Maggie Atkinson

Bookish; McDonald & Dodds; The Chelsea Detective. All for casts & portrayals of somewhat whacky human dynamics. None of them desperately taxing if you like series that are, so be warned. We got very involved in The Iris Affair though it gets gory in places. New Ipcress File was good. Spies not cops.

Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.

Heckuva job, Greg Abbott.

I’m sure the Sunday morning politics shows will be all over this when they interview Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf in the morning

Munich Security Conference live: Danish PM says Trump's desire over Greenland still 'the same' despite ongoing talks Mette Frederiksen says Greenland's sovereignty must be respected and that its people have made clear they do not wish to become American.

Trump still wants to annex Greenland.

"I think the desire from the US president is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this," Danish PM Frederiksen said after talks with American diplomats.

This sheds a completely different light on Rubio's hypocritical speech in Munich!

#HandsOffGreenland

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax 10% rise!
Cap-busting tax hike is embarrassing for Farage, who has made low council tax a priority.
Source: Guardian

Wrongs and rights: the real Keir Starmer

It’s wrong to say Keir Starmer isn’t interested in policy.

Contrary to so much supposedly informed political commentary, he’s a revolutionary at heart who wants to embed for at least a generation social democratic government, for the betterment of all. /1.

ALERT: Jan 6 riot defendant Chris Moynihan has pleaded GUILTY to charge of Aggravated Harassment in the 2nd Degree in New York for sending a text message in which he threatened Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in 2025

Moynihan is latest pardoned rioter to plead guilty to new crime

Watched the whole debate live. Not one Reform representative showed up, unsurprisingly. The MPs who spoke were more alert to threats than expected and I think that's at least partly due to the work of Peter Jukes and Carole Cadwalladr.

Here's a 6-part summary thread of it.

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Starmer facing Labour MPs after cabinet ministers back PM to stay in office Support from Starmer's team came as Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on the PM to resign, saying

Lets call it as it is..

MSM worked tirelessly to undermine Labour & Starmer since the Election ❌
They’ve been promoting Farage & Reform daily, Reform has just 6 MPs but BBC had them on multiple times over LibDems with 72 MPs❌
Tories scandal after scandal & got kid gloves❌

#MSMNeedsBalanceNotBias

So someone who was never mentioned in the Epstein Files should step down but someone who is mentioned in it dozens of times shouldn't? What a weird world we live in

Which should not be “rewarded” by a seat in the Lords 🤬

Who owns Greenland? Denmark's claim is unimpeachable. In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognizes ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark' over Greenland.

In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland. bit.ly/4qH0yug

A Scottish party leader calls for an embattled PM to quit but his cabinet rallies round and backbench MPs bang desks to show their support....

What the public want investigating? That’s not at all what they’re concerned with. All they exist to do is generate engagement and therefore revenue. Conflict and drama literally pays their wages. A drawn-out leadership crisis is manna from heaven.

Absolutely. When you pay journalist by the click then the whole system is designed to further political chaos

Completely agree. And where is the coverage of Farage & his 42 mentions in the Epstein files.

There’s a real sense that political journalists have lost touch with the public & what the public want investigated.

Fragile Trump cannot see that Iran will make the Iraq War look like child's play Trump wants conflicts he can win quickly and easily, at no personal or political cost to himself. But in Iran, he could not have picked a worse target

“Many countries would simply play along, knowing Trump’s playbook. Sign a vague deal, make sure there are some lucrative money-making prospects for some of Trump’s friends, and wait for his attention to lapse.

“Iran is different. The regime is extreme, well entrenched, and determined to cling on.”

Pardoned J6er Jake Lang, who was chased out of Minneapolis a few weeks ago after trying to publicly burn a Quran, was arrested after he destroyed an anti-ICE sign in St. Paul yesterday.

These are the worst people empowered to do the worst possible things.

I really do not see how we can have a functioning democracy & keep DHS.

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party

One of the things we learned during our High Court case against Reform is its propensity, nakedly and without embarassment, to lie. Only the blissfully naive would take its explanation for this at face value.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton.

The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.

Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK and EU 🚨 Code f*cking red 🚨

Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK & EU

🚨 Code fucking red 🚨

'A report from the Financial Times last night made my stomach drop

'The FT revealed that Trump’s State Department is pulling together a “slush fund” to bankroll pro-MAGA groups in the UK and Europe'

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Does 74 year old Patricia Clegg from Gorton and Denton even exist in real life?

Most definitely worth reading.

🇲🇩🇺🇦 Moldovan President Sandu said that she is against her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, because there are more worthy candidates - Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Sandu emphasized that it is Ukrainians who are truly sacrificing themselves for the sake of peace and security in Ukraine and the EU.

True art. True humanity. What the struggle is all about.