Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin - the man whose thinking guides Putin - is getting worried.

As Nigel Farage is now so concerned about the influence of "foreign-born voters" can he finally explain why a Kazakhstan-born billionaire appears to be bankrolling his own political party?

One thing I have learned: you have to attack far-right/anti-democratic voices in the places and on the issues where they appear to be the strongest. You have to remove their assumption that they have *any* easy wins. The more pointless the battle feels, the more important it is to fight it.

The drummer of an American rock band, Geese, had his acceptance speech at last night's Brit Awards censored after he said 'free Palestine' and took aim at ICE

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood. These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.

We investigated, then Congress did. They found data brokers cost you billions Identity theft from data broker breaches cost consumers an estimated $21 billion. The brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out.

After the Civil War, Carney became the first Black mail carrier in New Bedford, working for the postal service for 32 years. When he died in 1908, Massachusetts ordered all flags lowered to half-mast the first time the state had given such an honor to an African American.

I drank a toast to Stanislav Petrov.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

What's interesting about this debate is that the SNP could have played the <Scots voted majority Yes but incomers voted No> card in 2014 but simply didn't

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

Wow. Josh Simons has resigned as govt minister Follows weeks of reporting by Democracy for Sale and others about how he paid PR firm to smear journalists investigating Labour Together Huge thanks to all our supporters. Couldn’t have done it without you democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

I cannot stress how much the words "and I can quote you on this?" have a magical power to eliminate bullshit. If you're genuinely glad that you've had to resign in disgrace, why would you not say so?

Allies of me are understood to be begging my fellow journalists to stop letting politicians put out doubtful statements through deniable sourcing.

Allies of Hutton reckon that far from welcoming the investigation, Simons probably wishes the whole matter had never come up.

Classic stuff

Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.

⚠️ SHUT UP: Everything is “Fine,” Say Billionaires. #BrokenNews

Thank God for the FIFA Peace Prize

I’d love news coverage to talk about how political events will affect me as a person, rather than how it’ll impact politicians / parties. Given the nature of their political stance, the consequences of a Green Party win for *humans beings* seems more important than its effects on the Labour Party.

When Starmer says the Greens and Reform are equally extreme, just as when Labour make the same comparison between SNP and Reform, it causes a visceral reaction in me. Not just because it’s stupid. But because it shows a fundamental triviality about the existential threat posed by the far right.

EPA rolls back rules as chemical firms claim provisions in RMP protection system too expensive to implement

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

"Much of the hostility towards anything to do with the Empire is just a desire to not have to hear difficult things about Britain"

Follow the money. And IIRC, Epstein accused his friend Trump of laundering money for the Russians when he bought the estate Epstein wanted in Florida.

"There is something very wrong with the way Americans trust criminal elites to be more reliable sources than the people they hurt." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

a picture which ironically illustrates acutely how the media more generally cover politics in this country

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

The mind boggles. Overseas nurses down by 93%, overseas care workers by 97%. In what world does this make sense? Especially if there is no attempt to replace them by a homegrown workforce? One thing is certain, and that is that everyone needs a nurse or care worker at some point in their lives.

Lmao

Finally we may get some truth and justice in the #spyware scandal. A Greek court convicted four persons for their role in the abuse of spyware against ao journalists and politicians. Further investigations are needed into the very close ties with the government party. Will @ec.europa.eu wake up now?

Some establishment journalists absolutely flummoxed at being handed their asses

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

Amazingly having switched over briefly, the GB News coverage this morning is actually emphasising the significance of the Green win, and the shortfall of Reform, far more than the BBC

Private equity is buying hospices. What happens in the US will arrive here. Palliative care and impending death is seen as a profit opportunity. PE destroyed care homes and vets. Patient deaths have risen in PE owned hospitals and nursing homes. UK handing more of the NHS to PE. archive.ph/uO3aF

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

the worst people around have long figured out that you just say whatever you want with no pushback and it becomes fact. no pushback, just say it. say whatever you want, nobody cares. the interviewers nodding at you don't understand and don't care and won't challenge a single thing ever

Farage and Nuttall in Oldham a decade ago. UKIP went for an overnight message of voting fraud, then declined to make a complaint when asked to produce the evidence. www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/1...

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

That same oligarch Ellison who bank rolls Tony Blair Politicians are now play things of the oligarch class

PM: You get those migration numbers down? Home Sec: Sure did boss, real fuckin damaging to public services and increasing the one voters hate most, just like you asked PM: what

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Former Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-former-prince-andrew/

The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as: Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class Epstein knew a bunch of Jews etc

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program

"Trump in some respects is an unimportant figure. He is the frontman for overlapping criminal networks. It is those networks, working for decades, that need to be examined most." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZs...

Every time I respond to this tweet, BlueSky deletes it. So I'm trying a quote-tweet. I wrote a book about Casolaro and Maxwell: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/its-safe-t...

Actually embarrassed for anyone still coming out to bat for FPTP in 2026. Quite apart from anything else you are quite simply not a democrat if you don't back PR. It's just not compatible with a democratic society now that we are decades past the "there's one left and one right party" landscape.