Rubio as Trump explains how great his Iran deal is.

Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true

Obama Center Reflecting Pool

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wikipedia now officially lists the result of the 2026 Iran War as an "Iranian victory" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ir...

Anna Turley, chair of the Labour Party, said she would write to the financial regulator to ask it to investigate Farage's actions.

It's insulting to the intelligence to have 'reversing one of the biggest single mistakes a country has made in peacetime' branded 'looking backwards'.

America's roughly 1,100 billionaires (and 1 trillionaire) are collectively worth a record $9.24 trillion. The wealth of the bottom half of the US, roughly 65 million households? $4.3 trillion. It's not radical to tax the rich. It's radical to allow this level of wealth concentration to continue.

My letter to the Financial Times: Reversing Brexit — why the conditions look right:

Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the European Union's Single Market, "A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market."

November 6th... 2024. How did I do?

I know Donald is breathtakingly stupid, but is he so stupid that he doesn't realize that Netanyahu bombed Beirut to intentionally undermine Trump's talks with Iran? [Rhetorical question] Bibi doesn't want peace.

In our Makerfield constituency poll we also asked people how they might vote in a future EU referendum. Despite the fact the constituency voted 65% to Leave in 2016 our poll suggests residents would now be more likely to vote to rejoin.

Sunday, June 14th is #ObamaAppreciationDay

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

Musk: The definition of Evil.

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Congratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

Karl Marx needs to rise up from the grave and remind many idiot workers that trillionaires wealth is just their unpaid wages.

Elon Musk spent millions to elect Trump. His company Starlink, which dominates rural broadband services, lobbied to cut funding for rural broadband alternatives. Now, Starlink is jacking up prices on its captive customers. Government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.

Though you might argue HMT/No10 has dragged its feet and isn’t willing to spend enough it’s also worth remembering that deficiencies in Britain’s defence spending/capabilities did not start with this Labour govt- not that you’d know it listening to a lot of the commentary today.

WE SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED 🤬 The way the U.S. welcomed the team from Senegal 🇸🇳 vs. The way Mexico welcomed the team from Spain 🇪🇸 #WorldCup

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums. Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

🇭🇺 The price of right wing populism and authoritarianism.

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

May 2026. It just keeps getting worse...

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.

Vote Conservative, get Reform: once again, Kemi Badenoch says something that Lib Dems will be quoting time and time again.

Normally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.

It's always nice receving energy bills when you're getting paid (thanks to rooftop solar PV panels, a battery, a heat battery and efficient appliances in a smallish all-electric home)

The weirdest thing (having spent the morning writing about Belfast etc) is that this govt is presiding over falling crime, falling immigration, falling NHS waits…all the things you might’ve thought moved the dial. But it’s just exuding a sort of helplessness

Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2

June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.

The mind set of the insanely wealthy. I’ll never understand why average Americans worship the wealthy. It’s not like the wealthy actually care about them...

Rightly angry piece from @iandunt.bsky.social about the Populist Right BS that followed the awful Henry Nowak murder case and how the media/national conversation has been drawn into it. iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

At this point he's flaunting his corruption with the obvious market manipulation. 👇

A syndrome of the greasiest kind.

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US House votes to halt Iran war, in rebuke to Trump 

21% ‼️ That’s INSANE

Especially heinous given that bad dental health can have a catastrophic effect on overall health. Cardiac health can be tied to dental health.

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

A kind of reverse money laundering. Funds start off as legit and are transformed into illegitimate

@iandunt.bsky.social writes terrific prose fertilised from hard thinking & good values. I find it hard to pick “a best” But this is up there for its sheer acuity. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...