If Trump genuinely wanted the Epstein files released, he could order the Justice Department to release them — rather than go through the circus of a discharge petition. Trump has already tried time and time again to usurp the power of Congress. What's stopping him now?

Brexit Damage ⬇️ GDP down 6-8% ⬇️ Investment down 12-18% ⬇️ Employment down 3-4% ⬇️ Productivity down 3-4% Why isn't this spoken about in the lead up to the budget"

A president can’t just invent crimes with a pen — that’s dictatorship, not democracy.

The military is not a police force, and should never be deployed in American communities against their will. That the President doesn't understand this (or simply doesn't care) shows just how grossly unfit for office he is.

In today’s daily newsletter, Jonathan Blitzer, who covers immigration for The New Yorker, talks about the horrific conditions of the Florida detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

This is blatantly evil and is copying what is happening in the US.

"Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, said the rail link could offer an alternative to flying within the next decade." Finally, Transport Sec Heidi Alexander recognises the need to offer an alternative to flying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"In the past two years... with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world." @billmckibben.bsky.social [High-cost fracked gas exports (LNG) from BC now a terrible bet] www.newyorker.com/news/annals-... #bcpoli

All well and good but the biggest fault in our democracy is our archaic electoral system which allows political parties to be elected even though two thirds of us vote against them. They accept Mayoral elections need to be elected fairly so why not Westminster? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act...

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

The fate of Iran's nuclear programme depends significantly on what happened to the material, enriched to levels just short of weapons-grade. www.ft.com/content/12a8...

Journalists at the Farage press conference repeating Reform's framing of this policy as "robin hood" because the non-dom fee will be redistributed to poorer workers, whilst missing the fact that it hands tens of billions of pounds in tax cuts to the wealthiest people already living in the UK

Since it's #DanHannanDay let's run through the "brain of Brexit's" 5 greatest moments since 2016. First up The One Where Dan Predicted Independence Day in 2025

For the first time, the European Commission has signaled flexibility on a major digital rulebook as it seeks relief from Donald Trump’s impending trade tariffs.

Very noticeable that none of the big Brexit backing accounts on X have said anything at all about the 9th anniversary of the chaos they unleashed. Almost like they'd rather we all forgot about it.

Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class

British PM Keir Starmer has tried desperately to stay on the right side of Donald Trump. It seemed to count for little when the US bombed Iran.

There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

The Supreme Court issued a stay, effectively ruling, for now, that the Constitution no longer applies, at least not to immigrants. Fast-track deportations with no opportunity for judicial review violate the fundamental principle of due process, especially for people already on U.S. soil.

He can't run a five person parliamentary party, how could he ever think he can run a country? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"It's like the U.S. was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy." #ResistTrump

Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters — including a former GOP Congressman and two reality TV stars.  He's also dropped or halted 100+ enforcement actions against corporate offenders — including 34 companies that funded his inauguration. Is this being "tough on crime"?

"Alan Beswick, a Reform candidate for North Northamptonshire council, is up for election on 12 June. There’s just one problem: he has moved to China."

Labour's Stella Creasy batters Tory MP Stride over Brexit reset, exposing his empty hardline nonsense. #ukpolitics

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

Trump's big beautiful bill expands the estate tax exemption yet again. While millions will get kicked off healthcare and lose crucial food assistance, Republicans are enabling the super-rich to pass down their obscene wealth virtually tax free. We must stop this bill.

Babe wake up, Brexit's dead

Brexit hasn't been betrayed. The British people have not been betrayed. The betrayal was Brexit. Once that is the established narrative, we can all go forward together.

66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE. That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids. In what world is starving children "efficient"?

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu furiously lashed out at the leaders of France, the UK and Canada after they threatened “targeted sanctions” over Israel’s renewed military offensive in Gaza.

Richard Littlejohn mostly lives in a gated mansion in Florida. Andrew Neil mostly lives in Grasse in the South of France.

Right. If you want to know what's really going on, we're going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions. What on earth was Palantir's top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-u...

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

I'm so disappointed with the Labour government, I had such high hopes last summer. Some really poor decisions, poor execution, and pandering to Reform voters. Such an amazing opportunity wasted. I think today is the official day I move across to the #LibDems.

🇵🇱 Polish PM Donald Tusk confirms: the massive fire at Warsaw’s Marywilska shopping center was an act of arson ordered by Russian intelligence. Several suspects have been detained — others are being hunted. “We will get you all!”

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

17000 excited fans were silent for 2 minutes at a Billie Eilish concert in the Netherlands yesterday during the moment of national remembrance. Impressive.

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

🇪🇺 The EU is set to propose a full ban on Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, aiming to sever remaining energy ties with Moscow despite a surge in Russian LNG deliveries. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

While MAGA-style candidates are being “punished” in North America and Australia, they’re doing pretty darn well in Europe. Today's Brussels Playbook breaks down why.

via James Foster

Alcatraz was political from the start. Opened in a blaze of publicity in the New Deal era by FDR to counter public fears of the gangster crime wave of the 1920s/1930s - but fiendishly expensive to run. Hence, its closure in 1963. Other prisons replaced it including the Supermax near Denver 1/3