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Prof Anoush Ehteshami
@anoushehteshami.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations at Durham University, UK.
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An irritated Nigel Farage said he would never racially abuse someone ‘in a hurtful or insulting way’, which raised more questions than it answered – 23 top responses.
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/25/f...
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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More than a million Palestinians in Gaza are vulnerable to upcoming winter weather.

Israeli authorities for months have either blocked or partially restricted the entry of key shelter items, despite a ceasefire that requires the unfettered flow of aid.
Lack of tents, food and warm clothes leaves Gazans exposed ahead of winter
As winter approaches in Gaza, more than a million residents are vulnerable to extreme weather and disease, as Israeli restrictions hobble the humanitarian response.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
And which foolhardy idiots want to put the charlatan who gave us the gift of Brexit in Downing Street?! Farage must be voted out of every public office.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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New research shows Brexit has cost UK up to £90bn per year in lost tax revenue.
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New research shows Brexit has cost UK up to £90bn per year in lost tax revenue, Lib Dems say – UK politics live
A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests the impact of Brexit has been worse than critics feared at the time
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
These are the new barbarians at our door!
“The £25bn savings plan1 that they were flogging at last week’s event, with all the grievance filled outrage we’ve come to expect from each episode of this ever-running series, was done under the auspices of giving Rachel Reeves some ideas ahead of this month’s autumn budget.”
The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget
£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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By Professor Clive Jones, Professor Anosuh Ehteshami @anoushehteshami.bsky.social and Dr. Rob Pinfold:
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The right wing paper, set to be bought by the Mail, was forced to correct an article in which it managed to get pretty much everything wrong

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Will the real Shabana Mahmood please stand up
The home secretary says we need to get tough on immigrants, but only a few years ago, she thought the complete opposite – so which is it?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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‘Auction from hell’: Mail seeks final say in tortuous Telegraph sale on.ft.com/47XwMen
‘Auction from hell’: Mail seeks final say in tortuous Telegraph sale
Power shift in prospect for UK media as Lord Rothermere looks to bring influential right-wing titles into one stable
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November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A failed revolution, and a failing and incompetent administration, no matter which end of the factions is in power!!

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COP30: What Iran Said About Its Climate Change Response In Belém — Forbes
As leaders meet in Belém, see what Iran, one of the world’s top ten carbon emitters, said about its plans to tackle climate change at COP30.
apple.news
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
War crimes.
Israel says it killed two Palestinians for crossing yellow line in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="431817" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-says-it-killed-two-palestinians-crossing-yellow-line-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-says-it-killed-two-palestinians-crossing-yellow-line-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel says it killed two Palestinians for crossing yellow line in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli army on Saturday said that it killed two Palestinians for crossing the yellow line in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> <p>"In two separate incidents in northern Gaza, IDF troops identified four terrorists who crossed the yellow line and advanced toward IDF troops, posing an immediate threat to them," the army said in a statement on Telegram.</p> <p>"The troops, in cooperation with the IAF, fired to remove the threat and eliminated two of the terrorists," it said.&nbsp;</p> <p>The yellow line in Gaza demarcates the area in which Israeli troops can remain according to the ceasefire plan. It is an operational boundary imposed by the Israeli military, which has, since the US brokered ceasefire&nbsp;came into effect last month, turned into a restricted-movement zone.&nbsp;</p> <p>On Thursday, Israeli forces advanced 300 metres into Gaza City, breaching the yellow line and changing its boundaries.&nbsp;</p> <p>Hamas has accused Tel Aviv of violating the ceasefire and killing hundreds under fabricated pretexts. "These violations have also led to changes in the occupation army's withdrawal lines, contradicting the agreed-upon maps," it said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So yes we continue to burn up our planet and melt all life on it! Well done COP30 people!!
Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is the true face of this nasty charlatan!! He is dangerous and a threat to our country and democracy! Chuck him out of office and let him live his life with his heroes Trump and Putin!!!!
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Not that Rachel Reeves inspires confidence but the right wing BBC presenter can hardly talk given her destructive political views!

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Fear and scepticism as Reeves prepares for her big Budget moment — BBC News
The chancellor faces her toughest challenge yet in a Budget that will define the government's future, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
COP30 for what again?! Fossil fuels? Deforestation? Hmm. Can a bad deal save our planet?! What would no deal have meant?! We just go headlong towards ending life on the only place in the universe we know that supports life. How can the blindness of ‘national interest’ & greed continue to prevail?
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our dominant right wing media needs to be challenged, broken into pieces, as a precondition for recovering our civility and the goodness of our political system. The charlatans like Johnson and Farage can be stopped, and we must stop their likes and prevent them from ruining our country.
The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The truth of it…

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‘Truly improbable and hilarious:’ Hayes reacts to Mamdani-Trump meeting
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM