The cease ceasefire contiinues www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/liv...

🇺🇦 Zelensky: We try to intercept all Russian drones, even when some of them are heading towards other countries, such as 🇷🇴Romania, 🇲🇩Moldova, 🇵🇱Poland or the Baltic states. We immediately notify our partners and try to help them. Russia uses drones to put pressure on NATO and assess response.

I was once the victim of racism in the UK. Got a load of abuse for… speaking French when on a train near Birmingham. I assume they thought I was French. Which perhaps they didn’t then think with the choice of words they got in English in return!

The front page of today's edition of the Manchester Evening News - EXCLUSIVE: Carol Vorderman dubs Reform's Makerfield by-election candidate a 'little coward' as she sends letter to thousands of female voters in the constituency

Spain's opposition accepts that it can't force an early election. If anyone is "engulfed by a crisis" it's Feijóo not Sánchez www.eldiario.es/politica/pp-...

Forgive me, but I would suggest that Bloomberg's premise - if even the UK, "no democracy was immune to nationalism" - was in itself exceptionalist thinking. Britiain has always been nationalistic, not exceptional. It just hid it better, with good marketing. A 🧵

🥳 A small town in #Oregon is celebrating after officially stopping a large data center from being built in their community‼️ The #LaPineCity Council voted unanimously to reject the proposed project 👏

“… the decline actually ended years ago, and the latest numbers from the American Booksellers Association show independent stores expanding at a pace not seen this century.” www.reddit.com/r/books/s/BT...

Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

Oh, BBC at it again. For the so called BBC “transport correspondent“: there are zero waiting times when you go to Spain from Sweden or from the Netherlands to Italy. But I guess Brits love to stay in the queue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump to Remain a Patient. (I read that right, didn't I) www.ft.com/content/84c1...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Japan's move to send forces to Germany is a signal to China as well as Russia. Japan will not sit back and watch a corrupt USA regime sell out Japan's national security interests

🇫🇮 Finland to provide Ukraine with 33rd military aid package worth ~€128 million. 🇯🇵 Japan has made its first contribution to the PURL program in the amount of $14.6 million, - Japanese Foreign Ministry 7/7

🇺🇦🇨🇦 The Canadian company Sentinel and the Ukrainian Airlogix, within the framework of the Build with Ukraine program, will create a joint venture Airlogix-Sentinel for the production of Ukrainian UAVs in Canada for the needs of AFU, - Militarnyi

🐝 Smart technology is making war a more senseless choice. Smaller, weaker countries can more easily defend themselves with a cheap and deadly arsenal, — New cover from The Economist

Well, what's the würst that could happen? 😉 www.ft.com/content/571d...

Why are we continuing to use expensive fossilised technology when modern renewables are so much cheaper? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Cold War Steve World Cup 2026 Wallchart! Printed on A2 (59.4cm x 42cm) uncoated paper stock. £9.99. Available now!👇👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

The German government Friday dismissed rumors that Chancellor Friedrich Merz's rivals were laying the groundwork to oust him as his popularity craters, reforms stall and the far right gains in strength. u.afp.com/SDfo

Not exactly full throated support from the holder of the security umbrella 👇🏼. I dunno, maybe Europe should hold the umbrella instead?

After their drone put Romanian lives at risk, the Kremlin filth is threatening the EU.

Iran gets access to $12 Billion 👇🏼

🇷🇴🇺🇦 Zelensky: We spoke with Mr. Nicusor Dan, the President of Romania. Ukraine is ready to support the security of Romania. Our military has been in touch since last night, and now we have discussed further interaction at the level of our teams.

Several Russian cruise missiles already maneuvering in Ukrainian airspace, along with as many as 20 Russian/Iranian Shahed-type attack drones. It looks like another big Russian Blitz air raid on Ukraine is brewing.

🚨 NEW: A judge referred Nigel Farage to the Attorney General for potential prosecution after he branded the Manchester Airport assault trial "two tier justice" "The observation made by Farage was potentially a contempt of court as it implied the guilt of the defendants"

Nigel Farage 'phone hack' reported to police after Reform misses 24 hour deadline Labour chair Anna Turley has reported Nigel Farage's supposed Russian phone hack to police and the National Cyber Security Centre as questions mount about Reform leader's claim www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🇦🇲❗️Reuters: Russia has intensified covert efforts to undermine Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenia’s June 7 election, fearing that his re-election would cement the country’s growing alignment with the West.

🇷🇴👀 Footage from Romania after Russian drone strike!

ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

Shall we call this the Musk Law?

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

Gorgeous illustrations; beautiful introduction to a classic. Great addition to any #library collection. Hand it to those who want to reread HP. Fascinating to read this in tandem with Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching. So many ideas cross populate. #Booksky #GraphicNovel #WizardOfEarthsea

Replanting the underwater garden - the lungs of the Mediterranean. 👇🏼

LEVIE: ".. IT spend is basically somewhere between like 3% to 7% of corporate revenue in a company. .. And so if AI is truly adding this productivity gain .., then clearly .. It's going to escape that and move to the line-of-business budgets." futurism.com/artificial-i...

“.. pumping the brakes in a way that could complicate AI’s triumphal march across the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corp...

Hitchens fails to address that Phillips is a pro-Russian propagandist, literally partied with occupying forces in Ukraine, denied war crimes, and filmed tortured POWs, and proudly received medals from Russian backed military groups for his efforts.

Poland as the first country in the EU received today 6.56 billion euro pre-financing from the #SAFE program 🇵🇱🇪🇺

Big news: Hungary has unlocked all €10 billion in COVID recovery funds, both loans and grants, subject to reforms. "Hard work has really paid off," says von der Leyen. "Historic breakthrough," says Magyar.

‼️ Russia: “The United States has removed 11 individuals, including deceased Russian lawmakers, and two tankers from its anti-Russian sanctions list.” www.gazeta.ru/politics/new...

given how polls are going in Britain...very soon and it might not be a choice. the Tories & Reform might jettison NI at the drop of a hat. An ECHR exit breaks the Brexit TCA agreement with the EU and causes carnage to the Good Friday Agreement.

Oooooops Nigel.

Article 776 of the brexit TCA with the EU mandates a joint review of the entire treaty’s implementation every five years. We're at the first of those formal reviews - a chance to see how things are going. quick 🧵on the 5 biggest issues post brexit 1/6

Excellent, thorough piece on the perverse impact of UK's restrictive attitude to migration. Government claims it wants to improve economic outcomes and encourage integration -and is achieving precisely the opposite. (draws on @migobs.bsky.social/my research) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

AFP reports that the US refused to condemn Russia for its threats to launch "systemic strikes" on Kyiv and did not join a joint statement at the UN. The statement was supported by nearly 50 nations, including EU countries, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea. - fuck usa 🖕

You know what comes after "mistakes" and probing attacks on NATO states if no costs are imposed for them, right?

EXCL: A maker of electronic parts used in UK and other European biometric passports is owned by an investor group led by two Chinese companies that are on a US export restrictions list w/ @rachel-rees.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d4b9...

Behold the by-election catechism: “Only x can win here” “Two horse race” Bar chart (often misleading) - “can’t win here” “Only (our candidate) can beat (candidate you don’t like)” “Vote (our party)” (under breath: don’t waste your time on splitters from (similar party”)