Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
Just catching up with this story. Turning Point UK came to my neighbourhood to “protect our kids” from drag queen storytellers at the Honor Oak pub. I don’t think people appreciate how much the English far right is tied up with Ulster Loyalism, and how dangerous this is in a time of polarisation.
Al Jazeera Investigates@ajiunit.com · 2w ago"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
It would be helpful if the rest of Europe’s senior political leaders would display something approaching Sikorski’s clarity and backbone.
(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · last wk.Poland’s Foreign Ministry Sikorski not only reminds Elon Musk that the USA haven’t been paying a cent to Ukraine in almost two years and in fact even benefited from the arms sales, but also schooled him that he is only damaging his brands when meddling in foreign countries.
"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.
we cannot co-exist with people like this. we either find a way to excise them, or we let them choke us with their ignorance.
Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w agoi don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this
"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire. But this alliance now exists."
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2w agoHumiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
America Is Now an Ally of Russia
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.
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The colossal misjudgement that Trump would back Ukraine, not Putin, was obvious at the time. Johnson is paid a fortune for this inane piffle.
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w agoOh well, no harm done, eh?
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Exclusive | Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Discuss Ukraine Deal
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky wouldn’t be included in the proposed talks, as Russia’s leader seeks to negotiate an end to the war that favors Moscow.
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'We need to do something to escape the low growth trap we've been in since the financial crisis of 2008' says the senior Tory whose party was in power for 14 of the subsequent 18 years. Unchallenged, obviously.
Anand Menon@anandmenon.bsky.social · 2w ago‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons.
Latest piece. The Ukrainian targeting of Yandex data centres has had an immediate strategic effect. It’s something we should expect to see more and more of in war--and tbh in peace these centres are a threat to democracy and might need to be neutralized. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/targeting-...
Targeting Data Centers As An Effective Tool Of War
It Is A Brand New World
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Man who enobled a KGB agent's son... despite SIS raising concerns... says what?
In case it’s not obvious, this is a setup so he can blame Ukraine for breaking a non-existent ceasefire they never agreed to as a pretext for more pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine actions.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 3w ago⚡️Trump claims Ukraine, Russia agreed to energy ceasefire — Kyiv has no information about it. Ukraine has no information about an energy ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 11, a senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.
Back at Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire. Pevsner described the decoration as ‘sumptuous.’ Honestly one of the most remarkable things I’ve laid eyes on. #adoorablethursday
1/x Have you ever heard of a ship that raced another ship with her crew and passengers in a drunken stupor, hit a rock, and caused almost two decades of civil war? One man survived. “No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster”. This is the story of the White Ship. #maritimehistory
The UK‘s political class, commentariat* and public gradually, over years and step-by-tiny-step, guiding itself to the previously taboo realisation that it should be in the EU is like a small child slowly learning that it is better and nicer for them if they don’t shit themselves all the time.
Trump is the one person that no Canadian will ever say "sorry" to
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · last mo.Q: How does this end, Mr. President? Trump: We're gonna win everything. We even have Lake Ontario is now Lake America. Canada is going to come in and say, “Sir, we are very sorry” #cdnpoli
I realise you guys all lapped it up, and it was good to see a statesperson show true emotional engagement, but, honestly, ”My dad, who lived in Liverpool, was a good man who believed in opportunity for all and voted Labour so England has to own Scotland” is a fucking dreadful argument.
I have arrested the men that were near the air base and who you decided were asylum seeking terrorists Forgive me they were white men in their twenties from London
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
I remember a world where if you tried to sell the US out for Russian money you went to a Supermax jail for the rest of your life.
Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 2mo agoquite something this paragraph.
Now we have a plausible idea why Don did not attend Don Jr’s wedding, His Russian handlers might have said it would be too obvious…..
Despite watching all this unfold over the years, I still find it weird that the hard Right across Europe and America bows down to Putin.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2mo agoFar Right AfD Leader Alice Weidel: “We have to obtain fossil fuels from wherever natural gas and oil are cheapest - namely, from Russia. “It is in our own security interests as well as our economic interests to have good relations with Russia.”
This piece is distinguished by a plague of adverbs even Jeffrey Archer might have been embarrassed to have written: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
Girl Group review – Rebel Wilson’s dreadful music comedy is a spice-free wannabe
The actor turned writer-director’s ode to girl groups is a shoddily made and embarrassingly unfunny catastrophe
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Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the roving uniformed thuggish gangs in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports