It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

The white supremacists in Washington are a clear and present threat to Europe

This is pretty essential reading on what the Trump admin is trying to do to Europe

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The reason Farage can't and won't apologise for his racism as a teenager is that he's continued his racism into adult life and likely to this day. It's for the press to do their job and show the public who he really is, not for him to change his horrid nature hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/who-...

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The WSJ confirms that in the leadup to Pete Hegseth's serial war crimes in the Caribbean, he made clear to commanders that our military code *was not to be followed*—no questions were to be asked of any orders. It led to the resignation of the top commander in the Caribbean.

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

You're welcome youtu.be/9sh2SwfuO44?...

The 'everyone is 12 years old now' theory is partly true. A lot of people are 12 now but the adults still exist and it's time they took away the iPads and asserted some kind of grown up thinking. Bring back (some) shame because this is getting ridiculous

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄 🧵 1/9

Maybe the racism corrupting Reform from the top down is a bigger story than some childhood chess? This country is a joke and the ones laughing hardest are in foreign capitals. Deeply unserious

Apart from unusable nukes Russia is a pathetic coloniser which unashamedly commits war crimes and should be treated as such. As Stubb said Europe should move to rules-based foreign policy. No excuses for them. And stop being afraid of a third-rate coloniser.

Briefly reposition this as people with loyalties to Israel and what happened with Corbyn (I'm no fan) to see how deeply ****** the elite discourse in the UK has become... Secondarily what a bellend this guy is. It's the recurring theme of people telling us what the British people are represented by

Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’ Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’ Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.

It's really not acceptable for Russia and the US to negotiate European security without Europe, and it's for Europe to make that clear to them (with actions)

This is the kind of push back it's nice to see. And we need something like this on this side of the pond too as we confront the deeply unserious people on the right

Limited sources for this story but imagine asking someone to return the bomb that you sent to them which failed to explode... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

It isn't pleasant but everyone needs to understand that the US is now controlled by a white supremacist regime and that has consequences beyond it's borders too

It would be kind of nice if the BBC would cover the *fact* that Trump is a racist and Farage is a racist instead of publishing their editor's opinions on Rachel Reeves

This is how Chris Mason, like a child filled with wonder, described "the choreography and theatre that surrounds a Budget" in Feb 2024, when a male Tory Chancellor was in post. "Plans, or even just options, can be floated... Reaction to them can be tested. Opponents can be teased or wrongfooted." 👀

This wasn't in the manifesto. And hopefully faces rebellion in parliament www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I suspect she's going to learn the hard way that you cannot actually extract oil via air campaigns and oil infrastructure is also very fragile

Imperialism is a hallmark of fascism

So this 'deal' is actually just the US bullying the UK into increasing healthcare costs in order to subsidise big pharma with an unwarranted (and unconstitutional) tariff. How about we increase the digital services tax in return? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So Canada can manage to negotiate involvement in the EU's SAFE defence procurement scheme and yet the UK can't

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

See also, pretty much everything the last 4 Tory prime ministers did and said, the entire Brexit campaign, COVID, the things that the Tories and Reform are currently saying, Farage inciting riots last year... the press are deeply dysfunctional

The empire casually announcing the closure of another country's airspace via social media post...

Amnesty International: "The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal... the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

the US is what rampant militarised populist nationalism looks like. Don't stop paying attention. Below are just some of the actions that I added to the TrumpActionTracker this morning www.trumpactiontracker.info

Read this utterly deranged racist tirade and see how close the US now is to full-blown fascism, where 53 million people get placed into the outside group to be persecuted, and opposition lawmakers get targeted. (Nearly 75% of US immigrants are either citizens or have permanent legal status)

This dumb broken marionette doesn't actually want peace or even understand what it's like to be a human? How surprising. Some of us have been saying this for a decade www.bbc.com/news/article...

What folks need to realize about "peace talks" is that this is all theater for Washington. Ukraine knows that Russia has no intention of stopping the war, and the Russians know the Ukrainians know that. So this is just all a performance for Trump, hoping he blames the other for the lack of peace.

What a surprise that Farage (like other narcissists) attacks the victims and then reality when his behaviour is questioned. Straight into the Trump playbook of attacking the press for daring to question him

Trevor Phillips argues that the only way to preserve British tolerance is to make Britain less tolerant. I suspect his definition of tolerance relates to tolerance of him personally.

Sick. Has congress authorised a war? 70% majority of Americans are against this illegal idea. (CBS News/YouGov poll Nov. 19-21) Blatant pillaging

This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.

Kind of telling that the Trump administration is more interested in an economic cooperation agreement with Russia (on things like energy, AI, arctic, etc) than it is with European democracies

And the British government still won't do anything. Just incompetent

The current US administration and President are embarrassingly playable. But it is unacceptable for Russia to dictate how it's illegal invasion of Ukraine ends whether it's due to the clowns in the White House or not. bsky.app/profile/chad...

Rubio: "...Achieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult but necessary concessions". Yeah, where are the Russian concessions exactly? Is Russia going to cut it's army by 40%? Is Russia going to have a ban on long range weapons and foreign troops? Pathetic

Russia targets civilians continuously. And every target has a purpose. The sabotage inside Poland, attack on a port next to Romania and the attacks on western Ukrainian civilians are a challenge to the West, alongside the continuous terror message to Ukrainians. Sheer evil.

Ternopil 🇺🇦💔

I don't think it's acceptable for the government to be telling us who has access to a fundamental right in British legal tradition. The chronic underfunding of the criminal justice system is not a reason for us all to give up our rights www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

This #TransgenderDayOfRememberance, we remember the over 280 trans people killed globally this year and the many more lost to suicide. They deserved to live safely, without fear, and to be fully who they are. May their memories move us to keep fighting for a world where all trans people are free.

Labour MP says only way to unite UK over immigration is by leaning into Reform narrative.