You have to admire the chutzpah of the BBC’s response to the Trump lawsuit www.ft.com/content/d2a0...

Listen and weep. The system is so rigged in favour of the wealthy podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Farcical and disturbing case. When you seek asylum, you don’t expect to find yourself speaking to a representative of the regime you fled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Interesting proposition - I find it hard to disagree. Companies shouldn't be able to internalise the savings/profit and externalise the costs. Chinese Economists: Make AI Pay for the Jobs It Replaces open.substack.com/pub/fredgao/...

China has been tightening the noose on Europe for years. It may be too late www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nothing at all to do with the bond market …

Gloves are off! Is the EU finally growing a pair? Interesting view that Made in China was not protectionist but EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act is.. 🤔Why the EU and China could be heading for a trade war www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

'Rule Britannia' 'Unite the Kingdom' 'Account based in Thailand'... 🤔

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

The New York Times just won a Pulitzer prize for reporting on Trump's business interests, including crypto www.pulitzer.org/winners/staf...

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

Let’s call this bull**** out TOGETHER The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...

<checks out the window for other signs of the apocalyspe> But, seriously, if someone like this can look at the figures and see what they contain with crystal clarity, the only reason for this not happening on mainstream legacy programmes must be by choice. This is not a party on its way to power.

If Streeting is the answer, Labour hasn't understood the question.

This is frightening www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

Meta is just one shitty company giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Meta and Zuckerberg sued by publishers over ‘massive’ copyright infringement

Great thread

This could mark the start of a major shift for global commodity pricing. BHP Shifts to Yuan-Based Pricing in Deal With China State Buyer www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-22/b...

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Bannon referred to Orban as "Trump before Trump." Well, Orban is gone. MAGA is next.

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Lmao: “We choose to go to the Moon because it is so easy now. They wanted me to go with them. I would have been a great astronaut, maybe the best ever. I wanted to go but they begged me, ‘Mr President, we need you here to open up the Fuckin’ Strait.’” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Another day, another abuse of power from the Trump administration.

If only European governments had had this kind of foresight and done some planning. This Is Not China’s War, but Beijing Started Preparing for It Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Sadly, I think @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com is right. I can totally imagine an aging, desperate Trump deciding to “go out” in a “blaze of glory”. I wrote exactly that here that the nuclear taboo was another core element of world order which Trump is upending bylinetimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

Everyone should be very worried by the rightwing take over of mainstream media in the U.S. Must-read article from Oligarch Watch open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

Colin Powell told George Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war: "You break it, you own it". Trump's Iran message to allies in Asia and beyond is: "I break it, you own it". Good Evan Feigenbaum on how Trump's war could prove a disaster for US Indo-Pacific ambitions carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

Wonderful read. Inspirational story about a man who never gave up chasing his dreams. From self-taught racer to founder of ZXMOTO, Zhang's journey serves as an inspiration for Chinese firms aiming to get a foothold in high-performance motorcycle manufacturing. www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-03/i...

"War is not a game show; peace making is not a real estate deal; the world is not a casino”, UN official tells Trump. About time someone told that orange buffoon but shame governments are only now standing up to him. It's too late - the damage has been done www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

PM of Poland

So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...

We study NHS GP practice closures in England: nearly 1,700 practices closed since 2013, directly affecting 600k+ patients. Using a staggered DID design, we find that closures reduce patient satisfaction AND increase support for populist right parties (UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK) by 2–4pp.

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to people briefed on the discussions. www.ft.com/content/d304...

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

UK growers warn of cucumber and tomato shortages as gas prices surge ft.trib.al/2v3GZk2

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week. Is it time the NHS did the same? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

The answer to this is to overhaul our unfair tax system to make it more progressive, and close loopholes that allow the wealthy and the financial sector to pay less tax

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is terrifying. They will get slaughtered by Iran

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

Kemi Badenoch on the Laura Kuenssberg show is doing a great job of pretending oil and gas from the North Sea will be 'ours' and will bring bills down and increase energy security. Rather than be sold on the global market and be mainly exported.

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to join a massive “No Kings” demonstration against Donald Trump, which organisers promoted as “the largest day of protest in US history”. ft.trib.al/mZDgCS2

Donald Trump’s willingness to attack adversaries while rattling allies is threatening to push the world into a new nuclear age. Now governments are debating more publicly than before whether they, too, must get the bomb. Read more: bloom.bg/4bCpZbY 📷️: Stefanie Hauck/US Navy

Interesting: BBC mobile app has a report about the #NoKings protests in the U.S. on its front page but still no report about the massive anti-far-right protest in London yesterday. Funny that. No Kings protesters across the US rally against Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Agathe Demarais for ECFR: Why China, not Russia, could be the real winner of the Iran war – ‘With the Gulf and Iran now out of the equation, Moscow’s reliance on Beijing could deepen.’