Latest Trump Assassination Attempt Gets 2-Star IMDb Rating For “Poor Pacing And Predictability” https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/04/26/latest-trump-assassination-attempt-gets-2-star-imdb-rating-for-poor-pacing-and-predictability/

Brexit costs the UK Treasury £40bn–£90bn in annual tax revenue. It’s "missing" money because the economy is 4–8% smaller than if we’d stayed in the EU. Higher trade barriers and low investment are the main drivers. For scale: £90bn is double the entire Home Office budget. (src: HoCL, OBR, CER).

Brexit cost this country £10bn per snnum in lost economic output, enough to build 140 new hospitals every single year. The very people who did it are now asking for your vote again.

That iphone update that might be nagging you www.engadget.com/cybersecurit...

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

President Trump has no idea who's in-charge in Iran So who have they been negotiating with if they don't know who to negotiate with? 🤷‍♂️

Massachusetts's social media ban (H. 5349) blatantly violates young people's First Amendment rights, but that's not all: it burdens lawful adult speech, destroys online anonymity, and jeopardizes everyone's privacy and security. We've asked the MA legislature to oppose. www.eff.org/document/ef...

Anyone who stands there, at the heart of presidential office, and nods smugly along to this moronic drivel, should be ejected from the legislature at speed: they are a menace to the nation.

Israel expanded its territory by 1025 km2 (462 square mile) in 3 years by invading and occupying territory in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. The genocidal state needs to constantly expand its lebensraum www.instagram.com/p/DXhM6H-DO1n/

More than half the water consumption is by chemical plants and refineries so I guess it’s fine that my grandma will only be able to shower once a month

They scanned the faces of three million people who were just going about their lawful business, in order to identify just a dozen people who they wanted. Facial rec surveillance is a grossly disproportionate intrusion into the lives of citizens

So far, on here, I have seen that Robbins confirmed that he had withheld information, that Starmer hadn't lied to Parliament , and that Robbins didn't have any "receipts" other than undocumented recitals of discussions he had with various people at No.10. Is all of this correct?

"It's for parents to raise their children, not platforms", says von der Leyen, as she pushes for an age verification app (which analysts have already hacked) to be a condition of online access. Where's the parental agency in that? 1/2

"If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake + for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!"

Here is a version for local use of the amount of officially declared States of Emergency for climate related reasons

@cultureshipnames.bsky.social ROU Right Of Passage... 😒

"A state sponsored ethnic cleansing" Former Israeli general Yaakov Orr in a detailed and scathing account of the Israeli cabinet's policy to empty large parts of the West Bank of its Palestinian population. (Hebrew). telem.berl.org.il/14608/

And this is a video filmed by the Israelis themselves showing them detonating Bint Jbeil This is a textbook war crime

This is what’s left of the historic town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon after Israel passed through it

‘We will not be blackmailed’ says the man who who said that a civilisation will die (along with bridges and power plants) if Iran doesn’t make deal with him.

Here is another great example of the UK and France working together and with the wider international community. On Friday, both nations convened 51 countries for an international summit on the Strait of Hormuz. Afterwards they issues a joint statement. Since then 14 other countries have signed it.

Primarily, we have a media and social media problem… People are - deliberately - not informed. The agenda of those who own the media is in direct conflict with the best interests of the country. And the agenda is a race to the bottom, removing rights and protections to better exploit people.

The evidence , from Reform led councils , is already clear … electing the stupid, vindictive & lacking in any common sense simply does not lead to good local governance. So many Reform councillors don’t seem to understand the parameters of their role or have the reading age to cope !

Absolutely not saying nobody else should be held to account for all this, but Mandelson for the umpteenth time is the actual villain here and again for the umpteenth time seems to be wriggling out of it while everyone else is looking elsewhere. He should be in prison, and isn't.

Ah but there is Christina Pagel's excellent Trump Action Tracker, just shy of 3,000 entires, and she's on Bluesky www.trumpactiontracker.info

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims. David Daniel has reached a plea agreement in connection with a pending charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.

If I can add to this, the eSafety Commissioner was a driving force, but the legislation and such was from the communications minister. The eSafety Commissioner has an advisory role, and the minister has to listen. But yeah it would be a brave minister who ignored the commissioner.

h/t @stilgherrian.com for alerting me to excellent work by @cameronwilson.bsky.social (@crikey.com.au) on Australia's increasingly dodgy-looking age verification policy. Obvious question for the Aus eSafety Commissioner: why did you ignore your privacy watchdog? 1/n www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/17/t...

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It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

Did the BBC assume that asylum applications, unlike every other facet of human society, were completely free of fraud? Seems like a complete loss of perspective over their investigation, which is now into its second day of dominating its headlines

A comprehensive study has highlighted serious concerns about residues from UK energy-from-waste facilities. The government must respond by strengthening regulation and tightening controls without delay. #AirPollution #Waste

23 Lebanese towns and villages were bombed by Israel while Lebanon and Israel were ‘talking’ in the US

This isn’t the occasion to debate its contents. But the TL:DR summary is that Mythos is really good at hacking but it’s a case of prepare, don’t panic. that’s a really useful dose of realism (not least because of the argument that it served anthropic’s commercial interests to hype up mythos) 11/

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See how easy it is for the security of your own design to be compromised by an element you don't control. And yet, governments keep insisting that developers compromise the elements they *do* control. It Makes No Sense.

Addressing the House of Commons today, Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said we must have "a closer economic relationship with our European allies because Brexit did deep damage to the economy". Now, these words need to be matched with a clear, concrete plan.

This is a great thread for exposing the lie that CCTV is a crime prevention tool or an aid to catching criminals. If the police don’t have the resources to investigate, and criminals know this, there is neither deterrent effect nor justice for victims. We’re left with normalisation of surveillance

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The phrase "when I hear the word culture, I relese the safety on my Browning" is often misquoted and misattributed, but the fact remains: to the Nazis, any cultural artifact that didn't serve the party's purposes was degenerate and to be eradicated. Plus ça change. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_J...

Two comments: 1 - This is commercially available spyware. If you think its purchasers only ever use it proportionately and within lawful constraints, I've got a nice bridge to sell you. 2 - Governments, including the UK's, continue to push for OS security to be *weakened*, despite the clear dangers.

BBC News - Elbit: Palestine Action activists cleared of violent disorder - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Why am I not reading this everywhere. Another victory for the Filton24 and another humiliation for the CPS and the government

Some people keep claiming that decentralized protocols don't matter, but then we keep seeing the amazingly cool projects that anyone can just *do* as a "fun evening side-project" such as building a better tool for conference videos.

Data used to justify the expansion of controversial software in the NHS is flawed, experts say, and the pilot trust’s innovation adviser worked directly for Palantir https://bit.ly/4stVolW

Israel is continuing to detonate entire villages in south Lebanon “Negotiations” start on Tuesday and Israel is blowing up entire villages Do I need to explain that these negotiations are designed to fail?

Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?

"They're eating the deck, the people that came in. They're eating the cards..."