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Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump

🚨🚨This is no "peace" plan, it is a recipe for further suffering and #Russian imperialist expansion in the #west. It is difficult to appreciate just how much damage the #trump administration has done to #Ukraine and its war efforts. It is disgusting beyond words. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I’ve just scrolled an hour down @GBNEWS X timeline and NOTHING on Nathan Gill. What did FARAGE know about this? Will they even exist as a channel without Farage.

What did FARAGE know about this?

Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible Hundreds of English-language websites – from mainstream news outlets to fringe blogs – are linking to articles from a pro-Kremlin network flooding the internet with disinformation, according to a study released by a London-based thinktank. The study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that in more than 80% of citations it analysed, the websites treated the network as a credible source, legitimising its narratives and increasing its visibility. The disinformation operation – known as the Pravda network – was identified by the French government last year. Continue reading...

Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda

Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin Reform UK's former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo

🔴Nathan Gill Sentenced: What He Was Really Doing for the Kremlin

Reform UK’s former leader in Wales was in the centre of Putin’s preparations to attack Ukraine, argues Sergei Cristo

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Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Funding Reform UK will have the same outcome.

The child radicalisation element particularly concerning. I’ve just submitted the follow-up to this.

Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety

There’s more: bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety

Chilling. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety

Apparently you can. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Concierge Nationalism: How the Far-Right Is Selling Extremism as a Lifestyle Service Vigilantes with links to Neo-Nazi groups are whipping up fear about migrants while soliciting donations for accompanying children to supposed safety

Essex Spartans - August 2025 bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Shabana Mahmood’s hard line on asylum risks repeating Tory failures Home Office’s statistical bulletin reported last month that the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025

Shabana Mahmood is already the third British Asian woman to be a tough talking Home Secretary on asylum. But the fate of Priti Patel's very similar reforms cast doubt on how far these changes are the key to control in the Channel. My Eastern Eye column this week
www.easterneye.biz/shabana-mahm...

Funding Reform UK will have the same outcome.

@GoldmanSachs Sachs and @TaxJusticeUK

Me: This is what the knuckle draggers are terrified of. Nothing more threatening to them than an educated immigrant. #wealthtax

Trump's deployment of federal agents and the National Guard to crack down on crime in major urban centres and particularly those run by Democrats will most likely be high on the agenda in his meeting with Mamdani

Israel caries out demolition beyond yellow line in Gaza <article data-history-node-id="431759" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-caries-out-demolition-beyond-yellow-line-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-caries-out-demolition-beyond-yellow-line-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel caries out demolition beyond yellow line in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli army on Friday carried out&nbsp;demolition operations beyond the yellow line east of Gaza City, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.&nbsp;<br> <br> Israeli artillery also renewed heavy shelling towards the northeast of Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, local media reported.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israel caries out demolition beyond yellow line in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-caries-out-demolition-beyond-yellow-line-gaza

He is of course referring to 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi dissident & Washington Post columnist. Murdered inside Saudi consulate Istanbul. Turkish authorities and CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the operation. Saudi govt denied this.

Brian Eno making sense on wealth tax. #billionairebunker

Spain | wealth tax | billionaires

A powerful meditation on resilience 🌱. Jorge Luis Borges.

Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of Love “Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”

Tolstoy, looking back on his long and imperfect life (which ended on this day in 1910), on kindness and the measure of love www.themarginalian.org/2019/07/21/l...

Italians ran out of morgue space while this babbling bufoon was on national TV with his best denial smirk on telling people it’s ok to shake hands. Monstrous.

Italians ran out of morgue space while this babbling bufoon was on national TV with his best denial smirk on telling people it’s ok to shake hands. Monstrous.

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

“What the newly released Epstein files do show is this: the European revolution Bannon boasted about, the one Farage helped to architect and front, was supported and shaped in important ways by Jeffrey Epstein.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Just told the kids I wanna be buried in a giant mushroom. They look at me as though I’m tripping. 😵‍💫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an

Peter Thiel has bailed on AI - sold his NVIDIA shares and now Sundar Pichai asked whether Google would be immune to the AI bubble, said it could weather that storm, but also warned:
"I think no company is going to be immune, including us.” Is the lever about to break?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Start Keeping a Paper Diary Why AI-mediated search and word processing make analog records matter.

“Start keeping a paper diary. Not necessarily because you’re documenting state secrets, but as a personal reality check, a record of what you actually saw, thought, and believed before the algorithms rewrote yesterday.“ stevenstrauss.substack.com/p/start-keep...

12 jobs Farage -| BBC

Long live The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, coined words for feelings we can’t name: maru mori, heartbreaking simplicity in ordinary things; apolytus, realising you are changing as a person; Monachopsis, persistent feeling out of place; Heartspur, longing stirred by memory or imagined futures.