Vance still worshipping at the Church of Trump The US vice president, a God-fearing Catholic, could not bring himself to criticise his boss portraying himself as Jesus Christ

The US vice president, a God-fearing Catholic, could not bring himself to criticise his boss portraying himself as Jesus Christ

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Very incisive from Alex Wickham, UK political editor for Bloomberg

“Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson”

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Trump’s rift with Pope is playing out in public - it’s costing him valuable support Leading conservative Catholics tell the BBC why they back the American pontiff in his spat with Trump.

Next Vance will be asking "Is the Pope Catholic?"

The Brexit delusion is dead – so now Keir Starmer doesn’t need to pretend any more | Rafael Behr To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind ou

👀 "The prime minister used to say Brexit could be made to work. Now he lists it as an affliction in the same category as the Covid pandemic."

📈 "The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, identifies closer integration with Europe as “the biggest prize” in a dash for growth."

Keir Starmer is right to put Brexit in the bin Brexiteer complaints are wrongheaded and disheartening

❌ Brexit has failed. It is time we made a change.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/202...

UK signs deal to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange program More than 100,000 students are expected to benefit in the scheme's first year alone, according to the British government

🥳 More on the good news yesterday that the UK and EU had signed a deal to re-enter Erasmus+.

✅ A huge win for our youngsters, universities and our position as a world leading powerhouse of research.

🚨🇪🇺 Our brand new report finds that the majority of voters want to rejoin the European Union. Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership.

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REJOIN "is the rational and the patriotic approach," Neil Kinnock says at the launch of @bestforbritain.org's new report. "In an era of Trump's tariffs and tantrums, colossal Chinese advance, Russia's war on the West, and turmoil in the Middle East, our 'special relationship' has to be with Europe."

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

@iandunt.bsky.social on our brand new report 🇪🇺

"Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future."

"Rejoining the EU is the cleanest political argument and the strongest economic argument but it has a weakness."

🚨 Our new report shows: The majority of Brits want to rejoin the EU. And: EU membership delivers the most growth.

Read the Financial Times' coverage here: www.ft.com/content/75b8b734-391e-4a...

Our new report shows: The majority of Brits want to rejoin the EU.

🇪🇺 And: EU membership delivers the most growth.

Send our new report, “Is it time to talk about EU membership" to your MP using our tool -it only takes two minutes.

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The UK is giving up on America. Now talk of a Brexit U-turn is growing louder Closer ties with Europe are the 'patriotic choice' Britain's Brexit chief said

🚨"A new report by pro-European pressure group Best for Britain, based on polling by independent pollsters YouGov, suggests that one way of restoring his fortunes could be to shift to a more aggressive position on getting closer to the EU."

👏🇪🇺 Our brand new report shows that a majority of British voters want to rejoin the EU. What do you think? Is it time to talk about EU membership?

Read coverage of our report in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/17/hal...

Our new report shows that the majority of Brits want to rejoin. And: EU membership delivers the most growth.

✍️ Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership.

Use our template: www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_paper_eu_member...

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote Experts say Labour’s ‘halfway house’ approach risks losing support from progressives and ‘red wall’ voters

Support for rejoining the EU rather than simply rejoining the single market is growing among British voters, with more than 80% of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party supporters favouring this option, according to research mapping voter attitudes 10 years after the Brexit referendum.

You have to admire Donald Trump's laser focus on the issues that matter to Americans the most.

Farage throws Brexit TANTRUM over Starmer's Single Market plans YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

BREAKING: Nigel Farage just accidentally argued for another Brexit referendum to Rejoin the EU!

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Farage FINALLY admits Reform UK lied about council tax YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!

BREAKING: Nigel Farage has FINALLY admitted that Reform UK lied about cutting council tax.

That means he knows HE lied repeatedly about whether they promised to.

Are Reform voters smart enough to reject a proven liar in the #LocalElections?

5/5. For Vance, the task of a pope should be to stick to "morality," in the special propagandistic sense of trotting out religious-sounding clichés to justify the status quo on behalf of the powerful and wealthy.

2/5. What he means by the word "morality" is propaganda from some religious institution that justifies the world the way it is, including his own personal power and corruption.

I also missed this. My apologies. Follow Adam!

Certainty without conviction: Why has the Trade and Cooperation Agreement failed to reverse Brexit relocations? - The Productivity Institute Research showing that Brexit drove a significant reallocation of investment and jobs into the EU and that the TCA stabilised but did not reverse relocations.

New TPI research shows that Brexit redirected £22bn of UK outward investment and over 100k jobs into the EU from 2016-2019

This was driven by regulatory friction, not tariffs.

The message: deeper UK–EU regulatory cooperation matters.

Full findings: www.productivity.ac.uk/research/cer...

Putin has lost his European puppet. This is what it will cost him A victory for Magyar's more pro-European party is a major setback for Russia's political influence and a new lease of li

👏 "A victory for Magyar's more pro-European party is a major setback for Russia's political influence and a new lease of life for the EU.

"The parliamentary elections could prove a turning point, not only for Hungary’s domestic politics, but also for the EU."

From Budapest to Brussels: Why Magyar’s victory matters far beyond Hungary’s borders Péter Magyar has delivered a crushing defeat to Viktor Orbán, Vladimir Putin, and the resurgent national conservative mo

🇭🇺 "That both Moscow and Washington were such avid supporters of the same candidate speaks volumes for how the global order has been redefined. Make no mistake: this was not just a defeat for an autocratic ruler, but a knockback for a whole ideology."

👇 Our blog on Hungary's historic evening.

Can the UK rejoin the EU? Keir Starmer looks to undo Brexit damage Ten years on from the vote to leave, the prime minister wants Britain to adopt single market rules to bring us into clos

✅ "For a prime minister desperately seeking economic growth, closer ties with the EU make sense."

👍 Closer alignment with the EU will lower the price of your weekly shop and unlock the potential of British businesses, freeing them from unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy.

Don't mention the war!

Sorry, I meant 'Don't mention Trump!'

Viktor Orbán inspired rightwingers across the EU and in Britain. His defeat could represent a turning of the tide | Polly Toynbee We must hope this vote will be the start of a wider backlash – and send hard-right populism back to the fringes where it

⚠️"What Farage never mentions is that Brexit made him – and he made Brexit. That’s because 58% of the country now say that leaving the EU was the wrong decision, according to Statista. Nor should he be allowed to forget his line, echoing Putin, that the west “provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

UK faces biggest hit to growth from Iran war of major economies, IMF says The financial body cuts its growth forecast for the UK and warns the war threatens to throw the global economy "off cour

⬇️ "In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF cut its estimate for UK growth this year to 0.8%, from the 1.3% prediction made in January before hostilities began."

🇪🇺 In a time of volatility, we need security and certainty, we need Europe.