Martin Campbell

UK: Ban All Foreign Political Donations Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform Party just made massive gains in UK elections. And now they’re drawing up plans to tap Trump donors to power Farage to Prime Minister in 2029.But we have a plan to stop

Please sign this! Stop Trump billionaires from meddling in our elections. Tell the UK to ban foreign political donations: action.eko.org/a/uk-ban-all...

UK local election results live: Reform takes first councils after by-election and mayoral wins, as Starmer says losses 'disappointing' Reform wins full control of Durham, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire County Councils as votes are counted for more than 1,600 seats in England.

Depressing.... BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
UK local election results live: Huge swings see Reform gain control of several councils after by-election and mayoral wins - BBC News

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True facts are true

Really? I doubt that very much.

More rich Americans are opening Swiss bank accounts fearing U.S. risks Swiss banks say they have seen a surge of interest and business from high-net-worth Americans opening investment accounts in recent months.

A growing number of wealthy Americans are opening bank accounts in Switzerland as part of the “de-Americanization” of their portfolios, according to investors and banks

Who would have guessed
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Trans women to be strip searched by male transport police after UK court ruling Trans women detained by the British Transport Police will be strip searched by male officers, not female, following the recent Supreme Court ruling.

What is the UK becoming when it allows discrimination against tine, vulnerable communities? And where will it stop?www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/18/british-transport-police-trans-supreme-court-transgender/?utm_medium=personalized-push&utm_source=taboola

What I fear the next few days will hold for the democracy of the US. A good, brief, explanation.

NHS to be pursued if gender policies on single-sex wards don’t change, warns equalities watchdog The current NHS guidance means trans people are accommodated according to their presentation, but Wednesday’s ruling now means wards must accommodate patients based on their biological sex

Trans people will commit suicide. Had the male led Supreme Court heard from Trans women they might know that. But Trans women (and men) are such a small community that their votes are insignificant. No-one in a position of power will prioritise them, many won't care. uk.yahoo.com/news/nhs-pur...

Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians? For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it has apprehended 15 more.

It is good to finally see this ongoing outrage reported in the media (albeit not mainstream). aje.io/i70naa

“We are witnesses to a live cover-up. We are witnesses to misconduct in public office & if we don’t act we become complicit in that live cover-up & complicit in misconduct in public office”
@andyburnham.bsky.social
If you’re not yet familiar with this shocking scandal watch this draw dropping report

Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.

News Analysis: As the breadth of the Trump revolution has spread across Washington in recent weeks, its most defining feature is a burn-it-down-first, figure-out-the-consequences-later recklessness. The costs of that approach are now becoming clear.

“What we are watching is Trump’s tariff-induced crash turning into a Truss-style fiscal crisis. The collapse in US government long bonds, Treasuries, is startling, scary. It is precisely the opposite of what Trump and his advisers expected and wanted”

Robert Peston

Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week.

President Trump’s 25% tariffs on imported vehicles, which went into effect last week, are already sending tremors through the auto industry, prompting companies to stop shipping cars to the U.S., shut down factories in Canada and Mexico and lay off workers in Michigan and other states.

Why isn't this headline news?

Walid Ahmad is the first Palestinian CHILD to die in one of Israel's prisons. He was beaten and starved to death.

Know their Names: The Gaza Red Crescent paramedics Israel attacked On March 23, Israeli forces killed a group of Palestinian rescue workers in Rafah, Gaza. Here are their stories.

We must never forget their faces or the war crimes that killed them. aje.io/ts3ai5

Probably best to hitch your waggon to China. Trump still has nearly four years of unpredictability ahead.

National Park Service Restores Harriet Tubman Material to Underground Railroad Web Page The page had been edited to remove material about the antislavery leader. Other government pages have been changed or deleted amid efforts to scrub references to diversity and inclusion.

A National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad appeared to have been restored on Monday to prominently show the abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, after it had been changed in recent months to remove a large photo and quotes from her.

Wall Street traders on Trump tariffs: ‘Without doubt, we’re hitting a recession’ Traders leaving the New York Stock Exchange were trying to make sense of another day of volatility

Wall Street traders on Trump tariffs: ‘Without doubt, we’re hitting a recession’

A political cartoon by Slyngstad, dated 2025, depicts a man wearing a red "MAGA" hat sitting at a desk, looking concerned. He has a beard and is speaking, with a speech bubble that reads: "I was okay with the anti-trans stuff, demonizing immigrants, the gay bashing, sexism toward women, rounding people up off the street because of their skin color, all the other outright racism, but now I'm starting to think this could affect me." In front of him is a computer monitor displaying a graph with a downward-trending red line and the headline "MARKETS IN FREE-FALL."

It’s sadly accurate.

No second state visit for Trump Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

Donald Trump is ramping up his trade wars and crashing the global economy. He's not sparing the UK from his new tariffs, so why should we roll out the red carpet for him with a second state visit? Join more than 200000 of us and add your name to he petition today you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Jaguar Land Rover to ‘pause’ US shipments in wake of tariffs A 25% levy on all foreign cars imported into America came into force on Thursday.

I fear we may lose these iconic UK motor manufacturers because of Trump's tariffs. I hope he's happy with the boring Tesla he bought A man who denies climate change driving (if he even can?) an electric car? I suspect it has already been sold on. uk.yahoo.com/news/jaguar-...

'How do you negotiate with this?' Rage as Trump suggests he's crashing market on purpose President Donald Trump left Washington on Thursday to fly back to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. By Friday morning, the stock market was in freefall for a second day in a row. From his Truth Social page,...

'How do you negotiate with this?'

Rage as Trump suggests he's crashing market on purpose

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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏

LETS DO THIS!

Trump administration fires National Security Agency chief Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who met with Trump on Wednesday, said Gen Timothy Haugh was fired because he was "disloyal".

The 'night of the long knives' wiped out Hitler's no longer useful political allies. It seems the White House is beginning a a less dramatic purge. www.bbc.com/news/article...

People are saying that USA imports nothing from Russia, hence no tariffs. Wrong. Here are the figures. Note there ARE tariffs imposed on Ukraine. Trump is working for Russia. tradingeconomics.com/united-state...

Israel is continuing its unchecked genocide of Palestinian people in The West Bank. Will any 'western' nation even criticise them? I guess trade war with the USA matter more than non-white babies being massacred.

Trump hits UK with 10% tariffs as he ignites global trade war Britain wins relatively favourable treatment as president accuses trading partners of looting and pillaging US

Explain to me... how does this make America great again? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.

UK folk. Please do this to help stop a near future fascist UK. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...