David Winner

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee

Britain is stuck with a failed Brexit that neither citizens nor leaders want. Here are three ways to fix that | Stella Creasy While those who defend the status quo and those who say ‘simply rejoin’ the EU are both wrong, there is a new mood and a clear opportunity, says Stella Creasy MP, chair of the Labour Movement for Euro...

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Personally I think civilisation (ie: pubs and bars) started its inexorable decline when the high bar stool became the standard for pub and bar seating.

Give us proper chairs where your feet can reach the ground and give us upholstered sofas against the wall we can sink into.

Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!

Europe Is Not Alone. It Is Geopolitically Asleep. Europe’s problem is not that it is alone. Europe’s problem Is that it is still in denial about the world it lives in.

Provocative, thoughtful and forward looking piece how Europe needs to take control of its own destiny in a hard power world - and does have the economic means to do so.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need more of this.

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As war grinds on, electricians risk everything to keep the lights on Amid relentless Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, workers defy drones, separation from their families and the constant fear of death

Astonishing courage and bravery.

As war grinds on, electricians risk everything to keep the lights on

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A receipt to be kept.

"The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience,"

👇👇

Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last

Tr*mp started his career in the public eye by pretending to fire people from fake jobs. Now he’s worked his way up to being in charge of an administration that has murdered* at least 86 people. What do you think is next?

*It’s not a war crime, since we’re not at war. It’s just murder.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

You don’t get many interviews like that Salah one anymore. It sounds more like something from a previous generation, before players started being so reticent in public. It’s brutal.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy

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Stakes High, Europe Races to Save Its Financing Plan for Ukraine

“European officials may end up offering Ukraine a financial Band-Aid when they had hoped for a financial bazooka.” Tragic loss of nerve. The $244 billion must be used to help Ukraine survive Russia’s illegal onslaught. Belgium is being cowardly.

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Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders.

What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.

Macron is right, of course.

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"Putin is morally responsible" for killing a British civilian, an inquiry announced today.

Dawn Sturgess died of Novichok poisoning in Salisbury 7 years ago.

The reports says there were "failings" in ensuring the safety of double-agent Sergei Skripal.
Here's the BBC live page:

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

Ancient tracks may record stampede of turtles disturbed by earthquake Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake

Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle flippers and swiftly buried by an earthquake

Muscular Christianity.

“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”

Antisemitism allegations against the teenage Farage matter – look at what he went on to do | Jonathan Freedland Farage has cosied up to US figures who espoused conspiracy theories about Jews. That kind of talk is becoming alarmingly mainstream on the Maga right, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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