Maire Davies

Nigel Farage takes significant stake in Kwasi Kwarteng’s Bitcoin company Farage’s investment in crypto company Stack, headed by executive chairman Kwasi Kwarteng, comes after Labour asked the Electoral Commission to investigate crypto donations to Reform UK

So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business.

And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections.
He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.”

These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

same as it ever was

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

This is an important thread for anyone who cares, not only about archive research, but BBC accountability.

This is what Reform, the Tories and the vast majority of the media seems to think we should be getting involved with.

As was the entire project of colonialism

When Brexit was slammed for being an act of pure prejudice, all the Brexiters howled about ‘sovereignty’ and ‘taking back control’.
Now, the very same people howl that we should just obey Trump and put our country in the firing line.
They lied about everything. All of it. Every single part.

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

How long should it take to confirm whether the US bombed and killed over 170 people, mainly girls in an Iranian school? It can’t be that difficult. And why isn’t this leading every news outlet in the country? It’s utterly shameful.

A juxtaposition for the ages…

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

If it’s a human-language-speaking conscious being we definitely can’t OWN IT or CHARGE ANYONE TO USE IT. It cannot be HELD by a corporation.

Right-wing media, Reform and Tories all betrayed us this week. They couldn’t bring themselves to back the govt or our country because it would mean putting their nasty, point-scoring, twatty politics aside for the greater good. They exposed our post-Brexit weakness and their own toxic incompetence.

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Churchill would be appalled by the kinds of things Donald Trump says and does. But Fleet Street is happy to ignore history for the sake of some political point-scoring, writes Alan Rusbridger

“You’d think he’d be busy monitoring the wildfire consequences of the war he’d just started. But, no, he entertained himself by slagging off the British leader to any British journalist who’d listen.”

And they did more than listen. They disgraced themselves.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

For those who wonder why some of us focus on the Trump/Russia connections in the Epstein Files, just follow the evidence

Senator Whitehouse does a great summary here www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

You can view all the clips from the DOGE raid on USIP that I uploaded—which were obtained via my FOIA lawsuit against DC Metropolitan Police—here: www.youtube.com/@marisa_kabas

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

The Brexit papers back Trump in his war of words with Starmer Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president

Right-wing press seem very concerned that the UK is not "unquestionably subservient to a mad American president".
Strange - thought they were all for us 'taking back control'.
That's patriotism for you.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images f...

"...killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls."

"mass casualty event"

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Reassuring to know that professional journalism in the UK is still expected not to just make stuff up. Or at least, not to be obvious about it.

I see the ‘patriotic’ parts of the press are delighting in a US President having a go at the PM.

I’m struck by how every day the admin is like “whoever could have foreseen these consequences?!” when the consequences thus far — evacuations, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, rise in gas prices, etc. — are all the literal most obvious consequences.

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Agreed, it feels astonishingly wrong-footed and seems mostly fuelled by the endless editorial need to batter Starmer rather than a correctly assessed desire to launch a Christianity-tinged warband on Iran.

Also, haven't we learned yet that being praised or condemned by Trump means less than nothing? He says the opposite three days later. It's of no consequence.

Bernie's new billionaire wealth tax would raise $4.4T from the super-rich over the next decade.

That's more than enough to reverse Trump's Medicaid cuts, raise teacher pay, make childcare affordable, and build millions of affordable homes.

And guess what? The super-rich will still be super rich.

I was on BBC last night, following a clip with voices from Iran. All the selected voices welcomed war, saying they cheered every time they heard an explosion.

Those views exist. But when you ONLY air those voices, you are doing war propaganda.

And I told BBC that live on air.

Few people read my 2nd novel A Touch of Love, perhaps put off by the Mills & Boony title. Written 40 years ago, the backdrop is a British PM (Thatcher) allowing a US president (Reagan) to use UK bases for airstrikes launched to effect regime change in a Middle East country (Libya). We're on a loop.

Britain's 'patriotic' press cheering on the latest attacks on us by a hostile foreign leader