Andrew Barnell.

Britain’s social fabric has been torn but it’s just easie... The real causes of serious problems are ignored and those responsible are let off the hook

“It is a portrait of two Britains, one of which barely comprehends the challenges facing the other.” My ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commen...

Simon Tisdall highlights the dangers posed by the proliferation of lower-yield, tactical warheads which supposedly allows “limited” nuclear war. Crossing that red line could lead to an unstoppable chain reaction, with horrific consequences. The campaign against nuclear weapons must get much louder👇

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As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall

Ironically, there are probably more ardent EU supporters in the UK than in any other country. 2 million marched to try to stop it happening. Sometimes you don’t realise what you had until you have lost it.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years as Brexit support slumps A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016

Half of Brits want another EU referendum in five years - as Brexit support slumps

A new poll of more than 2,000 people found 29% of Brits would vote to leave the EU if the Brexit vote was repeated, compared to 52% in the referendum in June 2016

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation

Trump randomly announced huge tariffs on Lesotho in April, for no rational reason. Enormous economic consequences have already followed

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

#A-Schubert-A-Day starts today. I am attempting to listen through the complete Hyperion Schubert Song edition, one song per day until there are no more. I have no idea how sustainable this will be, but I am going to give it a try.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

2 August 1917 | A Polish woman, Stanisława Czubak, was born in Kłaj. A teacher.

In #Auschwitz from 14 August 1942.
No. 17135
She perished in the camp on 17 December 1942.

I agree that Mishal was a huge loss to the Today Programme. I think they have finally realised that just appointing another celebrity is wrong, so the excellent Anna Foster is doing well.

I stick to World Service radio ; many objectives news programmes such as The Newsroom, with excellent presenters and not enough time to waffle.

🚨 A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.

From my heart.

Post from 8 months ago that says. Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethj... • 8mo I'm disgusted by all of the "RFK Jr. might ashually have good ideas except for vaccines" hot takes. Being an anti-vaxxer is disqualifying for any leadership role related to healthcare, because it is the hallmark of a person who doesn't understand science and is possessed of gargantuan arrogance. 114 • 69

RFK Jr.’s anti-vax mindset has always been a symptom of all-encompassing ignorance about and even hatred of legitimate science.

We all now have front row seats to the damage he will wreak on the people of the United States.

Supporting the right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action, says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.

Read Clive's full op-ed 👇
goodlaw.social/8idv

Tristram Hunt is right: the Holocaust Learning Centre is a bad idea - Museums Association Who is scrutinising the government’s controversial plans for an underground venue in Westminster, asks Clare Annamalai

www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

He was right all along

"Be angry at the chancers who sold you a lie." - David Lammy on The #Brexit Con.

Wonderful Sibelius’s Violin Concerto at the Proms 👏👏👏 @oramsa.bsky.social bbcsymphony orchestra and Lisa Batiashvili.

I just introduced an amendment to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Representatives should have to vote tomorrow either to stand with ordinary Americans and release the files or side with the rich and powerful.

Whose side are you on?

You are a brave man, and I applaud you.

one of the greatest sentences i have read in a very long time

Putin is a strategic fool and a military failure. He wanted to destroy Ukraine, but it will become a member of the EU—and eventually NATO, said Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

Almost certainly! The UK government used similar tactics in 2019, when they employed ‘social impact agency’ Big Ideas, at a cost of £118k to the taxpayer, to subvert the planning consultation system in the case of the UK Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre.

Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.” She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.”

“It depends if you look Hispanic.”

From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

"Ukraine Air Defense Now"

netenyahu nominating trump for a nobel peace prize confirms that trump is a pedophile

Lisa Nandy is danger to democracy and freedom. She’s calling for our national broadcasters to be sacked for showing two sides of a story.
Nandy has turned into an excuse for a skidmark