The German car industry association has issued a statement blaming the woes in the sector entirely on domestic conditions. There is not a single mention of China. The VDA recommends opening up struggling German factories to "foreign manufacturers" (ie Chinese) www.vda.de/en/press/pre...

absolutely spot on re Nigel Farage’s speech - from Tom Peck

💥 Rutte called out at last.

Farage is a waste of time; UK Chancellor Reeves “if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won’t stop him” www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

A functioning democracy is not one led by an unfit head of state. Unfit includes felon and/or dementia afflicted.

Malfunctioning trumpbot misfires on Greenland again. Rutte, always game for a giggle. New models long overdue. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Many Americans in Spain disagree www.politico.eu/article/trum...

Yes “trump melts everything he touches” but “this might even be the first significant note of Infantino’s own endgame, the moment football’s great preening waxwork power-gargoyle flew just a bit too close to the sun and began to melt inside his own blue suit” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Felons chasing the presidency the world over www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Hear hear.

I know we're all focused on FIFA & Trump & the unprecedented corruption & complicity in authoritarianism, but let us not overlook the IOC & Trump & the unprecedented corruption & complicity in authoritarianism.

More than anything Farage is 👇

Farage is doing what fascists do. Claiming the "will of the people" or "his people" is more important than the law.

Side-note: any pundit or politician who, over the last decade, has indulged this “the people versus the establishment“ BS, no matter what their political persuasion, shares some of the responsibility for this nonsense today. The list is long.

This man has taken money now from cryptobillionaires and convicted criminals and those are just the ones we know about. This is another circus when actually the Government should be taxing wealth fairly and cleaning up money and politics.

Nigel Farage is a grifter. He always has been and he's continuing to grift. He knew he was heading towards a byelection anyway so has pulled the trigger early. The people Vs the establishment?! Reform are literally part of the establishment.

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

Farage in a nutshell.

“I am the most verbally and physically attacked public figure or politician of modern times.” The disgraceful Nigel Farage. Remembering Labour MP Jo Cox, born 1974, murdered 2016.

Look I don’t mean to be mean, but I just saw *yet another* op-ed by a (failed) politician giving advice to future politicians on how to do their job, and perhaps the fact that much of UK political discourse takes place in this selfreferential ex-politico-now-pundit-circuit is part of the problem.

Bardella, bordello. The right combination.

trump is looking for the grift; he’s clearly not making the progress he expected www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Every single line in this post is a lie. That’s quite an achievement.

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

Orange felon can’t understand sport you can’t (or shouldn’t be able to) buy

It’s going to be raining moules frites inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

Evil grandpa fantasises over lawlessness

Other people are mere counters in their game. Oh whoops, you fell off the board. Never mind. Yet somehow these sick-minded people, who don't in any way reflect the attitude of the general population, come to dominate our politics and our media. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The hate is deliberate and well funded. We need to wise up and act on this social scourge

Someone is feeling lucky www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

Your Prez took his weekly trip to the blog. There is a longer term consequence to the deep strike program my troll's impotent rage reveals. And it's not been talked about much. www.patreon.com/IntheBunkerw...

Fun fact: Trump needs to use a mortician as his make up artist

What about a second No 10 in Brussels?

Burn the board?

Supreme Court Will Consider Arizona Laws Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in October www.democracynow.org/2026/6/30/he...

Strong thread re the HoL debate; “threats to democracy (now that) truth has no relevance”

Which is why the debate seemed to be the two camps talking past each other, because they didn't have a shared framework engage with the issues, but that's what I've been trying to develop with Dr Natalie Martin in my VDA Framework demos.co.uk/research/ver...

So here's the problem the whole debate was circling. The job of working out what's true used to sit with institutions, top down, to the public. It was certainly flawed, but it's not longer the case, it's been handed to all of us, on systems built to reward what engages, not what's true.

Several speakers reached for the same example without recognising the pattern. That people with no stake in the country, farm its divisions for money. Not ideologues, but opportunists, occupying a niche the system pays out for.

What we need to acknowledge is both camps are right. They're describing different layers of the same machine, both the supply and demand exist, but what connects them, the bit that decides which supply meets which demand and amplifies it, is the part neither side has a complete theory of.

This is indeed the case and it's perhaps not gotten as much attention as it should. The lower courts are bordering on open mutiny to an unprecedented degree, and it's not just Democratic appointees. The Supreme Court's perceived legitimacy is in freefall *within the federal judciary.*

Ah yes, the president always gets briefed on “very boring” things that don’t exist. Totally normal. Translation: the book is accurate

IN SUMMARY Dave Chappelle doesn’t understand AI.

Pact to Brim” Trump on his Great America Fair! lol 😝 😅🤪

The number of our governments that actually care enough to protect us from climate extreme impacts can be counted on fingers and toes: they support the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Not a single one is in Europe. www.fossilfueltreaty.org/progress 2/7

🚨🥵🚨 💀 🚨 EXTREME CLIMATE HEAT ALERT. Paris is heatwave is back to 40C by next Tuesday. These are deadly conditions, especially for the poor and vulnerable, all over Europe. And this will only get worse, due to fossil fuel corruption of our governments and media. 1/7

If any other president posted that an entire country “will no longer exist” if they don’t comply, the outrage would be deafening.

what

Commendable given the dangers of heat to public health. Brave given French people’s rejection of any limitations of their freedoms. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...