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There are some cruel people and some ignorant people. And then there are people like this.

Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

Don't just ask whether Britain should rejoin the EU. Imagine accepting a job in Paris. Starting a business in Amsterdam. Studying in Florence. Retiring in Spain. Without needing permission to live there. That's what restoring Freedom of Movement could mean.

How a country is unable to get rid of someone like this 👇 is beyond me.

EU must ban all of Elons products. That’s a betrayal of epic proportions.

Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊

My suspicion about this live-streamed execution, as someone who has watched a lot of Ukrainian drone footage and strongly suspects that's had an impact on his psyche, is that even MAGA Americans are going to find that they don't enjoy seeing someone killed nearly as much as they think they will.

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.

Surely he has to resign again to let the people of Clacton prejudge the resukt of the police investigation? It’s much more serious than the investigation he resigned over last time…

honestly I think literally all gigs should do this, sincerely don't understand what people believe they're achieving by not meaningfully watching a gig and instead filming a video they will obviously never watch again, hateful behaviour, get rid

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

Fascinating documentary, great interview followed by brilliant short set, including two new songs. Fantastic value cinema ticket.

You're not 'capturing a special moment' when you're filming every song at a gig. You're too addicted to your phone to leave it alone for a couple of hours and simply enjoy the experience.

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

Enjoy The Silence- Depeche Mode 🥰

Wildfires are raging across Europe. The climate alarm is blaring. Illustration: Ben Jennings for the Guardian

Very sad to hear this.

Never trust a man who wants to colonize mars before he volunteers to fix earth.

So, a joke MP with 5 houses bought for cash, links to criminality and a £5Mill ‘gift’ in his bank… is so enraged at being held to account… that he resigns from the MP role he never did anyway…and demands a “people v the establishment” by-election to vote him back in. What an insufferable wanker.

Interrogation, live in session from the archive has been freshly uploaded to the La Petite Mort playlist on the band's YouTube channel. Watch now: youtu.be/Vcu3-v4T38Y NBL x #James #LaPetiteMort #insession

— a once in a lifetime shot.. captured by wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen

Trump threatens to end US-UK trade deal because UK won't join his illegal Iran war. There is no special relationship. It is subservience to the US. Don't make agreements with Trump. He doesn't honour them. The King's visit should be cancelled. UK must rejoin the EU, build alliances with others.

Donald Trump is no leader of the free world. He’s a dangerous and corrupt gangster. The Prime Minister needs to call off the King’s state visit to Washington before it’s too late.

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing. His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

Think about this: A retired game show host may end the world as we know it. Only a master satirist could write this scenario, but Mark Twain is dead.

Threatening the drinking water and electricity of 93 million people because the IRGC whose control of Iran you accidentally made unshakeable won't agree to a protection racket deal with your son-in-law.

It's truly extraordinary, all the column inches and earnest pundit chatter about his strategy and personality, when in fact it's all right there, in broad daylight. He's a baby having a tantrum. It's really no more complicated than that.

BREAKING: Adolescent teenage boys have taken over the Pentagon.

What the fuck is wrong with those idiots? Another made up talking point

We’ve had 3 PMs since Johnson. He has absolutely no relevance to this country. The only time he should be on TV is when he’s arrested for Misconduct in Public Office.

Your President is insane. Please remove him. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Struck by how supine so much coverage of the Royal Family continues to be, even now. “Business as usual” is the line I keep hearing. No, it really isn’t. And it shouldn’t be.

Tech Update. Today: How a dishwasher works.

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite" "He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

USA take note.

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?