Sell those people invisible leeches?
03.03.2026 15:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sell those people invisible leeches?
03.03.2026 15:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.
The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.
If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 β a total coordination fail β he'd have finished third, not second.
π¨The Chancellor highlighted positive steps taken so far to tackle hunger in todayβs #SpringStatement
We welcome these, but with 6.8 MILLION people facing severe hardship, the UK government must make more plans to tackle hunger in the upcoming Autumn Budget. π§΅
Green MP Ellie Chowns on the elections bill last night: "It is really quite extraordinary that the Thailand-based crypto investor Christopher Harborne has been allowed to donate Β£9 million to Reform UK. I notice that its Members are still not here" (2/3rds of the way into the debate)
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Lessons from an Early Iron Age Mass Grave: An Archaeodeath Perspective on Gomolava howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/l...
01.03.2026 19:19 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Labour MP Matt Western points the finger at Nigel Farage (implicitly) on political finance in the Commons: "We must ensure that the fees and salaries that companies pay MPs in whatever field, but particularly in media, fall under political finance regulations." (It's a fair point!)
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EU countries are absorbing Ukraineβs military knowledge to strengthen their own defense.
Here are a few examples:
βΎοΈIn 2022,Quantum Systems supplied Ukraine with Vector drones. At the time, they successfully destroyed Russian equipment‡οΈ
What does the potentially emerging energy crisis mean for Europe?
Yesterday I was in a media briefing with 75 journalists. Here is a snippet of what I told them.
This is a good moment for Europe & UK to remember that they can stick up wind and solar, insulates houses, far quicker than they can find new gas in e.g. North Sea
If you're chasing more gas, it's now a case of which unreliable regime you prefer to depend on
news.sky.com/story/market...
βItβs not me saying this; itβs research, undertaken by the Electoral Commission.β
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/research-rep...
The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
As the price of natural gas spikes across Europe for the fourth time in the last five years remember those extremely clever people in Reform and the Conservatives who want to abandon renewable energy and rely even more on gas π€‘ π€‘
02.03.2026 13:40 β π 816 π 244 π¬ 21 π 8@sophiepedder.bsky.social: βMacron lays out Franceβs new doctrine of nuclear deterrence here at Ile Longue. France will increase its number of warheads, no longer communicate the number, open nuclear exercises to other allies, and include option of stationing nuclear assets in allied countriesβ
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Please read this thread as a 'micro-example' of what is going so wrong with the English court system - and note the 'butterfly' effect point.
Our court system is so rackety and improvised, one slip and so many other things will go wrong.
"The military actions obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity once-and-for-all were becoming more frequent."
02.03.2026 09:35 β π 391 π 90 π¬ 9 π 0War just hit the global economy. Iranian drones force Saudi Aramco to shut Ras Tanura β even βprecautionaryβ closures rattle oil markets and spike prices. This isnβt a contained conflict anymore; itβs energy security, inflation, and livelihoods now tied to escalation.
02.03.2026 09:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.
on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompsonβs ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
28.02.2026 16:26 β π 6048 π 2042 π¬ 0 π 123Weird that Reform is OK with Irish citizens voting but not commonwealth ones. Wonder what the difference could be?
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Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Three stories. First, an analysis of the Starlink cut off for Russian forces and the ability of Ukraine to retake some land. Second, we are getting useful information about the Ukr Flamingo attack on Votkinsk. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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You might have missed this with all the other news happening, but it is Trump giving the Chinese government a massive win and further degrading the value of the US as an ally. This should be a major story. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...
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Happy St. David's Day.
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I'm not typing all this out again.
Dubai update.
A lovely photo for St. David's Day
01.03.2026 09:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?
01.03.2026 09:00 β π 2268 π 674 π¬ 122 π 33Yeh I used to play this for discussion in my propaganda class
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THIS.
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Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
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