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Brendan O'Neill The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor • 20 February 2026, 2:17pm

T he first thing the mob kills is its own humanity. Long before they sink their collective claws into the target of their flapping ire, they lay waste to their own decency. We see this in the digital hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Behold the ugly gloating over a man's downfall. Witness the peddling of false accusations. The shame, right now, belongs less to Andrew than to those who have made a bloodsport from his troubles. We don't even know if Andrew is guilty. He hasn't even been charged What do we want from Andrew? When will the mass stalking of him like a wounded deer finally be satiated? When his head is on a spike? When all memory of him is scrubbed from the public record? I get it - Andrew is far from a sympathetic character. He strikes me as boorish, pompous, and unlikely to

Michael Gove , who recently commissioned a piece from a man who had just finished serving his prison sentence for attempted rape , now feels it is best to demonise those who are against sexual abuse - it’s all normal just normal

Hadn't realised this.

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Otherwise it will be like Germany post WW1 and another Putler will come along. They need to be permanently weakened so they can not threaten Europe again.

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I don’t suppose rational actors can even really understand irrational, ideologically driven ones.

And there have been many, particularly to those of us in Western Europe far removed from the Russian threat.

There have been a lot of things about the Russian actions in this war that were puzzling. Konstantin’s knowledge of the Russian psyche, economics and its internal politics has so often explained it.

🫡 "We've lost 27 of our own. In return, we destroyed 24,895 russian troops and 76,950 targets. That’s two entire army corps. For every one of ours - 1,000 of theirs," — Magyar

When the manager you gave a lifeline to spends months banging on about the importance of ‘unity’ and ‘togetherness’ then lunges for the door at the mere sniff of another club. #Boro #UTB

EU forces free crew from tanker seized by Somali pirates The Hellas Aphrodite crew have been freed from armed Somali pirates who seized it the previous day.

EU Naval Forces under secondment to Operation Atalanta drove off the Somali Pirates and freed the crew of the tanker.
Good work, more work remains to be done.
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Yes

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I don’t know how much damage the strikes do and ordinarily how long they would take to fix, but presumably with the manpower sent to the frontlines, the ones who have fled the country and the lack of skilled foreigners prepared to assist, these are multiplying effects.

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Your grandfather was Kevin Bacon????

She doesn't strike me as the type to be intimidated by anyone. My impression with the body language with Trump was more annoyance at having to pander to his ego for the time being rather than anything else.

I thought the EU, its member states and associates had provided much more financial support than the USA, but the US had provided more military aid, at least for the first few years. Then again I suppose a lot of the money went on munitions and factories so indistinguishable.

This is just arms and munitions. Is actual money in addition to that?

The sooner we get economic collapse, the sooner we get military collapse.

Ukraine attacking a drone factory 1400km from Ukraine? Never would have happened if Biden were president.