David Head
@davidheadviews.bsky.social
European. Translator & writer. Allergic to Brexit. Seeking justice for the disabled, the homeless, & refugees.
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"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
Farage is apparently 'under the weather' today and unable to talk about the US threats to the UK and Europe over Greenland.
Which is unfortunate.
Which is unfortunate.
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
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The Trump administration is seemingly pulling out all the stops to get out of releasing the remaining Epstein Files.
On Friday, Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion to block Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s request for an independent monitor to oversee the release of the Epstein Files.
On Friday, Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion to block Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s request for an independent monitor to oversee the release of the Epstein Files.
Trump DOJ Files Bonkers Motion to Keep Epstein Files Sealed
The Justice Department claims Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s request for an independent monitor is an overreach.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The Trump administration is seemingly pulling out all the stops to get out of releasing the remaining Epstein Files.
On Friday, Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion to block Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s request for an independent monitor to oversee the release of the Epstein Files.
On Friday, Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion to block Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie’s request for an independent monitor to oversee the release of the Epstein Files.
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Worth noting that this state is known for "Minnesota nice" - politeness, friendliness, an aversion to confrontation.
Developments moving at an extraordinary pace in Minnesota
🔴 DoJ launches criminal investigations into Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor
🔴 Federal Judge places curbs on police treatment of protesters
🔴 Minnesota Star Tribune says Minneapolis is “under siege” by ICE
🔴 DoJ launches criminal investigations into Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor
🔴 Federal Judge places curbs on police treatment of protesters
🔴 Minnesota Star Tribune says Minneapolis is “under siege” by ICE
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Worth noting that this state is known for "Minnesota nice" - politeness, friendliness, an aversion to confrontation.
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It reminds me a bit of Brexit: we now spend so much time and effort solving a problem that is unnecessary and self-made - while there is an actual war going on on our continent.
My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇
Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...
My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇
Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...
January 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
It reminds me a bit of Brexit: we now spend so much time and effort solving a problem that is unnecessary and self-made - while there is an actual war going on on our continent.
My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇
Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...
My thoughts on the Greenland discussion 👇
Full interview www.welt.de/videos/video...
There's no way Palantir could be good for the UK.
“Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address,”
Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data
ICE is using a Palantir tool that uses Medicaid and other government data to stalk people for arrest. This is exactly the kind of data privacy abuse that EFF has been warning about.
www.eff.org
January 17, 2026 at 9:39 AM
There's no way Palantir could be good for the UK.
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Speaking from the Old Continent, it isn't. It really, really isn't. It's a message to a country that we all thought of as a friend and ally but is now extremely unwell.
VARNEY: Troops from Germany, France, Sweden, and Norway are taking part in a military exercise in Greenland. What kind of message are they sending to America?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Well, I don't think this is a message to the US. This is a message to China and Russia.
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Well, I don't think this is a message to the US. This is a message to China and Russia.
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Speaking from the Old Continent, it isn't. It really, really isn't. It's a message to a country that we all thought of as a friend and ally but is now extremely unwell.
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On the basis Farage said "Labour figure" and not "MP" my money would be on someone like Glasman.
A more depressing aspect of this is just how open the field is these days for Labour "figures", including MPs, to genuinely be supportive of a lot of Reform's ideology.
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
A more depressing aspect of this is just how open the field is these days for Labour "figures", including MPs, to genuinely be supportive of a lot of Reform's ideology.
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
Who is the 'well known' Labour figure Farage says will defect to Reform next week?
Nigel Farage has claimed a "well known" Labour figure is due to join his party next week after Robert Jenrick's defection.
news.sky.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:01 AM
On the basis Farage said "Labour figure" and not "MP" my money would be on someone like Glasman.
A more depressing aspect of this is just how open the field is these days for Labour "figures", including MPs, to genuinely be supportive of a lot of Reform's ideology.
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
A more depressing aspect of this is just how open the field is these days for Labour "figures", including MPs, to genuinely be supportive of a lot of Reform's ideology.
news.sky.com/story/who-is...
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NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
January 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
NEWS: Canada just checkmated the United States.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
Breaking with the U.S., Canada has struck a major deal with China: Ottawa will cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for dramatically lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
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ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.)
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.)
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
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This is what happens when you give racists power.
ICE Agents enter Target with no warrant and violently tackle two American citizen employees, evidently because they didn't "look American" enough. (DHS refused to explain their rationale, so we have to guess.)
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
The injured Americans were later dumped in parking lots miles away in sub-zero weather.
‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This is what happens when you give racists power.
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We may be reaching levels of embarrassment not yet witnessed on Planet Earth.
January 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
We may be reaching levels of embarrassment not yet witnessed on Planet Earth.
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French President Macron: "To remain free, we must be feared. To be feared, we must be powerful. And to be powerful in this world so brutal, we must act faster and act stronger."
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 AM
French President Macron: "To remain free, we must be feared. To be feared, we must be powerful. And to be powerful in this world so brutal, we must act faster and act stronger."
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ICE Gestapo were forced to leave Cancun Mexican Grill & Cantina in St. Paul, Minnesota, after diners began shouting at them and demanding they get out.
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
ICE Gestapo were forced to leave Cancun Mexican Grill & Cantina in St. Paul, Minnesota, after diners began shouting at them and demanding they get out.
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agree that was the point (one of many) when she should have fired him, & doing it for that wd've been a far stronger signal to ex-Tory voters than doing it for disloyalty. But at the time it looked like she might barely survive conference, nevermind war with Jenrick. It's weakness+the usual, surely
January 15, 2026 at 1:14 PM
agree that was the point (one of many) when she should have fired him, & doing it for that wd've been a far stronger signal to ex-Tory voters than doing it for disloyalty. But at the time it looked like she might barely survive conference, nevermind war with Jenrick. It's weakness+the usual, surely
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The skin colour remark, which had been criticised by Chris Philp and Mel Stride was, I think the moment she could have acted, and instead she did chummy shout-outs to him in her conference speech. There was a window then when she would have had the freedom to do so.
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The skin colour remark, which had been criticised by Chris Philp and Mel Stride was, I think the moment she could have acted, and instead she did chummy shout-outs to him in her conference speech. There was a window then when she would have had the freedom to do so.
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A market with no price signals that has created some of the highest fees in the world that hasn’t secured university funding. A policy that achieves literally none of its aims!
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
A market with no price signals that has created some of the highest fees in the world that hasn’t secured university funding. A policy that achieves literally none of its aims!
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This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
This has been the plan all along.
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
- Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN
- Implement the Insurrection Act
- Declare Martial Law
- Suspend elections
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This is the guy who sheltered Orbán in the EPP for years and then had the brass neck to pretend to be standing up for European values against autocratisation. And now he wants a rinse and repeat?
The EU’s centrist powers need to move to the right to reflect the new political reality, the leader of the European People’s Party Manfred Weber has told in an exclusive interview with POLITICO.
Europe shifted right — it’s time centrists do too, says Manfred Weber
EPP chief says he still wants to work with traditional allies, but they need to adapt.
www.politico.eu
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
This is the guy who sheltered Orbán in the EPP for years and then had the brass neck to pretend to be standing up for European values against autocratisation. And now he wants a rinse and repeat?
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Glad Jenrick has been booted out in disgrace, rather than being able to saunter over to Reform whenever he felt it would benefit him most.
But honest to god. These dismal, dismal people.
All conniving to screw the county over for their own power and enrichment.
Repulsively corrupt and inadequate.
But honest to god. These dismal, dismal people.
All conniving to screw the county over for their own power and enrichment.
Repulsively corrupt and inadequate.
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Glad Jenrick has been booted out in disgrace, rather than being able to saunter over to Reform whenever he felt it would benefit him most.
But honest to god. These dismal, dismal people.
All conniving to screw the county over for their own power and enrichment.
Repulsively corrupt and inadequate.
But honest to god. These dismal, dismal people.
All conniving to screw the county over for their own power and enrichment.
Repulsively corrupt and inadequate.
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It would be quite amusing if Farage now said 'nope, we don't want him either'
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 PM
It would be quite amusing if Farage now said 'nope, we don't want him either'
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A minimal European armed presence could not defend Greenland from mass US attack, they said, but it would, the Europeans hoped, make President Trump think again and strengthen US voices which have condemned his aggressive language towards and ally ENDS
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
A minimal European armed presence could not defend Greenland from mass US attack, they said, but it would, the Europeans hoped, make President Trump think again and strengthen US voices which have condemned his aggressive language towards and ally ENDS
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"The flag acts as a warning sign – a silent message. It makes you more vigilant and also, every time you go into a house with a flag, you have to prepare emotionally for the possibility of racism or rejection," says Neomi Bennett.
https://bit.ly/3LvCkEA
https://bit.ly/3LvCkEA
'A silent message to people like me': The nurses scared to visit homes with flags
Workers are affected by the atmosphere that national flag-flying brings, as they deliver care while on high alert for racially charged interactions
inews.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
"The flag acts as a warning sign – a silent message. It makes you more vigilant and also, every time you go into a house with a flag, you have to prepare emotionally for the possibility of racism or rejection," says Neomi Bennett.
https://bit.ly/3LvCkEA
https://bit.ly/3LvCkEA
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Very moving visit to the Green Line in Nicosia.
I want to be clear.
A comprehensive, fair and lasting settlement for Cyprus and for all Cypriots remains an absolute priority for the EU.
So I hope that 2026 will bring new momentum towards the reunification of Cyprus.
I want to be clear.
A comprehensive, fair and lasting settlement for Cyprus and for all Cypriots remains an absolute priority for the EU.
So I hope that 2026 will bring new momentum towards the reunification of Cyprus.
January 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Very moving visit to the Green Line in Nicosia.
I want to be clear.
A comprehensive, fair and lasting settlement for Cyprus and for all Cypriots remains an absolute priority for the EU.
So I hope that 2026 will bring new momentum towards the reunification of Cyprus.
I want to be clear.
A comprehensive, fair and lasting settlement for Cyprus and for all Cypriots remains an absolute priority for the EU.
So I hope that 2026 will bring new momentum towards the reunification of Cyprus.
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Good economic news. Blink and you'll miss it, mind. #R4today.
The UK economy grew by a faster than expected 0.3% in November
Growth was driven by an increase in industrial output, the Office for National Statistics said, helped by the return to production at Jaguar Land Rover's facilities following the cyber-attack there
Growth was driven by an increase in industrial output, the Office for National Statistics said, helped by the return to production at Jaguar Land Rover's facilities following the cyber-attack there
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Good economic news. Blink and you'll miss it, mind. #R4today.