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Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

Why are the people who accuse those talking about reversing Brexit of "living in the past" never asked about their own plans to rip up an international agreement that was first signed by the UK some 75 years ago?

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

The king has a throne. Everyone else? Has to show some reverance. 🤢

The difference in the speed between our procurement process to buy weapons for Ukraine and our own weapons, is extraordinary...

This morning on BBC Breakfast, Nigel Farage said he had received “zero help from the state” with his security. Yet reports say he had previously received publicly funded protection and was offered a taxpayer-funded package including a bodyguard, a secure car and a trained driver.

“The auction winners were not Trump Jr’s only companions in the Mongolian wilderness this summer. He also spent two days with Umar Kremlev, a businessman with a criminal record who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal security service…” www.ft.com/content/f41f...

Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at CarersUK, welcomes the Government’s plan to end the Carer’s Allowance earnings cliff edge. This however should be the start as carer's allowance is 5x less than minimum wage, and that is something that needs to be addressed too.

Democrats call for special counsel to probe Trump's ties to Epstein

Harry Kane is the first Bundesliga player to win the Ballon D'or in 30 years. The last Englishman to win the award while playing overseas was Kevin Keegan, who also played in Germany, at Hamburger SV. Could King Kane follow in Mighty Mouse's footsteps and win it back-to-back?

Was good to get to dive in the latest report on how care home residents and staff were let down during the pandemic

Please God get rid of Netanyahu. I know the alternative isn't great but it's better than more of him with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.

Also, pay attention to what Elon Musk is now saying and doing in US politics. This is extreme, extraordinary and unprecedented.

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

An excerpt from Casey Michel's new book focuses on how Jared Kushner landed $2.2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund after all professional advisors concluded his request was unqualified, thus launching Kushner's role as an agent for the Saudi government.

Susanna Reid, "Why have you brought up rejoining the European Union?" Andy Burnham, "We have a decade of experience now looking back at Brexit, and I don't think it has played out as people said at the time"

Wow! I was not expecting that.

“I'm not sure we've processed the trauma of the pandemic as a society; the ripple effect of the terror and paranoia that we all felt the first few months; how frightened we were for our loved ones. I don't think we have reckoned with it at all. People just don't want to talk about it - or hear it.”

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I’m delighted to see England captain and Londoner Harry Kane crowned the winner of the Ballon d’Or.

Follow the money…

🇵🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦 Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: The United States has now adopted a strategy of ending the war on whatever terms are necessary, so that it can return to economic cooperation. But you can end any war by surrendering. So the terms matter.

Yet BBC News broadcast it. Anyone asked why?

New post: Today we have the second part of our very candid interview with Tony Radakin, who ran the UK armed forced 2021-2025. He talks about how we got into a mess over defence spending, why John Healey resigned, and how to fix military procurement. samf.substack.com/p/whitehall-...

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Bolsonaro's party recognizes Lula's election win in Brazil

CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

JUST IN: Maurene Comey's firing by DOJ was illegal and she must be orders retroactively reinstated w back pay, a judge rules. "To accept Defendants’ argument would be to unsettle the very equilibrium established by this Nation’s constitutional system" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

BREAKING: Preliminary injunction granted in the golf course case by Judge Reyes! The threat to close & destroy this historic property is the latest act of Trump corruption that the courts have responded to Kudos to our wonderful clients & cocounsel @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates

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🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

"Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged."

Shocked that Brexit was a Putin Plan? Four years we document confirmation of this by the US Army who saw it as as the “First Step in a Russian Information Blitzkrieg on the West” @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/02/t...

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

🇺🇦❗️ Zelensky: It doesn't matter whether lifting sanctions is economically beneficial to America, Russia, Asia, Africa, Europe or Ukraine. Sanctions were imposed because of Russian aggression. Lifting sanctions can only be linked to ending the war, diplomacy, reconstruction and security guarantees.

Not beating the "BBC RW bias" allegations

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

🇺🇦 Ukraine can cover only a third of state expenditures with its own revenues, — PM Koretsky The country's total expenditures in 2026 will amount to about $200 billion. Of these, $155 billion is for war, and the remaining $45 billion is for medicine, education, social needs and other expenditures.

Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s