If only someone could have seen this coming.

Danish PM says Russia's hybrid war 'is only the beginning'. It's been going on for years. Example: 2015 - atrocities in Syria, an engineered biblical exodus across Europe to Calais, a year of immigration headlines (in all UK news sites) in the year leading up to Brexit... www.ft.com/content/4c03...

Not sure I agree with this. We have them in France, they do their job, everyone carries theirs all the time, no complaints. French people I know are astonished that it's possible to vote in the UK without one.

If you want to know what's at the heart of the Sarkozy story, this is a good read from the great French investigative news site @mediapart.fr. Bien de vous lire en anglais.

The Guardian reports Danish authorities saying ‘professional actor’ responsible for airport drone attacks. Liam Neeson? Helen Mirren? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Finland closed down all its for profit schools in the 1970’s. They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years. You should cheer every time a private school closes.

Wow, this thread took off! If you are interested in wages you might be interested in this little app I've written in beta mode that allows you to compare your wage with others. Would love any feedback on it. 57.128.224.76:8080

It's just a shame that centrists who claim to be so wedded to reason refuse to listen to reason. In doing so they play a role in enabling the rise of the far right.

7. AI's climate costs are a smaller worry than its social costs.

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

80% des Français réclament de la justice fiscale, le retour d'un impôt sur les grandes fortunes. Mais ça bloque en haut. Comment se fait-il que les milliardaires soient deux fois moins taxés que leur femme de ménage ?

The new issue of Viz is on sale today, and there's a serving of intergalactic adventure with Bacon, Clegg and Beans

I'm not a flag-shagger I'm a flag-shagger's son And I'm only shagging flags Till the flag-shagger comes

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

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Motherfucking wind farms! (Also: "This is come gourmet shit")

Not convinced this is a good idea.

Israeli historian Amos Goldberg asks: What is the meaning of Holocaust memory in a reality where Israel is committing genocide? zeteo.com/p/holocaust-...

One of the big historical conundrums is - 'How and why did ordinary Germans participate in, or willfully ignore, the holocaust?' Because of course, most of them had (at the very least) an inkling of what was going on. They've had a long and painful reckoning with this truth #Gaza

Palestine Action have won their bid for a full legal challenge against the British government's decision to ban it as a terrorist group The High Court ruled that an internal Home Office process was "not suitable", partly because "many people now subject to criminal proceedings" linked to the ban

"What you are doing Israel, is very, very bad and amounts to war crimes. Here... have some more weapons." www.gov.uk/government/n...

We need more of this.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Trump Invites Jeffrey Epstein On Stage To Explain There No Conspiracy

In Gaza, 134,105 people including over 40,500 children have new war-related injuries. And 10 children per day lose one or both of their legs. globalprotectioncluster.org/publications...

Outstanding

Si vis pacem para bellum, I guess. No bad thing if we develop a more Finnish attitude. Former Finnish president Sauli Niinistö says here that security (and mitigating climate change) should be considered a “public good” and calls for a "preparedness mindset". www.ft.com/content/4821...

Well said

“You, boy! Is the media still soiling itself?”

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.  A new generation that gives meaning to the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.

Storm Saudi Aramco! Hurricane ExxonMobil!

Same goes for the Labour Party, and all "left wing" parties struggling to overcome their lack of political imagination (and balls) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Once you start something as reckless as this with Iran, how is it supposed to end (apart from badly)? In whose name are they doing it? Who will be held to account? How many will suffer?

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

Every step towards war with Iran is a step towards madness. While I have no love for the Iranian regime, it did not provoke this conflict. As with so many prior cases, no good will come from Israeli and/or US aggression.

New war, same script.

Fun thing about an American military adventure in Iran is that the President gets even more power during wartime.

Moving fast and breaking things didn't work well in Iraq in 2003 and won't work any better in Iran in 2025. The UK must not get dragged into supporting an illegal war.

The ‘bunker buster’ bombs the Americans have are called MOPs, or ‘Massive Ordnance Penetrators’, which is not remotely Freudian, oh no.

Israel is being portrayed as the victim as it launches a war of aggression against Iran. It's committing genocide, invading its neighbours, committing every war crime under the sun. Feel like you're losing your mind? Well, you're not. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it. Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants. Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

RIP to the great Sly Stone. A monumental loss. His PR just sent this out.

This film is AMAZING and everyone should watch it. Ce film est INCROYABLE et tout le monde devrait le regarder.

I don’t know who had the bright idea that a politician making a policy statement has to descend on some random factory, to make the statement with a backdrop of bored workers, but it’s an idea that should have been strangled at birth.

The right wing think tank ecology is an industry of manufactured outrage and hyperbole. It exists to create anger, frustration, confusion and bitterness. It is a ruse to undermine faith in public institutions, the better for the wealthy to extract ever more riches from the rest of us. Period