Days after Gabbard purged the CIA. And the FBI is also a goner. This is beginning to get slightly worrying
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Days after Gabbard purged the CIA. And the FBI is also a goner. This is beginning to get slightly worrying
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And less western say on how they're used.
Telling that you only get questions like this from regional BBC journalists, as opposed to the "are you also frightened asylum seekers will assault your daughters, PM?" questions now levelled by their national colleagues
Stay safe
Just lunacy for Labour to think that UK's problems can be solved while keeping their manifesto promises intact:
I see Zack Polanski won the Green Party leadership.
Excellent london elections update. Knowing esp all the good work the Wandsworth Labour Council has done for poor & vulnerable communities it's pretty sad the shoeing Labour councils will get next year due to the national party. You can only hope the message is received (and interpreted correctly..)
US sliding towards 1930s-style autocracy, warns Ray Dalio Not the guy i had expected to speak up but at least someone from hedge/PE world has “And by the way, during such times most people are silent because they are afraid of retaliation if they criticise.” www.ft.com/content/b86b...
have not just capitulated but seem to be aiding their framing and ideas, and why the law and regulation is not being upheld by say Ofcom or EHRC, and what is the way to changes these things.
Agreed. Think Stephen is right it's all in the balance, the need to fight, but like, it's not unreasonable to ask for an analysis as to why institutions of the c right (Tories/Times) or c left (BBC/Labour) you'd expect (for their own existence if nothing else) to uphold norms on racism/far right 1/2
Loomer is pregnant
Be the difference and post here. Its the only way to change things, x isn't changing.
Seems like bluesky is more a leftist echo chamber for the US vs UK accounts but twitter isn't a right version, its a fascist/far right owned and promoting site that's clearly cooking people's brains. It's pretty obvious from outside.
Its time to ensure the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities in Britain – about a concerted effort to dissolve foundational social norms against racism + deny our status as equal citizens – are heard too We should *reject* excessive pessimism about pushing bsck www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
Be interesting to read what Magyar needs to do to avoid regime-holdeovers screwing him like PiS has managed in Poland.
Is...this how Stefan Zweig felt?
It's pretty unbelievable how little coverage Trump's absence has gotten. Nothing on newspaper front pages even after 6 days! Especially after all the US journos saying how they should have done better with Biden. My 101 yo gran looked better than that a week before she died.
Whereas at this point last year they were accelerating
It's (still) happening
Jack Ass
NEW: Bluesky is becoming place to discuss scientific research - it gets more proper engagement & attention, new study finds. For all the talk of decline - borne out by several metrics - the science community seems to have adopted Bluesky more than others. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
every pic of trump looks like this now
Another govt. minister (and general good egg) posting here - give her a follow!
I do now intend to pursue that when there is new leadership. It will be useful to have allies and a coalition of people with experience of reporting egregious unlawful content & seeing it defended X impeding police investigations on identification of unlawful content is a further strand here
It could hardly be clearer that X is in breach of its Equality Act duty tp provide an equal service to minorities, when broken complaints system invariably defends endemic unlawful hate crimes Its what Labour under Corbyn got done for: no adequate mechanisms for complaints But the EHRC is asleep
We may not think we're at war with Russia, but Russia is at war with us www.ft.com/content/3c33...
Important read 👇
Norway said it had chosen Britain as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates in its biggest ever military investment, in a deal worth some 10 billion pounds ($13.51 billion) to boost the Nordic country’s maritime defense. https://cnn.it/4fYdYhq
Trumps tariffs on India, ostensibly for Ukraine although we now know Trump had more personal reasons, are totally stupid and strategic madness and no supporter of Ukraine should be afraid of saying so.
Looks like at least one hit on the bottom left building?
This is a massive win for the UK.
The UK and Norway have signed a £10 billion defense deal to supply the latest Type 26 frigates. 🔗Read more: militarnyi.com/en/news/norw...
📍Sopot, Bulgaria, VMZ ammunition factory. Shells are produced here in large quantities. Not only for Europe’s stockpile but also for Ukraine’s defence. 1/3 of the weapons delivered to Ukraine at the start of the war came from Bulgaria.
There's a leader like this who runs one of Europe's biggest countries. One who isn't perfect, but stands up for greater economic equality, societal pluralism and global justice. And who gets that it's essentially his government against the storm.
Useful thread that shows that despite a massive incitement campaign by far right media (Times/Tele/DM/Express etc), anti-immigrant protests have been v sparsely attended. Perhaps their readers aren’t as racist as they thought, or maybe just too infirm?
Which makes the point nicely that Remain was the Burkean choice.
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
Tracker for last time Trump was seen in public?
Yep. Why support a platform that hates Ukraine.
Good to know he's still making a fool of himself over there.
Brexit was similar. The prediction that Britain would immediately crash into recession was wrong (though the £ did fall). Brexiteers crowed enormously. Nine years later though, Britain's economy has fallen sharply behind its peers
Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-15J fighters will deploy to Europe and the U.K., marking the first time Japanese military aircraft have been stationed on the continent as part of expanding defense cooperation with the United Kingdom.
Congratulations to Janet Grauberg and the excellent London Lib Dems campaign on their victory in Camden tonight.
The Tory refusal to be honest about the scale of their Brexit disaster and associated trade-offs has utterly discredited the party, perhaps permanently, radicalised the right and raised the spectre of a Faragist Trumpian tyranny. The country risks being trapped in a doom loop.
NEW The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Hey, can you post your threads on Pokrovsk and also on Ru donor fatigue here pls 🙏
Ed Davey: Trump chooses not to end the Gaza slaughter. That’s why I’ll boycott the state dinner.
This must've been one of the scariest nights of the war so far. I know memories fade, but I don't think I'm wrong here. It feels like this nightmare will never end. We're so alone.
They're no different to Trump
russians killed at least three people in Kyiv tonight, including a 14-year-old girl. Rescue services are still working, the attack is ongoing. Just fucking terrorists. #UkrainianView
“Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Isolated, outmanoeuvred, and stalled on the battlefield, Russia is tottering financially and militarily, while Zelensky's Ukraine continues to hold the upper hand.” A good piece from @EngelsbergIdeas Engelsberg ideas.com/essays/russias-reckoning-is-coming/
Spain has a government that is not terrified of the nationalist right. If it is going down, it will go down fighting for what it believes in. Imagine Pedro Sánchez with Keir Starmer’s majority.
Whoops
Which makes it even harder to understand wtf is going on at the BBC.
The bleakly funny thing is this was both predicted, and predictable, and the government’s day one “actually this is very similar to what Wilson and Jenkins did” *also* predicted it.
EU pulling out all the stops for Sandu, rightly, but Starmer should be there too.
Happy Independence Day to our Moldovan friends and to you dear Maia Sandu. Today, we celebrate Moldova's democracy, the unbreakable spirit of its people and their love for freedom. We remain by your side on the path toward our common European future.
"The numbers arriving so far this month have been the lowest in August since 2021" - The Times mentions in the 24th paragraph of its front-page splash something which few people in the print, broadcast and online newsrooms of the UK are aware of www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This neatly shows how 1) the UK doesnt have enough P-8s and 2) the UK’s inability to air-to-air refuel is a calamity in the making. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/surge-in-ant...
Alice is well and truly through the looking glass throughout this entire cabinet meeting.
i don't think it's great that this is what's happening to conservative think tankers
A lot of people seem to have convinced themselves that the Starmer strategy is a deliberate masterly inactivity. It's not, but even if it were, no winning government has ever gone quiet and just gone 'well, the opposition is just self-defining as extreme'. They went out and labelled it as such.
Indeed. From 2010 to 2015, would hear constantly (and correctly) that things would change when the forced choice was Cameron vs Milband, but the Cameron machine didn't just complacently assume this. They attacked Ed Miliband relentlessly.
Which I thought we all learned during Brexit. The complacency that arose in that period is pretty shocking, given it took covid and Johnson's utter fecklessness to stop things going the way they looked to be going.
If you want to fight and win a fear election, you do in fact need to be able to say loud and clear what it is people should be afraid of.
The Crown signed off on shutting down Parliament at a time when it would have caused a total economic and political rupture!
Tony Radakin has been doing the farewell rounds in Washington and well, this would be a legacy and half if he's secured this. It would unlock a lot more European forces too you'd imagine.
Would you all be mad at me if I said the dead silence about Bernie being like "yes, Mister Trump, you should get to directly control more of the economy" is rather telling about the social dynamics on this website?
A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.
Well, force it to pump out propaganda, but yes, they seem to be the most early complying in advance ever seen.
The BBC is promoting a political party that will abolish it if they ever take power.
Nice, thank you. Will do. Wanted to see Ljubljana for a while too. I might even try the 12km myself 😅
Case for faster Capital Markets Union, deeper euro-denominated markets, and clear ECB-independence norms just got stronger. www.ft.com/content/dd3e...
Ah, how was it? My gf is training for an ultramarathon and I looked at arranging a trip to the race for last week (via a stop Lake Bled) but opted for Portugal.
The reaction to the unconstitutional prorogation (which would probably have been declared fine by our current Supreme court) by society here, and current all-channels acceptance of far-right narratives suggests the UK won't be much different if someone more organised than Johnson got it.
Britain stands at a crossroads: follow an unpredictable America, or help shape Europe’s defense future.
No finer way to spend a sunny August Bank Holiday than watching the entire first series of Twin Peaks back to back at @princecharlescinema.com.
In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.
Great episode but missed opportunity to bring out the bond theme intro!
The blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social and I got together to discuss Burevestnik aka Skyfall on the podcast. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1220...
Yes, and this isn't hindsight! I was also saying this in May '16 and I'm not exactly an insightful observer. Having to lie, deny reality & whip up xenophobia to try to win was clearly being corrosive to the right, actually then winning even more so.
At some point will someone ask the bbc & sky why they aren't framing this situation accurately?
It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July. No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests
Metropolitan TV news journalists assume the UK is populated by racists, xenophobes and bigots - and report accordingly - because they get their news solely from the Mail, Sun, Express, Telegraph and Times. They know nothing about the country they cover. Thank-you for attending my TED Talk
My piece on racism for @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
The Royal Albert Hall, capacity >5,000, was packed out for this afternoon's prom by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
As it is, I accidentally happened across a protest against the Chinese embassy in London yesterday which I’m pretty sure was bigger than any of these individual protests and maybe them collectively. And…basically zero coverage.
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Chat so im in the production team for Ukraine’s official Burning Man installation this year, essentially it’s a black cloud in the middle of the festival, with very clear messages about ru warcrimes coming soon Grateful to anyone who helps promote it, been working and crashing out for very long
Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
I would prefer the word "lying"