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Whose inauguration? What?

Let’s decode this: “The Kremlin wants a compliant Ukraine so it can steal its natural resources for oligarch gain, own its Crimean beaches so oligarchs can vacation there, and demolish its government so the Kremlin rules by proxy. This is what it wants for Ukraine — but also for the Baltics, Europe

There’s more to the Epstein Bannon Farage connection than this. Epstein was actively guiding Bannon how to secretly finance ‘The Movement’ — a right wing pan Europe organisation in concert with Farage — set up by his partner Laure Ferrari 👉 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

It's not sex offenders who upset Nigel Farage, it's brown people.

They really do live in a fictional world of the worst kind. It's funny when their disinformation bubble pops

Remember Starmer's "urgent" review into foreign interference after Nathan Gill? Well, there's already two ex-UK ambassadors working in Westminster on behalf of a pro-Russian foreign government whose de facto leader is under UK sanctions... New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ex-uk-amba...

So after the Conservatives spend years accusing Keir Starmer of betraying Britain in his work as a former Human Right's lawyer, Kemi Badenoch's own Shadow Attorney General in the Lords takes a job representing a sanctioned Russian oligarch

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The question is: how did the minority gain such power as to do harm?

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

Trump heralded his ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza as dawn of new era but the slaughter continues

Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

At some point maybe moderate Republicans have to say... something? Around the time the president is renaming buildings after himself, or when he accuses the New York Times of being THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE?

Mark my words, the numbers are bigger. Just like in Franco’s Spain, Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy … Inmates suffering from terminal conditions were released before dying to keep the books tidy

Fine: "I'm talking to my colleagues about whether we want these fake Somali refugees - who come to our country, add no value, suck our resources, defraud our govt - whether we actually want them here. I don't think Ilhan Omar shouldn't be a member of Congress - I think she shouldn't be an American"

This is pretext. Trump’s been obsessed w/wind turbines for decades, which began after Scotland put some in near his golf course. He sued the govt & lost, which is why he claims they cause cancer, mental illness in whales, bird extinctions, etc. Welcome to the 19th century. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Two Palestine Action activists on hunger strike while in prison have been taken to hospital 🚨

is this "free speech campaigner Bari Weiss" or a different one? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warns that China and Russia could coordinate attacks on Taiwan and Europe. He believes if China acts militarily, Russia, its junior partner, won’t hesitate to divert the West’s attention by escalating in Europe. “We must be prepared,” Rutte stressed.

Russia's disinformation campaign is currently claiming Nick Reiner killed Rob Reiner because he supports Ukraine and bad news from Ukraine triggered "Ukraine Syndrome". I assume this is found in the same medical textbook as "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and "Russiaphobia".

“The White House’s dead-eyed shark has monetised his presidency so well that he can pay whatever it costs to discredit institutions that may threaten him.” Stewart Lee this week on Trump and the BBC lawsuit.

Reform's Chris Parry tweets "unfulfilled" to signal that he in 2025 still seeks to fulfil Enoch Powell's 1968 call for the mass repatriation of migrants + minorities from Britain. This was in response to criticism of his telling David Lammy to "go home" & questioning Lenny Henry's loyalty to Britain

“Russia has decided that the UK is Russia's enemy, and there's nothing we can do to change that as long as Putin is in power. The choice is whether to be an undefeated enemy or a defeated one. That's all the choice we get.”

Far right scum have been out harrassing the homeless on the streets & they are proud of it. The folks at @calaisappeal.bsky.social are doing everything they can to stand up to the hate 🙏 please stand with us 🙏 www.youtube.com/shorts/bxFVG...

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No need for electoral reform. Really?

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

A bribe masquerading as a movie.

Similarly, Reform UK has consolidated the British/right vote Reform's rise is at the expense of the Conservatives, not Labour! These trends are similar to the rest of GB, as Labour are mostly losing voters on their left flank - what's specific to Wales is that Plaid is now seen as the best option

RIP "American wars are not about oil" 1990-2025

Feels like the right day to repost this brilliant tweet from @lewisgoodall.com #Trump #BBC #EpsteinFiles #CauseAndDeflect

“Europe no longer lives on a convenient timeline. We need a strategy now. If the West does not formulate its doctrine for Europe’s future, Putin will formulate it for us.” www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

The Scottish govt has dropped plans to lower the national speed limit on single carriageway roads to 50mph because it was unpopular. It's a govt's job to do what's right, not what's popular. Reducing the limit would have reduced danger and KSIs in those roads. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The West Midland Police threatened to arrest me for criticising the Reform Party, after I reported a threat to my life.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.

Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.

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The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...

Hereditary peers made the difference to block the Employment Rights Bill this week… 33 Tory hereditary peers voted - we lost by 24 Disgraceful Millions of low-paid workers may be denied sick pay by people who owe their positions to who their dad and grandad was

The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Also unquestioningly repeating this line, despite people who sign up to Reform not having to confirm they are UK citizens, as is required for membership to other parties…..