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www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... I must speak to my region on missing out on a chance of rain. What was it thinking?

Palantir has MASSIVE databases It‘s expert at data scraping & aggregation It is closely linked to 🇺🇸 CIA & Defence …and now a corrupt 🇺🇸 gov “Palantir does not need to own the data or even have stewardship. They can extract, transform and exploit the metadata to build their own rich picture.”

What Russians did in #Bucha is particularly painful to my heart.I was there in the first days after it was liberated,I’ll never forget it Friends,please share this as widely as possible in the USA,Canada,the United Kingdom The world needs to see the truth about the heroism of Ukrainians Thank you!

Chris Mason failing to point out that Ratcliffe's immigration numbers were untruthful

Yet again the #BBCNews describes a Trump speech as "wide ranging". It was an hour and a quarter long error filled diatribe, stream of consciousness. Only in the small print is the the reality revealed.

Shameful reporting by #BBCNews "The Trump administration said the agent who fired the shots acted in self-defence. Local officials have insisted the woman posed no danger." We've seen the videos. If someone says it's raining and another says it's sunny look out of the window and report what you see.

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics and democracy is now up to 20k. Please share the petition far and wide. We need to push as hard as we can to break the establishment wall of silence protecting Farage. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Which western leader will be the first to publicly call Trump out for what he is? A Russian asset.

This petition about Russian interference in British politics is just getting started. Please help it grow, by reposting and sharing the petition as widely as possible.

Trump plumbing new depths

I've been away, and keeping my head clear, so I am wondering has the main news outlets picked the bones out of this? Well, @bbcnews.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social

1/ This speech made by Farage in September 2014, after Russia's first invasion of Ukraine, is a stream of Russian propaganda lies that could have come from Lavrov's mouth.

Just heard on #BBCR2 that yesterday another large number of people made it to the UK in small boats. As ever the #BBC only ever headlines days when numbers are high. #BBC subliminally pushing Farage's racist agenda.

No mention that the former leader of the council was a Conservative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once again #BBCNews describes a #Trump speech as "wide ranging" where others, eg #NYT, describe it as meandering.

Anyone seen these numbers reported the BBC?

Jeremy Vine on R2 Tommy Robinson's march was largely peaceful.

Is it just me or is the BBC's coverage of Kirk's murder out of all proportion to its coverage of other violent attacks eg the Hortmans?

At what point will Farage's self fulfilling prophecies be deemed to be incitement? #FarageRiots

Pathetic reporting by #BBCNews. The main take is Trump jokingingly requesting an interest cut? Bickering? As if both equally to blame? How about Trump put to rights?

BBC missing the point. www.bbc.com/news/article... Issue isn't whether Citizenship's a birthright but whether SCOTUS & POTUS can disregard part of the Constitution they don't like. There's a process for amending the Constitution. If SCOTUS doesn't uphold the Constitution is the US still a democracy?

Can’t wait to hear from friend-of-the-steelworker Nigel Farage on how this is another genius move from Donald Trump.

14 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones were aimed at Kyiv last night. This is Putin's follow up to his two hour chat with Trump www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Vance says the question facing the US administration was how it could help Russia & Ukraine "find middle ground" to end the conflict added, "it's going to be up to [Russia & Ukraine] to come to an agreement & stop this brutal, brutal conflict". As if Russia & Ukraine both to blame for the conflict.

Utterly ludicrous that the Mayoral elections using the first past the post electoral system.

Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t | Martin Kettle

'Good chance' of US-UK trade deal, says Vance. Please repost if you want the UK to rejoin the EU or Single Market rather than do a trade deal with Trump's America. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So Trump is angry with Putin. Because Putin had ordered the invasion of Ukraine that posed no threat to Russia? No. Because Russia has committed numerous war crimes? No. Trump is angry with Putin because he disrespected him by reneging on a proposed deal. Government by mobster.

The bingo card of cost saving clichés doesn't inspire confidence that the Govt will achieve its objective www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can there be any doubt where Trump stands on Ukraine? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... USA is fully owned by Putin.

Wish the BBC would stop repeating the lies of the likes of Trump and Farage in the headline when running a fact check story. Latest example is "Did Biden let egg prices get out of control?" Why not the headline "Trump lied about the cause of high egg prices"? #BBCNews

Not clear on what basis the Prime Minister has such faith in the USA in maintaining defence support for the UK. Is that a commitment to Article 5 or just for the UK?

to clarify: Trump is refusing to take sides over a war in which North Korea and Iran are backing one side and all of NATO has been backing the other

America's image has changed, says the Singapore Minister of Defense, "from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent" www.mindef.gov.sg/news-and-eve...

Who thinks the US/Russia Ukraine peace talks are limited to Ukraine? Two mobsters defining their manors to avoid any future unpleasantness between them, more like.

At what point will it become valid to question the appropriateness of America's membership of NATO?

The BBC's American correspondent, Anthony Zurcher, is to Trump what Laura Kuenssberg was to Johnson. Where any objective person would describe Trump's speeches rambling and incoherent he describes them as wide ranging or free wheeling.

Not sure what is more tragic? That the government cares so little about what people think that it will use AI automation to respond to them. Or that an AI process with 70% accuracy is supposedly better than the current manual methods. Incredible how broken Britain is. archive.md/2025.01.12-1...

BBC R2 reporting 58,000 people without power in the Southampton area. It's actually 58,000 properties without water.

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