Here's a real life example of how Labour's far right policies on immigration work in practice. Our star employee needs a UK work visa. Repressive regime at home, they aren't going back there. Thanks to the increase in the threshold they got a very nice pay rise. 1/

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

According to Amnesty International, Trump’s “efforts to intimidate, silence, & punish protesters and critics, restrict the press & reshape access to information, & systematically erode the rule of law are creating a human rights emergency.” www.thewhig.com/opinion/beij...

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Remember how I spent the last ten years saying the problem is the Thatcherite consensus going kaboom forever in 2008, and the entire political/media class hunkering down in a defensive circle around its flaming corpse, all guns pointed outwards? The editor of the New Statesman seems to agree.

12 Feb 1612: d. Jodocus Hondius #otd the cartographer who, among many other things, was employed by John Speed to do the engravings for The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine

Openly homosexual (he preferred the term to "gay", considering it more elegant) Italian director, screenwriter & set designer Franco Zeffirelli was BOTD in 1923 & died in 2019 at 96. He had a well-known romantic relationship with fellow homosexual film director Luchino Visconti

Spare a thought for the people of Cornwall and South Devon.

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard involves an intercepted conversation in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner. The complaint was locked in a safe for eight months. The allegations about Kushner are significant if verified. (WSJ)

Germs: actually we’re really scared of RFK Jr.

US readying another aircraft carrier for Middle East deployment: Trump https://aje.news/cqdwh3

Weird how periodically all these death penalty conservatives decide that actually we're all supposed to be forgiving Christians towards certain criminals

And he turned out so normal!

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so) The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%) www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell! maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

“Wherever Russians go, there is blood.” A Georgian man confronts Russian tourists for wearing Russian flags.

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

A Ukrainian dad escaped Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.

New in PN: We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab "Trump’s adulation of Putin could hardly offer a starker warning of just how far he's willing to go, & how much more damage he may be willing to impose, to maintain his grip on power, particularly if — as seems likely — that grip begins to flag"

lol 2/3 pollsters finding voters now think Biden did better as president are from pro-Trump house organs, Mark Penn's "harris poll" and raz

President Sheinbaum called for dialogue and pledged to send more supplies as soon as the two ships return to Mexico.

On the anniversary of Lady Jane Grey’s beheading (1554), another lady losing her head: Saint Catherine. Her hair kept growing for centuries after this event. Special! Painted 1505 by Albrecht Altdorfer.

Who needs drunk tweets when you have dementia truths:

Chiavari 🇮🇹⛲ #chiavari #italy

1/ Why does the Russian government appear to be so clueless about the vital role that Telegram plays in military communications? The answer, one warblogger suggests, is that the military leadership simply doesn't want to admit its failure to provide its own reliable communications solutions. ⬇️

PEN America, 36 Organizational Partners, Call on Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies pen.org/pen-america-...

Susanna, behind her husband’s totally fab palace, having a chaste foot-bath. Come on! A foot-bath is not what inflamed the Elders’ lust! But that’s what Albrecht Altdorfer thought in 1526, & it’s his day.

For the four people who used our guide to building a DIY Epstein search engine: it's now expanded with an AI "agentic" UI, where you ask a question & it does a bunch of research, and comes back with a response, linking to documents. When it's good it's very good:

Executed (alas!) OTD in 1554, Lady Jane Grey. Those crazy Tudors! Always executing people.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

This is Dorian. He refuses to come inside from this rainstorm. Just really wants his mom to watch him jump in puddles. 13/10 good job buddy (TT: kirstengarrison)

UNBELIEVABLE WARMTH IN SPAIN 3RD CONSECUTIVE TROPICAL NIGHT Never happened in winter in European history RECORDS HIGH MINIMUMS 11 FEBRUARY 19.5 Castellon 18.9 Valencia AP 18.5 Alicante 14.8 Gijon 13.0 Zaragoza AP 12.4 Albacete 12.8 Airbase 12.6 Granada Airbase 12.4 Ciudad Real

residents of Minneapolis attempting to commute to work every morning

They want to make enemies of 51% of the population? Ok. *cracks knuckles* Screenshots, left to right, from Peterson (with #Reform's Goodwin nodding along) and Fuentes.

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

In 2023, a Bronze Age sword was found during excavations in Nördlingen, Bavaria. Non-destructive analysis now revealed new details about Bronze Age craftsmanship. 👉 www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbin/news_...

The US far right's aim is to restrict suffrage to white males They're not that coy about it either

70 parliamentarians have written to the Home Office saying the settlement proposals are unfair & need a significant rethink

🇺🇦 President Zelenskyy has awarded Vladyslav Heraskevych the Order of Freedom. “For his selfless service to the Ukrainian people, his civic courage, and patriotism in defending the ideals of freedom and democratic values,” the presidential decree states.

Valentino to unveil new collection in Rome, not Paris, in a symbolic return to the Eternal City.

Just a pathetic non-apology. If your intention is to talk about "controlled, well-managed immigration" you don't spout racist bullshit about "colonisation."

I’m imagining it like this

Bear Grylls, Donald Trump and two Russian models in a tent in Penrith

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

Mr Neidle’s “leading lawyers” are correct. (Modestly prevents me from saying this non-leading lawyer reached the same conclusion last week!) 😉

China is installing more new solar generation per year than the US has installed in its entire history. Pakistan is installing more new solar generation per year than Canada has installed in its entire history. (Quote on BBC World Service overnight) #WATO

It's quite extraordinary that they thought any of these people would do a better job than Karen Pierce, who did not need to be replaced! It wasn't like there was a vacancy that had to be filled.

RNoAF flight school has record uptake of women this year (5 out of 22 candidates). www.nrk.no/ostfold/reko...