Does Trump know that he’s speaking nonsense? Does he care? A DEI label would be “a tendency to externalise first thoughts”. But maybe we could just say the guy is one taco short of a combo plate. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73055/...
Even the rich say #TaxTheRich
#WarrenBuffett
A Labour Party spokesperson blamed the previous Conservative governments, adding Labour was "finally bringing down" immigration numbers. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood had taken "decisive action" to cut small boat crossings and "restore control of our borders after the Tories' failed open borders experiment", they said. "We have already stopped over 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel since the general election," they added. "We have removed or deported nearly 60,000 people with no right to be here."
Obviously Reform's proposals is simultaneously racist, economically and socially damaging and impractical.
But, yet again, instead of saying so, Labour/the government's response is tin-eared me-tooism.
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This report finds 61% support for govt’s approach and 53% for rejoin. Any deliverable "halfway house" option (many different "halfway houses") has a chance of broad support. The more polarising all or nothing option run much bigger political risks for now
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is good to know.
Some lessons for other media companies here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Canadian government wins three by elections, now has a solid majority after five defections from opposition parties
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The questions Richard Tice isn't answering about the £120k of tax that wasn't paid by his Quidnet REIT property company:
Let's start with a "spot the difference" competition. Here's a dividend announcement from Quidnet. And here's one from another REIT, Glenstone.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP*
This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr
Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can
Stick it on a t-shirt
Yes. It's actually very difficult to think of any other UK party leader, past or present, who would have dealt with Trump as well, let alone better. Which doesn't, ofc, mean that 'Starmer is great', just that, as per the link, on by far the biggest issue of his premiership so far he's got it right.
"Orbán’s Hungary has been the model for the global fascist assault on democracy. Maybe it can also serve as a model for its defeat."
Important piece from Jason Stanley for Zeteo on the big story of the day:
We have been aware of the links between Orban's group and the UKs hard and far right for at least decade.
Others who appear in this network & who have attended meetings in Hungary include Andrew Neil, one of the Policy Exchange's lobbyists and racists, David Goodhart, & Matt Goodwin.
Politico: Lab MP "Anneliese Dodds tabled an amendment to the elections bill to propose a £23m spending cap for parties during election campaigns. It follows repeated warnings from campaign groups that an increase in spending limits under the last Govt has left parties at the mercy of mega-donors."
🔴 14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements. Some of that is understandable. But not all of it.
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It's also an incredibly annoying cliche because it doesn't make any sense.
The original insult was "all mouth and trousers" - i.e. all bullshit and bravado - which does make sense but the "no" got added in at some point and now it doesn't.
I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.
A feel-good story if you need it.
Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries
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This is a crucial report, shining a spotlight on the funding links between Russia, Hungary and the British mainstream right
A system that made Boris Johnson and Liz Truss prime minister has serious problems of its own, but the UK does have two main protections against a Trump-like figure.
One is institutional; the other cultural.
The bad news is that the former, in particular, is under serious pressure. 1/n
That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.
I would like to hear our Government and every opposition party speak up now.
“A whole civilization will die tonight,” this is really what he posted truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
As a Christian, I find this obscene.
Those churches that have prostituted themselves to Trump should take more seriously their "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelets.
Because the answers do not include "lie, cheat, bully, stoke racial hatred, bomb people "to the stone age" or "grab women by the pussy"".
Kemi Badenoch: “I have made it very clear that the Conservative party stands behind America taking this necessary action”. 2nd March 2026
Larry Elliott in the Guardian and James Dyson in the Times agree.
They are also both very wrong.
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www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Matt Frei, "What Keir Starmer struggled to explain is that this calamity was started by our supposed friend and ally, Donald Trump"
"Plenty are feeling the cost of his illegal war with Iran, real enough to create a covid like shock to the economy, without a vaccine" #C4News
Trump told Reuters yesterday he was “absolutely without question” thinking about withdrawing, and said he would make his ire towards the alliance clear in a televised speech regarding Iran last night. But Trump’s speech came and went without reference to Nato, leaving alliance officials relieved but still deeply unsettled by the rhetoric.
Tired.
Mainly I am tired.
