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Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Quelle surprise, as they say in Clacton. Far right politico, & mate of Farage, was committing treason IMHO by taking money from Putin. Funny how the EU can show direct pipelines from the Kremlin to far right extremists in Britain & UK. Yet no media outrage…

Musk’s comments at this rally were incredibly alarming: He gave explicit anti-democratic, violent rhetoric a global platform. That normalises dangerous talk and can embolden extremists. This is a red flag moment.

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Elon Musk calls for change of UK Government at Tommy Robinson rally Elon Musk spoke at the rally via video link.

Have I got this right?

UK patriots, who hate foreigners interfering, have invited a South African, who now lives in the US, to talk about Britain?

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Facism out in the open

You can abhor Charlie Kirk & his beliefs and unequivocally condemn murder. You can do both. It shouldn’t be hard. It’s what grown up, civilized, tolerant people do.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

Kirk was a racist who thought black people shouldn’t be pilots. He thought women should be subservient to men. He hated MLK and the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t care about political violence against Paul Pelosi and Democrats. All his own words. You can deplore the shooting without honoring the man.

What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week The vice-president has become the prince of the new reactionary right.

"JD Vance is the most underestimated man in Washington."

What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week, by Freddie Hayward.

As someone who co-wrote "How to Rig an Election" with @fromagehomme.bsky.social, let me just say how insane it is that the US president is peddling talking points on "honest elections" from a dictator who routinely rigs votes, sometimes by hunting down and murdering his political opponents.

The great big anticlimax in Alaska Beyond handing Putin a diplomatic victory, it is unclear what, if anything, Trump's summit achieved. No wonder the Russian president wants to do it again.

Beyond handing Putin a diplomatic victory, it is unclear what, if anything, Trump's summit achieved. No wonder the Russian president wants to do it again.

The great big anticlimax in Alaska:

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Fox's Charles Gasparino: Let’s be clear what happened, who capitulated here and why... It is the White House who capitulated, based on everything I hear and all of my sources. The reason why is because of the bond market and what happened last night. Scott Bessent knows this better than anybody.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 "Did you hear people cheering you on the street? You can see the support. And we will support as long as it takes. We want long-term peace," — Starmer to Zelensky

So much for "Master Negotiator" Trump and his dealmaking: Trump has failed to make any progress in ending the war, while at the same time alienating the chief allies of the US. On top of that, he's failed to secure a minerals deal with Ukraine to "get back some of the US's money."

Double failure.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

John McCain turns in his grave. Again.

This has to be right. Starmer's summit on Sunday has become a potentially decisive moment. If Europeans don't throw their weight behind Ukraine and behind a massive and immediate increase in their defence efforts (& damn the deficits), Europe will find itself at the mercy of Putin & Trump.

Are you getting it yet?

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Live updates: Trump cancels news conference with Zelensky after contentious Oval Office meeting The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

'A senior Kremlin official told me yesterday that even Moscow is surprised by President Donald Trump; that they had expected change, but not “such tremendous change.”' www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

The exchange between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office today in which our country attacked the victim in defense of a brutal aggressor has to be one of the most shameful moments in Modern American history.

That a draft dodger and his lickspittle of a vice president should lecture a war hero is beneath contempt.

Ok. Once and for all. Trump is anti Ukraine, anti Democracy, anti Europe and, above all, pro Putin. There can be no more doubt—it’s just a disaster it’s taken so long for people to understand it.

Best news that could have come out of this event. It's time for Europe to show real leadership on Ukraine.