Montenegro takes historic step toward EU membership: working group to draft Accession Treaty

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage Savitha Prakash, a first-generation immigrant running in local elections in Harrow, says Reform UK aims to ‘put Britain first’

👇”a first-generation immigrant born in India” 🤦‍♂️
Sombody tell her “More than half of Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens born abroad should be deported or encouraged to leave”
Link to that poll follows. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Annual UK borrowing falls by £20bn but Iran war clouds outlook The improvement in government finances is unlikely to last, analysts say, with the impact of the Iran way yet to hit.

Borrowing, the difference between spending and income from taxes, fell £19.8bn to £132bn in the year to March, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said

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🔶 Liberal Democrat run councils have 8 out of the top 10 recycling councils in England.
♻️🚮♻️🚮♻️🚮
#LibDems🔶
#Recycling♻️

Why isn't this front page news in the western mainstream media ?? 👉🏼turns out Victor Orban was funding CPAC with Hungarian taxpayer money on the sly 🤨👇🏼

Donald trump is the ONLY U.S. President to have been impeached by the House TWICE. According to prediction market Polymarket, trump stands a 66% chance of being impeached a record-breaking third time before his term is up.

Do you think Senate Republicans have the guts to convict him?

Always a Rich Man War & a Poor Man Fight @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Polanskis Greens are Labours worst nightmare come true

Lower bills. Tax billionaires.

Replace Labour.

Take the fight to Reform.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Trump's biggest fans want him to come clean about his 'staged' assassination attempt Even some of President Donald Trump's biggest fans are starting to believe his first assassination attempt was staged, and they want him to publicly admit it.Conspiracy theories proliferated almost im...

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"I think that maybe it was staged," conservative podcaster Tim Dillon told listeners, adding that Trump should admit it. “Some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me."

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

After 14+ years of Tory incompetence and misrule, and the spectre of fascism under Farage & his billionaire conmen, I really wish the Labour Party in power would get its fekin’ act together, stop power plays and infighting and just deliver hope for the country, with the promised lack of drama 🙄

Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice John Roberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show New documents reveal Jane Roberts made $10.3 million from elite firms, raising questions about the Supreme Court justices' conflicts of interest.

John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes

Jane Roberts was paid more than $10 million by a host of elite law firms, a whistleblower alleges.

At least one of those firms argued a case at the Supreme Court after paying hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .

Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.

And nowadays not in the Guardian either.

CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--

CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

NEW | On an odd choice…

WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

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Not sure wtf we're doing but it definitely doesn't feel like winning.

And you can complain to the BBC here:

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Breakfast - 20/04/2026 The latest news, sport, business and weather from the BBC's Breakfast team.

You can watch the moment on iPlayer here. From 6m and 10s into the programme.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Infographic showing russian occupiers' losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to April 21, 2026. Reports ~1,320,310 eliminated personnel, 11,884 tanks, 24,429 armored vehicles, 40,478 artillery systems, and other equipment. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to April 21, 2026 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine

🔷 Yesterday 1,040 enemy, killed or wounded

French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on X

French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over allegations of child abuse images and deepfakes on X

Well, it wasn’t a public secret that everyone knew he, a narcissistic sociopath, was unfit to serve….

Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington D.C.

Gray whales are starving. Some have died off Oregon Coast Gray whales aren't getting enough to eat to survive their long migration toward Alaska.

Sorry to post this for those who abhor seeing this kind of news about wildlife. But while we are collectively agonizing over the state of our nation, the state of our planet is probably the more urgent news.

He only cared about ONE thing...how it looked on TV. Enough has been said regarding the impossible healing job...not enough said about the depravity it takes to kill your followers to make good television.

Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

This is a nightmare: the destruction of Florida's orange industry. Tariffs, drought, deep freezes and a bacteria that is destroying the trees. They have lost 95% of production since 2003.
3/4s of growers are out of business. This is the dangerous eco-future staring us.
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Realizing US citizens paid $166 Billion in illegal tariffs and now it’s being refunded back to corporations instead of us.