Kevin Kibble

A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
It is possible to overcome the infatuation with Russia and see it for what it is - a ruthless murderous empire “...however shocking it may be to say this about an entire people, one can still love some Russians, but one can no longer love Russia.

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A red admiral butterfly—black and brown with white spots and bright orange stripes—among yellow and brown-splodged leaves

Another red admiral in the garden, resting among autumn's leaves

YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading The Man to Blame For Brexit? | Michael Gove

It's very brief and you could miss it after 1.5 hours (maybe Alastair and Rory did miss it), but at 1:30:00, Michael Gove admits that he and Vote Leave did not spell out the trade-offs involved in leaving the EU.

You don't say.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrm...

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

In case you missed it ...
The largest number of foreign doctors working in the German health sector are now Syrians who came to Germany as refugees 10 years ago.

He has a point

“Check out my beautiful demolition job Bibi!”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

'We solved the Royal Family issues in a different way' say French people

Excellent work

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The top benefit claimants in the UK.

1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.

Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires

OK, who did this?!!! 🤣

Join my campaign to Make America British Again #MABA

Brexit was not a one-off hit. It’s bleeding us money and lost opportunity every day we stay in it.

We know our former DOJ colleague Erez Reuveni is credible and trustworthy. We're grateful for his courage in speaking out in defense of the rule of law.

It’s strange that the right are very keen on free speech until Gary Neville says something they don’t like. 🤔

'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments Shadow Home Office minister Katie Lam said some immigrants living legally in the UK should be deported to leave the country more "culturally coherent".

'A Breach Of Human Decency': James O'Brien Savages Tory Frontbencher's Immigration Comments

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...

Ed Miliband’s new green jobs will bring Britain hope. I dare Reform to denounce them | Polly Toynbee While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Ed Miliband’s new green jobs will bring Britain hope. I dare Reform to denounce them | Polly Toynbee

Naomi Smith, "For the last ten years we've had successive governments tell us what a great thing Brexit is"

"Well our polling shows that nearly 2/3 of people think Brexit has been more of a failure than a success"

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy. Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

Then fix it.

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

If he considers the racism, homophobia and violence as good natured fun 'Honest Bob' is a bigger twat than he appears. Talking out of his arse as always. I doubt he's ever been to a professional match. #Jenrick #Football #Racism #80s #Tories

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This.