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Writer. Journalist. Broadcaster. Shouter into the abyss. Host of Fortress Europe podcast - reportage from Europe's violent borders πŸ‘‡ https://open.spotify.com/show/3uh4hHdjFLxRoTPfznlyNd?si=ad0512c0e82149b3

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Another field day for the toff fash pundits to cheer on their pet blue collar mob as they organically besiege more asylum seeker accommodation, fuelled by completely neutral and uncompromised information networks.

02.08.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This country’s not the only thing going to the dogs, apparently.

02.08.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The seething target audience will be even more livid after they blow their cash on crypto.

02.08.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The joyless Coinbase advert β€œsatirising modern Britain” - comedy for the Vichy Twitter generation.

02.08.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably Tom Skinner’s β€œgraft” (selling tat from a lorry) brings in peanuts compared to his β€œgrift” (media appearances, speaking gigs, monetisation of ragebait tweets, saying bosh). But he must continue the former to justify the latter.

30.07.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Much like most of the UK pundit class, though at least Trump admits he doesn’t know.

28.07.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Shahed* type drone has been spotted over Lithuania, last seen near capital Vilnius. LT armed forces are looking for the presumably crashed drone and state they will strengthen air defences on border with Belarus.

source: delfi.lt

28.07.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 136    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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EXCLUSIVE: A Russia-linked Telegram network is inciting terrorism and is behind hate crimes in the UK – HOPE not hate A supposedly UK-based network of Telegram channels is hoping to spark civil war in Britain – but the operation appears to be run from Russia.Β ...

This shouldn’t be remotely surprising to anyone hopenothate.org.uk/2025/02/10/e...

26.07.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist | TechCrunch In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality fo...

This allows for micro-targeting and potential victim shopping, in the hands of malign actors.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/s...

26.07.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Important to remember that the completely organic and politically diverse Epping protesters always march with signs saying β€œsave our kids” when any alleged offence happens -not just when the suspect is an asylum seeker. They do it all the time because it’s a consistent belief.

25.07.2025 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Daubney has been dethroned.

24.07.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thailand-Cambodia conflict latest: Border sealed after death toll rises to 12 About 40,000 people have been evacuated, with both nations claiming the other fired first

THAILAND-CAMBODIA LATEST πŸ”΄

β–ͺ️ Death toll climbs to 12 with one military personnel dead
β–ͺ️ Thailand seals its entire border with Cambodia
β–ͺ️ Thailand deploys F-16s along the disputed border
β–ͺ️ Cambodia accuses Thailand of 'reckless and brutal' military aggression

24.07.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Concerned, salt of the earth British mums and dads who want to protect kids by following instructions from neo-Nazi Facebook groups and besieging asylum hotels.

24.07.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Polish soldiers fire shots at migrants crossing Poland-Belarus border Sudanese man taken to hospital with gunshot wounds after Polish soldiers fired at migrants crossing border - Anadolu AjansΔ±

www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/po...

24.07.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Polish soldiers are shooting migrants on the Belarus border with rubber bullets. One Sudanese man has already been hospitalized.

24.07.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is an Aspen Card and why does it need reform? The UK Home Office provides basic subsistence support to people who are in the process of applying for asylum, as well as to those whose applications have been refused and are appealing their cases, i...

The Aspen card has been very problematic: this is a bit of an older research we did when I was at @privacyinternational.org

Knowing how it works (to an extent, as FOIA requests were largely rejected), this is a very strange story.
privacyinternational.org/explainer/44...

24.07.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having two Tory politicians as your only source quotes is also quite telling.

24.07.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without informing readers that asylum seekers are *barred from working* this is pearl-clutching Victorian moralising dreck.

24.07.2025 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Libya's broken healthcare system drives locals to migrate – DW – 07/06/2025 A 7-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis recently became a symbol of Libya's healthcare crisis. Her family undertook an illicit journey to Italy to get her the care their own country didn't provide.

Libyan family take to the sea to seek care for daughter's cystic fibrosis www.dw.com/en/libyas-br...

22.07.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody wants or needs to come to Europe. There is no woe or want in the world. These people are invented in laboratories and programmed to enter the bloc by moustachioed villains who hate Brussels for its freedom.

22.07.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We must work with Libyans to stop Putin weaponizing migrants, top EU official says EU Migration Commissioner Magnus BrunnerΒ tells POLITICO he’s ready to negotiate with Khalifa Haftar, who kicked him out of Benghazi earlier this month.

Pity the poor powerless EU, always the victim of neighbouring countries conjuring up refugees out of thin air and firing them out of a cannon onto the pristine Mediterranean beaches. www.politico.eu/article/eu-l...

22.07.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

UK government to issue set of commemorative playing cards featuring the most wanted people smugglers.

22.07.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You heard it here first

20.07.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People in northern France are right at the end of their migration journey, which will have featured innumerable obstacles much more perilous violent than this crossing. The idea people will give up at this stage is naive.

20.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leaked document shows boat slashing failed to stop migrants reaching UK Coastguard log raises new concerns over safety and viability of flagship policy to intercept dinghies crossing Channel

Who could have foreseen that paying French police to slash a few dinghies for the TV cameras does not actually stop people from crossing the Channel?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

20.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know. Isn’t the β€˜Yoo Kay’ meme just premature FB boomer content? Curtain twitching nepos pumping out Richard Littlejohn-esque blogs for the shire/Clapham drones to seethe into their phone on the train while London happens around them. Seems unimportant.

19.07.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a really important point. The people impacted most - those whose data it is - didn’t know anything about it until this week, and many still won’t know. And while some people were brought to the UK, there was/is no transparency of what the decision making criteria for that was.

17.07.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should have jumbotron at the next Spectator summer party

17.07.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting corrected even on Elon’s app

16.07.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already retweeted by Migration Watch and Express crowd. I give it an hour before a Tory MP jumps on it.

16.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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