it up but sensible people can see the long term damage he’s doing to this great country.
He ain’t no patriot he’s a full blown traitor
His knuckle dragging supporters lap it up but sensible people can see the long term damage he’s doing to this great country.
He ain’t no patriot he’s a full blown traitor
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In Zaragoza, Spain, the sculpture La Mujer Que Nunca Hizo Nada (The Woman Who Never Did Anything) pays tribute to the often overlooked, unpaid work of women at home that keeps families & societies functioning. Xmas is one of their busiest times
#GoodMorning, everyone
Art: José Luis Fernández (2001)
#GoodMorning, everyone
Art: José Luis Fernández (2001)
December 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
In Zaragoza, Spain, the sculpture La Mujer Que Nunca Hizo Nada (The Woman Who Never Did Anything) pays tribute to the often overlooked, unpaid work of women at home that keeps families & societies functioning. Xmas is one of their busiest times
#GoodMorning, everyone
Art: José Luis Fernández (2001)
#GoodMorning, everyone
Art: José Luis Fernández (2001)
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Garcia: If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the DOJ, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own DOJ, contact the oversight committee. We have whistleblower protections.
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Aren't they brilliant ? Thank you @heidiburton.bsky.social for sharing ' Longsocks ' - today's #FoxOfTheDay
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Aren't they brilliant ? Thank you @heidiburton.bsky.social for sharing ' Longsocks ' - today's #FoxOfTheDay
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How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
Keir Starmer Is Setting a Trap for Nigel Farage With Foreign Interference Inquiry
As Reform opens the door to crypto donations, the Government is finally starting to take action against the threat of foreign financial interference in our politics, reports Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How Nigel Farage is walking straight into the Government's trap on its inquiry into foreign financial interference
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/17/k...
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This is fantastic news - it's so much more than just study - it opens horizons, builds relationships and friendships, develops soft-power and allows people to understand cultural differences and celebrate, rather than knock them.
#Erasmus+
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#Erasmus+
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UK will rejoin Erasmus student scheme in 2027 - BBC News
The UK left in December 2020 as part of the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU negotiated by Boris Johnson.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is fantastic news - it's so much more than just study - it opens horizons, builds relationships and friendships, develops soft-power and allows people to understand cultural differences and celebrate, rather than knock them.
#Erasmus+
www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
#Erasmus+
www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Reform’s Russian bribe case prompts election interference inquiry
The PM has ordered an investigation into foreign influence in politics after the ex-leader of Reform in Wales was jailed for taking cash to parrot Kremlin lines
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The government has launched an investigation into “countering foreign influence and interference in UK politics”.
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
Which is fantastic news but they need to crack on with it now.
www.thetimes.com/article/80cd...
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Rob Reiner was a genius. He brought joy to this world, and in decades to come, people will still be laughing, crying, and quoting along to his incredible oeuvre.
Donald Trump is a nobody. History will remember him as a villain and a nasty, dim-witted, unloved one at that.
There's your difference
Donald Trump is a nobody. History will remember him as a villain and a nasty, dim-witted, unloved one at that.
There's your difference
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Rob Reiner was a genius. He brought joy to this world, and in decades to come, people will still be laughing, crying, and quoting along to his incredible oeuvre.
Donald Trump is a nobody. History will remember him as a villain and a nasty, dim-witted, unloved one at that.
There's your difference
Donald Trump is a nobody. History will remember him as a villain and a nasty, dim-witted, unloved one at that.
There's your difference
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The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
narrator: the US has a higher proportion of foreign-born residents (around 16%) than most European nations
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Some thoughts on the Australian social media ban... a significant, symbolic step. A government that is trying to put the well-being and interests of its young people ahead of vested interests.
British politicians should take note
@theleaduk.bsky.social
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British politicians should take note
@theleaduk.bsky.social
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Australia is putting young people first. Britain should try it
The first national ban on teen social-media accounts is controversial, imperfect, and a reminder of what real political will on behalf of young people actually looks like.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Some thoughts on the Australian social media ban... a significant, symbolic step. A government that is trying to put the well-being and interests of its young people ahead of vested interests.
British politicians should take note
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
British politicians should take note
@theleaduk.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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Winter Equinox: Russia’s Celebration of Trump’s Strategy Masks a Dying Doom Loop
Putin began his road to ruin with a war many times worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan by underestimating Ukraine a decade ago. And now it looks like he will bring Trump down with him
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Putin began his road to ruin with a war many times worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan by underestimating Ukraine a decade ago. And now it looks like he will bring Trump down with him
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Winter Equinox: Russia’s Celebration of Trump’s Strategy Masks a Dying Doom Loop
Putin began his road to ruin with a war many times worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan by underestimating Ukraine a decade ago. And now it looks like he will bring Trump down with him
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Winter Equinox: Russia’s Celebration of Trump’s Strategy Masks a Dying Doom Loop
Putin began his road to ruin with a war many times worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan by underestimating Ukraine a decade ago. And now it looks like he will bring Trump down with him
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
Putin began his road to ruin with a war many times worse than Vietnam and Afghanistan by underestimating Ukraine a decade ago. And now it looks like he will bring Trump down with him
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here.
Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
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Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
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Strip residency of migrants who are a net financial drain, urges Tory MP
Ministers should withdraw permanent residency from those who draw more in welfare than they contribute, a former No 10 adviser has said
www.thetimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Unsurprising mask-off racism from Nick Timothy here.
Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
archive.ph/rycVD
Upset at the abolition of the two-child limit - because some of (British) kids who will benefit have (British) parents who are the wrong colour (were born in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia, etc).
archive.ph/rycVD
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392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
392,000 followers on X.
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Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Flag campaign chief praised by Tommy Robinson facing jail over ‘holiday scam’
Ryan Bridge, ringleader of the Raise the Colours movement heralded by ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson, is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain
www.mirror.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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I am glad you are all enjoying the cricket. I have no idea what the hell you're all talking about but honestly it's nice seeing people on here be happy for a change.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I am glad you are all enjoying the cricket. I have no idea what the hell you're all talking about but honestly it's nice seeing people on here be happy for a change.