A recurring theme w/ MAGA/radical right is *endlessly* accusing their enemies (falsely) of doing why they are *actually* doing

It’s Orban who spent fortune interfering in politics outside Hungary

Including paying Reform’s Matt Goodwin €10k a month democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

still think a season of Alan Partridge trying to get some kind of documentary made about Prince Andrew would be incredible

Epstein files could be just tip of the iceberg for Andrew investigation It is likely we have only seen the tip of the iceberg compared to what the police have seen.

Detectives investigating Andrew have asked the FBI and DOJ for unredacted copies of the Epstein Files, via the National Crime Agency.

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked:

- A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment

- A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman"

Reform is not a serious operation

So..... how's YOUR week going so far?

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue.

It would affect only 173 People.

Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.

It‘s time for payback.

BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody..

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.

My wife Bunty & I had the privilege of visiting Nigel Farage in his campaign office during the last election.
He was so lovely & allowed Bunters to take a photo of him (shown below).
There was absolutely no hint of him exceeding electoral expenses & being involved in fraud.
😊

Left to danger: Norfolk council inaction leads to flag-related violence As Norfolk refused to act on flag complaints, locals removing them instead found themselves threatened and violently attacked

The flags were sold as “patriotism”. What they’ve delivered is fear: late-night confrontations, mobs gathering in minutes, and police shrugging when violence follows.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.

The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.

In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents.

It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years.

There should be no profit in education or healthcare.

Blimey

It’s not talked about enough that an Epstein and Ghislaine maxwell associate who sat on the board of one of Ghislaine’s companies got America’s First Lady her visa…
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Cover of the book Lobsgows

Llyfyr newydd gan Ruth Richards

Mae’r ysgrifau hyn yn dwyn i gof atgofion o fwyd a bwyta, o datws pum munud i gyrris Vesta, yn rhyfeddu at gynnwys gwych a gwallgof rhai o’r llyfrau coginio Cymraeg cynharaf, ac yn dathlu’r berthynas glòs sydd ganddon ni â’r hyn sy’n tyfu yn ein milltir sgwâr.

Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes PPE Medpro breached 2020 contract to health department to supply sterile surgical gowns The firm linked to former Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic, owes £39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents. PPE Medpro – owned by Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman – was put into administration on 30 September, the day before the high court judgment was made public. Mrs Justice Cockerill ruled that the company had breached its contract with the Department of Health and Social Care, awarded in June 2020, to supply 25m sterile surgical gowns, and must repay the full £122m it received. Continue reading...

Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes

Why the IDF... Maccabi fans were banned.

No the UK does not want dangerous War Criminals walking the streets.

The former Prince Andrew, looking as cheery as ever. Jings, what a loser.

'What’s stunning is that the idea that the royal establishment has tacitly ­protected one of its own, intimidating the police and foreign administrations to keep a safe distance, is treated as a matter of bland reportage.'
@peatworrier.bsky.social, via The National
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The same applies to interviewing a Reform UK MP or spokesperson.

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Echoes

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

It's also funny how basically all royal regalia are a few centuries old at most. There's only one genuinely ancient bit of the British Crown Jewels left (the anointing spoon) because the rest of them either got lost by King John or flogged off by Cromwell.

The fact that your politicians will stand up for Israel.

But not for Disabled People, Pensioners, Immigrants or against War Crimes.

Should disgust everyone.

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave Letter to the editor

Letter to the editor:
In 2018 alone, the EU gave £5.9bn to help deprived UK regions.

Now the government calls £5bn over ten years “ambitious.”

Brexit really did take from the poor to give to a slogan.