Even the European Parliament, now under a new right-wing majority, won't stand up for Europe in the face of American threats.
An attempt to table a debate about the 🇺🇸embargo on Spain was killed by VDL/Merz's EPP, who teamed with Meloni's ECR, Orban's PfE & Weidel's ESN.
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People say Farage has charisma. This isn’t charismatic. This is dismissive and rude. It’s a serious question about BNP-style racism within his party. And Farage can’t cope with that kind of scrutiny. So he lashes out.
Under the spotlight, his ‘charisma’ turns very sour indeed.
There is a veritable rainbow of choices out there when it comes to fruits and vegetables, and their colours are often linked to specific health benefits.
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⚠️ Escalatory rhetoric emerging from militia leadership in Iraq as Shiite cleric Al-Haidari calls for jihad against the US and Israel:
04.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 126 🔁 55 💬 11 📌 3A huge fire was seen in Tyre in southern Lebanon after Israeli strikes targeted the city. Local media said the attack came without prior warning
04.03.2026 19:09 — 👍 111 🔁 74 💬 8 📌 7More than half. That doesn’t mean the remainder aren’t racist. Just perhaps not full-on Nazis.
04.03.2026 19:10 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Tetchy Nigel doesn't answer the question.
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BLOG - I am pleased to report that Police Scotland has submitted a report to COPFS relating to an offence to register in Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land. Apologies to blog subscribers as automated email failed to send (am investigating)
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The Trump administration will offer more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) in Alaska's Cook Inlet to oil and gas drillers, a key test of industry appetite for investment in the region. The sale is the first of six Alaska offshore oil and gas auctions mandated t...
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04.03.2026 20:09 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Karoline Leavitt just cited the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979) and the Beirut barracks bombings (1983) as evidence of the "threat" posed by Iran now, in 2026
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Messy: Karoline Leavitt plays down the threat of an trade embargo against Spain and says the country has agreed to cooperate with the US army.
Shortly after, Spain categorically denies it.
Qatar is halting liquefied natural gas (LNG) production entirely&will not be able to return to normal production and export levels for at least a month.
QatarEnergy has suspended LNG production for a minimum of two weeks.Once restarted,it will take at least another two weeks to reach full capacity
Newly released emails suggest Jeffrey Epstein and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman had a longer and closer relationship than previously known
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⚡️ The UK, Austria, and Romania are boycotting the 2026 Paralympics opening ceremony to protest the inclusion of Russia and Belarus.
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Scottish poetry culture has learned nothing from the hounding of Jenny Lindsay.
Polly Clark is a wonderful poet, and a fine novelist. Profohndly depressing that a publicly funded (by Creative Scotland) journal will not publish a positive review for the wrongthink of the reviewed author.
Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons
03.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"If we stick with First Past the Post under an increasingly fractured multi-party political landscape, we have a very real risk of the next general election results looking much like a random number generator."
Well said @rozsavage.bsky.social 👏👏👏
… just before Mauritius and the UK signed the deal, the US officially published a formal statement by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio… U.S. Support for UK and Mauritius Agreement
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In international law the pronouncements of a foreign minister bind a state
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I couldn't put it better. Who could when its MarinaHyde?
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"Ironically, Brexit means the UK has to spend more time thinking about EU regulation now than it did as a member state."
✍️ @jreland.bsky.social summarises the key findings of our latest report looking at the state of UK-EU regulatory divergence and alignment
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This government's proposals, particularly if implemented retrospectively, will have a devastating impact on people who have built lives, work, have families, here. We already know the financial and emotional toll of the existing system. This makes it so much worse
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Nigel Farage is off to the USA to do a speech to a US think tank this weekend.
No visit to Clacton, cares more about Republicans than British people.
Has there ever been a political party before that has come to power through the method of openly despising and rooting against the country they nominally represent?
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The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic
If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.
🚨🚨 This is a symbolically good recognition by Labour of the damage #brexit has done to the UK economy and society. Nonetheless, these statements need to be backed up by more ambitious plans on how to restore the relationship with the EU. /1
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An illustration of a horse in vibrant Lunar New Year colors and design.
Przewalski’s horse, or Equus ferus przewalskii, is the only true wild horse species remaining in the world, once extinct in the wild but successfully reintroduced. Courtesy of Jacqui Estrada.
Brindles and whips like this one were tools, used for controlling horses used in ranching and transportation, often made from horsehair. Courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County.
The Florida Horse Conch, Triplofusus papillosus, is the largest marine snail in North America and is the official state shell of Florida. Courtesy of Marissa Balfour, iNaturalist.
🐴 Although formal #LunarNewYear festivities have come to an end, the Year of the Horse has just begun! We invite you to gallop into a horse-inspired virtual tour through nature and from our Collections, including specimens, ranching tools, and even the Horse Conch: go.nhm.org/lunar-new-ye...
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Single snowdrop in front of a greenish, bokeh background.
Snowdrop for the timeline...
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This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.
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