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What is Dominic Cummings up to? | The Observer Ten years on from Brexit, six years after Barnard Castle, the strategist thinks he has a plan to ‘set things on a profoundly different path’. Why does he still believe he has the answers?

The big lesson for the media and political classes from Mandelson is to stop putting these banal characters on a pedestal.

And here we are, with Cummings, saying nothing more interesting or insightful than the average X alt-right shit-poster. On a pedestal.

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I think one of the ugliest aspects of social media is how it traps some people into a 24/7 feed of watching content about crimes, abuse and violence

Pet take that counter-UAV rather than a now saturated drone sector is the next big investment opportunity in the European defence industry

The thing about the Epstein files (and Mandelson scandal) is it makes you wonder what is/was going on in all the messages between those in power that we can't see. Epstein may have been a monster, but this is surely barely the tip of the iceberg.

Is it still a thing? Haven't heard it for a long time!! I thought even the Czechs hated it?? 😬😬

Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan Founder’s extraordinary intervention has laid bare rising tensions between European governments and tech firms

Pavel Durov, the owner of Telegram, disagreed with the Spanish government's decision to ban social media for under-16s. In response, he revealed his ugly Russian imperialist mug by attacking democratic institutions and violating the privacy of Spanish Telegram users by sending them a mass message.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. has issued "Leave Iran now" alert, urging Americans to depart immediately.

Citizens are advised to leave without relying on U.S. assistance, preferably by land via Türkiye or Armenia, or shelter in place if unable to depart.

Are they really going to try and make this 'Türkiye' bollocks stick?

Que no había lawfare ni na.

“Brifín, esta gran empresa”: Feijóo visita la compañía Fribin y se equivoca de nombre ocho veces www.eldiario.es/rastreador/b...

There is something quite hilarious about various figures who have been hawkish on China bashing the EU over supposed weakness only for Trump to keel over...like this

Compare and contrast with that useless loser Starmer in the UK. We are so blessed!

Sanchez played a smart move here. Good for Spain, good for Spanish children, popular with parents, and now he's being attacked by Musk, who is hated in Spain (we all know what Musk got up to with Epstein)

NOBODY'S GIRL A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Watching the Epstein atrocities continuing to expand, one of the horrors is knowing that many of these men feel absolutely nothing for their victims beyond annoyance - they are gross narcissists who see the world as FOR THEM and to hell with the rest whatever the destruction and pain wrought

Apparently, because he goes to the office every day (a massive achievement, we'll all agree, notany people can do such an amazing thing!) we should all pay attention to what he thinks about important issues! 🙄

Said it before, but The Apprentice did so much damage by making people famous just for DOING THEIR BORING FUCKING JOB! This clown is famous for going the office every day, for fucks sake!

Pedro Sanchez not dead yet! I imagine this will be pretty popular

La fiscalía de París registra la sede de 'X' en Francia y convoca a Elon Musk para interrogarlo La medida deriva de una investigación de 2025 por manipulación del algoritmo de la red social ampliada recientemente por el uso de la IA para generar pornografía con imágenes de personas reales

‼️La Fiscalía de París registra la sede de 'X' en Francia y convoca a Elon Musk para interrogarlo

España prohibirá el acceso a las redes sociales a los menores de 16 años

"Se han convertido en un lugar donde se ignoran las leyes, se toleran delitos, la desinformación vale más que la verdad y la mitad de los usuarios sufren ataques de odio" www.eldiario.es/politica/san...

Photo of Más a Tierra: a mountainous island in an expanse of ocean

317 years ago today, after being stuck there for four years and four months, Alexander Selkirk was rescued from Más a Tierra – now known as Robinson Crusoe Island, because he inspired Defoe’s novel. The book, though, omits to mention one of the ways he passed his time: by fucking goats 🧵

The most famous man you've never heard of!!

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@aphclarkson.bsky.social Thinking last night about the incredibly niche community I grew up in, almost invisible to wider society, and I guess you must stumble on a few of these studying diasporas??

Religion does such weird things to people. We go on holiday with my younger sister and her family, and we get on great, even though she'll casually remind me I'm going to burn in hell for eternity 🤣🤣

@almagroschool.bsky.social one for you!

..at that bastard Cromwell.

(Although arguably John Calvin more to blame...)

...can you imagine Jesus doing such a thing? No popular music in the house, except three records by John Denver. Films all in black and white for the first few years because modern films had inappropriate themes.

Years later I ended up working at Parliament, and I'd always shake my head....

...like the super most famous guy in Christian music by a million miles...even the CofE and Methodists sang his songs! But then you leave the church and nobody has ever heard of the guy.

It was all so puritan. We had grave doubts about those Pentecostals, with all that clapping and dancing....

...along to a slightly modern song. That was a scandal that rumbled on for months. I used to play the piano in church meetings, but I also played jazz, so I couldn't help but drop in the odd major or minor 7th, and once, a 13th. Words were had. It didn't happen again.

And you had Graham Kendrick...

..yeah you lads getting into heaven. Presbyterian? Depends, Scottish, no, Northern Irish, yes, acceptable. What a godly man Ian Paisley was! Methodists, no, they've gone astray. CofE? Don't make me laugh, and as for those catholics? HERETICS!

I remember the first time some young people clapped....

Just saw a tweet that reminded me how mental it was growing up Reformed Evangelical in England. I saw churches split over whether to change from pews to chairs. Same thing happened over the introduction of modern songs as well as traditional hymns. So incredibly judgemental. Reformed Baptists....