This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

It's incredible, the amount of leeway his supporters will afford him (and Reform). They're willing to overlook pretty much anything and everything because of his racist anti-foreigner policies.

It's normal to look for motives and reasoning behind political action. After all, we expect important decisions to be based upon analysis, planning, consultation, clear objectives, etc. Therefore we credit Trump's actions with the sort of thought and consideration which, incredibly, didn't occur.

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

RT if the USA should take Tommy Robinson. He is a violent criminal scumbag we don't want him and the USA seems to be collecting people like that.

And that’s the horse Nigel Farage is backing.

Turns out all the Brexiters shilling for Trump really hate British sovereignty.

Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?

The right-wing British press witness the consequences of Trump's actions on an hourly basis and, despite this, continue to laud and support him in favour of our own government. Clearly their reporting is not based upon objective journalism which in itself makes their motives highly questionable.

Today we launch our plan for Wales, putting behind us the dark days when Nathan Gill, the Leader of Reform in Wales, took bribes to do the bidding of foreigners. In other news, we have just had another £3million donation from a crypto investor who lives in Thailand...

That's am oxymoron (or perhaps just a moron).

A couple things… The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war. It is a war of choice. It is warfare without conscious. It was unprovoked. And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

You can't respond to something which hasn't happened. That's an attack, not a response.

It's pretty plausible as a scenario that after having inflicted chaos the Trump administration seizes the first opportunity to declare victory and walk, leaving EU/UK, Turkey and Gulf states holding the bag

*Puts head in hands* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!" Trump in 2013 Obama negotiated and reached an agreement on the Iran Nuclear deal in 2013

Ah. He claimed to be sending a ‘hospital ship’ to help Greenland because Greenland was literally helping a US submariner. What a hideous fraud he is.

Here I am having a holiday while lying about the government stopping me going to the Chagos Islands, where nobody can go without a permit. Still, who needs facts when your followers are thick and gullible?

Following Andrew's arrest today the King issued a statement saying "...the law must take it's course." Quite a contrast from the last time Andrew was facing the law. On that occasion Charles reportedly contributed £1.5m towards Andrew's £12m out-of-court settlement.

Elections have consequences, some more than other

UK unemployment is at 5-year high and yet UK net migration is at a 5-year low. Turns out thge migration figures aren't inextricably linked to unemployment. The driving factors are actually much more diffuse. Imagine that.

"We plan to do for the individual, what Brexit has done for the economy."

If true, Nigel Farage's claim that the real reason why net migration numbers are down in because of "exodus" of British people escaping a broken society would show up in this red line spiking dramatically up - but it is very flat indeed. His claim is made up to claim immigration hasn't fallen

Suella Braverman. This you...?

Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration. tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats. (I'm not trying to make friends) open.substack.com/pub/russinch...

French President Emmanuel Macron: “So many times we invest in and finance non-European solutions. We are crazy.”

With Farage there's always another rant, another hobbyhorse designed to stoke the prejudices of his core base. No doubt based upon focus group data, as to which issue he might like to misrepresent next. There's never a detailed plan nor a solution, simply an endless list of factitious grievances.

The Epstein files reveal the role of Brexit in a global network which stands to gain from undermining democracy itself | Stephen McNair

Turns out one of the benefits of mass deportation is low growth and anemic job creation.

Nick Buckley sets out Advance UK immigration policy of Ben Habib's party - bsn ILR & revoke aıı post-2018 grants - encourage all settled migrants to leave - bsn all work visas from India & all other majority non-white countries - ban foreigners becoming citizens - invade French waters

Standard royal damage limitation strategy: Press Office release customary non-specific 'thoughts and prayers are with the victims' statement. Demands for further comment or action are ignored. Media report and praise full co-operation.

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

“The more Trump dominates the global agenda, the better Europe looks and the harder it becomes for Farage to argue that his brand of politics would make Britain safer, richer or more secure” Well yes. The longest - FFS, wake up! - call to British voters ever… app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/08/2...

So 'staffers' can post in Trump's name, on his account, and there's no authorisiation required?

In news which surprises no-one who actually understands migration, cutting it undermines the whole economy. Even reductions which remain above the mythical political idea of "zero net" have fundamental impacts. Not least, because migrants actually create jobs. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

The test for whether sufficient Epstein documents have been disclosed is simple. Do the documents so far disclosed explain the prosecutorial decisions and defense decisions, and any court decisions? If not, there is a gap between what has been disclosed and what was before court and the parties.

The law mandates that redactions can only be made to protect victims or information currently under investigation. US Justice Dept signalling job is over. Numerous survivors' names have been disclosed in the latest release. Why so many remaining unexplained redactions and unreleased files?

The 'armada' hasn't halted the crackdown on anti-government protests and won't force a regime change. Rather its being deployed as leverage for Trump's deal, whatever that may consist of. He may be concerned with sale of Iranian oil to China but the prime focus will be on benefit to Trump.

Clearly not the cleverest but then everything Andrew attained, from military rank to partonages, from trade envoy to titles and honours, was due to him being born a royal.

Less about Brexit and more about people who can't admit they were wrong.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Europe isn't doomed to inexorable decline — and in fact is doing better than most people realize, the IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has said in an interview with POLITICO.