US veterans occupy Congress building in protest over Gaza/Iran The US Veterans against Genocide group, some of them holding folded US flags and others wearing keffiyehs, stood silently

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The sight of salivating hacks waiting to pile into Labour for the likely Trump created inflation figure is not pretty.
The same hacks were mute when good unemployment and wage data were published.

Unbelievably, Keir Starmer can now be compared to Boris Johnson The Prime Minister was once a man with a reputation for integrity and decency

It is preposterous and honestly rather shameful for Starmer to act so upset over the Mandelson affair. He is basically attacking Robbins for doing precisely what he wanted him to do inews.co.uk/opinion/unbe...

Did Starmer fire Olly Robbins without getting Olly Robbins' side of the story?

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News Archives - Bremain in Spain Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.

Brexiters are raging over the latest efforts to ‘reset’ Brexit. Plans for UK to align with EU rules are drowned out by cries of ‘betrayal’ from the right & demands for more ambition from left

With Starmer being criticised from all over, isn’t it time to risk a bolder plan?
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Believe me when I say this is absolutely not a defence of Starmer; but we're going to hear a lot about dishonesty in public life from a collection of leaders who hacked another MPs website, rose to prominence by being a race-baiting liar, and boob hypnotherapist.

Olly Robbins had to implement something many people at the time believed to be a bad decision, badly made.

But enough of his time as Brexit negotiator.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Wales must choose to win Simon Hobson, co-founder of New Wales ‘Everything is politics,’ wrote Thomas Mann. He was right. In Wales, we have spent too long pretending otherwise. From bin collections to healthcare, from taxatio...

Wales has inverted the logic of nation-building. We argue about distribution before creating the conditions for growth. We fixate on how to spend money we do not control, rather than how to generate wealth we can. We treat devolution’s constraints as immovable, instead of contestable ✍️ Simon Hobson

The Press knew. They laughed.

The Tories knew. They didn’t care.

All I see now is hypocrisy.

More of this, less of bombing other countries

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NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Bonne continuation!

Nigel Farage: People tell me they've always voted Labour, but not any more The Reform UK leader is expecting a political earthquake' in the local elections next month — but insists the era of Tory defections is over Nigel Farage refused to rule out a confidence and supply deal with the Conservative Party if Reform fails to secure a majority at the next general election Steven Swinford, Political Editor Friday April 17 2026, 10.15pm, The Times

The Times seems to be backing their man in the run up to the local elections. Chummy, unchallenging ‘interview’ that reads much more like a Farage advert.
Free passes handed out on his racism, misogyny, corruption, Trumpism, Orbanism, useless councils, dire candidates, failed Brexit…
Really shabby.

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Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

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Reform’s final Senedd election candidate lists reveals chaos of selection process Emily Price  Reform’s final Senedd election candidate lists have revealed the chaos behind its selection process. The deadline for candidates and political parties to submit their nomination papers an...

“Also in Pen-y-bont Bro Morgannwg Emma Clatworthy – who is no relation to Owain Clatworthy – has been moved from fifth to fourth place on Reform’s final list while newcomer Valerie Lynn Ellis has been added too.”

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There is a direct line from Andrea Leadsom lecturing Pascal Lamy (former director-general of the WTO) on the scope & purpose of the WTO to JD Vance lecturing the Pope on theology. Brexit married weapons grade ignorance to epic entitlement in ways that hadn’t been seen for ages. And on it goes…

Can confirm

Ain't nobody comin'.....

Israeli settlers block Palestinian kids’ path to school with tear gas and barbed wire - WTOP News RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hajar and Rashid Hathaleen have always walked to school from their neighborhood on the outskirts of Umm al-Khair. But when classes resumed this week for the first time since...

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Was once told that responsible commentary should not posit mental health explanations for what public figures do: the commentator is not a mental health specialist, and the public figure is not their patient to diagnose. But there does come a point where one runs out of any other explanations.

Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

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“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake..

Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted.

Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.