ICE have detained a Brit for seven weeks. Should be a warning for anyone thinking of heading to the US.

‘I’m being treated like a murderer’: the British father detained by ICE — The Times and The Sunday Times

Connor Read was attending a green card appointment when he was taken to a detention facility. He has been held for more than seven weeks

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“Keir Starmer has become the first UK prime minister to be presented with the Légion d’honneur by a French president, in recognition of his work with France on the security of Europe.” #RejoinEU for UK’s security. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive France’s Légion d’honneur

Exclusive: Emmanuel Macron honours outgoing prime minister for leadership role in supporting Ukraine

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Surprise! Surprise!

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£10bn wasted on unusable PPE. A "VIP lane" rigged for political insiders. The Covid inquiry’s damning verdict is in, and it's a story of systemic betrayal. Read the full piece. #CovidInquiry #PPEWaste #ProtectTheNHS open.substack.com/pub/grandad6...

Starmer really was brilliant on Ukraine. Holding the line and providing solidarity and practical solutions when America fell away.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3w ago

Macron to Starmer, "And I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate how proud we were to work with him, and how much this coalition of volunteers owes him, and how much the commitment of Europeans to stand alongside Ukraine owes him" "Thank you Prime Minister"

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds

Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report

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Hats off to whoever created this.

Not to make this all about America, but things like this, the Tartan Army, the Cape Verde story, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others are good illustrations of how you can be proud to be where you're from and confident in your identity while being kind and gracious and without being a complete dingleberry

Paul Guinnessy@paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 4w ago

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

youtu.be/3IFhtPvz6Eg?... Interesting and informative. If anyone needed reminding again, it’s the BBC + RW media/press who’ve encouraged, supported and facilitated Farage. In doing this, they’ve enabled Brexit and endangered democracy in the UK. This must stop now! We see what you’re doing #BBC.

Nigel Farage’s PATHETIC Temper Tantrum

YouTube video by Owen Jones

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Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

Ten years ago today Britain voted by a narrow majority (51.9%) to leave the EU Most Brits living in other EU countries couldn’t vote. Commonwealth citizens in UK could The Leave campaign featured a pack of lies and promises that did not materialise Today, a growing majority want to rejoin the EU

Whatever people think domestically, as a statesman on the world stage Keir Starmer was exemplary

Rather than a General Election, I think I'd favour a full investigation into Nigel Farage's finances.

Rousing speech from Neil Kinnock at the #RejoinEU rally in London today #RejoinMarch

@miriamendersby.bsky.social I am not getting the opera feed at present

Trump is cheering on a bad deal to end a war with Iran he should have NEVER started. American servicemembers killed and injured. Thousands of civilians killed. Billions of taxpayer dollars lit on fire. All for a worse deal than what Obama negotiated without dropping a single bomb.

Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.

Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.

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"He hosted 20 press conferences between January & April 2026, amounting to more than one a week. However, after news broke on April 29 of his £5mn gift from Harborne, which he failed to declare in his register interests, Farage held only one press conference in May." @rachel-rees.bsky.social

Nigel Farage scales back press events amid scrutiny over £5mn gift from crypto investor

Senior figures suggest Reform leader has been working behind the scenes on party strategy

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These ghouls knowingly lied and lied to us, with catastrophic consequences. Why are they never held to account?

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Of course we know the two men who SHOULD have been jailed - Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage, for inciting the violence. And now they've done it again in Belfast. While we have a spineless government, and Burnham pledging to do what Farage wants, nothing will change. It will probably get worse.

Two men jailed for violence at protest over police treatment of Henry Nowak

Leon O’Leary threw a smoke grenade and Connor Bishop a traffic cone at officers during disturbance in Southampton

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I don’t think I’ve ever been less interested in a World Cup.

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

God I hope the U.S. lose every game at the World Cup.

JD Vance and the United States have no right to lecture the UK on law enforcement or how to police. Sort your own house out.

And yet Starmer and Labour are still on Xitter. Shameful. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accuses Musk of trying to ‘whip up division’ in UK over Henry Nowak murder

PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images

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I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.