If you want to see the horrible future awaits The NHS, look at the privatised mental health care in UK, absolutely abominable, minimal service to patients, horrendous shorting of staff.
EU Foreign Affairs Chief Kallas: "Unpunished crimes only encourage future atrocities."
EU Commissioner McGrath: "There can be no durable peace without justice, and no justice without accountability."
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Up to 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, according to CSIS estimates. In April 2026 alone — over 1,600 Ukrainian civilians killed or maimed.
Schools, hospitals and civic infrastructure worth half a trillion dollars wilfully destroyed.
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The ICC has already issued arrest warrants for Putin, former defence minister Shoigu, and General Gerasimov — who masterminded the bombardment of Ukraine's infrastructure.
The new tribunal adds the crime of aggression itself to the charges.
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Why not the ICC: the ICC cannot prosecute Russia's leaders for the crime of aggression because Russia is not party to the Rome Statute, and Russia's UN Security Council veto blocks any referral.
The special tribunal fills that gap.
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Gordon Brown: a special tribunal, modelled on Nuremberg, will prosecute Putin's inner circle for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
The Council of Europe and EU agreed on the mechanism this month. — The Guardian.
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It seems the entire Reform Rob Kenyon election campaign is based on this carefully sculpted "working-class local lad" narrative.
Beyond the numerous red flags surrounding his past conduct, the real state of British politics is reflected in the fact that thousands of people will fall for this and simply vote for him.
No discussion of policies. No relevant experience. No meaningful credentials. Just someone who started a plumbing business on Checkatrade six months ago and now has the financial resources and propaganda machine of Reform behind him.
People are literally going to go out and vote for a stooge, and I think many secretly know it and simply don't care.
People are so desperate to find a scapegoat for the problems they face in life that they're delighted to blame the person delivering their Uber Eats or serving them coffee at Starbucks, rather than the tiny number of individuals who control a staggering share of the nation's wealth, leaving less resources for everyone.
It's far easier to look down on those with the least and blame them for your problems while wealthy elites and political grifters bankroll campaigns that will leave you poorer and even more desperate.
And by the time you realise what's happened, you'll already have handed them all the power.
I seem to remember the BBC telling me back in the day, when the polls were good for Labour, that their guidelines prevented “reporting of single polls as news items in their own right.”
Seems to have changed if a single poll is good news for Reform! And to think that the consequence of all their favours and flattery will be to help elect a party committed to destroying them. Weird
Kasparov: Ukraine performed a historical miracle.
The coming funeral of the Russian Empire, which I believe is not far away, is the result of the heroism of the Ukrainian people and, yes, of Zelenskyy’s political leadership. 1/
👏 Great to hear that voters all over #Makerfield are absolutely furious with Richard Tice and Reform about the loss of control over our borders and freedoms to travel 👉 the direct result of Nigel Farage’s Brexit.
Promised control. Delivered record migration, small boat chaos, and endless queues at Schengen borders.
The public is waking up @AndyBurnhamGM
I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.
You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.
And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?
HODGES: Trump administration has failed miserably on Ukraine. They have so clearly been on Kremlin's side. All the pressure has been on Ukraine to make concessions. Fortunately, Ukraine no longer even pays much attention to that.
Biden administration missed an opportunity because they never said, "We want Ukraine to win." They had this nonsense, "We're with you for as long as it takes," which means exactly zero. But at least they were providing support.
Trump administration is worse and It does feel like they now realize that their approach was doomed from the beginning, because they didn't understand why the war started or how it started.
They didn't understand why Ukrainians were fighting the way they were and why the Russians were failing the way they were. So despite Trump administration, I think Ukraine has changed the trajectory of the war.
The last thing I'd say is that most European countries realize that the best way to prevent Russia from ever attacking a NATO country is to make sure that Ukraine defeats Russia.
I think most people realize that Russia has to be defeated. That Russia will never change until they are actually crushed.
Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.
Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison
Huge coverage of both
Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.
Media coverage? You judge.
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
"We're having scandals like this every week—literally every week, and sometimes daily. There are no words to really describe the depth of the depravity, the mendacity and the corruption that we're seeing from this administration."
Jennifer Welch: “There is a credible testimony in the Epstein Files with Donald Trump and a 13-year-old girl that she was forced to perform oral sex on him allegedly and that she bit him and then she was slapped or punched. This is a signed affidavit in the Epstein Files”
Since privatisation, water companies sold off 25 reservoirs without building a single major one.
Now they want bill payers to fund a few new projects. Too little, too late.
Privatised greed is putting us at risk during a climate emergency. To build resilience, we need public ownership.
Getting the feeling that soon people are going to see what @elonmusk has always been... a con artist running the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of U.S. capital markets. Things are about to blow up on him. A lot of ME investors are pulling out, based on whispers circulating.
🚨 HOLY SHIT.
CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.
And the wildest part?
One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.
Think about that.