Bob Brick

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?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

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Become unmanagable.

When Sir Jim Ratcliffe Plays the Colonised As someone raised in a country shaped by British colonial rule, I know what domination looks like. Migration under UK law isn’t it.

As ever, Bear asks the questions our media continually fail to and exposes the insidious and ludicrous ‘logic ’ of people like Ratcliffe: open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...

If the planet was being trashed to make plutocrats happy, that'd be terrible, but at least someone would be happy about it.
But these people are incapable of happiness. The planet is being trashed to make people who are incapable of happiness feel nothing.
Also, a lot of them seem to be pedophiles.

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

The Vetting Myth Understanding the realities of Mandelson's pre-appointment checks

A fair amount of nonsense has been written and said about the "security vetting" process for Mandelson's appointment. I wrote about what "Developed Vetting" really involves and why it's perfectly possible that it found nothing useful about Mandelson.

arthursnell.substack.com/p/the-vettin...

Against a corrupt, exhausted, unlucky Government, which under-estimated the threat from Reform, trying for its fifth General Election in a row, Morgan McSweeney delivered 33.7% of the vote. And he then made Starmer the most unpopular PM ever. That's the measure of the man's 'genius'.

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

YouTube video by Larry & Paul BREAKING: “Justice Served” In Epstein Case - #BrokenNews

Latest from #BrokenNews; now the Epstein thing is definitely over, more over than last time it was over. So over there's no need to look for anything more. It's over-over.

Brought to you by @larryandpaul.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEHe...

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take Mark Kermode reviews Melania

My God.....Mark Kermode did see Melania....🔥

I can understand being outcompeted by an innovative tech solution that does the same job better, but one that not only doesn’t do it as well, but doesn’t do it at all?

Yeah. I’m going to destroy old media by getting all my news from my Breville sandwich toaster. Don’t be a Luddite. It’s the future.

If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? The disgraced financier with powerful associates Jeffrey Epstein died in prison waiting for his sex trafficking trial - but who was he?

Bravo BBC.
A whole article on Epstein that doesn't mention Israel once.
That must have taken some mental gymnastics by the 'journalist' who wrote it.
They're laughing at us.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

hello yes i would like a shitty person to experience a consequence?

idk man fucking any of them surprise me

yes i'll hold

Mandelson’s Fifth Column The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

In case this goes over some heads, the 'black and tans' were Britain's paramilitary police in Ireland during the War of Independence.

After years of burning out whole towns and murdering innocent people, many went straight to Palestine to do the very same, preparing the way for Israeli takeover.

Guy who did Dry January

Oh but of course Marc Hauser was an Epstein pal. A fraud who faked his data. One of my very first R4 docs was on him and his work, on the evolution of morality. Other Harvard colleagues refused to comment, one trembling with fear when I asked him.

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org.

www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

One day, we in the UK will return to not knowing the names of the US health, Defence, Homeland Security secretaries, the White House spokeswoman, the Head of the FBI and countless others.
Hope it's sooner rather than later.

That frog's coming up to a nice rolling simmer...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice My First Time Hearing Rage Against The Machine!

I was chasing sadness yesterday. Now I’m chasing rage. I am watching an opera singer react to and explain how awesome this song is. I recommend:

youtu.be/LWUEL6ecqlM?...

Caption should read: Americans, stop being assholes in the name of god when it’s patently obvious that he hates your guts?

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs.
More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to
vote Green or Lib Dem.

0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.