Nigel Farage to snub US conservative conference brought to UK by Liz Truss Exclusive: Reform UK will be ‘steering well clear’ of CPAC event in July, says a source, as will senior Tories

Hilarious. Liz Truss is so toxic that she’s sinking CPAC single handedly.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cover of the book If Russia Wins by Carlo Masala showing spreading red across the map of the world…

Really? Is this what we’re doing now? It’s 1984 Red Dawn scaremongering all over again…

Apparently in this scenario they’ve conquered India!

Front cover of the tabloid with the headline FASCISM IS EVERYBODY’S PROBLEM over a kind of steampunky zeppelin boat thing.

There were so many people on the Together Alliance march against the far right today in London. Media saying 500,000.

We were there handing out copies of our new antifascist tabloid - we got rid of over 5000 and had a great reception.

Check out weareplanc.org for info and to get copies

Terror police arrest three people over Peacehaven mosque arson Two others were previously charged by Sussex Police over the attack at Peacehaven Mosque in October.

More squeaky bums in the south coast ‘patriot’ community…

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The orange faced white supremacist in question

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When not only are you blocked on the streets but also all the social media traffic of your demo is Ryan Ferguson loudly claiming to be a Nazi… it’s humiliation on multiple fronts

Kudos to @bristolantifascist.bsky.social
and everyone who was part of an amazingly effective antifascist mobilisation!

Facebook post from Bristol Patriots Public Announcement from Bristol Patriots Following Saturday's protest, I first want to say a huge thank you to the true patriots who turned up to stand with us. Your support means everything. I also want to offer an apology regarding some of the other groups who were invited to the march by certain individuals within our community. While Bristol Patriots has always believed in welcoming anyone who shares our core views, some of those who attended on Saturday do not align with our mission. We are aware of some of the content currently circulating online; we want to be clear that this does not represent what Bristol Patriots is about. While everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, many of the views displayed on Saturday do not align with our movement.

Second half… Bristol Patriots Upcoming Changes Because of the direction things have taken recently, we are in the process of making some significant changes. • Post Visibility: This post will remain active for 48 hours. • Page Suspension: After 48 hours, this page will be suspended for a period of time while these changes take effect. The Future of the Movement I want to thank everyone who has shown such strong support for us. If it wasn't for the majority of you who stand by our true values, we never could have built this community. This is not the end of patriotism in Bristol. This is a time for us to reset and bring back the true British patriotism that we started with. We have huge respect for those who have supported us-this isn't the end, just a necessary time for change.

When you have to lock down your social media and specifically claim “this is not the end of patriotism in Bristol…” then you know it might be quite close to being the end of ‘patriotism’ in Bristol.

Also the literal Nazis who had been welcome on the demo apparently decided that the possibility of accidentally hanging out with a Jew was too much for them and bailed.

So it’s only due to the principles of the Nazis that they weren’t on the multi faith demo!

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It’s an advert for their demo. It’s got a cross, Star of David, Hindu Om and a Sikh Khanda. It calls itself a march for unity.

Bristol Patriots’ march was a bizarre attempt to spin their racism as some sort of multi faith celebration (notice which faith is mysteriously missed out).

This was a total failure and the demo noticeably failed to attract anyone apart from the usual reprobates.

40 far right with union flags surrounded by cops on every side boxes into a small huddle

Bristol Patriots having a shit day out today. All 40 of them, totally boxed in by hundreds of antifascists.

Police turned them around and marched them back the way they came.

Despite using batons and horses against antifascists, people held their ground and the fascists did not pass.

And what have all those countries mentioned got in common? Oh yes, horrific civil wars.

So they *know* that these people are legitimate refugees and that’s why they’re trying to stop them!

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

What a world of Orwellian bullshit we inhabit.

We’ve been told for years that it was only the “illegals” that people objected to and of course they had nothing against the good ones who come legally

Turns out - no we just don’t want brown people.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Charity watchdog investigating UK Lawyers for Israel's charitable trust Charity Commission said it has an active case for UK Lawyers for Israel's charitable wing and its relationship with UKLFI

And to the Charities Commission:

www.middleeasteye.net/news/charity...

Landmark complaint issued against UK Lawyers for Israel Exclusive: UK Lawyers for Israel has waged a campaign against solidarity with Palestine. The group is now being referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

UKLFI operate as a law firm without being regulated as such and also operate as a charity while being overtly highly political.

People have started to take them on and fight them at their own game, reporting them to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority:

www.declassifieduk.org/landmark-com...

UKLFI’s whole modus operandi is to fire off scary sounding letters threatening people with the law and with accusations of antisemitism. People regularly fold on receipt of the letters and so UKLFI are rarely tested

On the occasions when people have stood up to them, their threats often evaporate

Sign the Petition Erasing a Word Erases a People: Reinstate Palestine in the British Museum

There is a petition to the BM to reverse their decision and maybe not take curatorial decisions on the say-so of political lobbying groups:

www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...

'Erasing history': British Museum criticised for removing references to ‘Palestine' from exhibits Move condemned by scholars and activists as part of a ‘systematic’ attack on Palestinian cultural identity

So the British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from some of its exhibits after a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel.

Who out of the British Museum and a tiny pro-Israel lawfare group would we imagine to be the expert on ancient history?

And yet…

www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...

It’s permanently hard to determine if this is a clever ploy and ultimately Trump Always Chickens Out or if he actually might be crazy enough to do it.

Which is why it works I guess.

Was Trump’s whole seizing Greenland plan, like the tariffs, an attempt to extract concessions by going in hard with an insane threat?

This strategy relies on people thinking he just might be crazy enough to do it

Then ppl scrabble around to placate him and he walks away with most of what he wants

That 2016 White House correspondents dinner is going to be the Gavrilo Princip’s choice of lunch spot of this century.

Of course there’s more to it than that - there’s geopolitical grand strategy, resources etc

But with Trump we should never underestimate sheer petty vanity and resentment as motivators of the most consequential decisions.

Tweet from @nickschifrin NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] "Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT"

Jesus Christ. The world is actually being run by a toddler.

He wants a Nobel Peace Prize because Obama got one and Obama made fun of him in front of everyone at the White House Correspondents dinner in 2016.

So good on him.

Although it’s all an indication of exactly how bad things have got

And he calls for resolutely peaceful protest and puts a lot of faith in the courts and the voting booth

But what happens when the fascists hollow out or capture the courts and the voting booth?

Tim Walz Calls for Mass Resistance Against ICE in Minnesota YouTube video by electron media group, inc.

Kind of insane that this is where we are.

Democrat governors calling for civil resistance and mutual aid against immigration raids

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Z3...

How much are EU member states spending on defence? Taken from the European council In 2024, member states' defence expenditure reached €343 billion, rising for the 10th consecutive year. In 2025, it is expected to reach an estimated €381 billion. Defence expenditure in 2025 increased by 11% compared to the previous year and by 62.87% compared to 2020.

We are *heavily* militarised countries

It’s only the insanity of the US war machine and Trumpist aggression that makes European states seem like pacifists or something.

Graph of defence spending by country 2024 taken from Statistica.com modified to show collective EU and UK plus EU numbers United States 997bn UK + EU 424bn EU TOTAL 343bn China* 314bn Russia* 149bn Germany 88.5bn India 86.1bn United Kingdom 81.8bn Saudi Arabia* 80.3bn Ukraine 64.7bn France 64.7bn

Worth reflecting in current fuss about defence spending numbers - Trump whinging about how Europe doesn’t pay its way blah blah…

… that EU defence spending is greater than China.

And if you include the UK in European defence, it’s even more.

Ramsay Bolton

Tywin Lannister

He’s Ramsay Bolton, not Tywin Lannister, if you want to put it in those terms.

Anyone smart knows who’s more dangerous.

Trump is dumb enough that he thinks being a psychopath who will fuck over your allies makes you more of a tough guy.

Smarter imperialists than him kept the mask there for good reasons.

Because if you dispense with it, and if you have proved yourself volatile, governed by no rules, and if your international allies and your domestic population are only kept in line by fear, that actually makes you weaker.

He thinks that dispensing with the mask of law, democracy, rules, norms, allies and coalitions that the USA has traditionally worn is ‘tough’ and he sees maintaining this ideology as weakness.

But this is not necessarily smart.

Helicopters and explosions from bombing over Caracas during the recent illegal abduction of Maduro.

Internationally, he has launched a foreign policy of pure aggression and colonialism. Just - we want it, we’ll take it, who’s going to stop us?

The keynote of both is white supremacy and reliance on naked force.