Captain Haddock
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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
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LibDemTim
about 10 hours ago
Novgorod Nigel doing what he does best: shilling for the Kremlin.
#Farage
#Putin
#Hawhaw
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dag
about 8 hours ago
The inescapable view that on both the UK and USA, Charles de Gaulle was absolutely right.
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It’s just about possible that a compact of free association between a sovereign Greenland and the US after the fashion of Palau/Marshall Islands could provide a solve to the Greenland issue. In essence responsibility for defence in particular would move to the US.
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Gavin Shoebridge
about 19 hours ago
Chinese innovation has reached crazy levels. This is a Yangwang U8 luxury, high performance, plug-in hybrid off-roader. I got to drive one in China and it's just out of this world. And while it 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 float, drivers are advised to take the car to a service center immediately for an automotive colonic.
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Ed Wilson
about 10 hours ago
Denmark being straight with the US: - we don't sell people - no Russian or Chinese activity in Greenland - the only one with designs on Greenland is the US - US has military access they're not using - they could do mining - put up the capital - Trump's dogsled story is a lie - we've spent €5bn
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Katie Martin
about 12 hours ago
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
about 12 hours ago
"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.
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Jonathan Pie
about 15 hours ago
"Instead of doing the job I'm paid to do by the taxpayers, I'll be earning myself some extra dosh by skiving off to do a radio show."
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Why does the US care so much about this tanker? It doesnt make sense to me, particularly given how soft they are on Russia.
www.ft.com/content/fce8...
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US attempts to seize Russia-linked tanker in Atlantic
Move follows failure of previous bid to capture vessel as it headed to Venezuela
https://www.ft.com/content/fce872f7-859a-4857-b75d-2f4656d02a65
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James Ball
about 18 hours ago
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
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How would US bases on territory of UK and EU be viable post a seizure of Greenland?
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about 18 hours ago
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I fear this is correct
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about 19 hours ago
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Skye
1 day ago
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is gonna prosecute me under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for saying something that is in the Uniform Code of Military Justice — It’s nonsense — What I said in November is the exact same thing Pete Hegseth said in 2016. This is about stifling people’s speech”
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Hello, Congress? Anyone home?
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Tony Yates
1 day ago
I missed that this had happened. What the absolute fuck is the BBC Newsnight doing giving this evil fool a platform.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjE...
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"Power is power" | Curtis Yarvin on monarchy, dictators and democracy
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjE5P2n_ck
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This appears not to be trolling
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General Boles
1 day ago
real 'bring your son to work' vibes
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I wonder who might be responsible for such a complex arson attack…
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Chris Grey
1 day ago
Even as the world changes dramatically, UK discussion of Brexit goes round the same old loops. I wrote a piece on the
@ukandeu.bsky.social
site in *2016* about the 'sector-by-sector' approach Starmer's now raising. Some details no longer hold, but the basic points do:
ukandeu.ac.uk/is-a-sector-...
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GamerDad
1 day ago
5 years ago ANTIFA, undercover Feds and the deep state stormed the capitol, got unfairly treated by the Biden administration and then was pardoned by Trump almost a year ago… If that doesn’t make sense to you then congrats because it doesn’t make sense to most of us who live in reality
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Dr Duncan Robertson
1 day ago
We sometimes forget the value of having a NHS that is free at the point of use.
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My Personal Experience using Universal Healthcare for my daughter as an American living in the UK
YouTube video by JayVail
https://youtube.com/shorts/MlFL8b335bE?si=mx7iLhmMmZ3mXPkO
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Shipwreck
1 day ago
Cuba is likely his next target….. Rubio has long had his sights on Maduro, sources say, and he was a driving force of the strategy that set the stage for the dramatic scenes that played out in the de-facto Situation Room in Florida that night.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...
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From planning to power: How Rubio shaped the Maduro operation | CNN Politics
As US special forces carried out an audacious, night-time raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Friday night, President Donald Trump watched the action unfold from his estate at Mar-a-La...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/politics/from-planning-to-power-how-rubio-shaped-the-maduro-operation
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Catio Miles
1 day ago
Interesting
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Christian Odendahl
1 day ago
That this statement has to be written is frankly insane.
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Aaron Rupar
1 day ago
QUICK: You're talking about doing business. Is this us just going to Greenland and doing deals with them, or is this us taking it over? JEFF LANDRY: The president is one of those people that says everything is on the table
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I see the latest flex from the UK hard right is abolishing dual citizenship. Do we have to tap the Northern Ireland sign yet again? Have they thought about the Commonwealth Realms?
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Jessica Elgot
1 day ago
Starmer's tweet couldn't be clearer but a bit awkward when one of the main government comms platforms literally does this as a feature now
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Peter Walker
1 day ago
Nigel Farage's visit last month to the F1 finale was paid for by the government of Abu Dhabi, the new register of MPs' interests says. He also had "meetings" there.
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Ben Ansell
1 day ago
Further evidence that Reform voters are the most distinct political group in the country
benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
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John Springford
1 day ago
To move this stale debate on a bit: Voters would understand that free movement and cash would be worth it, given the very large losses from Brexit, *if* politicians and media outriders were honest about the benefits and costs. It's the *if* that's the problem.
www.ft.com/content/0808...
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Starmer may want closer ties with the EU — but will Brussels play ball?
The PM is trying to reassure pro-Europeans in Labour that a reset is coming, but EU officials say the timing is poor
https://www.ft.com/content/0808d0cb-3104-4767-8d33-aa887d9963ae?desktop=true&segmentId=d8d3e364-5197-20eb-17cf-2437841d178a#myft:notification:instant-email:content
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Tuffy
2 days ago
Outstanding
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Jakub Jaraczewski
1 day ago
This is a story where Slovak centrist liberals team up with whacko far-right party of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia to blow up the friendship between the Slovak and Hungarian right-wing governments who, in turn, downplay their historical grievances for Russia's benefit.
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Interesting how this may cause issues between Fico and Orban
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It’s not a failure by the mainstream press It’s what 80% of mainstream press wants
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Noah Barkin
1 day ago
Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but there is no repetition of Fredriksen’s “end of NATO” line here. They may realize this is not a deterrent for Trump when it comes to Greenland. It may even provide extra incentive
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Ken Tindell
1 day ago
Not since the Trojans wheeled a wooden horse into the city has anyone made such a huge a mistake of letting an enemy in as the UK government. To be fair on the Trojans, they didn’t already know the enemy was inside the horse.
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Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-lands-biggest-ever-uk-defense-deal/
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David Henig
1 day ago
Less "spheres of influence", more outright mafia-style extortion using US power. Exempting powerful US companies is obviously absurd. Weaponised interdependence on steroids.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/06/us-exemption-oecd-global-tax-deal-multinational-companies
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Which might be exactly why some in the Trump administration would like to do it It’s a way of ending NATO without having to say “we want to end NATO”
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Be too funny if Maduro gets acquited
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All going according to plan?
www.ft.com/content/b3a2...
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
https://www.ft.com/content/b3a2763a-3987-419e-bcf1-11432f747182
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Dan Davies
1 day ago
Another example of the fact that there are very few technically difficult questions of economics; "difficult questions" are just difficult because you don't like the obvious answer
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I dont see why Trump, Miller etc would stop with Greenland. If you think you need Greenland then you need almost certainly Iceland too.
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Adam Kinzinger
2 days ago
I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office
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But Hilary’s emails
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John Oxley
2 days ago
I have a hunch that if you or I were running a website doing this the "urgent contact" would involve door rams and handcuffs so I struggle to see why it can't be slightly more pugnacious than this.
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And why might that be
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Is this what watching Goebbels was like?
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Colin's Lounge Lizards 🇨🇦 🍁
2 days ago
"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that," Kelly added.
www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...
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Sen. Mark Kelly fires back after Hegseth threatens his rank and retirement pay
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has launched administrative action against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut, which could affect Kelly's rank and retirement pay.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/05/nx-s1-5667080/mark-kelly-pete-hegseth-pentagon-military-rank-retirement
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Brandon Friedman
2 days ago
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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