"Patriotism" is not measured in how many flags you shag. 🇬🇧 UK ECONOMY since Brexit 🇬🇧 ⛽️ Gas up 94.1% ⚡️ Electric up 78% ⛽️ Fuel up 49.3% 🏨 Hotels up 37.8% 🏡 Rent up 25% 🍲 Food up 25%  💷Average earnings down 2.8%

Every military facility I've ever been in that has a television, it is tuned to Fox News. I was a military spouse for 25 years; I've seen a few military facilities. Our troops are systematically brainwashed and actively taught that independent thinking is bad, at least those who are susceptible.

Still, at least we got our sovereignty back, right?

Mexico President "Claudia Sheinbaum calls on the United Nations to step in to stop Trump. She says Trump broke article 2 of the charter of the United Nations. I stand with Mexico!"

I wondered how long it would be before the right wing extremist faketriots would be begging Trump to come and remove our leader. Tommy Ten-names grovels to a foreign fascist criminal leader like Trump and thinks waving a flag makes him a patriot...

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"

Every US Military member involved in the crime in Caracas need to be charged with International crimes when this illegal regime falls.

I expect that Starmer will remain firmly lodged on the fence, while Farage will remain firmly lodged up Trump's...

In the 1700 and 1800's the British Empire controlled 1/3rd of the planet. But 99% of Britons still lived in crippling poverty. The Empire is never for you, all you get is death to make it larger.

Polanski nails Farage.

Zack Polanski nails Keir Starmer

Colonial Carnage, a 🧵... The other two threads in this trilogy list wars and assassinations, but it is impossible to gauge how many people have been murdered by the British Empire because so much killing is entirely undocumented, and it would take volumes to account for what is known.

If Hamas is described as a terrorist organisation by the 'international community', why isn't Mossad? 🧵

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Maybe they should just get on with scrapping the pointless shit hole then? Would certainly give them a nice bit of extra cash in all the unearned salaries and subsided food and drink they get.

Ah yes, Machado. Who thinks Trump is a visionary for blowing up boats in international waters, and who wanted Israel to invade Venezuela. Her peace prize has abour as much legitimacy as Trump's FIFA one. How about world leaders stop appearing war mongering madman? Trump is not an ally.

the US being able to sanction ICC judges without it immediately resulting in complete international isolation and sanctions is also a great example of this.

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‘Now’. They refused to let the trade unions give their message during the General Strike but platformed Home Secretary W Churchill throughout. They neglected to mention the child from an orphanage that was on Lord Mountbatten’s boat for 30+ years. They’d rather tell you about pasta trees than facts.

The BBC is a cringing, craven organisation now, in hock to its right-wing hierarchy. It's much more akin to entertainment than serious news. I'm surprised journalists of the calibre of @bbcstever.bsky.social @bbcdaniels.bsky.social and @bbcdomc.bsky.social still work for them.

Been watching the BBC coverage for 15 mins and there's no mention yet of the illegality of US intervention under US law [let alone international law]. Can't help think that Trump's lawsuit is causing them to feel unable to report what is happening properly.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

What is the mechanism to prevent Putin from taking out Zelenskyy or Xi Jinping from taking out Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te in the same way Trump has just done with Maduro? Moscow and Beijing saw Venezuela as an ally, but they’re also noting the silver lining for them here.

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Was more embarrassing for the UK when the US invaded a Commonwealth country - Grenada. But we tend not to do history these days in our politics.

Nigel Farage expresses support for Trump's "unorthodox" breach of international law - on grounds that they may "make China and Russia think twice" But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.

Farage is thick as pigshit - Trump's actions in Venezuela validate Russia's in Ukraine and China's forthcoming ones in Taiwan. They are possible all coordinated. He's just a puppet. Who previously has repeated Russian talking points

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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It is now beyond doubt that the US is a rogue state on par with Russia. Trump and his coterie are criminals and should be treated as such. The minute any of them step foot outside the US, they should be arrested.

Kemi repeating her disgusting "all cultures are not equal" comment? She's got nothing to offer anyone except hate and culture wars. An ideas and policy vacuum.

'After a fresh analysis of bones belonging to a species called Sahelanthropus tchadensis...researchers concluded that while it resembled an ape, its bones were adapted to walking upright, rather than moving around on all fours. It is considered the oldest known hominin'. 1/2

8. People already in res care whose needs have been increasing for some time but no attempts made to move them to nursing home care, yet the moment they come in acutely with a short-lived acute illness/injury the water closes in over their heads 9. Internal delays waiting for other teams' input

and the failure to implement solutions right in front of our eyes because of the fixation with "innovation" and digital for its own sake Examples from my daily practice which have got worse by far recently 1. Endless (discharge) transport delays 2. Endless (discharge) equipment delivery delays

People expected better, especially the ones who had been battered by the Tories for the past 14 years: migrants, disabled people, benefit claimants etc. There was an alternative narrative they could have pushed, but did not.

No matter how clever it becomes generative AI will always be soulless slop and its users will always be talentless charlatans. That’s my unpopular opinion for today.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

The fact the man with his finger on the nuclear button is constantly being asked to take cognitive tests should concern every man, woman and child on planet Earth.

One day we’ll look back with horror and disbelief at how vaping was encouraged by doctors, antismoking campaigners and even the NHS bit.ly/4jkAfrs with no proper long term studies on its safety or dangers

Just to be clear, this is an illegal order and the military should have declined to carry it out. They didn’t. I guess this means it’s no longer the American military, it’s the Trump military, and they will follow any order he gives.

Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about healthcare. Richard Tice uses ‘independent’: "Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."

Please, let's have no wishy-washy 'stand with our ally' crap from the British government today. Condemn this. Take the high ground before other bad regimes (e.g., Russia and China and Iran) do at the UN www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

They genuinely cannot distinguish between “this sounds based and gets us a lot of retweets from our neo-Nazi fan base” and “this is in reality a good idea.” They are pursuing lunatic authoritarian policies because the reward centers in their brain are tuned to social media likes and nothing else.

These people have spent years brazenly demonstrating how they are utterly unfit for office, with little to no public challenge and if our media wasn’t so complicit in their failure, they’d all be in the political bin by now. Not conniving together over who gets power next.

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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

And Putin has known for a long time that Trump will do nothing if Russia invades other European states. And Xi knows that he’ll do nothing if/when China invades Taiwan. And European leaders are too terrified of their electorate and right wing populists to do anything about it. Welcome to 2026.

Looking at what's happening in the ex-democratic 'republic' of the disunited states to its formally free news media (see CBS) it really is time our balless government does something about the power of our media and its slide towards fascism. At least kick the BBC'S arse.

A lot of us don’t quite follow your lack of criticism for people so obviously inept, unserious and whose policies demonstrably make things worse. The cult of personality might work with some voters but is it really supposed to work so well on journalists?