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Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action

Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.

Yesterday’s show was as another exercise in clairvoyance. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a plurality of journalism that properly reflects Trumps’s depravity & corruption. Never mind Putin’s. Not sure I’ll ever fully understand why.

This short Twitter exchange illustrates perfectly just how far the Tories have fallen compared to even a few years ago...

Lol ))

Noticed the sky isn't as blue today?

Smoke from wildfires in Spain & Portugal, plus Saharan dust, has drifted over the UK

Expect enhanced sunsets & sunrises in the coming days — deeper reds & oranges thanks to light scattering 🔥🌄

Yeah. But him tearing shreds off the other candidates would be worth it.

Would be some Craic though.

Roy Keane.

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

Ukraine’s president endured a public shaming. Russia’s was pampered. Both episodes were disgraceful.

"London lives rent free in their heads as it's living proof of how completely wrong their politics is - they 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 to lie about it!"

As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.

Bylines Network has just got a blue tick!

As has Full Fact and Declassified UK.

Please make sure you’re following this full set of for-public-good alternative journalism.

The MSM is failing us badly (esp on Gaza). So make sure you help build up the grassroots alternatives!

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A meme with two pictures of a boy in a red shirt. In the upper picture, he looks scared and has the following text next to him: Losing my passport where my country doesn't have an embassy. In the bottom picture, he looks happy and confident, has EU stars behind him and the text says: Realising EU citizens can get help from any EU country’s embassy.

Travelling outside the EU this summer? You can count on the EU for help!

If something goes wrong, and your country does not have an embassy or consulate in the country that you are travelling to, you can get help from another EU country that does - your right as an EU citizen.

🔗 europa.eu/!7nGx9R

If you don't know anyone who has defended the ECHR to you, you need to broaden your social circle

Or, perhaps, reflect on what it is about your behaviour that means your friends don't feel able to be open with you about ECHR case law

"Each hour a soft lie told in Freon"

I'm in love

A must watch if you haven't seen it before.

Remains an absolute classic.

It remains an absolutely classic interview. Showed him in his true petulant and chaotic colours. Shocking that he went from there to the mainstream.

People often don’t believe me when I tell them that even the Sun & the Mail greeted an interview I conducted with Nigel Farage, at his request, by condemning the obvious racism he displayed. I remain amazed that other interviewers still struggle to expose him. I won’t get another chance.

The Russian economy is in trouble, self-inflicted by war spending, and through Ukrainian attacks. Putin urgently needs his investment in Trump to pay off.

Screenshot of a Fox Business News broadcast on Inauguration Day 2025, where EJ Antoni has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing a Main Street Matters interview on the Job Creators Network, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing an interview with @kitco, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

Screenshot of the Nazi battleship art for sale online.

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

You won't see this on @cnbc.com tomorrow. AI and Crypto is the only game in town with them.

US BUDGET DEFICIT SOARS

The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.

The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.

Bullshit

Also. This is factually untrue.

Russia has “lost” over a million troops to death or off-the-battlefield injury and in fact holds less land than it did in the early weeks of the war.

Huge losses & relatively small gains.

It’s also lost its standing in the world & its economy has taken a beating

‘A Guy Who Never Dies’ | Fintan O’Toole On July 26 Donald Trump played a round of golf at his own Turnberry course in Scotland. Over footage of the event from Sky News, we hear a reporter

My thoughts on Trump and Epstein (and Dracula)
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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Great long piece on BBC news about the massive increase in the cost of cod and the impact on fish and chip shops.

No mention at all of Brexit which has significantly affected £££

For the millionth time: We import ten times as much cod as this country catches.

What did they think would happen?

Exactly what I'm talking about. Starmer should be hanging Farage out to dry, telling him the delays and checks are down to his Brexit.
Go after Farage. Let him defend Britons being exposed to EES and Etias.

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Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.