Greg Funnell

Many years ago I was asked to present a TV doc on Cathy Leroy - we interviewed friends & colleagues who knew her, even visited her mother in Paris who’d preserved her childhood room complete with various awards & published work. Sadly we never got funding. Hers is a story waiting to be told.

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Photographer Checks Archive and Discovers Unseen Image of Epstein at Trump's Wedding The image reveals, for the first time, that Epstein attended Trump's second wedding.

WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered the never-before-seen photo that shows Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding.
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...

🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?

PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!

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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.

"I am pleased to announce @Osint613 as my new Director of National Intelligence."

Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"

Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.

80 year old man: “Golden Dome!”

18 year old FPV drone operators:

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.

Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

Just incredible. 'The URL for an article about combat medic Charles Norman Shay of the Penobscot tribe, who survived the D-Day landings in 1944, now reads “deinative-american-fought-with-distinction-in-world-war-ii-and-korea.”' www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Highly authoritarian behaviour to deport lawful residents for saying & doing things that don’t violate the law. The same powers could be abused to target a wide range of politically dissenting voices with a chilling effect on free speech.

Last week, if SNL did a sketch about Trump hawking Tesla's on the White House lawn, people would have complained it was too absurd.

U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine Maxar, a leading provider of orbital imagery, said that the U.S. government has decided to temporarily suspend services to Ukraine. Soldiers on the ground are feeling the impact already.

Truly shameful. This will cost Ukrainian lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Trump, the self-styled 'master negotiator', has removed any leverage for Putin to come to the table. The only possible conclusions are either/some combination of a) he's actually a terrible negotiator b) he's indifferent to what happens to Ukraine c) he wants Russia to win.

Vance criticised after comments on UK-French peacekeeping plan US vice-president says deal is unlikely to be secured by ‘some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

Vance criticised after comments on UK-French peacekeeping plan

https://www.ft.com/content/f4ef8bdc-8534-4c3e-a82f-0af92e3d3980

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

“The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure, marking a radical departure from longstanding intelligence assessments”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fact-checking for Trump and Vance: Journalists have counted at least 94 expressions of gratitude from Zelensky to the U.S. since the start of the full-scale war.

Break the government and the spoils are tossed among billionaires

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

So has everyone got ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ now or is it just that anyone who used the phrase as an insult is an ignorant tw@?

Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent Zelensky thanks America for four minutes straight

Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war.

We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.