Excellent to see this at the end of a Público article about the current winter storm. A certain world leader could do with having this basic concept explained to him.

The media have a lot to answer for. This headline in @theguardian.com names Seguro, the socialist candidate – who won the first round of voting – but the photo is of the far-right candidate, who was ahead in the polls but came second, doing worse than expected

Got to love that the anti-migrant racists are banned, but it doesn't change that this was a group of British far-right activists from an organisation which harasses and abuses people seeking asylum and the French authorities are doing more to challenge them than the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault. This has been in the press for 2 days. The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it… And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼‍♀️

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

"A RTP, o canal do Estado, decidiu participar na Eurovisão mesmo com a participação de Israel. Aquela expressão dar uma no cravo e outra ferradura nunca teve tanto sentido como ontem à noite. A televisão nacional transmite um concerto por Gaza e ao mesmo tempo tem medo de fazer a coisa certa"

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

Take note, Portugal

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

British.

Que pena! /s www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Fixed the title of this @theguardian.com article for you: How the insatiable hunger of livestock farming is killing Brazil’s Amazon

Queen

Every one of those white faces is descended from immigrants. It's not immigration they are protesting, it's skin colour

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Nigel Farage, who repeatedly campaigned for Donald Trump to be elected and called alleged serial rapist Andrew Tate an "important voice" for men, says he wants mass deportations of migrants in order to make women safe

The right to free expression creates neither a duty to publish nor an obligation to listen. (And very limited freedom from consequences.)

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

"O bidonville de Champigny era onde havia mais portugueses. Mas não era o único". Leia a opinião de Daniel Oliveira: expresso.pt/opiniao/2025-07... 📷 Rodrigo Antunes/Lusa

The irony of the Guardian investigation findings of the criminal records of those arrested protesting about the “sexual predators” holed up in the hotels. 2/5 of those arrested had criminal convictions for domestic violence or sexual violence. It was never about “protecting women”. Simply racism

Nunca vi alguém mobilizar “liberdade de expressão” para algum grupo subjugado ou oprimido terem direito à fala. Toda vez que “liberdade de expressão” é evocada podem ter certeza que é a busca por carta branca para pessoas continuarem destilando preconceito sem quererem ser responsabilizados.

For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned

Positively breathtaking. ❤️ Did you know we were never told the story of the birds and the bees? Myndstate on IG

Good morning with good news: Portugal is rapidly pushing fossil fuels off its grid! Fossil fuels fell to 14.8% of its electricity in 2024 from 82% in 2005! It's reduced fossil fuels by an average of`3.6 points per year! Wind & solar skyrocketed from 4% in 2005 to 46% in 2024 #energysky #greensky

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

The first public figure in Portugal announces he is selling his Tesla and will donate some of the proceeds to environmental charities (assuming he can find a buyer!) #teslatakedown

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.