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Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction Despite what they claim, Silicon Valley's most powerful founders knew they were meeting, dining and emailing with a convicted sex offender and were told to keep quiet about it

Big Tech Helped Elon Musk Meet Jeffrey Epstein Four Times After Conviction – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/02/17/b...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: How Power Protects Itself Through Contempt As the eighth in line of succession to the British throne is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, Hardeep Matharu explores how elite impunity is built on creating a sense of powerless...

🔴 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor: How Power Protects Itself Through Contempt

"Andrew expected the public to swallow an alternative account, even if he didn't think we would believe it. It is how the powerful protect their impunity through contempt for those they exploit" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

The bigger crisis claim is obviously nonsense. (The abdication was obvs a very lucky break as 1936 was a bad time to have a Nazi sympathiser on the throne, esp by Spring 1939)

The question may not be "why are British students taking so many useless degrees?" so much as "why can't the British economy generate enough graduate vacancies?"

Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian American man during an attack on a village, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. n.pr/46PHPVX

Chris Boffey: Star reporter, news editor, mentor and 'great human being' "Threatened, shot at, fire bombed, sued, asked to spy, investigated by Mi5 and taken the occasional drink."

Guardian chief reporter Daniel Boffey really knocked it out of the park with this obit for his dad, the late great Chris Boffey pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obi...

This is new to me. The Surkov/Rykov protegee Drokova, as well as being close to Epstein’s two other young Russian females he sponsored in the Tech world, was an early investor in Elon Musk’s and Sam Altman’s AI ventures. @craigunger.bsky.social

This is actually MAD??? It's slightly difficult to follow but obviously Josh Simons should go. Labour Together is a cursed and vile project.

Gosh just from eyeballing the graph I wonder if anyone can think of something that might have happened around idk 2016 to cause a further deterioration?

(I know the internet is the internet but: I’m clearly joking! I don’t actually think vengeance and anger are good personality traits or methods of healing!)

How Scotland's front pages reported Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest

Here's how Scotland's front pages reported on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest 👇

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : « Nous pouvons encore nous battre pendant quelques années », assure le commandant de la garde nationale ukrainienne « Nous avons perdu trop de notre population et de nos territoires pour juste arrêter et les céder », a déclaré Oleksandr Pivnenko dans une interview à la BBC.

EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : « Nous pouvons encore nous battre pendant quelques années », assure le commandant de la garde nationale ukrainienne

‘Now he’s sweating’: what the papers say about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Shock arrest of ex-royal dominated British papers with one picture of the former prince, looking shellshocked in the back seat of a car, splashed across front pages

‘Now he’s sweating’: what the papers say about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

A change of EU rules to let in Ukraine might also offer a way in for Britain, but make us always rule-takers, perpetuating resentment 
By Niall Ó Conghaile

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Will Rachel Reeves be forced to raise taxes over falling immigration? Rapidly declining net migration figures could eliminate the headroom the chancellor established in the budget if the OBR downgrades its forecast

Migrants -both from EU and elsewhere -are more likely to be in work than the UK-born.

As @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social says, lots of other moving parts, but other things equal much lower migration means tax rises or spending cuts.

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Venezuela grants amnesty that could release hundreds of political detainees More than 600 people may be in custody for political reasons, one Venezuelan rights group estimates.

More than 600 people may be in custody for political reasons, one Venezuelan rights group estimates.

Florida lawmakers have passed a bill to rename Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump. https://cnn.it/3OoI7gi

Pathetic

Electoral reform is the key to Social Democratic renewal With four parties tied in the polls, our first past the post electoral system is failing. How should progressives respond?

Every time Labour created a modern parliament – Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London – they chose proportional representation writes MP, Jenny Riddell Carpenter. Why is Westminster the exception? If PR is good enough for devolved Britain, it’s good enough for the UK.

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‘One in, one out’: what has happened to asylum seekers forced to return to France? In rare interviews, some of those sent back across the Channel after arriving in the UK on small boats describe what happened next – and the risks of a system organised to get rid of them

Labour's cruel "one in one out" scheme was heralded by Starmer as a "ground breaking" solution. It's a cruel failure: fewer people have been forced into this process than cross the Channel on one moderately busy day.

Time to treat asylum seekers with humanity.

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Rocket maker Orbex collapses after millions from taxpayer The company has gone into administration on the cusp of making the first test launches from its Prime microlauncher, and most its staff have been made redundant

UK Government promised £100m to a Sovereign Space Programme in Scotland. But it didn't.

Sorry but this Labour Government wants Scottish Manufacturing/Industrial Development to fail

If only 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 had its own Sovereihn Wealth Fund from its Oil & Gas receipts

169 jobs

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The Native Bdote Prayer Camp at Mni Owe Sni A Minneapolitan tells: at a sacred Native American spring in Minnesota a prayer camp rises against federal raids; reclaiming land, memory and shared humanity

A Minneapolitan tells: at a sacred Native American spring in Minnesota a prayer camp rises against federal raids; reclaiming land, memory and shared humanity | C J Gronner

Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them | Robert Reich The homeland security department is reportedly seeking information on critical social media accounts. Look no further

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UN mission finds RSF destruction in el-Fasher bears ‘hallmarks of genocide' UN probe documents coordinated ethnic targeting, rape and torture against non-Arab communities in Sudanese city.

UN probe documents coordinated ethnic targeting, rape and torture against non-Arab communities in Sudanese city.

A spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security, Tricia McLaughlin, said that the child was in "stable condition and medically cleared for removal" and that pediatricians gave the parents a nasal saline spray with a nasal bulb syringe to continue care. https://cnn.it/4rZmqSy

Thinking today of the berk of a private secretary who demanded a written apology from me for being insufficiently forelock-tugging to Andrew Windsor when I was working in the Foreign Office. I’d had the nerve to suggest he might not be the reputational asset we needed as a trade envoy to Ukraine.

Furious John Swinney tells Russell Findlay to be 'ashamed of himself' after accusing the Lord Advocate of 'corruption'

Hitler in Greenland After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

“Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s,” Timothy W. Ryback writes. After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs and trade policies, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security: