Senator Jon Ossoff neatly breaks down political corruption in America — and how Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago mafia” has exploited it.

Every single Democrat should be saying this.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

'A declaration of war': How councils are resisting one of Labour's core objectives A developer has written to the housing minister after a local council rejected a planning application just 24 hours after being told to approve it.

Sky News publishes the results of a four-month investigation using Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to interrogate every local planning council in England about the number of unreasonable decisions that resulted in over £20m of costs paid out.
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While the article had attributed the claim to “an analysis” of government figures, the Committee considered that the newspaper had not taken due care over the accuracy of the headline, which set out as fact that “More than one million foreign nationals are receiving benefits”. This did not make clear that the assertion was an estimate, and was presented without qualification. The print headline, as well as the online headline and its subheadline, did not accurately reflect warnings on reliability of the data, and presented the figures as fact, rather than an interpretation of the statistics by a third party. The Committee also considered that care had not been taken over the accuracy of the article, which did not make clear that it was not reporting on people’s nationality at the time they were claiming benefits, but their nationality at the time they first applied for a National Insurance number, which may have been significantly earlier. Absent this clarificatory information, the article was misleading to attribute the number of foreign nationals currently claiming benefits in the UK to this specific dataset.

The full @ipso.co.uk ruling on my complaint against the Daily Telegraph.

The Telegraph (and the so-called "Centre for Migration Control, in fact just one random racist blogger) lied, and then doubled down on their lies.

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Never has a nation been as dominant on the battlefield as the USA.
But this war is yet more evidence that tactical mastery has stopped them thinking about strategy.

The fragile insecure flower is crying again.

If there was only some way to harness Mandelson's chutzpah to power the grid we could avoid an energy crisis.

If I were Starmer I'd be fairly relaxed about Blair having a pop at me on this issue...

Imagine this headline but with "Abolitionists" or "Muslims" or "Socialists" or even "Unitarians" instead of "Evangelicals."

Two nations with God on their side. doesn't bode well.

The last thing he said in this statement is that he gives all glory to God. bsky.app/profile/atru...

it's bleakly hilarious to have people complaining that using the word "nazi" to describe people calling for racial cleansing and forced breeding is "rendering the word meaningless," while supporters of the US government use the word "communist" to describe having a functioning healthcare system

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

An instant classic. 🤡

White House press secretary tells CBS ‘we’ll sue your ass off’ if it edits Trump interview Karoline Leavitt was recorded warning network to broadcast new interview with president in full and without edits

They should go ahead without touching it. I remember as a young reporter being told of the local councillor who insisted that his speech be reported verbatim. And so it was. Without any editorial 'tidying', it was so incoherent that he never asked again.

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The UK’s high streets have reached a tipping point – and Reform will reap the benefits | John Harris When even Poundland and charity shops are closing, we’re near a point of no return. But there is hope, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Make it viral.

I'm old enough to remember when CBS News and journalists like Edward R. Murrow held power to account, instead of capitulating to it.

AI consciousness is a red herring in the safety debate | Letters Letters: We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric Skidmore

Excellent: 'The real challenge is not whether machines will want to live, but how humans choose to design, deploy and govern systems whose power comes entirely from us.'
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In 2026, remember this: Britain is much better than it was in so many ways. Don’t swallow the right’s lies | John Harris Populists rewrite the history of this nation because they were complicit in much of its ugliness. The progressive fightback must start now, says Guardian columnist John Harris

'The Britain of yesteryear may have offered some of its people order and “fun”, but it was also a country of deep racism, petty violence, bitter industrial strife, riots, appalling police brutality in plain sight, awful attitudes to disability and more.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this is a fascinating statistic. i would assume this is to a great degree simply the obvious fact that green energy is by definition a growth sector. fossil fuels is not, notwithstanding the big run up in production in FF in the last 20 years.

This is the first time Macron has retaliated so angrily against the provocations of his alleged "friend" Donald Trump. The policy of appeasement and flattery is breaking down.

Government censor.

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.

AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

I’ve been in US for so long now that I really was struck when I arrived yesterday by the general niceness, politeness and normality of people here! On my BA flight it was so disarming to hear the pilot and crew repeatedly apologizing for every tiny inconvenience, and speaking in unassuming tone.

Alleluia

Is runaway welfare spending to blame for the Chancellor's fiscal challenges?

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