“Trump is acting like an international gangster” Ed Davey

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

James Schneider outlines why the special relationship with the US is over and that the UK should be looking elsewhere "The United States is acting in a bullying and gangster-state like way and we are the victims of it"

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

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How the Media and Musk Are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Well Beyond Its Size – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/h...

Macron: ‘No amount of intimidation’ will change EU nations’ course on Greenland I do like him, like Carney he’s not scared to tell Trump to do one, I’d like to see Starmer do the same 🤷🏼‍♂️

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

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The fascist tapeworm pulled a sickie this morning to avoid even the easy ride from Laura Kunnesberg. Of course the liar wasn’t ill - here is is tweeting away this morning.

Trump is threatening new tariffs on the UK and seven other European countries unless we give in to his plans to take over Greenland. Please sign the petition calling for Keir Starmer to stand firm. For every 1,000 signatures a message will be sent straight to the PM's inbox. 38d.gs/trump_gl_df

🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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Osborne speculates that Jenrick succeeds Farage as leader of Reform. What is almost certainly true is that even Farage's total takeover of the Tories doesn't end the Con-Farage conflict of the past 16 years; it just means the conflict plays out under his feet, within his own party

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Lasting security comes from closer cooperation with Europe, not America.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

Hollywood Royalty calling out Trump for both his blatant failings to improve American lives, his failings to create a fairer society and his personal failings for which he has not served the correctional sentences for which criminals of his serious standing are due. youtu.be/CUbz_jKCbTQ?...

If you've lived in authoritarian countries (I have) this sort of thing is familiar (but still not okay - it makes people rightly angry). It's staggering to think that this has become a lived reality for many Americans in just one year.

BREAKING: International fans are CANCELLING their World Cup tickets to protest Trump’s violent immigration crackdown. The reason isn’t airfare, many say feels hostile, unsafe, and fundamentally unwelcoming. Across social media, the message is blunt: #BoycottWorldCup until the Trump regime is gone.

I've seldom felt compelled to block people on BlueSky. But the hunger strike has mobilised some people's worst instincts: "Let them die! It's all their fault!" etc etc. It appears to trigger a deep, and deeply disturbing, inhumanity. I must have blocked 20 of them by now.

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🔴The EU’s ‘Farage Clause’ Shows the Damage Reform Is Already Doing to the UK As well as making us poorer each year, Farage’s Brexit is also making us more vulnerable to those who wish to do us harm, argues @chrisgrey.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/13/t...

“Deepfake child pornography is fine as long as only adults get to see it” is a curious place for the modern Conservative Party to find itself, but here we are

Jeez. This is completely insane. How has this been allowed to happen?

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More accurately: I have told the clergy of the episcopal diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness and I've asked them to get their affairs in order, to make sure they have their wills written..."

We cannot stand by and wait for Elon Musk to do the right thing while people are being abused and exploited. Liberal Democrats are calling for a full criminal investigation into X’s UK operations.

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Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Q: "What made you say, 'I want to be a member of Congress now.'?" A: "Because I felt I wasn't doing enough...It's sort of unfair to be saying to Democratic office holders, 'You need to do more! You need to do more!,' It's easy to lob stuff in from the sidelines. So, I'm putting it all on the line."

Another Brexiter betraying our country by calling on a foreign government to force our government to allow a foreign social media company to publish pornographic images harassing women and girls. So much for sovereignty and protecting women and girls.

What solidarity looks like. This is the most American thing that I will ever be proud of. Downtown Minneapolis 1/7/2026

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A list of my favourite names for gritters / salt-spreaders… • David Plowie • Skid Vicious • Humphrey Snowcart • Nicole Saltslinger • Creedence Clear-Road Survival • Spreddie Mercury • I Want to Break Freeze • A Salts with a Spreadly Weapon • Thaw and Order • Gritter Thunberg • Snow-be-gone Kenobi

While Trump flouts international laws and threatens allies, how can we even think of sending our Head of State to visit him? Let’s send a powerful message from the British public: this behaviour is NOT okay with us.

NEW: WATCH this four-minute video analysis by the Times proving the Trump administration's statements about the murder of Renee Nicole Good are provable lies. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-new-...

"Nearly one in four car drivers killed in 2024 were aged 70 or older, according to government figures." That means that 3/4 were UNDER 70. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is also a field test. If the press lets them muddy the waters on executing a woman in Minneapolis despite multiple witnesses and video recordings clearly depicting what happened, the message they'll take away is that there's nothing they can't get away with. Nothing.

I hope Renee Nicole's bravery lights the blue touchpaper of mass civil resistance. Not just for the sake of America, but for the whole world. Murders like hers, especially caught on video, have a recent history of doing that. She was a warrior. They are cowards killing, quite literally, The Good.

This operation supposedly included British surveillance aircraft.

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