🚨🚨Late to this but this seems to be a MAJOR story: Slovakia’s PM #Fico (a Trump alley) told EU leaders at a summit last week that a meeting with #Trump left him shocked by the US president’s state of mind. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-florida-robert-fico-eu-summit-nato/

Cock or Ham? There’s no need to decide.

This is incredible. Boris Johnson was in such a rush to deport people to Rwanda, he agreed the UK would pay Rwanda £290M with no real guarantees Then when Starmer came in, he triumphantly announced it dead, but forgot to actually cancel it and now owes another £100M www.bbc.com/news/article...

Left: France to ditch US platforms citing security concerns Right: UK gives billions to US platforms France, in the EU, is investing in their sovereignty UK, outside the UK, is giving away our sovereignty

Ofcom’s broadcasting standards state that all news must be “reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality” – so why is it letting TalkTV's rampant climate misinformation go unchecked? 🤔 Tell Ofcom to take their job seriously 👇 goodlaw.social/2ed924

🤨 Russia is still getting luxury cars despite sanctions. An investigation says 214 high-end vehicles worth about $75 million, including Bentleys, Ferraris, and Rolls-Royces, have been smuggled in since 2022. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

This is a Brexit fallout that is enraging, deeply undemocratic and damaging for the whole country. Tories, Reform and Labour have all decided that their stereotype of the brexity social conservative red wall voter is the *only* voter worth bothering with. The rest of us can go to hell.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." www.thriftbooks.com/w/nineteen-e...

Tell me again how this BBC editorialising is just my cognitive bias... This isn't a quote from anywhere. It's just the BBC's description of this disgraced, divisive politician.

BREAKING: after meeting with Trump this month, Slovak PM said Trump seemed to be “out of his mind,” per diplomat talking to @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

2. Is Trump ending his immigration crackdown in Minneapolis? No. Is anyone responsible for the operation that resulted in the fatal shootings of 2 US citizens being held accountable. No. Has Trump acknowledged that these killings were unjustified? Also no.

For context, the UK has a cap on credit card interchange fees of 0.3% and debit cards at 0.2%, the average bank charges 1.5% to bank your cash. Make of that what you will.

As we face a future where demand for water is set to exceed supply by 5 billion litres every day by 2055, we've uncovered documents showing regulators having to warn water companies repeatedly, over a period of years, that they need to take robust action to ensure the taps stay on.

🇪🇺 Kaja Kallas: "Let me be clear, we want strong trans-Atlantic ties. The U.S. will remain Europe’s partner and ally. But Europe need to adapt to the new realities. Europe is no longer Washington’s primary center of gravity." #NATO #Europe #EU #US #Rutte #Trump #Fascist

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births in a group is defined as a means of genocide under article 2 of the 1948 UN convention" Israel has decimated Gaza maternity services & destroyed 90% of all fertility clinics, along with thousands of embryos. Tareq Abu Azzoum reports

Just a quick reminder that the #Epstein case is all done and dusted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmF...

“I’ll be back with your drink” From the new Private Eye, out now.

This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like

Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

#Farage #Reform #Brexit

Sir Nick Clegg is right - leaving the EU has led to an explosion of red tape, and made us less prosperous, less safe, and less influential. We must repair our relationship with Europe without delay if we want to reverse the damage of Brexit.

Hot on the heels of our £9m donation from a Thailand-based crypto investor, I am currently serving my Clacton constituents by flying to Dubai for a private lunch hosted by an Indian billionaire, where I hope to encourage more foreigners to interfere in British politics.

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

One of the stories of British politics over last 15 years has been Conservatives and Labour valuing narrower and narrower ideological coherence over their historic, broad coalitions and then being astonished that their vote shares keep falling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Paul Kagame's Rwanda government got £290 million from the UK government/taxpayer - for very little beyond three press conferences (with a new Home Secretary each time). The attempt to seek another £100 million shows a striking level of chutzpah www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 It's official! Swift nesting bricks have passed the Scottish Parliament and will now become law. Swifts are in serious decline across the UK. This will help reverse that trend and make our communities more liveable for birds. @markruskell.bsky.social and @writerhannah.bsky.social explain 👇

She was supposed to spend Saturday morning painting children’s faces at a church. But she saw death up close. And she had to film the hate and cruelty of Trump’s murderous army of thugs with her irrefutable Alex Pretti murder video. #StandWithStellaCarlson www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Sorry but why the fuck would you *not* want to recreate 2006?Pre-financial crash, pre-austerity, pre-Brexit, pre-inflation. Britain's economically healthy, decent public services, largely competent government, fairly amiable political disputes. What kind of person prefers this period to that?

Sad to say that I come across these sorts of schemes regularly and, what is neglected in the Times piece, they are used as vehicles for modern slavery. I have clients who have been lured into schemes (some do include 'jobs' ) and ended up Home Office recognised victims. Step 5 is the big 🚩

Parts of England + Ireland are reaching the point of water stress - perilously close to not having enough water resources to meet demand, yet water firms have to be pushed, year after year, to take steps to address this. Explore water stress where you live on our map: share.google/DqfdTVWSPXMU...

Privatisation Curse. Royal Mail delivered Xmas letters/parcels late to 16m people. 2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year. RM doesn't meet targets. Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

This is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”

❤️‍🩹🫂🚂 Ukrainian Railways has lowered flags at stations across the country to honor passengers killed when Russia struck a passenger train with a drone in Kharkiv Oblast on Jan. 27. 🎥 Ukrzalinfo/Telegram

#EU now has its own 'secure and encrypted' satellite communication system 8 satellites from five different member states are currently being pooled as part of GOVSATCOM. The EU hopes this is the first step towards less dependence on the US - whose own communication systems are a lot more mature.

It’s going to be interesting seeing in exactly what terms those “orders followed” were given, by whom and when. But worth remembering that following illegal orders provided no defence to those following them, and certainly not to someone as senior as Noem. …but also sank those giving the orders

Republicans are now starting to come out and blaming Stephen Miller for all of this.

Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.

Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates: Applications closed Sunday. When did they select Goodwin?

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works” @trusselluk.bsky.social

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Tory Legacy 14.2m Britons live in poverty, highest in 30 yrs. 6.8m in "very deep poverty". 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. No curbs on profiteering. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

Worth knowing. popular.info/p/the-corpor...

Yet one more reason to protect forests, #ForPeopleForPlanet. 💚🌳

Here we see the suspension of normal civil rights, the arbitrary & capricious violations of human rights, with the imposition of armed military control over the civilian population in a defined area. This is not democracy. This is martial law.

🚨🚨 #NATO SG Mark #Rutte is to my mind massively undermining European #unity and efforts to build up their #defence and #security in what I see as a statement which only plays in the hands of #Putin and #Trump. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-defense-nato-mark-rutte-us-politics-threats-gdp/

Eyewitness says she has not even been contacted by federal investigators