Dawn, on the night flight to Bahrain

Toxic lead in the UK: Laura Hughes, Financial Times - Paul Foot Award Nominee 2025 YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine

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Keir Starmer can’t build a stronger European partnership by stealth. He has to declare it aloud | Rafael Behr Britain has ‘reset’ relations with the EU, but with Farage ascendant again, our politics must be cured of the Brexit virus, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“There are 10 days of negotiation before… a new UK-EU partnership is due to be unveiled. It will be more outline than substance. But there is progress in the very fact that Britain’s ruling party sees Brussels as a partner, not a parasite.”

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Truth Social Post from Donald Trump nominating Casey Means as Surgeon General.

Trump has nominated Casey Means to be Surgeon General - yet another eugenicist white nationalist quack, who prays over her groceries, is obsessed with fertility and thinks depression, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's come from "Bad Energy".

No 10 reviewing winter fuel payment cut after Labour slump in local elections Exclusive: government fears further electoral losses from unpopular policy as well as from planned £5bn of benefits cuts

No 10 reviewing winter fuel payment cut

A cabinet minister said: “It comes up on the doorstep all the time. Winter fuel will lose us the next election, it was a terrible mistake. But it’s probably too late for a U-turn now.”

No, it isn’t. Show you listen

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Edd China FIXES Seized FERRARI Water Pump & Overhauls ANTIFREEZE YouTube video by Edd China

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. This order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies to cease financial support for these organizations.

The image is a poster with a bold message painted in large, green, brushstroke-style letters on a dark background. It reads: “FIGHT POVERTY NOT THE POOR” The style is raw and expressive, conveying urgency and social activism. At the bottom, it includes the text “Poor People’s Campaign | poorpeoplescampaign.org” and credits the design to Jesse Purcell, 2017.

Is Trump’s America still a democracy? | Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autocracy scholar, on the Prospect Podcast YouTube video by Prospect Magazine

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Torbay Devon UK

How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.

“It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.”

Huh. You don't say.

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Trump Goes Off the Rails in WILD New Interview YouTube video by The Bulwark

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"For the UK and EU, helping goods cross borders can drive the economic growth that can help us meet the huge external threats we face together. It is in both the UK and EU interests to ensure that agreements next month on defence, youth mobility and carbon tax are only the first step." ~AA

London Marathon boycotts X after 'descent into gutter' The London Marathon will no longer post on X after its

🚨🚨 Some excellent #exodus news: London Marathon has taken the very welcome decision of no longer posting on X after its race director Hugh Brasher said the social media platform had "ceased to be a positive place". #boycottX 🧵
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Thank you GAP and Old Navy!

Good work 👏

Keep going everyone 👏

#Never condemn your children !!!

Now German tourists are being deported. The Trump admin & puppy killer Noem have no idea what they’re doing…

I’m not religious but I couldn’t help feeling sorry for the Pope having to breathe the same air as that 💩

Mr.E on Substack London is fierce. 👀

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The deepest wound we inflict upon one another is not active malice, but the chilling apathy of indifference. To turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow beings, to ignore their pleas for help, to remain untouched by their joys and sorrows—this is the very essence of inhumanity.

Family includes everyone! ❤️

Finance Bros got PLAYED By Trump! Wall Street Feeling MAJOR REGRETS! (w/ Stephanie Ruhle) YouTube video by The Bulwark

youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_K... very interesting and worrying

Thames Water is failing, Ofwat is toothless — and the public is paying the price Well, I don’t imagine I made a lot of friends at Thames Water when I spent twenty minutes on my feet lambasting them in Westminster Hall at the start of April. But I promised my constituents that I wo...

“Years of historic underinvestment in favour of profit has run the business into the ground”, writes Lib Dem MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social

🗣️ Thames Water is failing, Ofwat is toothless — and the public is paying the price
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In 1971 when I was 12, I got Bells Palsy. I learned it may be a reaction to a viral infection causing muscle weakness & it rarely occurs more than once.

If you're posting that the Covid vaccine causes BP, that's why we call you morons.
#ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #MAGACultMorons

Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US, marking a greater erosion in the country’s longsta...

Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.

The U.S. is blocking a G7 statement condemning Russia’s deadly strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy last week—which killed 35 and injured 117—in order to avoid disrupting “peace talks” with Moscow, according to Bloomberg.

This is absolutely infuriating