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An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

“We live in an entirely different geopolitical world order from that which existed in 2016 or even 2022. The special relationship the UK once enjoyed with the USA is at best unpredictable.”

On the plus side at least you’re not Mandelson’s lawyer.

It’s not leadership anymore it’s a circus, and everyone’s fighting for center ring.

Days after Andrew Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Are the authorities looking into that time Boris Johnson ditched his security to party in Italy?

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...

From being the Trump whisper to being the Polis talker.

This is how it is done.

No tents. No luminous high viz law enforcers. A nice quiet plain clothes chat.

Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin's Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front – Byline Times

Cabinet Office secretary Darren Jones now spent half an hour plus trying to defend government over Labour Together's hiring of a corporate intelligence firm to dig dirt on journalists who reported on the think tank's undeclared funding Democracy for Sale's journalism having real impact 😀

Oh.

"We live in an entirely different geopolitical world order from that which existed in 2016 or even 2022. The special relationship the UK once enjoyed with the USA is at best unpredictable."

After ICE deported her husband, an American mother has an impossible choice from @bostonglobe.com apps.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/metr...

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

‘Made in Europe’ initiative causes concern for British businesses about EU protectionism as it responds to increasing global instability | Dr Irene Oldfather

Plans for Berwick Bank – set to be the world’s largest offshore wind farm – took a decisive step forward. www.thenational.scot/news/2587451...

We don't know Ron but his political and media assessments are pretty spot on. #NiceOneRon

#ASN #SEND #EHCP

Your thoughts please about the Government's new ASN/SEND/EHCP provision. Is this a step in the right direction? [email protected]

About SEND but completely relevant in Scotland as right to support isn’t really available here. Only a few CSPs and needs not met and not much you can do about it.

They also thought DOGE was a good idea - only to find out that DOGE didn't uncover fraud and waste at any material level.

Reaction from SEND Rights Alliance to the reports/leaks about Special Educational Needs & Disability White paper. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=222...

Migration is not a threat – it’s human experience. via @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

"But there’s always that nagging doubt, a feeling that you’ll be found out, at curling, at work, at life, that you’re not good enough. We boast then we cower. But you know what? Some days – most days – showing up at all, is a good result."

Please involve Special Needs Jungle and SEND Rights Alliance They are parent led and expert at sorting the Government spin from the facts, and have been doing a brilliant job evaluating the leaks so far.

NEW: Hundreds of thousands fewer SEND children to get legally binding EHCPs under changes announced. Educ sec Bridget Phillipson said plans were designed to tackle "broken" system by preventing parents battling indebted councils to secure support. But restrictions on EHCPs threaten backlash.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rothermere seems to have been a similar character: a megalomaniac devoid of empathy, convinced of his own genius, taking credit for other people's work, jumping up and down with excitement when he thought he had pulled something off. A classic case of Billionaire Brain.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the conspiracy fictions, remarkably similar to some of those promoted by Musk: the Zinoviev letter it published (which it must have suspected was a forgery), the publicity it gave to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (another forgery) and plenty of similar frothing.

... introducing ideas of universalism and equality (ie woke), making us "weak" and less "virile". It sang the praises of Mussolini, Hitler and Britain's homegrown fascists. What we are seeing is technologically new but politically old. Potent new technologies used to project toxic old ideas.

The role of Musk's X in the 2020s is remarkably similar to that of Rothermere's Daily Mail in the 1920s and 1930s. It pushed a narrative which claimed we were being "swamped" by "aliens" (mostly meaning Jews), undermining British interests and values, threatening "our" women and children ...

Some thoughts on curling, on life, on everything.

Mass deportations and stirring up hate doesn't make anyone "feel safe". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/22/reform-uk-ice-style-agency-end-leave-to-remain-zia-yusuf

Aye… of course he did. #Epstein

Only Reform UK Ltd look at what ICE is doing in America and think that’s a model we should follow in the UK.

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return ● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+ ● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000 ● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

#ASN #SEND #EHCP

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed." That's David Davis core Brexiter. Who caused this catastrophe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

And who can blame them, right wing politicians and media are a fact free zone on Immigration. This is how they want it.

Mic drop...

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