“It’s a UK winter endurance medal” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Thank you all for your birthday wishes today - Tony ✟ Photo: Gibson

Or, this one? #EpsteinFiles

This is the way. Each Russian demand list must be mirrored. The battlefield is stalled and no one is winning. Thus, there's no reason to preemptively concede a single russian demand. The deference to russia's supposed might, which has long characterized European/US policy needs to end. Russia...

Ireland among 100 countries and groups to ‘strongly condemn’ Israel’s West Bank expansion

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

The reason children need EHCPs for going to secondary school is that most secondaries are far less inclusive than primaries, and create academic & disciplinary environments that are wholly inappropriate for the needs of many children with SEN. Fix that, then we can talk about EHCPs. #r4today

Great grim footie headline: Leicester appoint Rowett until end of season (for collectors)

'"The violence at the border spreads inward and corrupts society by damaging the institutions of the rule of law and democracy on the one hand, and on the other, fostering a brutalization of everyday civil morality through the collective habituation to cruelty and legal violations."'

Also in this Reform UK story, how man-of-the-people Nigel Farage has moved his personal company to Candy’s offshore-owned Mayfair office. @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Your regular reminder that anyone who pushes "let's give Donbas to Russia to end the war" as a solution is either ignorant or pro-Russian. Donbas is not a "disputed" nor a special region and therefore its occupation by Ru doesn't solve anything at all. Ru wants all of Ukraine.

"Pu thinks he's winning" strikes me as a psyop to make him look delusional (and thus dangerous in terms of nuclear escalation). Of course he's going to feign confidence in victory. What choice does he have? He can't show weakness and can't admit his vanity imperialist project is failing.

Nie po to Solidarność z Lechem Wałęsą wyprowadzała nas z rosyjskiej strefy , nie po to weszliśmy do NATO i Unii Europejskiej , by dziś to Nawrocki podważał . Polska jest na Zachodzie . Kropka .

The Bleak Knight, Sir Keir Starmer, today vowed to fight on, despite losing the support of his parliamentary party, the Scottish Labour party and all his arms and legs. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

‘Georgescu had already spoken out against chemotherapy, questioned whether cancer is real and promoted whatever version of natural, traditional healing suited the moment (his wife, Cristela, is a prominent “natural” wellness influencer).’ James Meek in Romania: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As John Naughton puts it, there is plenty of 'horse sense' here on UK and AI: martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/the-price-...

'Should women participate in politics?, asked Gebhard Müller, the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, during a lecture in Tübingen in 1956. After all, they have been doing so "ever since the war over the beautiful Helen broke out." (Schwarzwälder Bote, Sept. 28, 1956)'

'Well then, off to Moscow! Apparently, many FPÖ voters long for Russia and want more contact with the dictator Putin and his henchmen. So: have a good flight! Anyone who doesn't appreciate our domestic democracy and independence should seek their fortune in Russia.'

Ramadan Mubarak to Muslim communities in Britain and around the world. My thoughts are with all those observing under the shadow of conflict or hardship. May this holy month be a time of reflection, compassion and charity.

Sollen Frauen in der Politik mitarbeiten?, fragt 1956 der baden-württembergische Ministerpräsidenten Gebhard Müller in einem Vortrag Tübingen. Schließlich haben sie das schon getan, "seit der Krieg um die schöne Helena entbrannte". (Schwarzwälder Bote, 28.9.56)

A shocking indictment of the intimidation and danger MPs now routinely experience. The hostility routinely whipped up against "Westminster" and "politicians" has a real human cost.

Jesse Jackson was a champion for civil rights, economic justice, and world peace. I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Putin, of course, has no understanding or belief that public opinion matters. I wonder if Trump does. Ukrainian politicians know viscerally and confidently that they can't go against majority public opinion.

'New @falter.at is out. Once again, the content is impressive: for instance, there's a fantastic, in-depth interview with @brodnig.bsky.social about "Feindbild Frau" (Woman as the Enemy). It focuses on #DigitalViolence, a topic that @vbohrnmena.bsky.social and I are also working on extensively.'

Nie rozumiem , jak można dalej głosować na PiS , Konfederację czy Nawrockiego ? Pytam wprost : kto ma nas bronić ? Państwo skłócone z sojusznikami ? Żołnierze z pustymi rękami ? Ja wybieram demokrację i bezpieczeństwo . Reszta to igranie z losem 38 milionów ludzi .

I feel this oh so very much.

#NowPlaying Brian Eno - "Discreet Music" There are times when only Discreet Music will do. I've got so much cortisol running round my body that I feel physically sick. Then Discreet Music begins, and the balm descends. youtu.be/jl_z5JvrKlc...

Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who mounted two groundbreaking but unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died aged 84. ft.trib.al/jlMv97E

Recently I shared a poem about Frederick Douglass Hayden’s poem, different but equally good A sonnet with the 1st 10 lines breathlessly racing to the caesura in line 11. Then the turn giving the brilliant final few lines 'When it is finally ours...' #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth

to position himself as centrist/pro-EU, but voting intention polls give him away. The graph shows that 2/3rds of Bulgarians would vote remain in a hypothetical BulExit referendum and 1/3rd (the russophile third that's stable in the BG electorate) would leave. Among Radev fans, 50% would vote leave!

I’m reading the fascinating ‘Why Q Needs U’ by @dannybate.bsky.social and enjoying it immensely! 😊 #BookSky 💙📚 #AmReading #MondayReads

'The think tank [CSJ] is right that low-salaried jobs in this country don’t pay much. Jobs boards this week advertised many roles with low salaries, for example a prison officer in Leicester on £28,187, a store cleaner in Birmingham paid £26,312 and a nursing assistant in Manchester paid £24,465. '

Over six million workers earn less than an unemployed person on benefits, according to the Centre for Social Justice. Is it true?

Erster Blick ins Buch! @derstandard.at hat den Vorabdruck von „Feindbild Frau“ veröffentlicht, das am Mittwoch erscheint Es geht darum, wie konstantes Beleidigen und üble Drohungen speziell Frauen aus der öffentlichen Debatte verdrängen können - sowie um Gegenstrategien

😳 Russians have begun to blur their own cemeteries on maps. Yandex has hidden images of the New Cemetery in Severomorsk, the city where the headquarters of the Russian Northern Fleet is located.

"Europeans who found comfort in the misdirection perpetrated in Munich that all is well in the transatlantic alliance may find themselves slowly losing not only their reassurance, but also their dignity." www.policymagazine.ca/marco-rubios...

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield. Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response. Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

'Thanks to @moenchtim.bsky.social for the fantastic work. Documenting this is incredibly important. We have summarized more information about the far-right's new staging ground here:'

'We must stand up to them. That means: challenge their slogans. Report their hate speech. Take them to court if you can. We can, and we are doing exactly that. And almost all (!) digital perpetrators of violence show an (ideological) proximity to right-wing extremism.'

'hey live among us, right in our midst. And they pose an enormous threat to our democracy. Ninety percent of them are more or less young men. They are organized in far-right fringe groups, but are now also finding a connection with the AfD and similar parties.'

'MARCH OF SHAME. The people who, in the year 2026, are downplaying the Holocaust in the middle of the street. Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists who, by this "commemoration" are not celebrating the liberation from the greatest regime of injustice in history, but are in truth mocking its victims.'

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Israeli strikes kill 11 in Gaza. Let's look at this RTÉ story: Seven paragraphs on what Israel says. Three *both sides* paragraphs. One paragraph reporting on the victims.

They openly talk about killing off their own democracy. They deny the climate emergency we are already in (calling facts “extremism”). How can sucking up to these people bring any benefit whatsoever to Europe? How can delivering images of standing ovations to Fox News help us?

Just over one month left to enter the 2026 Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism! The winner will receive £8,000, with the award presented at a ceremony on 1 June 2026. Find out more and apply here: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

'The war against Ukraine has sparked a debate in Germany about the necessity of compulsory military service. In the process, the ideological foundations of conscription—namely republicanism and egalitarianism—are regularly misjudged by its opponents:'

Das ist nicht nur eine Frage der Gerechtigkeit für meine Frau und mich, es ist auch ein kleiner aber höchstpersönlicher Dienst an der Demokratie. Rechtsextreme nutzen das Netz als zentrales Aufmarschgebiet, wir müssen uns ihnen dort entgegenstellen. steady.page/de/bohrnundm... (5)