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Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

Countries will have to demand vax certs from American tourists.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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As cool as it is for Fiji to have a "base"; this is not it

If not at home, why are they playing the 3 UK nations, in their own country (Wales in Cardiff; England in Liverpool; Scotland in Murrayfield)

Typical rugby to trip itself up before a new tournament starts

Has to be an impersonator because "Chuck Schumer who can't cook a cheeseburger" is the funniest thing I've ever heard

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

After SAFE: Consequences for EU-UK defence industrial cooperation and potential ways forward - UK in a changing Europe Nicolai von Ondarza explores the possible avenues for UK-EU defence cooperation following the breakdown of talks on UK participation in the EU's SAFE programme.

"Beyond the impact on industry, the failure to agree on SAFE is the wrong political signal at the worst possible moment."

✍️ Nicolai von Ondarza on the wider significance of the breakdown in talks on UK participation in SAFE and the need for greater UK-EU cooperation

🔗 https://ow.ly/6zNc50YiS0J

So British

So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked:

- A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment

- A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman"

Reform is not a serious operation

By having a long notice period and a huge financial penalty for leaving or the ability to be chucked out for malpractice. Being made to leave would be a very good safety net for the EU, not specifically re the UK but Hungary, Slovakia or Germany or France if they go rogue.

He's a joke

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Reform’s by-election candidate Matt Goodwin received a salary of up to €10,000 a month from a far-right pressure group based in Hungary 👀
https://goodlaw.social/pif5

a cartoon of a school bus with the words get on that bus ian ALT: a cartoon of a school bus with the words get on that bus ian

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All the Reform "policies" are MAGAT Project 2025

The James Carvill approach when he ran Clinton's campaign. Namely, if they kick our dog, we burn their house down.

Possible, more likely scenario is Starmer gone after the locals. The question of who replaces him is the difficult one. Streeting's proximity to Mandelson makes him toxic. Cairns would be an interesting choice.

Exactly that! This battle is not won by passivity or expecting Reform to implode (it will eventually). It's won by attacking their policy platform which is an embarrassing farago of lies, poor economics and a return to pre 1930s.

Using BBC QT as a metric, Reform apparatchiks are a constant, the rest nowhere.

Andrew Neil a former journalist now a sad pathetic Brexiter schill. The guy in the pub drinking a pint of slops peeing into his nappy, bemoaning the state of the world. Who also lives in France...Sin Scéal Eile.

Good point Mark

Might interest:

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@ottocr.at
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Good thoughtful piece Niall. What we will see is a concerted effort by the US & its apparatchiks in the UK and elsewhere to undermine the EU. A 2 Tier EU potentially provides them with that wedge. IMO the UK is still many yrs away from joining.

BBC treatment of Labour. This is buried on their website & you have to search for it. The article mentions the surplus & swiftly blames them for freezing tax thresholds, using language like: “dragging people into paying more taxes”. Such language not the norm when this started as a Tory policy.

The FBI interviewed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims four times over her allegation that Donald Trump assaulted her when she was underage—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents.
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Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office The former prince remains in custody while searches take place in Norfolk and Berkshire.

The irony that spilling secrets as a trade envoy is somehow more heinous than allegedly trafficking girls for sex...

Andrew released under investigation after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office - BBC News share.google/VGfLrEeuww2Q...

Why a Royal’s Arrest Exposes Trump’s Shameful Perversion of Justice In Britain, even a (former) royal is being hauled in to answer questions on Epstein. And yet here, impunity reigns.

The arrest of Prince Andrew is terrible news for Trump and Republicans who keep hoping Epstein will go away. It will keep it actively, intensively in the news throughout this campaign season. www.thedailybeast.com/why-a-royals...

In order to deflect attention away from new revelations that he raped and threatened to kill underage girls, Donald Trump will start a war with Iran.

Why would federal prosecutors in 2019 tell authorities in New Mexico to stop their investigation into Epstein and Zorro Ranch?

Cycling needs citing.

A party led by millionaires, funded by Russians and billionaires thinks the UK can only be saved if they make the poorest workers poorer.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The Russians tried to sell their audience “successful steps,” but they couldn’t. Even their audience – the nationalist, radicalized part of Russian society – doesn’t trust the government and Putin. Because they see that there are no successful steps on the battlefield.