Last week saw yet more wrangling at the high court over how much Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence, Elton John and their fellow claimants will be obliged to pay the publishers of the Daily Mail for the case they so comprehensively lost against them. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

Important info also that drone was apparently found near a Ukrainian aircraft.

Host Emily Abdow talks with Capt. Kristopher Ensley and Midshipman First Class Finley Rauscher about serving aboard USCGC Eagle, the leadership lessons of life under sail, and representing the Coast Guard during the #SAIL250 celebrations along the East Coast. #USCGCEagle

These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .

Your Much Needed Afternoon #TimelineCleanser ... Have fun at work, and if you can, make someone's day.

Piece from me on why Andy Burnham’s decision to excuse Diane Abbott’s support of Putin’s propaganda is a grim omen for our future The European far left and the Trumpian far right unite against Ukraine

Why Westerners hate the West

The horseshoe in theory and in practice

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I Remember, Hope you do….

Absolutely love this story ❤ #jaws

True…. #BookSky

These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.

The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.

Worse still he has not "unveiled a plan", he has merely stated an aspiration & totally avoided any of the complex boring detail as to how it could possibly work.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’ll admit, ‘Operation Fortress’ is punchier than ‘Operation Legally and Diplomatically Complicated’

[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.

A report from an alternative universe where Trump’s poll numbers haven’t cratered and he hasn’t lost the Iran war.

Well they didn't learn much from that decolonial project they launched five years ago, did they?

National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims

Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees

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1928 ➡️ 2025: Nearly a century of speed on the Derwent ⛵️🌊 Built from local Huon pine, Tasmanian racer Nymph dominated the Hobart Regatta in her prime. Today, she's restored, sailing again (HV000864)! Explore the collection: 👉 arhv.sea.museum 📸 Maritime Museum Tasmania / Wooden Boat Centre Franklin

Why is Norwegian company employing all Russian crew?

Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Swedish prosecutors confirmed that they have taken the captain of a Norwegian cargo ship into custody after an accident on Tuesday night that killed a mother and her young daughter and injured the father and his son maritime-executive.com/article/swed...

This is a really special @petejamison.bsky.social story on the last day of an American factory, owned by a Trump donor and offshoring all its jobs to China www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The last day of an American factory

A Trump donor called for an end to offshoring. Then his company moved much of this plant’s work to China.

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Another reason to revive this timeless artwork from WW2. Every ship has men & women working to bring us what we claim to want. They have no control over who owns the ship, where it is registered or where they are ordered to go. Often badly/not paid, poor work conditions. We rely on them all.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4d ago

A tanker carrying Qatari liquefied natural gas was struck by a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing security intelligence firms and ship-tracking data.

Trump administration ends Medicare drug subsidy. | AP News 67% of retired recipients of the drug subsidy via Medicare are Trump supporters and members of MAGA. #FAFO

Trump administration ends Medicare drug subsidy, Trump announces deal for Hamas to disarm in Gaza, border crisis

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#OTD in 1964, Task Force One consisting of USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge left Norfolk on Operation Sea Orbit. The all-nuclear-powered unit traveled 30,565 miles around the world without refueling to “show the flag” and demonstrate the Navy’s technical achievement.

MSC Baltic III ran aground on February 15, 2025, at Cedar Cove, Newfoundland. The operation has moved into the deconstruction / wreck-removal phase. Sections of the accommodation block have been cut and removed.

'The greater survivability of the Chinese nuclear arsenal also has the potential to undermine US extended nuclear deterrence' write Robert Jordan, Director of Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, and Dr Sidharth Kaushal, Senior Research Fellow, Sea Power in the latest RUSI Commentary.

The Maritime Leg of China's Naval Deterrent is Coming of Age

China's test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile on 6 July reveals that its drive to truly assure second-strike capability is maturing.

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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"Google spent 20 years building the reference the world checks against. Today it added a button that makes things up. Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in." "The forgery does not have to look convincing on its own. It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on."

Thomas Wiegold@wiegold.de · 6d ago

Puh.

Fuck AI

They’re not messing about. If only US media had managed to be similarly united & determined in the face of Trump’s assaults on them…

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d ago

The full statement from UEFA is remarkable. Members vow not to participate in FIFA competitions unless the entire proposal is scrapped and assurances are made it is gone for good.

Iran war has consumed nearly 67% of US Patriot interceptor stockpile, report says

Iran war has consumed nearly 67% of US Patriot interceptor stockpile, report says

In less than six months of war with Iran, the U.S. has used nearly two-thirds of its Patriot interceptor inventory, according to a new analysis.

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