Of course

Fucking war criminals 🤬🤬

You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news. For the Irish for a start.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

It's about now I am glad the UK has a nuclear deterrent independent of the USA...

Same day

God Europe are useless. Kaja Kallas et al talk such a good game but never back it up.

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I'm a big fan of nuclear yet sympathize w/ the argument that it shouldn't be subsidized by taxpayers. But if developing nuclear was as cheap as it is in mainland Europa, Korea etc. such subsidies wouldn't be needed. I hope the Govt implement this report and hope the Cons/LDs don't try and block it.

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

Such a shame to see this prime solar farm land blighted by such low-yield agriculture.

Lib Dems joining up with the Tories to avoid providing houses for the UK's growing population and the next generation. Pure NIMBY-ism.They could and should use their imagination to build denser housing on brownfield and/or simply build UP. yimbyalliance.org @rozsavage.bsky.social

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’. It’s Russian.

Summarised all the Budget preview pieces to save you time: Reeves was going to raise income tax but since the forecast is a bit better she won’t. Instead she’ll just do a bunch of tweaks and freezes that will annoy everyone and not leave her enough headroom to avoid the same thing next year. 1/2

So many voices now saying "Ukraine can do w/o USAand its Europe time to step up." But in fact, as Sweden’s foreign minister has explained, EU states have paid Russia €311 billion for imports since the full-scale invasion while providing only €187 billion in support to Kyiv.

The Mormon and family man received payment for making statements supporting pro-Russian media outlets in Ukraine

Savage piece by Janan Ganesh in the FT on Labour - and the UK’s - predicament. In short, Starmer and Reeves are rubbish - every possible replacement is worse.

Zelensky seeks peace while Russia drops bombs on apartment buildings.

Magnificent and right from Janan Ganesh: this is as good as it gets for this government www.ft.com/content/68ee...

The government’s latest reversal shows that Labour has no plan on.ft.com/3JTONRF

My favourite new pod. Great but infuriating stories about how the well-meaning left, and the not so well -meaning right, collude to stop building of anything, by any means possible. NIMBY-ism writ large. Natural England come out of it looking particularly determined to keep the UK poor.

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari". Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.

Excellent article from Martin wolf in today's FT. It's the trajectory (down, down, down) of the UK economy that is so concerning. He hopes RR will be bold and radical. This appears unlikely. Another muddle through tax and spend budget awaits I fear...

I genuinely hope Trump can pull off a ceasefire. But for Ukraine is survive as an independent state would be seen by Putin and Russia as a failure / loss, so I am not holding my breath. But again, good luck to him.

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From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits. New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues. This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.

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Hundreds of Russian/Iranian Shahed attack drones invading Ukrainian airspace tonight, Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers airborne and likely to launch salvos of cruise missiles. The war could reach Western countries if they don’t give Ukraine more help to defeat fascist Russia.

Nigel Farage of course seems to have been very happy to do his pro-Russian propaganda for free

If the UK economy was growing like this the November budget would be all about tax cuts and expenditure increases. Instead its all about tax increases and expenditure reductions, which leads to lower growth etc etc

This is a great book - I can't recommend it enough. It's USA based but applicable to UK also. The authors argue (convincingly) that the political left has adopted a “scarcity mindset” that overregulates, slows development, and fails to build enough housing, infrastructure, and green energy. cont .

Russia killed 5 more people in Kostiantynivka in free Donetsk. An aerial bomb hit a residential area of the large town near Kramatorsk. All those killed were aged 62-74. Russia kills civilians it pretends are Russian, want to be Russia and that it pretends to care about.

Key points from the Ukrainian President’s interview with Sky News:

The latest jobs data suggests the Labour market is showing signs of calming. It looks like the number of payrolled jobs fell by 6,000 in July and a further 8,000 in August. While disappointing, this a welcome slowdown compared to the 17,000 a month job falls between Oct 2024 & June 2025

Unbelievable. Can't we move to a simple average of the 3 indicators? Is any party currently brave enough to suggest reform? (small r).

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Day 2 after NATO jets shot down russian drones — and no nuclear war started. Imagine how many lives could be saved if NATO closed the sky over Ukraine instead of fearmongering. How many more will be lost if Europe keeps rejecting #SkyShieldNow?

It's like how people have convinced themselves that this government is running an ultra-tight fiscal policy whilst we're still heavily borrowing despite high inflation & interest rates. It only feels that way because the maniacs are trying to match Brown's capital expenditure on Osborne's tax base

Richard Tice enjoyed a Michelin-starred dinner with oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin. Reform is eyeing up wealthy donors for 2029. David Rose reports👇

I am so angry that this Labour Govt keep gifting the awful Cons/Reform these opportunities. Sure the right wing media play this up, but then again Labour keep slipping up.

Interesting, if challenging, article in the FT.

Must read www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

Why is the UK at the bottom of the list when it comes to workforce participation? If the Govt could make progress on this they'd boost growth, boost revenue, reduce the welfare bill (w/o any cuts to the payments per recipient) and reduce the need for immigration. So it deserves their attention.

"I have already said that Russians & Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours. We've this ancient... well, it's not a saying or a parable, but an ancient rule. "Wherever the foot of a Russian soldier treads — that is ours." #ICYMI www.dw.com/en/putin-all...