Surely having a small nation led by paranoid and hate-filled, trigger-happy lunatic child-killers in possession of secret nuclear weapons arsenals who are completely surrounded by countries they wrongly perceive as inhuman, historic blood-enemies is the real dangerous situation in the Middle East...

🇬🇧 This is the ‘bbc Shortbread’ headline article This is straightforward, unfounded, smearing election propaganda by the british State broadcaster The bbc are fully engaged in an information/disinformation Propaganda War on Scottish independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

'The bamboo plastic can be degraded in soil [in] 50 days or closed-loop recycled ([...] recycled and used to remake similar products) while retaining 90% of its original strength, demonstrating its potential as a sustainable but high-performing alternative to traditional plastic materials.'

Of course you won't have heard of the stabbed Muslim man, who was stabbed 2 hours before the the Jewish men were stabbed, because Labour don't care as much for British Muslims as they seem to care about British Jews

I don’t post text, but it’s important. Doctors know if Govt’s support private health care #NHS suffers. This study confirms it. “Labour’s policy of using private services to provide NHS healthcare resulted in “clear evidence of 2-tier system operating within NHS England to detriment of the poor”

Incremental support is a massive mistake. The longer the free world waits to help Ukraine decisively finish the war, the more devastating the ultimate cost will be. Waiting it out will never work. Ukraine must be empowered to end it now

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.

Stockholm protesters rally against Israeli strikes on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran

Let’s keep separate our contempt etc for Netanyahu, and his followers, our anger and outrage at their war crimes…from the jewish people in our own communities who deserve our protection and support. .

Much of the plastic waste at the recycling plants near Mersin Bay, pictured above, is shipped to Turkey from the UK + Germany. Changes to EU regulations may be about to make this pollution even worse. Our latest article: share.google/KJmIEhS9jP3C...

Free, Free Palestine... Free, Free Palestine. Say it before they ban it.

Save Our NHS. JC was right all along.✌🏼 #SocialistFriday

April 30, 2026

Of course, I condemn racist attacks on the streets of London, just as I condemn genocide in Palestine, but the single most effective act the British government could take to tackle antisemitism would be to stop arming Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"[Western democracies] claim themselves as these beacons of human rights...and then actively participated in the extermination of Gaza." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @simonerzim.bsky.social discuss the link between Western hypocrisy and the Gaza genocide. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hix...

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Russia took "some actions" to help the Iranian military resist the United States, General Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified during a congressional hearing. Senator Wicker suggested that Russia was "making a serious effort to undermine our gains in Iran".

a superb warning as to what happens to you if you spend too much time near The Spectator

This month's Private Eye has, as usual, some great pieces. This one i thought was telling. The levels of influence peddling in WM is disgusting.

Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government intends to introduce the draft legislation to Parliament by July. n.pr/4eOMTi3

48 hours later and the only outlet to follow up this story has been the National in Scotland Call me old fashioned but think destroying information with a legal hold on it and a disclosure to Serious Fraud is pretty important stuff open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Christian Turner, the UK ambassador to the US, made the private comments to a group of sixth form students earlier this year.

Gradually Westminster is ceding control of Britain to the US. First the nukes. Now the erosion of control of the NHS England. And Wes Streeting wants to take back control of NHS Scotland too, so we'll be in the same sinking ship unless we take the independence lifeboat. #SNP1SGP2 #Scotland

1. Mandelson 2. Grylls 3. Blobby

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“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

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Military spending surges in Europe and Asia, pushing world to levels not seen in 16 years, report says It seems war is coming courtesy of 4 old men with visions of imperialism.. www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/w...

Netanyahu is allowing Israel to import stolen Ukrainian grain. This means giving money to occupiers, which Moscow then uses to attack Ukraine and help Iran attack Israel. Another ship, Panormitis is in Haifa now, carrying grain from occupied Ukraine. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Utter madness

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

To vote SNP in the Regional List will effectively help Scotland loathing cretins like Murdo Fraser & Craig Hoy back into Holyrood, via the back door For Indy vote : (1) 🟡 SNP candidate (2) 🟢 Scottish Greens 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

This headline is an oxymoron. #Israel #Lebanon www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thought for the day: When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire, when the Apartheid state of Israel is involved the BBC & our Billionaire Oligarch controlled media always seems a tad confused. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

First NHS England and now NICE. Streeting is dismantling the safeguards that ensure that when the NHS spends money, decisions are led by what's best for patients. Instead he's taking control of contracting and it seems to be led by what's best for US big business. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Palantir’s manifesto lays out a worldview already playing out in deadly ways. It should be nowhere near our public services. Subscribe to our Palantir newsletter, coming soon, to find out what you can do: citizensreunited.substack.com/subscribe

Huge amounts of energy burned to allow useless mining of bitcoins needs to be banned not subsidised. There needs to be clear control over what form of AI centre we are permitting before we use land and money to do more harm than good. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Reminder from history of our continuing vulnerability, to infectious diseases and other shocks. We need to think a lot more about societal resilience www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-c...

Farage & Reform UK addicted to foreign money. £22m in political donations from ex UK resident living in Thailand with crypto business in El Salvador. What return has been promised? People not living in UK, not paying UK taxes changing UK political landscape.

The right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate balance between the power of the state and the freedom of the individual. The further it’s restricted, the greater the imbalance - those are not my words they are the words of Keir Starmer

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BREAKING: Netanyahu has ordered the IDF to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon forcefully.

KASPAROV: Putin can't stop war in Ukraine because this war become an oxygen for Russia. Everything in Russia today is connected to war. Russia is country on war footing. From kindergarten to highest levels of government, it’s all about war.

Clive Lewis, Labour MP talks about how an off-books slush-fund called Labour Together, funded by narrow & very rich interests, took over Labour Party, & promoted the rise of the right-wing gang of Starmer, Reeves, Reed, Lammy, Kendall, Mandelson & McSweeney. x.com/labourlewis/...

This article about burning out of tech (as a result of AI, changes to the technical practices, the overall culture, etc) really resonates with my own feelings and experiences and sums up why I’ve been ‘lying flat’ since last year.