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If you want to understand what is happening right now & what’s at stake, please listen to this conversation I had with historian Robert Kagan.
Europe has to wake up FAST.
Europe has to wake up FAST.
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast
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This feels like the most critical moment in my lifetime.
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Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Troll Army and the Paedophile: Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the role the prolific billionaire abuser played in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Epstein, Thiel, and the Obscene Projection at the Heart of MAGA Memetic Warfare
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
The Epstein Files reveal the prolific billionaire abuser's role in pumping out propaganda during the 2016 election, falsely accusing Trump’s opponents of being exactly what he was
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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Scots must be aware the UK is already "already in conflict with Russia" and higher spending on defence is required as a result, a Labour MP has claimed.
Scots warned 'we're already in conflict with Russia' as defence spending to rise
Keir Starmer is considering making a significant increase in UK defence spending after warning world leaders of the need to "spend more, faster".
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Scots must be aware the UK is already "already in conflict with Russia" and higher spending on defence is required as a result, a Labour MP has claimed.
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Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
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I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore”
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
February 14, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore”
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
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BREAKING: “Russia has proved its appetite for aggression, bringing terrible suffering to the Ukrainian people."
Keir Starmer accuses Russia of "using disinformation to sow division", in the beginning of his speech at the Munich Security Conference.
Keir Starmer accuses Russia of "using disinformation to sow division", in the beginning of his speech at the Munich Security Conference.
February 14, 2026 at 11:18 AM
BREAKING: “Russia has proved its appetite for aggression, bringing terrible suffering to the Ukrainian people."
Keir Starmer accuses Russia of "using disinformation to sow division", in the beginning of his speech at the Munich Security Conference.
Keir Starmer accuses Russia of "using disinformation to sow division", in the beginning of his speech at the Munich Security Conference.
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Actually Farage my experience as an East Londoner is that I feel colonised by privately educated people from backgrounds like yours. #r4today
February 13, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Actually Farage my experience as an East Londoner is that I feel colonised by privately educated people from backgrounds like yours. #r4today
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Just going to leave this here
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Just going to leave this here
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Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
February 11, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Kristi Noem has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
Gregory Bovino has to go.
Stephen Miller has to go.
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ban the pervert glasses, folks. kill them with fire.
70% of Britons believe it should be illegal for people to film strangers without their consent and share it on social media, amid concerns "manfluencers" are using smart glasses to record such videos featuring women without their knowledge
Legal: 15%
Illegal: 70%
yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
Legal: 15%
Illegal: 70%
yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ban the pervert glasses, folks. kill them with fire.
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Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
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Don’t the anti-immigration lot ever get tired of all the energy they spend on it? Every society has blamed immigration for everything, throughout history. And we’ll probably keep doing it forever. Just an endless, unimaginative cycle of getting fired up and spun off into the walls.
February 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Don’t the anti-immigration lot ever get tired of all the energy they spend on it? Every society has blamed immigration for everything, throughout history. And we’ll probably keep doing it forever. Just an endless, unimaginative cycle of getting fired up and spun off into the walls.
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Hard to believe that none of the Reform MPs turned up for the debate on Russian interference in our politics. Maybe they were visiting their former Kremlin talking points Welsh leader Nathan Gill in prison? Or en route to their next BBC interview to act as commentators on why Starmer should go?
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Hard to believe that none of the Reform MPs turned up for the debate on Russian interference in our politics. Maybe they were visiting their former Kremlin talking points Welsh leader Nathan Gill in prison? Or en route to their next BBC interview to act as commentators on why Starmer should go?
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Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
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£240m. With no tender. Palantir.
I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.
Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.
Palantir out.
I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.
Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.
Palantir out.
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.
Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’
I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’
I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
February 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM
£240m. With no tender. Palantir.
I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.
Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.
Palantir out.
I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.
Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.
Palantir out.
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The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Let’s please remember that Nigel Farage, whose personal mission it was to profit from wrecking the UK economy and damaging lives through Brexit is under minimal pressure compared to the UK Prime Minister for poor political judgment. Both are culpable, but Farage always gets off scot free.
February 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Let’s please remember that Nigel Farage, whose personal mission it was to profit from wrecking the UK economy and damaging lives through Brexit is under minimal pressure compared to the UK Prime Minister for poor political judgment. Both are culpable, but Farage always gets off scot free.
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The Epstein scandal is the biggest story of our time, and it is being treated with a soft approach. There should arrests of all implicated and those who are helping the guilty evade scrutiny!
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
The Epstein scandal is the biggest story of our time, and it is being treated with a soft approach. There should arrests of all implicated and those who are helping the guilty evade scrutiny!
Extraordinary how thick you’d have to be to vote for these shit-heads.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Extraordinary how thick you’d have to be to vote for these shit-heads.
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The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The trajectory from, “Trump will give Ukraine to Tomahawks to attack Russia” to “Trump has starved Ukraine of Patriots to help Russia” is the single greatest example of the failure of people to understand what Trump is and has always been.
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Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
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No matter which government rules the country, all European nations share a common dislike for Putin, even in Hungary. All but one: Serbia.
Remember this whenever Serbia makes calls for entering the EU. They are literally Putin‘s Only Fans.
Remember this whenever Serbia makes calls for entering the EU. They are literally Putin‘s Only Fans.
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
No matter which government rules the country, all European nations share a common dislike for Putin, even in Hungary. All but one: Serbia.
Remember this whenever Serbia makes calls for entering the EU. They are literally Putin‘s Only Fans.
Remember this whenever Serbia makes calls for entering the EU. They are literally Putin‘s Only Fans.
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The Trump administration seems to have deliberately starved Ukraine of Patriot missiles just when Putin was ramping up the Russian campaign to freeze and kill Ukrainian civilians.
Raise your hand if you think it is a coincidence.
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/empty-p...
Raise your hand if you think it is a coincidence.
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/empty-p...
Empty Patriot launchers, Ukraine faced air defense gaps amid Russia's energy strikes — FT
Read more
newsukraine.rbc.ua
February 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The Trump administration seems to have deliberately starved Ukraine of Patriot missiles just when Putin was ramping up the Russian campaign to freeze and kill Ukrainian civilians.
Raise your hand if you think it is a coincidence.
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/empty-p...
Raise your hand if you think it is a coincidence.
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/empty-p...
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The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
The daft thing is that with Proportional Representation there'd be no need for this self-destructive war within Labour. It could split into its component parts - left and right - and people could vote for what they wanted. It's only First-Past-the-Post that forces these irreconcilables together.