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About people in Dubai who purport to be concerned about the rights of Muslim women living in Britain, here's a reminder
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
About people in Dubai who purport to be concerned about the rights of Muslim women living in Britain, here's a reminder
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Yesterday Justice Department released three additional interviews the FBI conducted in 2019 with an Epstein Victim.
She filed a formal complaint that Trump raped her in the 1980s when she was 13-15 years old.
Some events described match Virginia Guiffre.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating. Here he argues how massive Block layoffs signal how companies must drastically transform in the AI age. He also comments on Twitter, Bluesky, politics and journalism. And WIRED! .https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-explains-block-layoffs/
Manufacturing consent: why all the pundits & politicians proved wrong about austerity, Brexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss & Donald Trump are now ignoring objective reality, the lessons of Iraq & public opinion on the war in Iran. open.spotify.com/episode/2SOT...
Bill Clinton has a call to action at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson:
"You have to ask yourself 'what did Jesse Jackson do that I admire most, that moved me most, and what can I do right now that would maybe be as good as what he did then?' That's what we're all facing here."
Hope is rising across East Anglia. Campaigners from Herts to Norfolk are back on the streets with Brexitometers, marches and a renewed push to move Britain closer to the EU...and it's happening across the country.
The 10-year anniversary could be a turning point.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
This really is worth an hour of your time if only to be assured there are real alternatives to Trump in US politics @gavinnewsom.bsky.social a force of nature. Listen here or for full effect find us on YouTube. Tough. Funny. Really hope he goes for it
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Well @zackpolanski.bsky.social may have got the loudest cheers but I definitely won longest book signing queue of the day. Hour plus stint with the pen. Great buzz among 2000 A level politics students full of ideas and passion. Two who said they would be PM! #polecon Westminster
I dont know how journalists appear to take her seriously and dont challenge her Or get Up and leave
Have we forgotten #RenΓ©eGood and #AlexPritti?
This is the most popular piece I've written in the 2+ years of my Stop the Presses newsletter.
@bbc.s.cafe.ap.brid.gy you should really stop hanging on to every single word Trump and his little pathetic sycophants pronounce It's drama but of a very lower order and it's tiresome and boring They lie and talk rubbish
You are giving this maniac the attention he craves, you are playing his game
How Reform's extended tantrum over losing the Gorton and Denton by-election reveals exactly why they are on course for an even bigger defeat at the next general election
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-nigel-...
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform's Matt Goodwin is "friends" with the architect of Trump's authoritarian Project 2025, Kevin Roberts, and told him he wanted to import the project into Britain - including channeling JD Vance's politics (the man who loves fascist Curtis Yarvin) bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...
Viciously abused by her father, Ghislaine Maxwell made the horrible mistake of falling for a sexual predator
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The United States is on the cusp of becoming a pariah state, ruled by a spoiled man-child who is increasingly and openly mocked for his obvious failings. It only takes one person to say the emperor has no clothes to give others the courage to act. trib.al/6H5ge4v
2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Hereβs to raising the next generation of scientists, engineers, and problem solvers.
#WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #STEMEducation #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #ScienceForEveryone #JuniorEinsteins
David Frum is joined by Stephen Richer, a former Arizona election official, to discuss President Trumpβs 2020 election denial, standing up to threats, and the Fulton County probe.
Watch the episode:
Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffeβs business βsuccessβ is based on draining public money (very common among these βself made tycoonsβ)
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
So this is news to me. In the lead up to the 2018 Brazilian election, Jair Bolsonaro claimed he was not working with Steve Bannon. It turns out he was working with both Bannon AND Jeffrey Epstein.
Evening.
"One of the yearβs best books.... Just as James Joyceβs Ulysses is a love letter to Dublin written in exile, so too is Effingers an ode to the [Berlin] of Tergitβs youth...."
Disgusting remarks, and thatβs before you note this is someone who moved to (colonised as he would put it) a tax haven news.sky.com/story/the-uk...
The IRS inadvertently shared information of thousands of taxpayers, The Washington Post reported.
Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US. www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...