The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

It is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.

1 million people: this thing happened 1 right wing nutter: no it didn't BBC journalist paid £350k a year: with varying reports, it is impossible to tell what's happened

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Board of Peace - Season 1

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

And when that doctor goes elsewhere they’ll take their British born and educated partner with them. Gratuitously insulting

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Here’s the thing: we do not concede *one inch* to the far right. Ever. Anywhere. They are not just another political player. They are a threat to everything our ancestors fought and died to protect. They are not to be appeased. They are to be stopped. Rip down the flags wherever you see them. 3/3

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

Hey Mail, Telegraph, Sun, and Express!

Bet all those flags come down when the neighbours realise what they'll do to house prices.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

What I find most jarring is this blithe confidence among British policymakers that the UK will always get the skilled migrant workers it needs, when in reality it is competing with Canada, Australia, Japan and the EU for a shrinking pool of global skilled workers looking for the best offer around.

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

Found this meme today. 100 % on point.

Make America Great Again www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/d...

*As right wingers huddle by their box mattresses, frying the remains of a dead squirrel they found over a crudely assembled garbage fire* "At least he got rid of DEI"

Brexit has just been surpassed as the largest act of economic self harm by trade isolation in recent times.

Trump needs more diversity in his top team. Some non-idiots would be a start.

This is art. 🤗

Serbia says, “Hey U.S.A., this is how it’s done”!

Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.

I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.

Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Does America have any idea what people around the world are thinking of it tonight? Where are the protests? Where is the opposition? Heartbreaking to see a nation's moral collapse like this.

US is playing hardball on the issue. It has issued bellicose démarches to a wide range of states, including allies, which, I am told, are full of reference to Trump, highly aggressive & threatening—"like something one would have expected from the Nazis or Soviets in the 1930s", one person told me.

Were any previous authoritarian takeovers this unbearably cringe?

I have a theory that the people who applaud Katharine Birbalsingh the most are those who've never been near one of the thousands of other state schools in this country... and imagine they're all semi-feral Marxist hothouses because of something they read in the Daily Telegraph

Keir Starmer, when asked about Trump's Gaza plan, directly contradicts the US President: "They must be allowed home. They must be allowed to rebuild. And we should be within them in that rebuild, on the way to a two state solution." #PMQs

I suppose, in retrospect, that the time he sent an armed mob to kill people he didn't like, including his vice president, might have offered some hints to his character, but that's really just hindsight talking.

Shame on you

We’ve been watching Wolf Hall, a fascinating study of how the fragile male ego of a fickle, greedy despot creates a culture of deep cruelty and mistrust, where everyone lives in fear of saying the wrong thing. Thank goodness we’ve moved on from those times.

'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.' British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.

You have to really fire up your imagination to excuse this stuff: threats of invasion, attempts to undermine democracy, the use of violence, the targeting of minorities, language of national rebirth through strong-man leadership and a bloke doing a fascist salute, in case the rest was too subtle.

Yes I wonder if the guy who's spent the last three months supporting far-right groups was doing a fascist salute it seems so unlike him.

Trump has picked Linda McMahon - a former WWF wrestling executive who made up that she had a relevant degree - as education secretary. And she's not even in the worse ten of his picks.

Let’s stop calling them farmers and start calling them landowners

The hardest part. To know this of people you will meet