“Russophobia Monitoring Council” has been created in Georgia. The main stated goal of this new “public initiative” (read: Georgian Dream-endorsed Kremlin project) is to identify and analyze instances of discrimination, hate speech, and anti-Russian rhetoric in the public sphere.

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Frosty Frost still flogging his dead horse. The one he dragged into town. He was pro-single market until he realised there was a grift to be had. Now Orban has disappeared, not so much.

These events are starting to have the feeling of those ones you see advertised on scratty posters around universities by various Marxist fringe groups.

1/ Why do I need to spend time on a network like X desperately trying to find people I like or am interested in? It strikes me that he misses the point that we now have vertical social networks for a reason. It's like choosing to stand or sit in a different part of the stadium on a matchday.

I find it most noteworthy when everyone seems to know everything about everything without the need to sully themselves with that pesky evidence.

FOREMAN: Ukraine taking fight deep into Russia, bringing war back home, shattering Putin’s narrative that war is somewhere else. We’re seeing fruits of years of investment and ingenuity. Ukraine now strikes farther, with heavier payloads, more accurately, this is only beginning.

Hi everyone With Trump’s war against Iran going as disastrously as Putin’s war against Ukraine, I have done a piece on how Trump is also imitating Russia’s Mafia-state corruption

BBC News - Turkish riot police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

​Marta Kostyuk: "It was one of the most difficult matches of my career. This morning, 100 meters away from my parents' house, a missile destroyed a building. And it was a very difficult morning for me. I didn't know how this match is going to turn around for me. I didn't know how I will handle it.

Weird feeling watching SW1/commentariat picking through the pronouncements of Andy Burnham. Read his words carefully. He sends out signals while often leaving himself space to move, sometimes to positions quite far away from the signals.

League of Ireland has hit new highs. Discussed on #FairCity about going to a game 😁 #LeagueofIreland #SpeirGorm

I hope nobody watches the Enhanced Games, not even fans of The Killers or Game of Thrones. It’s pseudo-sport for plastic people. But I have a feeling Enhanced Games Inc will be a hit…as an online pharmacy for looksmaxxers & tech bros. The “sport” is the shop window. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Perhaps he did, but just can't tell anybody?

SNYDER: Trump is very much on Putin's side. He keeps talking how Russia has to win the war, Russia will win the war, Russia already won the war. None of these things are true. What's really happened? Russia hasn't won the war even with Trump on its side. Russia's losing the war.

Such a shame for this emotionally balanced man to have to handle such overwhelming trauma.

Luton, City of Culture: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did Sylvia Pankhurst take it easy after winning suffrage for women? No. She fought fascism and empire, running a newspaper to defend Ethiopia from Mussolini. Emperor Haile Selassie gave her a state funeral in 1960 and she's buried at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.

I've said it before but we need to somehow restore the social cost of racism. It's always been there but it's spreading at least partly because people aren't made to feel ashamed of it any more.

Orl the braynes wil bee ther.

Usyk: "I want to dedicate this fight to Ukrainian people and Ukrainian soldiers. Slava Bohu za vse, Slava Ukraini! (Thank God for everything, Glory to Ukraine!)"

Kyiv right now‼️ damaged residential buildings, and fires in several districts.

Kyiv right now ‼️ Russian bastards attacked the city with ballistic missiles.

Kyiv right now ‼️ Fuck russia!

So Trump blew up Obama's deal with Iran, launched a new war, depleted our arsenal, cost us tens of billions, exposed the US as weaker to the world, and ended up just going back to a version of Obama's deal but worse? Do I have that right?

Four major UK front pages this morning for Farage and none critical - no policy analysis or costing just bantz …

If you're ever in Birmingham, England - pop into The Queens Arms pub and buy this Irish barman a pint for being an absolute legend ✊ He booted Ryan Bridge, who's the co-founder of the bigoted group 'Raise the Colours' out of his pub along with several of his bigoted minions - twice! Legend ❤️

This story took so long to report that one of the bylines joined the FT almost a year ago. Anyway exclusive footage of the Stratford chair-throwing incident and a look at the mess of the youth justice system. www.londoncentric.media/p/westfield-...

“Businessman Bassim Haidar, who relocated from Britain to Dubai following Labour’s changes to non-dom tax rules, donated £355,000… [He] said his "biggest concern was tax…and inheritance tax on global assets”” Wow. Not our public services then? Ugh. Farage squats like a toad in this stinking swamp.

In 2019, the Conservatives came second in Makerfield with more than a third of the vote - only 4,700 votes behind Labour. They're now polling at 2% there And what should really worry them is that this vertiginous collapse is no longer even a news story.

Russia has struck Kyiv with an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM). The large-scale combined missile and drone attack is still ongoing. Russia uses the Oreshnik more as a political tool of terror and intimidation than for practical military application.

Countrywide alert due to launches Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles. Three missiles launched, passing Kyiv, over Zhytomyr heading to Starokostiantyniv. One possibly shot down in Kyiv Oblast. 20+ Shahed drones in 🇺🇦 airspace. Possible Oreshnik IRBM launch detected.

⚠️ Reports are emerging that Russia have launched an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile toward Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. Footage circulating online shows the impact of high-velocity kinetic submunitions consistent with the Oreshnik’s design.

Kyiv is under massive russian missile attack right now ‼️

"That's what happens when you elect Nigel Farage fans..." @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to two new Reform councillors admitting they don't know what they're doing.

Reform has now lost a quarter of its councillors in Cornwall: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Updated list: www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-m...

"Wages will rise if women leave the labour force"

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

"...the shocks caused by Trump and Elon Musk’s attack on the USAID development agency receive nothing like the coverage they deserve."📌

A little bit of pre-weekend Spurs for those of you enjoy rubbernecking a football club in the midst of something approaching a nervous breakdown. Still, at least we're not Southampton, though I wouldn't put that beyond the glorious leaders either. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-occasi...

KASPAROV: Only thing that will lead to collapse of Russian regime is Ukrainian victory. Ukraine must win, Russia must lose. We're not dealing with Putin's war, but with imperial virus. Unless average Russian citizen is convinced that empire is dead, we'll never see any changes.

This promises to be a great event with panels on fan activism, community & fan-owned clubs. Plus an evening of great music 💙✊🏻

Spurs fans - if you are attending on Sunday and would like the chance to be featured in @theipaper.com drop me a DM. #thfc #coys

Ireland should be proud of this fella from the Queen's Head, he's a star #NoPasaran Last week they were ripping masks off small women. Less brave faced with a 6ft Black Irishman who they claim is "the problem with the country" Maybe take a look in the mirror next time you are having a sniff, Ryan

I really hope business is booming for this brave guvnor and his pub tonight.

When they’re ready to move beyond the myth that liberalism is all about the individual, I’m listening

My favourite were the ones who would say in 2018-9 that PR would mean “extremists would be involved in our politics”. A real “have you read the news lately?” moment.

New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

Paris.