About time. It's no better than the early years of Parliament when rich landowners, families and aristocrats literally bought their seats, and therefore the power of government. Democracy it wasn't... and isn't. #r4today #wato #ukpolitics #corruption #democracy #oligarchy #bbcnews

Go Albania. I love to see people power.

Good morning Wülferhampton have a magnificent Monday you manic monsters

This will be the first test of an new incoming Labour PM? Do they want an independent aircraft / aerospace sector or not? The government ought to block this. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

The only advantage humans have over other living things is their brain power. Outsourcing that now to AI seems like an open door to extinction...

The worst night of my life. Three people are dead. At least 60 are injured. Zero ballistic missiles were intercepted tonight. Every delay means more destroyed homes. More funerals. Dear World, we don’t need your pity. We need the interceptor missiles that save lives. Before it’s too late.

Brave and necessary

The continuing horrific pictures coming out of Ukraine, highlight the evil which is Russia, every day they commit #warcrimes. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Living in Norfolk I am fully aware of our poor internet coverage something I rarely experience travelling abroad.

Another night of Russian terrorism against Ukraine. This isn't a "response". This isn't "revenge". This is just the latest version of the same genocidal campaign of murder that Russia has been waging against the Ukrainian people since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

📉 "The Climate Change Committee estimates that reaching net zero by 2050 will cost £4bn a year – a 73% drop from its estimate five years previously." 👏 "That amounts to just 0.2% of GDP and the savings it will generate are so great that by 2040 net zero will be a net benefit to the economy."

The Forever Pollution Project, which Watershed contributed to, calculated that, even if we stopped producing all PFAS tomorrow, the clean-up costs in just the UK + Europe would be £1.6trillion. As companies continue to manufacture more, that figure will only rise: share.google/80IdL9ibxNer...

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ❗️The rocket's arrival — right in the center of Kyiv, according to local media. Subscribe to Times of Ukraine

Another 10 cruise missiles incoming to Kyiv: ETA is 5 minutes.

Cruise missiles have reached Kyiv. Hit on Varshavka residential complex in northern Kyiv. More explosions audible in western Kyiv…

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/c/1966917236... ❗️An entire wall of a building in the residential complex “Warsaw” is on fire, according to local media in the capital. Subscribe to Times of Ukraine

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/c/1966917236... There are victims of the enemy attack in the Kyiv region - OVA In the Bucha district, three people are in the hospital. Medics are providing them with all the necessary assistance. ❗️ The combined attack on the Kyiv region continues. Stay in shelters!

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ☄️ Kiev under ballistic attack! Do not leave your shelters! 🚀 Subscribe / Eng X / Bluesky / Eng Telegram / Threads

Israeli forces also shoot dead a 16-year-old boy in the occupied West Bank and kill two Palestinians in Gaza.

❗️The first "Kalibr" missiles fly into Ukrainian airspace Meanwhile, massive power outages in Crimea

Netherlands confirms it will host Nuremberg-style tribunal for Russia kyivindependent.com/netherlands-...

Good framing from the BBC "George Cottrell: Who is the aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy?" Although see it's already been changed to "'Posh George': Who is aristocrat and convicted criminal at heart of Farage controversy?" Click through and keep it up the rankings

Farage denies rules broken after reports benefits from ally were not declared The trust in uk politics is at a knife edge If Farage isn’t sacked and face a by-election, uk politics is then accepting corruption, fraud and enemy state interference in the system Farage has to be made an example

To his massive credit Nick has just cancelled an appearance at the Tivoli in Wimborne because they've rebooked Katie Hopkins

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ⏺The Russians are up to something, and right now — it's a really strange situation. There haven't been any mass drone attacks: maybe just volleys of ballistic and cruise missiles will be launched, — the radar of Times of Ukraine.

ZELENSKYY: Intelligence indicates that Russians are preparing new massive strike. Typical of Putin: right after America’s Independence Day and before NATO Summit in Ankara. Any delay with missiles for our air defense means loss of lives and it encourages Russia to continue war.

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ⏺There are already up to 10 "TU's" in the sky: the number is now no less than the previous time. Most likely, the missiles will arrive before dawn, and by this time, a "spam" of reactive "Shahid" missiles may begin, say the monitors.

⚡️Zelensky warns Russia preparing 'new massive strike' on Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing another large-scale attack against Ukraine, calling on allies to accelerate deliveries of Patriot air defense missiles.

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ⏺The launch of up to 20 drone groups was recorded from the Kursk region, according to monitors. Subscribe to Times of Ukraine

4/4 May the memory of the deceased be bright. Russia is again taking the lives of our children.😡 Destroying the peaceful homes of Ukrainians. We will not forget. We will not forgive. Slava Ukraiini 💛💙🙏🇺🇦 /Lewi

1/ The same 5-year-old girl and her mother who died💔 yesterday during a Russian strike on a residential area of ​​the city of Sumy. Footage of the girl's rescue has already been broadcast around the world. But they are too painful, so we will not publish them here...

Moscow is once again using history to sow division. Russia’s Federal Security Service claims it declassified World War Two records on the Volhynia massacre. Regional experts warn this move is a clear attempt by Moscow to stoke historic discord between Poland and Ukraine.

There was also a massive strike on Kyiv. According to Zelensky, Ukraine is already able to shoot down over 90% of Russian drones, but not all ballistic missiles. The President called on partners to respond more quickly to requests for strengthening air defense and supplying interceptor missiles.

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/NewsInsideUk... ❗️Russia used about 2,200 drones, 1,730 guided bombs, and 106 missiles against Ukraine in a week - Zelensky The President noted that almost half of the missiles launched were ballistic. Sumy, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Kharkiv, & Dnipro remain under attack.

Nigel Farage said the £5m he got from a billionaire was a “gift”. There's a parliamentary investigation into that claim. But now even more's coming out. No politician should be able to receive big money gifts in secret. I've laid an Amendment to ban it. To be discussed next week!

@theguardian.com !!!!!! Please amend your story!

👍 "Not only will the new laws ensure services are protected but it will also lift the ban on local authorities setting up their own bus companies, allowing them to run their own services to ensure that passengers, not profit, come first" 👏 Thank-you Keir Starmer 🙏 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Read the whole Times “Posh George” Cottrell, (or ‘Cotrel’ or ‘George Co’ - other names he uses…all perfectly normal 🙃) He calls Farage “Daddy”. His own father died in 2023 leaving a £1.5 mill estate to his wife, Fiona …yet she managed a £750k donation to ReFuk last year. Half of it. Remarkable.

Christiane Amanpour, "Brexit has diminished Britain" "in terms of it's standing in the world and it's economy" "The sunny uplands that Britain will make all these new trade agreements, has nowhere near made up for the loss of trade with the EU"

On the Farage revelations reason they have the potential to be so damaging is less the ins and outs of declarations and parliamentary ethics, but more just the scale of things involved seems so far removed from people’s everyday lives and make it harder to see him as “for you”.

😅 A new national pastime in Russia: hunting fuel trucks.

open.substack.com/pub/keirstar... Read it and weep people. All that hard work. All that vital work. All the flak that he bore on his shoulders without complaint. Then someone comes along when it’s starting to pay dividends and steals it from you.

I’m out. Gutted at the hypocrisy and backstabbing of a really decent PM.

'Sheila Robinson called Mohsin Qayyum and Muhammed Yusuf Iqbal her “heroes” after they helped rescue her family from a fire' via The UK Against Racism "This Leeds fire rescue story is everything the hate merchants don’t want Britain to see" thedailybritain.co.uk/where-are-ya...

Total charlatan Farage

⛽️Gasoline riot in Kuban: Russian gas stations have begun to refuse service to drivers from Crimea. Outraged people, who, due to the total shortage of fuel on the peninsula, stood in queues at Kuban gas stations for four days, staged protests.

"The sort of flags on lampposts we can get behind! Activists from Take Back Power, a non-violent civil resistance group, took to the streets of Frinton-on-Sea in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton to raise 'Tax the Rich' flags, while removing England flags and Union Jacks" via London Economic