Elaine Bracken 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

If Ofcom actually existed, GB News wouldn't.

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OMG

2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

What saddens me is I'm from the US and am used to seeing this misogyny in the US press, but after living nearly 30 years in the UK, I always thought Britain was better than this. But here we are.

A tweet from Captain Mark Kelly criticizing Pete Hegseth. Kelly writes that Hegseth is threatening to court-martial him for comments he originally made nine years earlier, and says Hegseth now spends his time trying to please Donald Trump. Below the tweet is a still image from a video showing Pete Hegseth on stage in a white shirt and pink tie. The caption on the video reads “war crimes.”

Sen. Kelly with the receipts and the dunk.

I'm reading Joao de Vale de Almeida's book Divorce of Nations right now and he is very incisive about Britain's confusion as to what it wants and what it can obtain post Brexit.

Important: WaPo is doubling down on its reporting on Trump's bombings, asserting expressly that the second strike was ordered "when" the two survivors were "detected."

Hegseth is suggesting he didn't see the survivors, but the question remains: Were they visible, or not? Time to see the video.

Check maaaaate

Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.

That's putting it politely!

This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.

This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?

UK Politics: OBR says Reeves did not mislead public over Budget forecasts Fiscal watchdog faces Treasury committee after accidental publication of key report prompted chair to resign

So much for all that bleating about being misled by the Treasury from the BBC's political editor Chris Mason .....
www.ft.com/content/48c2...

And the quality of produce has really declined in the UK IMHO, as well as the quality of butchering etc. I don't see how people get by with a "weekly shop" anymore-stuff goes off too quickly. Inflation + declining quality is a problem with no apparent solution in sight.

Jury nullificaton is an important consideration. It happens. Is that justice? Often quite contentious.

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether

Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.

Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

Excellent newsletter today SB

But then I don't understand the need to get creative to encourage people to work especially if they've saved for the purpose of retiring when they still may be able to enjoy retirement.

I think the French believe that retirement is 2-phased: your 60s when you can still enjoy retirement (travel, grand-kids) & later years when health conditions may prevent a lot of activities (eg, renting a car abroad over a certain age, travel insurance costs). So if you can manage, why not retire?

I think a country where children can't go to a birthday party without risk of being shot is a defeated country. Graffiti or gun deaths? Not exactly a tough choice.

I’m quite enjoying the 180 turn on a six pence from “you’ve wrecked the economy and created a black hole” to “there was no black hole and this is even worse”.

I’m enjoying the shuddering 180 from “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is in the toilet and we are all doomed” to “Rachel Reeves should resign because the economy is not in the toilet and we are not all doomed”. It really is the perfect reverse ferret.

Rather unusual for a chancellor to be told to resign for not increasing taxes as expected in light of better-than-expected revenue forecasts.

It's really good! A real page turner!

This comes less than 72H after this piece by one of the core "Economists for Brexit" gang. (The rabble Patrick Minford is associated with.)

I wonder if the Right have figured out the best way to stomp on Labour is to rub their noses in their Brexit red lines maximalism?

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So... this just happened.

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US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say | CNN Politics The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the ma...

“People briefed on the ‘double-tap’ strike, said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict, which prohibits the execution of an enemy combatant who is ‘hors de combat,’ or taken out of the fight due to injury or surrender.”

www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

Condolences and best to you and your family.

Starmer can't be criticised for his actions over Ukraine. He's doing a fine job in challenging circumstances.
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