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Trump is learning that the hardest part of conducting a two week war is the first four years.
Even with that, now with the orange man-child its just a massive risk.
We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
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.
About 800 Patriot missiles were used in just three days of fighting in the Middle East — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war, Zelensky said.
Invoking the NHS by mentioning doctors and nurses as being people who are more deserving whilst bashing migrants is breathtakingly cynical, frankly. Moreover, low-skilled workers also contribute, often in jobs that are not easy to recruit to:
Good article by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social
It used to be said that the one major advantage of the UK's First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system was that it keeps the extremists out.
That's clearly no longer true.
We need proportional representation (preferably STV) for the next General Election!
In the US, definitely NOT something we want here:
#PrivateEquty buying into HOSPICE care. What an obscenity, to make profit from caring for the dying
www.ft.com/content/24aa...
They seem to be intent on sticking to their death mission
Progressives are going to the Greens because of this hardline, Reform imitating, right-wing narrative on immigration
Moisei Bondarenko released another great violin video!
youtu.be/fqQqSRnqpJE
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The same James Orr that’s heading up the “Centre for a Better Britain”, previously known as “Resolute 1850”, a think tank that has some seriously dodgy plans? Now working as the senior policy advisor to Farage?
Yeah, that’s exceptionally dodgy.
This is the craziest timeline, who'd have bet on that a decade ago.
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Only 26% of voters intend to vote Reform. Yet, that would be enough for them to be elected to government. 74% of people's wishes would count for nothing because of our ridiculous voting system, but a move to proportional representation is not included in The Elections Bill.
Trump has endorsed and is campaigning for Viktor Orbán in Hungary's election.
MAGA will never stop interfering and attacking European democracies until they are all corrupt right-wing authoritarian governments like Russia and MAGA.
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.
Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’
I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ok
Fight, move LEFT, get rid of Palantir in our NHS/defence systems, put 💦 into public ownership, get rid of/reduce tuition fees, replace Rachel Reeves, stop privatising our public sector, reinstate the foreign aid grant, fund benefits properly and introduce PR
The good news continues nearly a year later.
I mentioned this in one of my conversations on Labour yesterday.
These extra costs will cost our NHS inbetween 1 billion and 3 billion pounds more PER YEAR by 2029!.
There was no vote on this shitty deal with Trump, the people most definitely are not happy about this neither should Parliament be!
His suspension book is also worth reading.
I have that one, its genuinely a good book.
Map of The Greater European Union, including Canada and the UK.
It's time to expand the European Union to include countries that represent the free world.
The UK needs to rejoin the EU, & Canada needs to join the EU.
Build up the military armed forces, and protect against imperialism by authoritarians!
#HandsOffGreenland #StandWithEurope
#StandForDemocracy
Is the UK government exposing us to the dangers of this man and his #Palantir company?
It seems so:
"Palantir holds significant, high-value contracts with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the NHS, focusing on AI-powered military, intelligence, and healthcare data platforms"
#r4today #ICE #fascism
Reminder: Reform UK wants ICE-style murders on British streets.
🚨🚨Gritty and excellent report by @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social on her experiences in #Kyiv as a shivering but resilient city under relentless #Russian assault. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
Nobody in America is safe. If Trump’s secret police force will execute a government employed VA nurse on camera for us all to see and then lie about it, then they won’t hesitate to kill you next and lie about you.
This is fascism. They are Nazis.
After Trump’s latest insults to British troops, sending Charles, Head of the British Armed Forces, to honour Trump, would be a slap in the face to veterans. Add your name to the petition to cancel this state visit?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Omg you guys light just returned to my part of Kyiv! . Oh the buzzing of the fridge I missed you ❤️🩹
