So much for freedom of speech

Dumberica is 250 years old

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

This is Sam Fahd Abu Haikal. A 7-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israel. If this were an Israeli baby or a Western baby, his face would be splashed across front pages. Western leaders would condemn the perpetrator's evil. Here? Silence.

How Europe revived a city Britain had written off EU investment helped turn a Merseyside in decline into a growing regional economy. This is one insider's account westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/europe/...

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

You don't have to take personal responsibility if you did not vote for Brexit. However you have to accept it was Westminster's choice, ultimately, that cost you your FoM.

Ah the invented "Part time resident". Thanks, but no thanks.

🇪🇺 is, quite frankly, magical. A miracle given our history. Walking away from that was terrible. #ThankEU

What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The EU did not spend a decade defending SM integrity to now rescue UK car production from the consequences of Brexit. Access to Europe is a privilege governed by rules, not an industrial subsidy for a country that chose exclusion yet still demands exceptions.

Yesterday, 31 people were killed in Lebanon following Israeli strikes. We will therefore wait for the same level of condemnation as the one that followed the Russian attacks that killed four civilians in Ukraine a few days ago.

Tom Baldwin argues that Westminster's hurdle isn’t Brussels—it’s first-past-the-post. The risk of right-wing reversals means the UK needs a fairer, European-style voting system before we can ever safely return to Europe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Sir Tim Eicke KC, and former Judge at @coe.int shares that of the 46 member countries of the Council of Europe it is only in the U.K. that there are political parties - two - who have in their manifesto leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

Indeed, that is a no-go for the EU. Most British still think the EU is only about trade. As long as that perception remains, the British population will always be disappointed.

…Brexit was delivered. Britain got what it demanded: sovereignty, borders, external status and reduced integration. The issue is not that Brexit failed to happen. The issue is that too many people are only now discovering what Brexit actually meant in practice.

If you know, you know!

For “Northern Irish people” it can only mean either A) Irish citizens B) British citizens Again you are shouting at the wind and proving beyond doubt you are a moron unable to accept facts and reality

I'm not a politician, but if I ever take £5 million from a crypto billionaire businessman and start banging on about how great crypto is... please disregard everything I say and start calling me a f-ing wanker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is actually rather insulting to suggest that the UK is so infantile that it cannot take responsibility for the consequences of its decision, or that the rest of the world ought to change its ways of operating to avoid hurting the UK's feelings. The UK must operate in the real world.

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians. ➡️ u.afp.com/Saf7

Adopted by Denmark, a Bombed-Out Ukrainian City is Given New Life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

What’s striking about the UK Brexit debate isn’t just that it’s wrong, it’s that people often know it’s wrong but say it anyway. Claims get debunked, conceded, then recycled because they’re useful. That’s not confusion. It’s a habit of dishonesty that passes for debate.

Wow!

Happy first day of spring youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY?...

This from July 2017 was your cue to find how this UK red line would affect you as a non resident in Spain, and what you could to to mitigate your situation. >Apply for residency. >Accept 90/180. >Sell up and relocate. >Ignore it and spend 9 years tediously whinging on SM. www.dw.com/en/brexit-pm...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of US independence from Britain. I'm hoping it will also mark the start of British independence from the US.

Our rights? We voted them away. That's what happened. We're not EU citizens anymore because we voted our citizenship away. It's entirely a British decision. Trying to foist the blame onto the EU just isn't constructive or helpful.

Get a grip. Anyone is "at the whim of the EU” is a really offensive way to frame it. Brexit is a UK choice. After that, the EU27 applying our laws isn’t “doing what we like”, it’s the predictable consequence of the UK opting out of shared rights and rule-making.

It is in times like this that Tom Lehrer comes to mind - and no, it isn’t Poisoning Pidgins in the Park.

I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.

Trump is a liar and an idiot

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

Absolutely. And this is how their sacrifice is rewarded. Trump is too narcissistic to know this, but the Danish will never forget.

"This zone expands and Brits are shut out, through no fault of our own." 😂😂🤣🤣

Where is the evidence that "Spain" wanted any such thing? As opposed to the Spanish equivalent of the mayor of Torbay? The current Schengen arrangements work absolutely fine for British tourists, who are courted by the Spanish tourist board and warmly welcomed every year in their millions.

As for punished? Really, that's your line? Britons are in EES queues by the UK's sovereign choice.

I think you need to ask these loads of people for their source and please could you link it as well because I am sure you'll agree the Acquis seems absolutely clear on this point.

Its not the attachment to their place in the sun that is wrong, it is the interminable daily/weekly whingeing that the EU will not fix their third country personal wish-lists that is *very* wrong. And hugely tiresome in its incessant repetitiveness. Yet you contrive to have sympathy for them....

Fredagsslik

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Looking forward to seeing the EU finally starting to implement EU EES.

Not in the same country at the same point in time in the EU but in the same tax year, when you change your residence from country A to B within the same tax year.

Hey Andy, chum, 90-in-180-days is not a "problem". Not to us. It suits us well. It may be *your* problem though...

What always surprises me is that these people, obv not the lady who posted as she's just referring, happily tell other people they broke the law. Same as my dad's neighbour, 6 mths in Spain and rented out her home in the UK while she was there to fund her life. Sold holiday home in Sp after Brexit.

Well, yeah. Everything he says is true. Foreigners do not have the same privileges and rights as citizens. I don’t know any country where they do. Maybe the UK should tell the US that it should give UK citizens the right to work freely in the US so they can further their careers?

I was British with Spanish residency when it happened and I didn't have to do anything. I filled in a form to allow me to vote in local elections again, and swapped my residency certificate for a TIE as I wanted an ID card. Drivers Licence, healthcare etc were all sorted, when they should have been.