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Typical Macron - increasingly choosing nationalism over the EU, somehow thinking that this will prevent nationalism after his own departure.

27.02.2026 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats to Benjamin Netanyahu, the worst prime minister in Israeli history by a wide margin

27.02.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 942    πŸ” 180    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 7

He’s tried to reinvent others, too, if I remember correctly.

27.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well done to Nigel Farage for convincing Matt Goodwin to run for an urban seat with a large ethnic minority population. I think we now can be sure who did the numbers for Revolt on the Right.

27.02.2026 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5

I would not be surprised if Matt Goodwin had joined Restore within six months.

27.02.2026 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 6

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

26.02.2026 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2397    πŸ” 1215    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 102
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UK youth unemployment is higher than the EU average, but not the β€˜highest in Europe’ – Full Fact The Conservative shadow education secretary Laura Trott claimed the UK has the highest youth unemployment rate in Europeβ€”but this isn’t correct.

Conservative shadow education secretary Laura Trott has claimed that the UK’s youth unemployment rate is the β€œhighest in Europe”.

That’s not correct. UK youth unemployment is now higher than the EU average, but several other European countries have higher rates.

25.02.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Timely.

25.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Powerful moment in the Commons as Starmer calls on Farage to apologise for the Reform councillor who shared a post calling for Labour MP Natalie Fleet to be shot, pointing out that when Farage faced death threats Starmer condemned them. Farage totally ignores that & asks about the Chago Islands.

25.02.2026 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 535    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 19
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Reform UK promises to scrap flagship Labour worker and renters’ protections Richard Tice echoes Donald Trump with pledge of β€˜great repeal act’ and β€˜tight quotas and significant tariffs’

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" Matthew 7: 15-16.

25.02.2026 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s β€œmisplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

24.02.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8271    πŸ” 3602    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 379

Seizing the means of production but in a Real American Patriot Republican way.

24.02.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1519    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 5
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It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

23.02.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 9069    πŸ” 4191    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 517

This is why local journalism matters. If you’re a Londoner (or even if you aren’t) you should subscribe and support London Centric

24.02.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Henry Kissinger
I’ll be missing yer…

23.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It ought to be noted that the Epstein scandal revealed not just a bunch of people wiling to rape children and suck up to people who did so, but also that a lot of elite people are just loathsome bigoted human beings.

23.02.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1759    πŸ” 375    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 11

I resent the pivot to video so much. I do not want to become an "on air personality." I do not want to boil everything down into little pithy viral slogans. I don't want to worry about my f'ing hair. I hate it all. Hate it.

23.02.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3857    πŸ” 317    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 128
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Judge Cannon claims that she *strains* to find an example where a special counsel released a report after in indictment that did not result in a finding of guilt. Here’s one off the top of my head: Sussman, who was charged and acquitted, is mentioned 311 times in Durham’s final report.

23.02.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4080    πŸ” 1406    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 39
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Reform promises agency to ensure illegal migrant removals The party's new home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf says it would be a

Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers

No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

23.02.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 11

Breaking: The Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has permanently blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case β€” saying releasing the report would be unfair to Trump and his co-defendants.

23.02.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2166    πŸ” 1005    πŸ’¬ 481    πŸ“Œ 284
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interesting picture selection in today's Times

23.02.2026 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 18
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US ambassador says it would be β€˜fine’ if Israel took over much of the Middle East | CNN The US ambassador in Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, has said it would be β€œfine” if Israel took control of a vast swathe of the Middle East.

πŸ¦‡πŸ’© www.cnn.com/2026/02/21/m...

21.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really good debate format for like 50 different reasons, but especially at this moment. There's a lot of equivocating over stuff that is not that complicated.

21.02.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3216    πŸ” 457    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 19

im not sure this is a thing you want a judge saying.

21.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1340    πŸ” 249    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 6
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Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew WASHINGTONβ€”Exhausted from repeated efforts to explain the most basic aspect of political power, an aide to President Trump nevertheless began wearily explaining for the fifth time Friday why he couldn...

theonion.com/aide-wearily...

21.02.2026 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t think it’s a surreal or amusing response at all. It’s illuminating.

20.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Laughing at an absolutely legitimate decision: to dislike the way a person or group conducts themselves in public, and therefore choosing not to vote for them. It’s a clearly explained and fully defined position.

20.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

20.02.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1807    πŸ” 1020    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 23
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New rule:
You can really worry about falling fertility rates & rising dependency ratios as a source of long term economic gloom.
Or you can really worry about an AI jobs apocalypse and surging productivity.
You can’t have both.

20.02.2026 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1