Now they just need to act boldly on it.

This is a huge loophole that you'd have thought a labour government with a survival instinct would have immediately shut. But then you'd have thought they'd have put a bomb up an Ofcom that allows GBNews...

FT exclusive A senior Labour MP has urged Companies House to investigate the ownership of a design company that donated £200,000 to Reform UK last year and has links with Iranian-born billionaire Sasan Ghandehari. www.ft.com/content/84b5...

On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.

‘The Kremlin is becoming more desperate to find men ready to sign up… Russia has long been giving hardened prisoners the chance to serve and have their sentences forgiven, but now the proposals are being made in court.’ @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/36b5...

1/5🧵 #Russia #Ukraine #Europe More and more academics like @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social now come out and saying the same, load and clear: #NATO does no longer exist. #US is Europe's adversary. Some excerpts from her brilliant (as always) piece; ⤵️⤵️ cepa.org/article/a-we...

Sanae Takaichi’s supermajority victory will speed up Japan’s assertive policies on defence and economic security. For Europe, this makes Japan a more predictable partner—but it also adds pressure to match Tokyo’s new pace, writes @ellipohlkamp.bsky.social 🔍 Read more: https://bit.ly/4rf0kve

Call me old fashioned but this is NOT how MOD should do business: "Burghart said Palantir’s MoD contract “was granted by direct award”, without competition, and asked the cabinet secretary to check there were “no other such contracts, no other such undisclosed meetings”." apple.news/AV4gdfVtNSFi...

Deep breath everyone. "Washington will transfer leadership of NATO’s Naples command, which focuses on the alliance’s south, to Italy and leadership of its Norfolk command in Virginia, focusing on the alliance’s north, to Britain, two diplomats at NATO said." Good it's happening by agreement.

Post a banger not in English youtu.be/qttGJ3il62Y?...

😡 Vladyslav Geraskevych was banned from using a “special” helmet at the 2026 Olympics, which depicts killed Ukrainian athletes…

It's a truly amazing film. Not just for the raw footage and the bravery but for the subtle and multilayered commentary about war, Ukrainian patriotism, freedom and dignity. I'm glad it's getting recognized.

Death by cold: Russia is attempting to freeze millions of Ukrainian civilians #Ukraine

3/3 This info is reported by the BBC, but buried in some remote section. If the far right was winning, 20 BBC reporters were doing a LIVE show with Katya Adler being super excited on how the EU will end tomorrow.

2/2 This is how you do it: “With 95% of votes counted, Seguro has won 66%, with the leader of the far-right Chega (Enough) party, André Ventura, trailing behind at 34%.”

very good rejoinder to a pretty shoddy and motivated piece. my main comment though is that i would not concede the idea that roosevelt — who essentially coined “liberalism” as americans have understood it — was an “anti-liberal”

Left anti-anti-trumpism and its foreign policy stablemate restrainerism, with Moyn straddling the two, must set records for academic trends being utterly discredited within such a short period of time. Just embarrassing.

And #2 with the blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social on China’s maybe decoupled nuclear experiment www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...

The blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social did 2 podcasts this week. First one is on the death of New Start www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1221...

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

>looking for new democracy >ask receptionist if their democracy is multiparty or dominant-party >she doesn't understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is multiparty and what is dominant-party >she laughs and says "its a good democracy sir" >walk inside >its dominant-party

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The reply consensus is Jared or jnr but I'm going with Bannon.

This seems like a fairly massive story.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

They made anti-Americanism great again. Even greater than it ever was.

#Ukraine is being left out in the cold theconversation.com/ukraine-is-b... #Putinswar #Russia

‼️ Russia: “The first major Russian bank in the top 10 has become unprofitable due to multi-billion dollar loan defaults.” 👉 Moscow Credit Bank Which is “closely linked to Rosneft” ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/05/p...

In Hungary, the government has cited the Ukraine war emergency to issue a decree halting lawsuits against it. This means that ongoing court cases can now be shut down by decree. Elections are coming. Judge for yourself. #ruleoflaw 👋

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My review of Oliver Bullough's jaw-dropping new book on money laundering and the vast global illicit financial system that enables and sustains it. This is a core national security threat for governments everywhere, made more urgent by developments in crypto. Highly recommend

UK out

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

⌛️ Viktor Orbán’s time is running out to turn the mood and win Hungary’s April 12 election. 📉 Reliable independent pollsters show the gap between Orbán's ruling FIDESZ and opposition leader Péter Magyar’s TISZA party has barely changed for a year. 💥A fresh poll puts TISZA 16 points ahead.💥

🇩🇪⚖️🇺🇸🇭🇺 Some news from my workplace - @democracyreporting.bsky.social is once again suing Company Formerly Known as Twitter, this time regarding access to data ahead of the Hungarian parliamentary elections.

Ed Miliband saying "all of us believe in dignity in retirement" when asked if would invite Mandelson to Shadow Cabinet was first Q at first hustings of Lab 2010 contest (7.6.10). www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsni... Mandelson later said that he found that hurtful (Nov 2010) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1180...

You cannot explain everything with this, but you can explain a lot (and the English hardo right has this too): world openness has led to the rightful proprietors of some institutional seats to be outcompeted for those seats, and so both the openness and the institutions need to die

It looks like the Republicans are conceding Texas's #SD09 to the Democrats. They're conceding a Trump+17 district in an area of Fort Worth that's been favorable to Republicans for decades, just a massive massive loss for them.

The D was heavily outspent here, statewide Rs pushed hard about this race, Trump posted repeatedly in the last day etc A >30% swing is genuinely insane Specials are weird, but I don't think you can ignore that this was the first competitive election since Minneapolis

Which is something the government of the day should have a strong opinion on and express it forcefully.

I also sense that the Beeb doesn’t care. These individuals’ behaviour is not surprising. There are long documented histories available online. There’s just a decision that these people are now part of the accepted mainstream and do have to be platformed.

Today, the water supply is disrupted in large parts of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, due to the severe damages of the energy infrastructure, also, the metro isn't working.

Don’t forget what Ukrainians are going through.

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This makes the UK figure look pathetic.

But the BBC told me that the President was pivoting to change the national conversation and de-escalating! They can't have ignored a decade and more's evidence of he truly is!

☠️ The number of Russian soldiers killed has jumped in recent weeks, which could make it hard for the Kremlin to replace troops without mobilization, - Bloomberg Fedorov said Kyiv’s forces killed 35,000 Russian troops in December and cited an ambition to raise that number to 50,000 by this summer.