Camilla Redmond

As inane and ill-informed on the issue as her colleague Corbyn. The arrogance of thinking you can tell working-class Ukrainians what is in their interest. The idiocy of equating aggressor and victim. Putrid.

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

China is using America’s own trade weapons to beat it It has spent years pinpointing America’s weaknesses and mitigating its own

"Until the early 2000s Chinese manufacturers were more reliant on inputs from America than American firms were on Chinese inputs. By 2020 that had flipped ... American manufacturers are three times more reliant than Chinese ones on inputs from the other"
www.economist.com/briefing/202...

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Andrew Bailey, "For the foreseeable future, the impact of Brexit on economic growth in the UK is negative"

"Making an economy less open, restricts growth"

This is such a good corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "working-age welfare spending is exploding/out-of-control" narrative that more & more people seem to see as an incontrovertible fact www.ft.com/content/ee67...

The guys who are too supposedly young to have their admiration for Hitler taken seriously are about the average age of a member of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

One good thing about Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign emailing us their fake news posts everyday of the week is you can get a sense of what really worries Russia. The last few days have been dominated by videos about how unpopular Macron is for wanting to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

According to a Financial Times investigation, the Trump business has already reaped more than $1bn in pre-tax profits over the past year, in part thanks to a crypto boom fuelled by the administration’s own industry-friendly policies

www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

Such good news. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

The Sun webpage for articles by their Home Affairs correspondent Julia Atherley. on the left-hand side is an article with the headline: "DEPARTURE SCROUNGE: Fury as migrants facing deportation given 'luxuries' in £260m splurge" On the right-hand side is a column of four articles, the bottom one of which has the headline: "SHOCK STATS: Hate crimes soar with religious & racially motivated attacks up, stats reveal"

left side: how it starts
right side: how it goes

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

"The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist aggression; it is Ukraine doing the West a favour."

Fundamental point in @ldfreedman.bsky.social's latest. The true 'realist' position on Ukraine is that we should support Ukraine.

samf.substack.com/p/as-long-as...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

EXC from @annaisaac.bsky.social

The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We would be in a much better place if politicians from all parties hadn’t been spreading the lie that local governments have lots of fat to cut, essentially since Maggie Thatcher.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

YouTube video by We Own It Cuts to services in numbers.mp4

Look at what YOU lost from 2010-2024 👇👇👇
750 youth centres 🏃‍♂️
800 libraries 📚

£ and power to take over derelict buildings is a start www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But government should reverse these sell offs, buy BACK assets, give you BACK your local services

www.youtube.com/shorts/XSjXW...

statistic of the day

The market in children in care is indefensible, in my view. The extraction of millions of pounds supposedly going to support children and young people is deeply entrenched. Tinkering with the system will make no difference.

In the past year alone underlying (operating) profits have doubled to £7.5 million.

I think the BBC would do well to remember that if Reform came to power, they’d shut it down tomorrow.