I don't think most people realise how completely our military and intelligence services are entwined with the US.

We may well need to become more independent, but it's not something that can happen overnight.

US Vice President JD Vance says there have been "infringements on free speech" in the UK

Keir Starmer hits back: "We have had free speech for a very long time in the UK"

so much for Trump’s 4% claim

OBSERVER; Starmer set to join Europe crisis summit on Trump Ukraine plan #TomorrowsPapersToday

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

It’s almost as if the political game of calling for an inquiry into almost everything while in opposition and allowing them on almost nothing while in government might eventually have consequences, isn’t it?

Elon Musk is starting to risk getting Jess Phillips killed. She's been safeguarding minister for six months. She oversaw nothing relating to the rape gangs. As an opposition MP she was one of the most prominent campaigners for the victims.

What he's doing is a travesty.

Was just writing a post to the same effect. I keep seeing people say Labour should do something in response. But what exactly?

Read this while smashing my head against wall due to the BA website refusing to accept correct passport information. Anyway, FYI for future reference, thanks to Reddit, the workaround is “use FinnAir’s website to manage your BA bookings as they’re on the same system and their IT actually works”.

About a 10th of the number of Ukrainian refugee children state schools took in without any panicked coverage.

Such nonsense.

If indeed American exceptionalism is "the mother of all bubbles", pumped by deficits and mania, I wonder how that changes the narrative around Europe.

Looking back, will we end up thinking "Europe looked like it was falling behind for a bit, until America popped"?

www.ft.com/content/9a0d...

UK MPs vote in favour of allowing assisted dying after emotional Commons debate
#BBCNews live page www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
#AssistedDying

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Worth a repost I think. Business / 'the markets' are definitely not on board with Trump on tariffs.

I do get that the two child limit and and welfare cap are popular with the public (and I get why).

But the consequences of this are not popular and ultimately matter more both in the real world and electorally.

🚨 NEW: Transport Secretary Louise Haigh will announce plans to invest £1bn in bus services on Monday as she promises London-style services to the whole country

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Why are there not articles about Europe having to choose between trading with the US or China, which is after all a more likely problem?

Or indeed about the choices companies will have?

More ridiculous panic in the UK media. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Bluesky by the Numbers today:

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Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!!

We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board.

Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago!

Holy Moly

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