Vladimir Putin’s administration has endorsed a plan to bolster the prime minister’s party by flooding social media with messages designed in Russia and posted by influential Hungarians. ft.trib.al/fT6SXiG
❗️G7 countries agree not to lift sanctions against Russia amid Middle East war
🇫🇷 The rise in oil prices caused by the war in the Middle East does not justify lifting sanctions against Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron announced after a remote G7 meeting.
Farage, leading, as usual, by watching which way the crowd is moving and running to the front.
🔴Crypto Donations Now Accepted by Three UK Parties as Concerns Grow Over Foreign Interference Threat
Reform UK and the far-right Homeland Party are now both accepting cryptocurrency donations, as calls grow for Labour to use its elections bill to secure our democracy
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/11/c...
Where was Farage’s closest aide and Reform UK Welsh leader Nathan Gill heading when he was arrested for taking bribes from Putin’s pal Medvedchuk?
To a Kremlin sponsored conference in Moscow, to talk about the role of crypto currencies in politics
The warnings are there for us all to see
America is still building concentration camps and still running deportation flights. Last Saturday, the 77th such flight left Minneapolis airport. Nothing has changed. Families are shielding, supported by allies and neighbours. It is unforgivable this is dropping out of (American) headlines.
Interesting radial plan for apartments in Bern by Fritschi Beis Architeture
The shape is designed around exist tree locations on the site. Deck access means every apartment can be easily cross ventilated.
Nice interiors too!
An Iranian brick maker turns over wet bricks to speed up the drying process in the sun
In Sabzevar, Iran
Photo by Hadi Dehghan Pour
Yazd, in Iran.
A city of courtyards
An urban form that responds to harsh hot summers, and cold dry winters
18 yr old Bahar had offers from York and Reading, but 'thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban.'
'Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk.'
Keep not watching GB News guys... it's lost £131.5m to date but I'm sure it can do a lot worse than that.
GB News isn't there to make money - it's there to shift the centre of gravity of public opinion further and further to the right. In that way it's a worthwhile investment for its backers
Wonder how far Reform will get trying to enforce this new law in some parts of N Ireland.
Or indeed Cornwall
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
Fascinating
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin.
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Interesting
Indeed
This is timely and important from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social . Minority groups have been unjustly victimised before, a century ago, by much of the press, presumably for the sake of profit. The government, and the rest of us, should not tolerate such despicable behaviour, and call it out to them
It's so healing to hear someone say this with confidence & out loud (rather than feel the need to pander to the far-right's xenophobia).
Migration is part of what makes this country great.
We're not an island of strangers - we're an island of neighbours.
The Green Party will always support fair & managed migration.
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict
www.ft.com/content/eaee...
Funny how these Russian AI deepfakes seem to focus so much on persuading Europeans that the EU is a bad thing. Moscow may be revealing how much they wanted Brexit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Very good
