Andy Gavin

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missiles, drones toward Ukraine Kyiv Independent journalists reported explosions in Ukraine's capital, as Russia launched Shahed drones and Kinzhal missiles toward Kyiv and other cities overnight on Nov. 25.

⚡️ Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missiles, drones toward Ukraine.

Kyiv Independent journalists reported explosions in Ukraine's capital as Russia launched Shahed drones & Kinzhal missiles toward Kyiv & other cities on Nov. 25.

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Russia unleashed heavy artillery fire on Zaporizhzhia, striking a supermarket and an apartment building,Regional Military Administration reports.

Preliminary reports indicate high number of casualties.

Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
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Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

No shock here: The Guardian notes several phrases in the U.S. peace proposal to Ukraine appear to be directly translated from Russian.

One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”

Where are all the "revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship she's a traitor people" today, I wonder.

Danish PM’s dismal polling shows limits of right-turn on migration

Mette Frederiksen’s gamble on tough asylum policy backfires as socially liberal urbanites and rural voters abandon her centrist party in local elections

Elham is 9. Israel bombed her home and killed her mum and dad & Elham was very badly burnt. Here she describes waking up in hospital and discovering that her parents were dead.

Russians killed 25 people, including 3 children, in Ternopil today with a missile attack. Another 73 people, including 15 children, were injured.

Russians target civilians almost exclusively – a war crime. All Western countries except Ukraine refuse to fight to stop this horror.

The death and injury toll in Ternopil continues growing:

Russia killed 10 people and injured 37 more. 12 of the injured are kids.

Dear [my MP’s name], As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.  That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest. I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights. Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming. A manufactured crisis As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.

🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.

🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.

It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.

My letter to my MP.

#asylum #Mahmood

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Shredding & deletion done 👍

3 October 2025 Farage declares £1.2 m from second jobs since July 2024 30 0ctober 2025 a borough in his constituency is the most deprived in Britain

Private Eye

Mahmood furious over asylum seeker taxi bills.

Overton window has been obliterated

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.

There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture

join.greenparty.org.uk

Not again England, surely peak stupidity was Brexit.

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"

"This is sociopathic behaviour"

"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"

"I'm not a fan of Trump"

Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Bye 👋

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

BBC played obvs, you’ll never be far right enough for Farage, the equally grotesque, also BBC made, Johnson is creeping about again, follow the money.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Ffs, the BBC helped make Johnson & Brexit, he should be eternally grateful.

‼️ During last night's massive attack on Ukraine,Russia launched strikes on substations of Khmelnytsky&Rivne nuclear power plants -Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Ukraine demands an emergency meeting of the IAEA.This is a deliberate attack.Russia is a threat to nuclear safety in Europe& the world

Seemingly 🙄 the soft touch Trump gets from the media, in general, and in comparison to Biden is disgraceful.

Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final payout

Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout.

At last. But ruined lives can't be restored.

£1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse.

Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”

Farage - the foghorn of failure.

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