Nigel Farage has turned into the Enoch Powell of the social media age.

#AI tools that instantly generate answers are rewiring our brains to expect immediate results. But don’t get impatient in other areas of life: keep in mind that science links having patience to healthier relationships and greater life satisfaction. Read more: tcnv.link/DLxS6cU

British forces on Sunday intercepted a sanctioned oil tanker belonging to Russia's shadow fleet in the English Channel, the defense ministry said.

I also tackled the question of what meaningful security guarantees for Ukraine might actually look like back in January in In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...

5 Ukrainian emergency workers were killed in Kharkiv while fighting a fire, hit by a 2nd Russian strike at the same location, Interior Minister Klymenko says. At least 5 more wounded. Kyiv's mayor reports 4 killed, the Assumption Cathedral at the Pechersk Lavra monastery ablaze. t.me/astrapress/1...

Morning morning re-up: any peace deal to end the war in Ukraine would not be one deal, but an interlocking set, making it all the trickier to negotiate. Or, of course, Moscow could just stop attacking and declare victory...

Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra monastery is on fire after a massive Russian attack. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says

As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote approaches, the verdict on Britain’s economic performance is clear: voting to leave has resulted in severe costs for households and businesses. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Still no apology from Brexiteers who fed us a pack of lies "These estimates suggest by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment, employment & productivity were all affected" cepr.org/voxeu/column... meme via Reform Are Not Your Friends

Update: Nabiullina is back at work. She had a health thing going on - Putin did not consider to retire her. Central Bank policies will stay the same

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Minister defends changes to UK workers’ rights against costs backlash

Brexit has been a permanent tax on British growth—and some British voters “can’t quite admit that they locked themselves into it,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues. Watch The David Frum Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjOo...

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Andrei Pinchuk — the first security minister of Russia's self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and a retired FSB colonel — survived a courier-delivered package bomb at his home outside Moscow on Friday. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.

When a Ukrainian strike hit Russian-occupied Starobilsk on May 22, Moscow seized on the attack almost instantly, with Russian officials claiming that 21 students of a local vocational college were killed and dozens more injured and portraying the strike as a deliberate attack on civilians.

UK to ban under-16s from ‘high risk’ social media apps

Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK

An account of what its really like in the Russian army by two soldiers who escaped to Finland: www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/all-rig...

Reuters interviews Ukrainian drone czar Robert Brovdi, who vows to "cut off" Crimea "in the near future." He stresses military personnel and defense-industry workers, claiming not to target civilians, but he also vows to bring "the pain of war" to "the consciousness of residents."

New evidence shows a major climate shift ‘within a lifetime’ 13,000 years ago.

🟨 Print Edition — Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel Farage Met and Posed with Man Criminally Convicted for Violent Attack on Anti-Racism Meeting at a Church For 18 months, Byline Times has attempted to get to the bottom of a photograph showing the party’s leader with far-right…

Grande to Trump: "Please do not use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe and India: A Marriage of Convenience | “The Indo-Mediterranean concept can become a construct to anchor both Europe and India, and provide some insurance against the unpredictability of less cooperative nations.” Emanuele Rossi

No idea if this is true, but if it is doesn't speak well of Nabiullina. She's ok with war crimes & crimes against humanity & arguably genocide - abducting Ukrainian kids, rape and torture, daily drone and missile strikes on civilians and civilian infrastructure - but draws the line at martial law.

How did Col. Ramil Faskhutdinov earn his Hero of Russia decoration? Moscow isn't saying. Independent outlets found that his brigade runs a torture camp for its own troops in Donetsk and that he sent wounded soldiers on crutches to die in human-wave assaults. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Kommersant, one of Russia's largest business newspapers, faces administrative charges of spreading "false information of public significance" — part of a dozen press-freedom cases filed in Moscow this week. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Roundup of rumors circulating about Elvira Nabiullina's "disappearance." As usual, odds are that she reemerges and we all forget about this, but the rumors about resignation, martial law, border closures, and treason fears can't be ruled out entirely. That's life in a black box, folks.

Boys want to change the narrative, and education is vital in helping them.

John Healey quitting defence puts a time bomb under No 10. He is a loyalist: this is no ordinary departure

Upskirting, body shaming, groping, stalking, verbal abuse, domestic violence ... Just some sexist & misogynistic acts of Councillors who passed the stringent vetting of Reform UK which pretends to care about violence against women and girls "So what?" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This feels really dystopian.

‘I’m hoping to meet a river goddess’: a wild journey through Britain’s mythic waterways

Putin has signed a law allowing Russia to prosecute citizens abroad for “offenses against state interests” — and freeze their assets at home until they pay fines. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

📌 ICYMI — Andy Burnham Backs Political Donations Cap to Stop ‘Undue Influence’ by Big Money Donors — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: Prime Ministerial hopeful backs calls to stop billionaire donors from buying our politics, putting him at odds with Keir Starmer's Government

Social media companies will be forced to take quicker action to stop users inciting violence and disorder on their platforms under changes to the UK’s online safety laws www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Joint investigation finds Russia is expanding 19 military bases near NATO's northern flank — capable, once complete, of hosting 115,000 troops. NATO commander Maj. Gen. Brian Nissen says current threat is limited, "but the situation could change very quickly in the event of a ceasefire in Ukraine."

Russia's Aerospace Forces have their third commander since the start of the full-scale invasion: Colonel General Alexander Chayko, whose troops carried out mass killings of civilians in Bucha before Russia was driven back from Kyiv. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

"Half the authorial team is employed by oil and gas firms that would be the direct beneficiaries of the fiscal regime the paper recommends." @nafeez.bsky.social doing what none of the media outlets seemed to have done: actually reading the report bylinetimes.com/2026/06/08/b....

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

Investigative Committee calls second June 9 Moscow car blast “attempted killing of research and production worker” without naming target The Stelmakh Polyus Research Institute, which specializes in laser technology, is closest to the site of the bombing.

Revealed: The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson As riots spread across Belfast, Tommy Robinson promoted a movement founded by a sanctioned Russian oligarch, which has pushed white supremacist propaganda about the death of Henry…

Russia was never truly a democracy, writes Maria Snegovaya.

Israel uses war crimes to accelerate 'annexation agenda and settlement expansion' in occupied land, rights group says.

Ukraine strikes Russian “shadow fleet” tanker West Horizon in the Black Sea Data from @starboardintelligence.com showed the ship had its transponder turned off since at least June 8. The attack occurred overnight on June 10, according to Ukraine's General Staff.

Belfast knife attack disorder 'destabilising', says terror adviser

David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’