🔴 Sweden's military just intercepted a Russian drone targeting a French aircraft carrier in a Swedish port.

🇯🇵🇺🇦 Japan to provide Ukraine with 6.2 billion yen in grant aid. Within the framework of the previous phases of the Emergency Recovery Program, the Government of Japan allocated about $650 million.

🔴 At least 25 people, including a 7-year-old boy, were injured as Russian strikes hit Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and the surrounding region. UNITED24 Media reporter Amira Barkhush reports from Kyiv.

🇵🇱 Sikorski: I suspect Trump thought that if there were no further supplemental package, Ukraine would find itself in difficulty much faster, and the war might therefore be brought to an end because Ukraine would be forced into concessions.

My bet is that this war will end not like WW2 but like WW1 — when Putin runs out of resources. He’s already spent his national reserve fund. His last big pile of resources is the gold reserve. He started with 2,200 tons. I hear it’s down to 1,700. This is how he’s funding his war.

I think they will eventually find that, with European support, Ukraine is not falling, and that the war cannot be ended without Ukrainian agreement and without European agreement as well, because, to use a Trumpian term, US cards are not as strong as they were.

Vice President Vance announced the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” more than a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid reimbursements to the state of Minnesota. This is an escalation of Trump’s newly announced “war on fraud”. Vance said “What we’re doing is w... TAT: [Suppressing Dissent]

The end of Digging for Britain. For me, at least. But I’ll still be making television about archaeology, on other channels. So watch this space…

They support housing - but are raising the alarm on top-down planning that doesn’t serve local needs, strains local services, fails on transport, and threatens irreplaceable chalk streams found nowhere else in the world.

💷 And most crucially, legal reform can only succeed with sustained long-term investment. We welcome David Lammy’s announcement on Monday that the govt has come to a record breaking £2.78 billion settlement for courts and tribunals over this year and agreed a multi-year funding settlement.

🥇 Reforming jury trials for complex economic crime cases is part of the solution but we think the Fraud Panel model comprised of a judge & 2 lay experts in the field (as first recommended by Lord Roskill and Lord Justice Auld) would lead to better outcomes than 1 judge sitting alone.

⏲️ Economic crime trials are particularly affected by the backlog due to their length & complexity, as highlighted in our report by former Chief Crown Prosecutor Andrew Penhale. It now regularly takes 2 or even 3 years for prosecutors to get a trial slot in the cases we monitor.

🧑‍⚖️ The Bill creates the power for a sole crown court judge to hear specific serious economic crime cases which are suitably technical and where the court is satisfied that it is not in the public interest to have a jury trial. This will include money laundering & bribery cases.

⚖️ David Lammy has introduced the highly anticipated Courts and Tribunals Bill. The Bill seeks to implement Sir Brian Leveson’s reforms to address the huge court backlog which he has said is caused by “chronic underfunding”, the “increasing complexity of the system and growing inefficiencies.

Maternal death rates are 20% higher than in 2009-11. The findings of this investigation remind us that maternity care is not working for women, babies, families, or staff. These problems are too familiar. We now need urgent action to address them.

Go Hannah, turn Gorton and Denton Green. ✊️✊️ #VoteGreen

📢 *A special message from Hannah!* 📢 Reform and Labour want us to be scared off by a bit of rain. They couldn't be more wrong! *We've now spoken to over 40% of people we need to!* Keep up the good work everyone! 💪

Still not too late to come & be part of history! We are out til 10pm...

What happens when movements built on grievance begin competing with each other? The Bear dissects the fault lines opening on the right. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

The United Kingdom and Norway have signed a new agreement deepening helicopter cooperation between their navies, allowing British aircraft to operate from Norwegian warships and bases. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-and-norwa...

Here's what Tusk had to say about the threat from Putin back in 2019. He knew all too well that Brexit was just the first salvo in Putin's hybrid war against the EU. A shame so many politicians in the UK are still doing Putin's bidding by refusing to rejoin. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Polish PM Donald Tusk on Brexit, "If we ask people in the UK about Brexit" "65% of Brits they would vote to rejoin the EU" "More than 80% of young people in favour of EU membership" "Membership of the EU is something really valuable"

Judge finds Trump's IRS broke the law nearly 43,000 times by sharing info with ICE - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/irs-ice-taxp...

🚨 NEW: The Green Party has reported Labour to the police over alleged electoral law breaches after a van allegedly near a polling station claimed the Greens want "our daughters used for legal prostitution" Rules ban "heavily branded" campaign vehicles near polling stations

Lets partner with Germany to expand/develop the capabilities of their system and replace the USA made Patriot. www.euronews.com/2026/02/26/a...

Remember Yachtgate - the original Mandelson scandal? In 2008, he was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

'It ends today': Judge berates Trump admin over illegal detention of immigrant - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/diana-elizab...

The Green Party is going to win in Gorton and Denton, the question is just how big. Reform and Labour are terrified because their billionaire donors won't let them offer anything so they cannot compete with the Greens. Just smear, smear, smear.

Interesting strategy here: what we know from study of authoritarian regimes is that members of the secret police respond to the material incentives. If you make credible commitments to weakening those incentives (abolish ICE, blocking other career pathways) it could discourage recruitment.

Nine years on from Grenfell, still no arrests. Every day the tower comes down piece by piece but for survivors and families, the pain remains. 72 lives lost. The community deserves justice. It cannot be delayed any longer💚

Nigel Farage was elected to represent the interests of his constituents in Clacton. Looks like he needs reminding of that... https://www.clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/features/25889619.nigel-farage-involved-protest-chagos-islands/

Reform want to cut workers' rights.

Hannah Spencer: councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and the only candidate who can beat Reform in Gorton & Denton today 💚

20 years of seriously reduced bullshit because of this. Want this for everyone.

It should never be more cost effective to pay politicians than to pay your taxes.

If you want to give megabucks to a political parties you’d better be paying megabucks in tax first.

Anyone living in the UK, whether they’re earning enough to pay tax or not, can donate up to £500 a year (including party memberships etc) but they still have to identify themselves.

Easy enough to enforce, just need people to give their NI number or UTR when they make donations. Donations in excess of the limit can be recovered by HMRC from the political parties and refunded / offset against tax due.

My proposal for cleaning up political donations: No corporate donations, at all. Companies aren’t people. All donations (over, say, £500) must be from UK resident tax payers and limited to the amount they personally paid in UK income tax (not capital gains or whatever) in the previous tax year.

Hopkins is about to embark on a major nationwide tour. Some venues are sold out already and local councils are doing diddly squat to prevent hate coming to their local towns, theatres and civic centres. This woman is not some mainstream comedian. share.google/uaobB9avMPQF...

Greece has a statute of limitations of 15-20 years for crimes. This prosecution is a waste of time and simply a smear on someone who opposes Israel.

RT if the USA should take Tommy Robinson. He is a violent criminal scumbag we don't want him and the USA seems to be collecting people like that.

The Green Party has 2,000 activists campaigning in Gorton & Denton today. Reform has just 1,000. The Left can beat the Far Right, easily.

Otherwise known as the Last Tango in Paris job.

Excellent

Green leader Zack Polanski and Gorton and Denton candidate Hannah Spencer riding the bus just like the rest of us no Chauffeur Jaguar. This is the madness Labour are affraid of, Its time that Labour got a heave dose of reality. Vote Green Vote for Hope not the status que.

'Evans apologized and said it was the kind of “genuine mistake that we can all make from time to time.” Reform said it investigated, “considers [the post picturing Labour MP Natalie Fleet] an honest mistake and will not be taking any action,” having accepted his version of events.'