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Not only are they arresting journalists now, but they're gloating about it too.
It's obvious where this is all going
It's obvious where this is all going
January 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Not only are they arresting journalists now, but they're gloating about it too.
It's obvious where this is all going
It's obvious where this is all going
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Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Far right extremist Tommy Robinson endorses Matt Goodwin.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
A vote for Reform is a vote for division, hate, and all that goes with it.
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What is happening in United States is what happens when coercive powers of the state - arrest, detention, charges - are used as ends in themselves, and not as means of serving justice.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
What is happening in United States is what happens when coercive powers of the state - arrest, detention, charges - are used as ends in themselves, and not as means of serving justice.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
They know the arrests and charges will not stick, but they don’t care.
Intimidation, like cruelty, is the point.
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching reporters being arrested from our apartment window above.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 2:34 PM
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching reporters being arrested from our apartment window above.
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44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:36 PM
44% of the population of Denton and Gorton are ethnic minority, the majority of them born in the UK.
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform's candidate says those people aren't British and are liable for deportation.
It's a bold electoral strategy: vote for me and I'll throw you into the sea.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We just posted a quick analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Mineapolis. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFc...
Analysis of Alex Pretti Shooting in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Bellingcat
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:36 PM
We just posted a quick analysis of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Mineapolis. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkFc...
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The gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The gun taken by the agent appears to match the general appearance of the firearm shared online by DHS, and which they said was Pretti’s. This agent’s back is turned from the scene with the gun in his hand when the first shot occurs.
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A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
January 24, 2026 at 10:29 PM
A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.
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You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
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A US President's cognitive collapse would be less worrying if the most powerful figures around him were not delusional cranks who now see an opportunity to turn racial imperialist memes into violent reality
January 24, 2026 at 4:35 PM
A US President's cognitive collapse would be less worrying if the most powerful figures around him were not delusional cranks who now see an opportunity to turn racial imperialist memes into violent reality
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It’s nuts.
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
It’s nuts.
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So the good news is that Donald Trump says he won't invade Greenland.
The bad news is that he also doesn't seem to know what it's called or where he is
The bad news is that he also doesn't seem to know what it's called or where he is
January 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM
So the good news is that Donald Trump says he won't invade Greenland.
The bad news is that he also doesn't seem to know what it's called or where he is
The bad news is that he also doesn't seem to know what it's called or where he is
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Remember when the US polity ruptured and erupted when Biden got names wrong on set-piece occasions?
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
January 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Remember when the US polity ruptured and erupted when Biden got names wrong on set-piece occasions?
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
That was nothing compared with Trump’s Davos speech.
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When ignorant Americans say this, as they often do, I recall June 2008 and the weeping family of Private Jeff Doherty walking down the High Street in Southam behind his coffin after he'd been killed in Afghanistan. The whole town watched in silence, the parish church bells slowly tolled. He was 22.
Trump:
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
When ignorant Americans say this, as they often do, I recall June 2008 and the weeping family of Private Jeff Doherty walking down the High Street in Southam behind his coffin after he'd been killed in Afghanistan. The whole town watched in silence, the parish church bells slowly tolled. He was 22.
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There is a huge irony that as the US approaches its 250th anniversary, it has been saddled with its own "Mad King George." History rappin like a gangsta again!
This is not the work of a mentally competent man.
#25thAmendmentNow
Trump text to Norwegian Prime Minister
#25thAmendmentNow
Trump text to Norwegian Prime Minister
January 19, 2026 at 8:14 PM
There is a huge irony that as the US approaches its 250th anniversary, it has been saddled with its own "Mad King George." History rappin like a gangsta again!
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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 20, 2026 at 6:41 AM
There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
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Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people
January 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people
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Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires
January 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Trump's obsession with Greenland and erratic interventionism towards Venezuela are almost textbook case studies of a declining great power externalising its growing domestic instability into external imperial quagmires
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We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
January 18, 2026 at 2:08 PM
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country
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Nadim Zahawi has said that one of the things that attracted him to Reform UK was a belief in freedom of speech… but he has shown very little enthusiasm for free expression when journalists scrutinised his own conduct.
➡️ Watch Page 94 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59b...
➡️ Watch Page 94 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59b...
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Nadim Zahawi has said that one of the things that attracted him to Reform UK was a belief in freedom of speech… but he has shown very little enthusiasm for free expression when journalists scrutinised his own conduct.
➡️ Watch Page 94 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59b...
➡️ Watch Page 94 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59b...
As far as DJT goes @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has been right about everything
Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.
January 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM
As far as DJT goes @eddavey.libdems.org.uk has been right about everything
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Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Starmer’s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right thing.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.
Time for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.