This is how it ends

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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Thank you Sean, for practically demonstrating how a cult works

Good riddance, Orban

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

“Do this”
“No”

Negotiations

The strangest thing I saw this week was Melania’s video declaring that she was not complicit in Epstein’s crimes. Strange for two reasons above all. First, nobody had asked her for a public statement. Secondly, she seemed to struggle to pronounce the text, as though she had not written it herself.

Public First research for Politico found that more than half of the UK public, 53%, now view America as a negative force globally, up from 35% in December. Considering that America is a historic ally, this is quite shocking.

In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran appears to be charging some ships, with payments reportedly sought in yuan or cryptocurrency rather than dollars.

That is why history matters: without facts, people do not remember the past, they merely recycle myths.

Britain had enormous oil interests in Iran through the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, and the UK and US backed the 1953 coup against Mossadegh after the oil nationalisation crisis.

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So, we can say that the US was a major early sponsor and enabler of Iran’s modern state nuclear programme.

Arms Control Association states plainly that the US provided a kick start by signing a nuclear cooperation agreement in 1957 and later supplying the Tehran Research Reactor. US State Department records from the 70s also show active US support for Iranian civilian nuclear development under the Shah.

History matters.
Iran’s modern nuclear programme began under the Shah, and the United States helped launch it through Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms for Peace’ framework.

For example, the UN humanitarian office said in March 2026 that Israeli authorities had evicted households in Batn al Hawa, Silwan, and the properties were handed over to settlers.
Now imagine. What if this happens to you…

Human rights groups and UN bodies have documented cases where Palestinian families were evicted and properties were then handed over to settlers or Jewish claimant organisations.

The official reason was historical Jewish ownership claims accepted by Israeli courts, under a legal system critics say lets Jews reclaim pre 1948 property in East Jerusalem while denying Palestinians the same right elsewhere.

There have been specific and court backed processes through which Palestinian homes have been transferred to Jewish claimants or settler groups in some cases.

American Jews can immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return (Aliyah) and obtain citizenship.
After they obtained citizenship, in some cases, Israeli laws and court processes have enabled some Jewish claimants or settler groups to take over Palestinian properties, especially in East Jerusalem.

Best meme of the day

His answer is simple:
Do not internalise it.
Do not repeat its language.
Do not accept its stories.
Do not surrender your dignity.

Biko matters because racism’s greatest weapon is not hatred shouted, but hatred normalised.

Miller builds politics on cruelty and exclusion.
Biko builds politics on the opposite: freedom begins when people refuse to be defined as lesser.

Bannon imagines civilisation at war with ‘outsiders’.
Biko imagines humanity enlarged by recognition and solidarity.

Biko interrupts this at the root.
He insists dignity is not conditional. The first liberation is mental. The most radical act is rejecting racist categories.

Far right ideologues depend on psychological conquest: hierarchy internalised, entitlement justified, doubt planted.