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[Malcolm Hawkes 🇺🇦 @MalcolmHawkes]

Plus ça change ...

[Sajid Javid @sajidjavid]

The EU single market is a great invention. Walking away will undoubtedly cost British jobs https://t.co/3t8zFo10v7

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

One of Russia's strategies is to intimidate the West, convincing them that supporting Ukraine is a risky endeavor. They aim to suggest that allowing Russia to act with impunity is acceptable because "or else.."

One tactic they use is exploiting media sensationalism. Yesterday's media frenzy over yet another air attack clearly shows how this works. While undoubtedly upsetting, the attack was not unprecedented.

Similarly, today's launch of a new nuclear-capable missile was just another act of nuclear blackmail. Russia has been using nuclear-capable missiles in its attacks on Ukraine before. However, using ICBMs worked effectively to provoke breaking news articles in the press, supported by paid influencers and troll farms to incite as much panic as possible, sending a clear message to society.

It's crucial to stay calm, avoid panic, and refrain from spreading fear. This is exactly what Russia wants.

[Malcolm Hawkes 🇺🇦 @MalcolmHawkes]

@TonyDowson5 Partisan nonsense:

https://t.co/APT2FYnjzn

[Yulia Navalnaya @yulia_navalnaya]

«Я сделал свой выбор. Конечно, я стараюсь держать свою семью как можно дальше от его последствий и минимизировать их риски, но есть вещи, которые мне неподвластны. Мои дети знают, что меня могут посадить, моя жена это знает, мы всё много раз обсудили. Что могут ещё и убить это оказалось неожиданностью, но это ничего не меняет.

Я гражданин России, у меня есть права в своей стране, и я не намерен жить в страхе. Если мне предстоит сражаться, я буду сражаться, потому что я знаю, что я прав, а они — нет. Потому что в этой ситуации я на стороне добра, а они на стороне зла. Потому что множество людей поддерживает меня».

Алексей Навальный, из книги «Патриот»

https://t.co/8NsSj4sb5F

[Otto English @Otto_English]

IT'S VERY SIMPLE.

Just as:

Leaving the EU took away YOUR freedom of movement

SO:

Leaving the ECHR will take away YOUR human rights

Do not get fooled by Nigel Farage and his very dangerous narrative.

[Malcolm Hawkes 🇺🇦 @MalcolmHawkes]

@Suraj_Sharma @implausibleblog So much winning with Brexit - only, can you “get over” carcinogens?

https://t.co/bCctsLxXp2

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Why did Huw Edwards avoid prison?

Is this evidence of “two-tier justice”?

Let’s take a quick look. 🧵

TLDR: This is an entirely expected sentence for offences of this type.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Given news from over the pond, this @mrjamesob interview with @JMPSimor needs revisiting.

Brexit IS an offensive on our democracy, freedoms and way of life.

We need an urgent inquiry into why the Tories allowed Britain to be pawns in Russian game.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

This is riveting. Shocking but not really surprising. How unlikely is it really that the U.K. hasn’t been similarly targeted? ‘Among the types of influencers listed as possible collaborators are actors, politicians, media representatives, activists, and clergymen’

[Malcolm Hawkes 🇺🇦 @MalcolmHawkes]

@IanDunt Hard disagree. The cost burden of smoking-related diseases on the NHS is enormous. Smoking in public normalises it; the smoke itself is carcinogenic and highly addictive to anyone who inhales it. Smoking restrictions are as protective and sensible as seatbelts, speed limits etc

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

America needs to learn the terrifying lesson of the British riots. This was Musk’s trial balloon for the US election.

The prospect of political violence is real. And Musk’s behaviour is a warning shot of what’s to come. My piece for @ObserverUK

https://t.co/2Lx8bxGh5T

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Another long day in the company of enraged halfwits, convinced by far-right Twitter memes that the UK’s tradition of free speech is imperilled by *CHECKS NOTES* people being prosecuted for public violence, and inciting violence, under laws that have been used daily for decades.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Heseltine was absolutely correct a couple of months ago to call out the fact that the @reformparty_uk peddle racism.

Full interview here 👇
Heseltine Right To Call Out Racism
https://t.co/6tetTRTcL9

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Kamala Harris - 'Before I was a senator I was an attorney general and a prosecutor. In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. I know Donald Trump's type'

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

BOOM! This Kamala Harris ad from 2020 SLAMMING Trump is going viral right now! It still applies and she is the right person for the job. HARRIS 2024! https://t.co/ksSoIXKgOl

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Chris Mason, "How would governance look if you are prime minister by the weekend?"

Keir Starmer, "There would be a mindset change on day one because I plan to return politics to service"

"We've had far too much self entitlement over the past 14 years with the Conservatives.. Partygate.. Covid contracts handed out to mates.. More recently the gambling scandal.. That all has to end"

"We stop the politics of division, people are exhausted, all this government have done is find points of distinction and division of people, rather than trying to bring people together. That ends"

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

We didn't have parties to "boost morale".
We didn't have quiz nights.
We didn't have champagne.
We watched our colleagues die.
We watched the bodies pile high in their thousands.
These lying, cheating, self-serving charlatans need to be flung out of office.
Use your vote. Vote.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

5 days to go. Remember when senior Conservatives showed they don't understand anything about trade

[Malcolm Hawkes 🇺🇦 @MalcolmHawkes]

There are worrying parallels with Boris Yeltsin’s faltering campaign for president in 1996, where his severe health problems were covered up in fear of the Communist alternative. That helped set Putin on a path to power all in the name of ‘saving democracy’.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

This was the kill shot