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After a crushing defeat at the polls, Trump is still dreaming of his big, beautiful ballroom and wants Putin and Xi at the opening 🎉
Maybe that's exactly why he lost. Americans don't love dictators the way he does.
#RussiaIsCollapsing #Putin #Trump #StandWithUkraine #Elections2026
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The next President of the United States.
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UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting:
"We all wish that we could take president Putin's assurances that he doesn't seek war with Europe at face value.
But unfortunately, he's currently waging a war in Europe. A war that he could end today.
A war that was unprovoked and is illegal, and he could end at any moment that he chooses."
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Without America, thousands and thousands more Ukrainians would have been killed by Russian strikes. And millions more would have become refugees. That’s why we always thank America. And we mean it. Even when we say thank you many times in one speech. Just to make sure those who sometimes feel we haven’t thanked them enough can hear us.
But we also know that without Europe, Ukraine would not have survived. Without Germany and other European countries, without the EU. The Russians would have burned down far more of our cities and villages if it were not for your help.
From the address at the Berlin Security Conference. (2/3)
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✅ Protest has an element of theatre. That’s part of how British people make themselves heard.
I told the Joint Committee on Human Rights we should be proud of a culture where people can express themselves and worried that new restrictions are making peaceful protest harder.
🆘 The right to protest is a democratic right.
Thank you for asking me to contribute 🙏
Have reforms weakened the right to protest?
@LizWebsterSBF from @SaveBritishFood told the Joint Committee on Human Rights that we should be proud as a culture that we can express ourselves.
The hearing examined legislation giving the police more powers to restrict protest.
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Really interesting
🇸🇦🇷🇺 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly issued a final ultimatum to Russia: stop supplying Iran with missiles and other weapons that Tehran transfers to the Houthis, who are fighting against Saudi Arabia.
Otherwise, he has reportedly threatened to open the oil taps at full capacity, just as Saudi Arabia did during the Reagan era, and drive global oil prices practically down to zero.
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KREMLIN COMPLAINS TO TRUMP: UKRAINE HITS 5 RUSSIAN REFINERIES IN 5 DAYS Vlog 1582: War in Ukraine
youtu.be/_PrzZJy_H0s
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Kremlin logic 🤡
For years: "Ukraine is just a US puppet."
Now Ushakov whines that Ukraine ignored Trump and kept hitting Russian refineries.
4 refineries in 4 days. So much for the puppet.
#RussiaIsCollapsing #MakeRussiaSmallAgain #Putin #Trump #StandWithUkraine
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This why the BBC is so important, we are so fortunate to have a publicly funded national broadcaster which keeps impartiality at its core.
It is also why the likes of Farage want to destroy it. They want propagandist media like fox/GBnews in order to brainwash the masses.
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It’s my view - and I don’t feel the slightest pessimism about it. I’m deeply optimistic about Europe as a whole and as a team.
The morose framing is your own. I’ve never subscribed to this notion that being a member of the EU is some sort of victimhood. Especially for a hugely influential country like ours. For many countries, joining the EU was their liberation from tyranny- and now east to west we’re seeing over two dozen countries work together day in day out on shared issues - with their citizens and small business empowered by extra freedoms to work, trade, live across borders with ease.
As a scientist I’ve seen the shared European structures at their best - liberating scientists all over the continent (and world now) to work together… and pooling resource to support science at vast scale to crack problems that need scale.
Brexit was framed as a liberation from oppression. It has been anything but. In the vain search for a purist form of “liberty” from the straw man monster of our neighbourhood friends, we have ripped liberties and powers away from our own citizens and businesses- hemming them in and telling them to themselves find the benefits of blowing off our foot. That’s no freedom.
Look, I’m a scientist so I can’t begrudge experimentation. What I do object to is this new religion of reflexively slagging off everything European… and so a determination to do our own continent down in the vain hope that this will validate restrictions we imposed on ourselves. Without reassessing where we are. With the US, Russia & China in aggressive flux, I see huge opportunities for the UK and Europe and CANZUK all together as a team. A lot is going to happen over the next decade(s) and I want us with the right team (Europe & Commonwealth) at the juncture of it all. Despite all the dangers lurking in the world at this time, my view is fundamentally very, very optimistic of what we can be.
Believing Britain's future lies within the European Union is a hugely pessimistic view.
It's a view that says Britain can't hack it setting its own tariffs, regulating its own goods and services, setting its own taxes, controlling its own border, and eventually managing its own currency.
It's a miserable acceptance that Britain is defeated - and consequently must be subsumed into a larger political entity, under a higher political authority.
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Enjoyed talking with @miriam_cates & @andrewpierceexc today on @GBNEWS …
…on the opportunities that a UK-EU youth mobility scheme could instantly unlock for British youth - especially travel industry jobs.
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Great to hear GBeebies allow @mikegalsworthy to speak and seem resigned to reality that we are on the way back to the EU ❤️
Enjoyed talking with @miriam_cates & @andrewpierceexc today on @GBNEWS …
…on the opportunities that a UK-EU youth mobility scheme could instantly unlock for British youth - especially travel industry jobs.
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For the avoidance of doubt: there are no Brexit benefits.
It's time for the UK to rejoin the EU.
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Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.
But did you know his corruption is costing YOU money?
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OFWAT hands EY £15m contract to supervise Thames Water.
EY implicated in the Post Office, Thomas Cook, NMC Health, Kaloti gold, Made.com, Covid, other scandals rewarded
A firm that can't put its own house in order chosen to supervise TW
news.sky.com/story/ofwat-han…
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One day when I was still very young, I asked my father about his parents. I knew my maternal grandparents intimately, but I wanted to know why I had never met his parents.
“Because they died,” he said wistfully.
“Will you ever see them again?” I asked.
He considered his answer carefully. Finally, he said that there was nothing he would like more in the world than to see his mother and father again, but that he had no reason — and no evidence — to support the idea of an afterlife, so he couldn’t give in to the temptation.
“Why?”
Then he told me, very tenderly, that it can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. You can get tricked if you don’t question yourself and others, especially people in a position of authority. He told me that anything that’s truly real can stand up to scrutiny.
— Sasha Sagan; Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father Carl Sagan
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PUTIN TAKES THE LAST RUBLE: RUSSIA’S WAR MONEY RUNS OUT Vlog 1581: War in Ukraine
youtu.be/nlgOYYJRKKw
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At least 24 people have been killed and five injured in a Russian airstrike on a school being used as a humanitarian aid distribution centre in southeastern Ukraine.
The attack hit the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, where residents had gathered to receive essential supplies and take shelter.
Ukraine’s emergency services say two rescue workers and four police officers were among those killed.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces carried out a second strike, dropping a further nine guided bombs on the shelter where people had taken cover following the initial attack.
Rescue teams are continuing to search through the rubble for survivors, with fears the death toll could rise.