Graham Lambert

Out of touch’ hereditary peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights.
The Lords voted to support a string of Conservative-backed amendments to the employment rights bill late on Monday for the third time running.

Breaking:
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Trump had fought for months before ending his opposition.

GB News investor and Spectator owner Paul Marshall is in the running to buy the Telegraph now that the RedBird takeover plan has collapsed, the Guardian reports.

Hard to see this being anything other than a disaster for public discourse in Britain if that goes ahead.

Well, well.
Boris Johnson approved the China’s super-embassy proposal in 2018 welcoming “China’s largest overseas diplomatic investment”
The Chinese government bought the site for £255m the same month, after Johnson's assurances, it could proceed with a proposal

Treasury warns employees not to take pictures of Trump’s White House demolition Treasury warns employees not to take pictures of Trump’s White House demolition

Treasury warns employees not to take pictures of Trump’s White House demolition

Russia ‘helping people smugglers flood Europe and UK with migrants’ | LBC A Bulgarian minister has said his government has evidence of direct links between Russia's foreign intelligence agency and the criminal gangs helping illegal migrants to enter Europe.

A Bulgarian minister has said his govt has evidence.

Yvette Cooper, the UK's foreign secretary, said: “It is clear that illegal migration into Europe and beyond is being driven not just by organised crime networks seeking to make a profit, but by hostile state actors seeking to destabilise Europe"

Statement by President Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Starmer, Chancellor Merz, President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Prime Minister Tusk, President von der Leyen, President Costa, Prime Minister Støre,... We are all united in our desire for a just and lasting peace, deserved by the people of Ukraine.\nWe strongly support President Trump\'s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that th...

Starmer, Zelensky, EU leaders agree that Ukraine borders should not be changed by force
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Struggled to get back into my account. But anyway I'm in now.
Not long back from a wonderful holiday in Copenhagen.
We also visited a waffle house in Dragor. Yummy.
Which put me in mind of Boris Johnson, who is attending the Covid inquiry today.

60 seconds on María Corina Machado and why her Nobel Peace Prize win really matters 👏👇

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16 years ago
What a difference a president makes.
The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States president Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"
2025 -Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is awarded 🕊

I'm astonished at how many plastic gadgets I have found lurking in the kitchen cupboards. Egg slicers, carrot twirlers, and heaven know's what else.
All going to the recycling centre. Some to charity.
Never again. It's madness.
My madness, of course.

I'm astonished at how many plastic gadgets I have found lurking in the kitchen cupboards. Egg slicers, carrot twirlers, and heaven know's what else.
All going to the recycling centre, some to charity.
Never again. It's madness.
My madness, of course

Sweden and Norway, which also experienced a similar drone incursion. Both Copenhagen and Oslo airports shut down late Monday night after drones were spotted in their airspace, forcing flights to be diverted or canceled and leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded. /ends

Danish PM doesn’t rule out Russian involvement in airport drone ‘attack’ Mette Frederiksen says motive could be: “To disrupt and create unrest. To cause concern. To see how far you can go and test the limits.”

🚨🚨"Danish PM Mette Frederiksen doesn’t rule out #Russian involvement in airport drone ‘attack". 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/dani...

Coca-Cola explores sale of Costa Coffee UK chain hit by rising costs and competition from upmarket rivals

Coca-Cola explores sale of Costa Coffee on.ft.com/4mR7LWQ

Government takes control of UK’s third-largest steelworks after collapse into administration Court ends Sanjeev Gupta’s control of Speciality Steel UK’s operations in South Yorkshire as ministers seek to save 1,450 jobs

The government has taken control of the UK’s third-largest steelworks as ministers try to protect 1,450 jobs after Liberty Steel’s operations in South Yorkshire collapsed into administration.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Russia has targeted Ukraine’s cities and hit a US-owned consumer electronics factory, only five days after Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. on.ft.com/3Hnyc7H

Asylum seekers in Epping's Bell Hotel targeted again by far-right group Asylum seekers at a hotel in Epping are once again being targeted by far-right groups.

Chris Philps aquired the Bell Hotel in Epping in 2020 to house asylum seekers.
In February 2021, far right protests broke out outside the hotel.
We have to ask why Philps didn't encourage the council to take court action.
Perhaps it's political.'Cough'
www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk/news/1911905...

JFK's Grandson Wears Blonde Wig To Mock Melania Trump Over Her Letter To Putin In the first lady’s “peace letter” to Putin, she told the Russian president that “it is time” to protect children and future generations worldwide.

In the first lady’s “peace letter” to Putin, she told the Russian president that “it is time” to protect children and future generations worldwide.

Starmer says crucial Ukraine White House meeting is about ‘security of the UK’ Sir Keir Starmer praised the White House meeting with eight European leaders, including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, and Donald Trump as a possibly “historic step” towards ending Vladimir Putin’s wa...

This is also about ‘the UK's security’
“When we talk about security, we’re talking about the security not just of Ukraine, we’re talking about the security of Europe & the United Kingdom as well, which is why this is such an important issue.”

PM Starmer
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The detractors, the little Britain fans, & the small island Brexit isolationists think that our PM shouldn't leave No.10 but spend all his time on social media, as they do.
Luckily, we have a Prime Minister for our times and of our times, rising to the challenge of Russia's war on Europe
#Washington

NEW: Big pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska ahead of Trump-Putin summit 👏

“Ukraine and Alaska - Russia Never Again!”

(🎥 Ostap Yarysh)

Cabinet Minister Dismisses Nigel Farage's Plea For Reform Peers With 1 Brutal Comment Defence secretary John Healey gave Farage pretty short shrift.

Cabinet Minister Dismisses Nigel Farage's Plea For Reform Peers With 1 Brutal Comment

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cabine...

Let's not forget what really broke Britain, & no its not immigration.
The Tory years- two tier Britain
Thousands of children live in poverty
Millions live in food insecure households
Poor pushed into private renting
Youth clubs & libraries closed down
Job insecurity
Brexit
Court backlog

Compare Trump with President Carter

'Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control will be regarded as an assault- such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

President Carter 1980 🇺🇸
#Afganistan

Kick off from 5pm today.
Free to air on both ITV and BBC

Homes evacuated as wildfires rage across Greece A severe heatwave, reaching temperatures of up to 44C, has sparked blazes, including in the suburbs of Athens

A severe heatwave, reaching temperatures of up to 44C, has sparked blazes, including in the suburbs of Athens

Extraordinary how much of the media is essentially trying to incite rioting now. Not just legitimise or normalise but actively encourage. It is, of course, unlikely to kick off anywhere near them.

“Oh my goodness gracious… Republicans can’t win with this number in the midterms…”

Trump doing worse on inflation with independents than even Biden did

(This is why they are stealing seats in Texas)

Nigel Farage wants to be taken seriously, but can’t stop ... Reform UK sells itself as more than a one-trick party. But its leader can’t quit fearmongering about immigration

Reform presumably think that apocalyptic demagoguery plays to their political advantage, but this is Trump-like “American carnage” stuff. Not at all British
Britain has many problems but reluctant to make as PM someone who plays with fire'
Andrew Rawnsley - Observer UK
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