“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I would be so happy

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

From 6 years ago...

In the same week that new revelations broke of Farage’s long history of outright racism, & a court found one of his closest associates literally in the pockets of Vladimir Putin, senior commentators still pretending this is a man who we should somehow take seriously as the next PM of the UK

Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this "peace plan" was written by Russians or Americans?

In plain terms, the United States aligned itself with Russia against Ukraine and NATO. By transmitting Moscow’s surrender terms unedited and pressuring Kyiv to accept them, the Trump Regime effectively sided with Russia in the war and attempted to force Ukraine’s capitulation. It is betrayal.

Multiple allied intelligence officials have warned that Donald Trump’s handling of classified material has created an ongoing risk that sensitive information given to the US will end up in Moscow. Several allies have now limited, sometimes stopped, what they share with the US.

Thought for the day.

A traitor. Just like his boss who will hopefully face the same justice some time in the future The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements while a Member of the European Parliament.

🔴Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network The sentencing of Reform UK’s former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison opens the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network infiltrating European politics, reports Peter Jukes bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

Only with independence Scotland would go from the most expensive electricity in Europe to the cheapest talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/20/o...

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era. Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."

Ukraine has fully rejected Trump’s proposed peace plan on the basis that the plan is dumb as shit.

Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded inews.co.uk/news/politic...

This is not a love song

The Economist reveals the US Russia plan given to Zelensky is essentially a capitulation demand. It calls for a 40 percent cut to Ukraine’s army, more territorial losses, bans on long range weapons, no foreign troops, restored Kremlin linked institutions and even restrictions on diplomatic flights.

WTF 🤬 Federal agents are using chemical aerosol spray on protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota.

UK consumers, beware: AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Copilot are dishing out bogus financial advice, from breaching ISA limits to pushing shady tax refund firms. Lives at stake with outdated tax codes and contract pitfalls. #AIEthics

Poland's deputy PM calls out Russia for rail sabotage, with clues pointing east amid hybrid threats like blasts and disinformation. A device near the site hints at spying on the chaos. #RussiaInvades

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Test vehicle launching to ‘the edge of space’ from Nova Scotia next week halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/14/t... Maritime Launch Services, behind Spaceport Nova Scotia in the Canso area, is partnering with a company from the Netherlands, T-minus Engineering

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.

The purpose of probation is to protect the public. It does so by managing the risk of offenders committing further offences. But an unstable system with demoralised staff is undermining rehabilitation. J J Jackson reports

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

Talent is everywhere, opportunity isn’t. In this letter to the editor, a former teacher reflects on her pupils’ hopes, and the barriers some will face ⤵

Just think of the stupidity involved to pay this sum, plus £30/40 billion a year, just to make yourself poorer and make things more difficult for your citizens and business Right-wing press in meltdown as post-Brexit payments to EU set to pass £50billion

Lovely. 👏👏👏

Authoritarian power thrives on isolation by keeping people fearful, ashamed, & dependent on false saviors. Heather Marsh exposes how reclaiming connection, creation, & shared purpose restores agency. Collective resilience, not obedience, is the true revolution against control. #3E #BindingChaos

Russia is in shambles, there is no road for recovery, as a state it has collapsed, the thing keeping it together is violence by the regime. As oil infrastructure continues to be destroyed, petroleum will be replaced by the blood of the youth Putin and his Nazis keep sacrificing.

Shocking ONS revelation: nearly 30% of adults in England and Wales endured childhood torment, tallying 13.6 million scarred souls, with emotional cruelty topping the list at 22.7%. Women bear the brunt, especially in sexual violations. #ChildAbuse

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.

Newly released footage captured by the dashcam of a truck driver, showing today’s crash of UPS Flight 2976. 🕯️All 3 crew members and at least 4 people on the ground were ki//ed; 11 others on the ground were injured.

The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

Sorry for over-posting! I’m sick in bed & I’m so happy about tonight I can’t stand it! I have so much hope for the future. Tonight speaks volumes about the grassroots efforts, activism, & protests, around the country working to get us more engaged in our own governance. This is the way.

Apparently people actually like being able to work, see a doctor, send their kids to school, & not watch their neighbors get kidnapped or their own cities become occupied by their own military. Turns out stability & dignity aren’t radical ideas.

New York's audacious mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani brazenly taunts Trump amid his landslide triumph, decrying the tyrant's divisive rot while Democrats seize California redistricting, Virginia, and New Jersey governorships. #BlueWave

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Laure Ferrari, Nigel Farage’s girlfriend, was manager of the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE). EU's anti-fraud office Olaf has been investigating their funding and its ties to a European Parliament alliance led by UKIP.

The party who claim to be patriots literally had a Reform leadership member caught red handed taking bribes from Russia. This article details the speeches Nathan Gill gave that he was paid to give. How are Reform getting away with this? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Only full abolition of two-child benefit cap will substantially cut poverty, thinktank says Half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates, Resolution Foundation analysis finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In case you missed it ... This is the "preamble" or introduction to the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights. It perfectly sums up the whole beauty of the European idea. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺🕊

* Corruption Pecksniff can’t publish: Tory donor gets rich off asylum contract * Polls show fears over immigration are media-driven, not real-life * Tory HQ loses contact with 1 in 5 local parties Read this and more in the latest diary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social