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The French?

In a world of shared threats, making payment the prerequisite for cooperation feels like 2016-19 deja vu. British opinion's edging back toward the EU, even with Reform rising.
Hardliners: Everything is zero‑sum.
EU: prove regret
Farage: We told you so.
We should bury the hatchet and build together

Most asylum seekers arrive with their valuables long lost in bombed or abandoned homes, stolen, or sold to afford the dangerous clandestine passage to safety

The real thing of value to be snatched from refugees under these proposals is far more painful: their families & futures

Me, for @zeteo.com

Did she join MAGA, or what?

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Some of you will already have encountered a rather nasty piece of work causing everything from mild annoyance to serious distress through targeted harassment using muliple accounts.
You can share info here:
bsky.app/profile/ozym...

The BBC is in a fight for its survival The BBC only has itself to blame for its handling of a serious error in a documentary on Trump. But its demise—as the US media landscape shows—would l...

The BBC is now in a fight for its life. It enemies will be happy www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Robbie Gibb once suggested that reporters should reflect if they were getting more retweets from one side than the other - a braindead analysis that ignores that fair and impartial reporting of education might get more Tory retweets than say, criminal justice.

Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.

To the idiots who keep voting these charlatans into power: they do not have your interests at heart, only their self-interest.

Adlington: 'We've nowhere to go if Grove House care home shuts' Residents and their families plea to keep Grove House in Adlington open as a consultation continues.

They don’t care about anything or anyone, it’s all about power and money.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company

Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀

A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA
#NeverThoughtTheLeopards

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

All I see is Trump complaining about foreign media, while simultaneously intervening in foreign media. Next, the White House will be picking Davie's replacement. When will Starmer tell him to get fucked and keep out of it? That's a rhetorical question.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Isn't there a silver lining though? If Starmer has the balls he'll force out more right-wing appointments himself, & turn the tide the other way. The right-wing press will kick, but screw it because at the moment the left are trying to fight by Queensberry rules and the right are bare-knuckle boxing

Britain Is Having the World’s Most Extreme Immigration Debate The British discourse makes even the Trump administration look moderate.

Wrote something with @emile-chabal.bsky.social in @foreignpolicy.com about how the immigration debate in the UK has gotten so off the rails recently: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

Your papers please.

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Twilight of the Democratic Influencer Candidates Online celebs keep trying to turn big followings into viable congressional campaigns. Democrats should stay wary.

Doing politics is not the same as producing content for an audience. www.thebulwark.com/p/twilight-o...

The Senate just voted to strip #DonaldTrump of his power to impose #tariffs. MULTIPLE #Republicans abandoned him and joined #Democrats to shut him down, second night in a row the #GOP has turned on him.

Trumps grip on his own party is cracking in REAL TIME!!

NOW for the #Epsteinfiles...

Far too many in SA still think Putin’s RF is legitimate successor to the USSR, which supported military action against apartheid & included Ukrainians. (Unsuccessful warfare, yet forever glorified by the ruling ANC). Musk OTOH…he’s just a vile abusive fascist and white supremacist. Isn’t it ironic.

UK Government's 'Failure to Investigate Foreign Interference' Challenged in Europe's Highest Court The group of former MPs warn that UK elections are “still at risk” over the Government’s failure to investigate "credible evidence" of Russian interference

🗞️ Covered by @bylinetimes.bsky.social, @nation.cymru, @scotnational.bsky.social - but ignored by most UK media.
At a moment when hostile states are shaping elections, that silence is part of the story.
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

The Orange Fucking Turd doesn’t care about any Court Ruling. What are the consequences? He is not listening, he is basically telling our judicial system to fuck off. Aren’t we tired of hearing about another baseless loss for Trump?

🤬 UN humanitarian convoy in Bilozerka in Kherson Region was attacked by Russia…

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PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.

From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt,

At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened.

You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social: "Nigel Farage should not be trusted with healthcare in our country."

"If that's the sort of health advice Nigel Farage is taking, maybe that's why he is the same age as Brad Bitt but looks 20 years older."