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Retired Research & Technology for electronic systems. Remoaner/Rejoiner. Facts and data please. Guardian reading Wokerati - don't like tofu. Views are my own, etc.

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To anyone who thinks Trump can bring peace and equality to Iran – I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Going cheap | Marina Hyde If POTUS can really bomb peace, stability and women’s rights into the Middle East, I’ll take my hat off to him. Judging by his role in Gaza, I won’t hold my breath, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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03.03.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Evennback in the day Dire Straits were an exception to the pretty boy rule

04.02.2026 11:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

28.01.2026 17:02 👍 97505 🔁 40875 💬 4303 📌 5361

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

23.01.2026 11:30 👍 2033 🔁 980 💬 62 📌 149
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As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland The US president took his bullying doctrine to Davos and hit a wall of opposition. If this creates a new western alliance against him, all to the good, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

This is the way forward.
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23.01.2026 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ben Jennings on Elon Musk’s Grok AI tool – cartoon The UK government is preparing to outline possible action against X over the mass production of sexualised AI images of women and children

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12.01.2026 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If Donald Trump thinks Greenland should be his, how long before he sets his sights on Scotland? | Zoe Williams By the expansionist logic of the president and his advisers, the US is entitled to annex just about anywhere, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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07.01.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

12.12.2025 08:12 👍 5439 🔁 1714 💬 338 📌 355
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Asked about The Donald’s national security strategy, the Commons was remarkable for its absences | John Crace You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s threat to destabilise Europe. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

11.12.2025 17:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And the Danes are world leaders in Wind Farm technology

01.12.2025 20:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

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01.12.2025 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not a customer of any of those companies and never will be.

25.11.2025 21:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Extortionate tickets and matches moved at Trump’s whim: are you ready for the ‘greatest World Cup ever’? | Marina Hyde You may have thought Qatar and Russia were tournament lows. You didn’t account for the US president and his Fifa soulmate, Gianni Infantino, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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18.11.2025 15:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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02.10.2025 20:24 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

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28.09.2025 08:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

Once a lying cheating scumbag, always a lying cheating scumbag. He should be prosecuted, fined, jailed, and made to pay us all his illegal gains. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

08.09.2025 18:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Two weeks ago, tax barrister Setu Kamal tried (and failed) to injunct me.

Today? He’s decided to sue the UK for £3 billion.

07.09.2025 10:42 👍 146 🔁 37 💬 19 📌 1

Sieving the population? Sound familiar? Othering minorities and excluding them from society and 'deporting' to somewhere without a care. Note these are not criminals.

28.08.2025 12:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In case you've forgotten - capitalism kills.

28.08.2025 12:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life

15.08.2025 14:35 👍 105 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 1

Great insight into Kemi Badenoch and her politics

23.07.2025 16:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list – and definitely no cover-up. Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first place, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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18.07.2025 11:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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10.07.2025 10:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bill Clinton, "Under Netanyahu, the Israelis have no intention of giving the Palestinians a state"

"Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office for ever and ever. He's been there for 20 years"

22.06.2025 08:25 👍 864 🔁 341 💬 23 📌 17

He sent the marines to protect the guard who sheltered the ICE to catch the kids. I don’t know why we elected this guy, perh*tackled off stage*

10.06.2025 13:59 👍 105 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 1
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It turns out reports of a 'millionaire exodus' from the UK last year were completely unfounded.

10.06.2025 13:46 👍 276 🔁 116 💬 25 📌 13
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Zia Yusuf returning to Reform UK two days after quitting Nigel Farage says Yusuf

Zia Yusuf returns to Reform UK two days after quitting.

Explains return to Farage cult by claiming he was exhausted.

Now not exhausted enough to lead DOGE style team to slash jobs, public services, worker/consumer/human rights, promote uncosted policies

What some do for the stench of power.

08.06.2025 06:49 👍 404 🔁 144 💬 39 📌 9
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Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?

Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

07.06.2025 09:34 👍 830 🔁 285 💬 84 📌 35
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Don't Make Plans for Nigel At least just yet...

New post from me assessing the chances of Prime Minister Nigel Farage - henceforth PMNF. I recently claimed a 10-20% chance of PMNF. Is that too low? Too high? This piece sets out what I think his challenges are. Not least the presence of a blond rival... 1/n

benansell.substack.com/p/dont-make-...

28.05.2025 10:01 👍 56 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 6
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This is not satire …

Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/money/earn-3...

25.05.2025 11:26 👍 188 🔁 33 💬 22 📌 5