A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following

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The stupidest war in history, being waged by the stupidest president in history.

Sources told @theobserveruk.bsky.social that crypto donations had “come into a wallet controlled by a permissible donor” and were then turned into fiat, adding “this makes it much harder to track”. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, "Let us say to our British friends" "If they stand ready to return to the EU Single Market with all associated privileges and duties" "They will be be met with open arms" Sounds like a plan. Who's in?

Trump: "The President of the United States Gavin Newscum admitted that he has learning disabilities." Yes, he actually called Gavin Newsom the "President of the United States" while trying to insult his cognition.

The current situation reminds me how magical I find it that the petrol already in storage tanks at petrol stations manages to increase in price in line with global oil prices almost instantly. But to decrease it always seems to need to wait a bit longer for the new, cheaper stuff to arrive.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Just beyond parody at this point

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The BS whisperers

‘Trump is a real threat to world peace’ – Former Nato chief www.channel4.com/news/trump-i...

Trump: I need to take over Greenland now, because if I don’t, Russia will. Also Trump: Vladimir will you please join my Board of Peace?

Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Leaving aside the fog horn of racism for a second, remind me, who was it that cut thousands of police officers from the streets? It was the Tories. If I'm not mistaken also, only ten Tories could be bothered to turn up to the Minister's statement on the VAWG strategy today.

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden). Think Science and especially Medicine has somehow failed you? Think again. #ScienceMatters

Fun (or not so fun) fact - the author of the “BBC bias” memo is a lobbyist for the American Pharmaceutical Group. U.S. pharma companies recently threatened to abandon the UK unless the NHS pays more for its medicines. They also donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

"... the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. 'Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.'” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Those Trump/🇺🇸new sanctions on Russia. Sounded like Trump meant business, didn’t they? But dig a bit deeper and you see windbag Trump is at it again. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-new-us...

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%. UK exports also grew. By 0.89%. That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!

If only people knew who they were voting for when they seek the easy answers.

Plotting to get rid of Starmer is a distraction and a fantasy inews.co.uk/opinion/gett...

Not that it's my news to announce but back in July 2024, the new Government promised 2 million extra NHS appointments by now. To date they've notched up more than 5 million. Bet you won't hear that on the BBC any time soon.

UK 30 year gilt yield, down from the breathlessly reported 5.75%, is now 5.51%. Not that you will hear this from all the journalist accounts who were gunning for Reeves all week. Please share.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Axelrod: “we’ve gone from zero to Hungary faster than I ever imagined”. It can happen anywhere.

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩

Quite the summary in NYT: Putin accomplished a major war goal: out of the box of sanctioned autocrat, greeted by the president of the United States as a peacemaker. He has bought time. He has defused all talk of sanctions on his oil sector. And he gave up nothing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

I just realised something reading the news this morning. Britain's average per capital income is now at 40 600 euros per year. Which means if they rejoin the E.U they would qualify for development funds. We'd be spending the next 10 years sending money to London to rebuild from the Brexit damage.

Chris Philp on #r4today allowed to get away with saying Rwanda would have taken 100% of arrivals when the optimistic target for year 1 was 2000, or about 50 a week, same as Starmer’s more practical scheme. And there was no plan in place to increase numbers, just an assertion they would.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

Unthinkable evil.

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What the hell is this government actually doing? A survival guide to a deeply weird administration iandunt.substack.com/p/what-is-th...