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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

An appropriate post from Zelensky on the anniversary of D-Day. Nothing from Trump. Which is appropriate, since Zelensky is a fighter against tyranny, unlike Trump.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Thanks so much to the Embassy of Ukraine to Ireland for attending my speech at Trinity in Dublin last night 🥹🫡❤️🇺🇦

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@BasilTheGreat God, he is a real twat....

[Agent P @AgentP22]

As the Peter Murrell fraud scandal grows arms and legs, 4 SNP ministers are flying out to the world cup to avoid further scrutiny.

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@InTheTrenchesUK Obligatory reading.....thanks...

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

THE DOSSIER #3: Torsten Bell MP – The Parachute Hypocrite

Torsten Bell,

September 1982. PPE from Oxford. Fabian Society speaker. Child Poverty Action Group trustee. Academy of Social Sciences Fellow. The network wrote your script before you learned to speak.

Your mother wrote policy papers about families. Your father taught at Swansea University then worked for Save the Children. Your twin brother is a civil servant. The Bell family has never had a real job. Never met a payroll. Never created wealth. Only consumed it. Only managed it. Only lectured those who make it.

You spent nine years at the Resolution Foundation writing about poverty. Nine years building your brand as the man who cared about the poor. Then you entered Parliament and immediately voted to keep the two-child benefit cap. You discovered principles are expensive when you are collecting a ministerial salary.

You claim "I'm no career politician" on your website. The lie is clinical. Treasury civil servant. Special Adviser to Darling during the crash you helped create. Policy Director for Miliband. Chief Executive of a think tank. Then MP. Then minister in six months. You have never had a job outside the Westminster bubble. You are the bubble.

You parachuted into Swansea West with no Welsh blood, no local roots, no connection to the place you now represent. The constituency was a convenience. A seat to be occupied. A stepping stone to your rapid promotion. The locals called you a carpetbagger. The national party crushed their democracy and imposed you anyway.

Six months to minister. The fastest rise in the new intake. Not because you are talented. Because you are obedient. Because you spent nine years at a think tank learning how to serve power while writing about challenging it. Because Starmer needed a reliable PPE graduate to vote as instructed.

You wrote a book called Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back. You are the future. Another chinless wonder from the Oxford policy factory who discovered that thinking about poverty pays better than solving it. Another insider playing outsider because it tests well in focus groups.

Swansea West deserves better than a tourist. Britain deserves better than a professional opinion-haver who votes to keep children poor while collecting two salaries.

Your seat is safe. Permanent exile awaits. Congratulations. You are The Dossier. Your betrayal of Britain is now complete.

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@LairdOfThManor Bless...even if he is a wee bit crumpled...

[John Bent @JohnBent11]

Liberal Democrats Luke Taylor . The coward & loud mouth that sat behind Farage in Parliament to shout abuse . He is a MP for Sutton and Cheam.
Let’s ensure he loses his seat with that type of behaviour.

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🚏 Why is it that when a car plows into a crowd or a madman opens fire, killing 10 and wounding 20, it is instantly branded a terrorist attack, but when Russia strikes a hospital, a kindergarten, a bus, or a crowded transit stop—as happened today—killing 30 to 50 people, including children, and wounding 100 to 200, the world treats it as a normal variable? Why does the world continue to trade with Russia, negotiate with Russia, invite it to sporting events, play their anthem, raise their flags, allow them to vote in the UN, and frequently even blame Ukraine?

🏥 By the way, Russia has been launching several such strikes every single day since 2014. Yet, look at how rare terrorist attacks are in Europe or the United States. Why are some labeled terrorists while others are not? Why are some hunted down and destroyed, while red carpets are rolled out for others?

[Keith Mills @KeithMillsD7]

2m views. This guy is now the most famous councillor from Ireland. Is it any wonder that other Irish politicians are running scared of @CaolanReports

[Nuriyah Khan @nuriyahk]

As a woman of Muslim heritage, I can tell you this conversation is decades overdue and millions of women know it.
A good day to be alive.

[dejanira @dejanirasilveir]

🚨🚨SUIZA 🇨🇭prohibió el hiyab y el burka, y ya NO RECONOCE al Islam como religión oficial mediante referéndum.

¿Quieres que se celebre el mismo referéndum en todos los países europeos?

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Public institutions are terrified of getting race wrong. So they outsource judgment to agenda-driven activists and “community leaders” who give advice that damages trust.
The answer is not to trash the police but to restore common sense.
My Oped in the Times below (no paywall!)👇

[Sebastian Locke 🇬🇧 @seb_locke_]

Don’t stop sharing this until the poor man is free and the police are made to face the consequences of their thuggery.

#fascists #criminalestablishment

@RestoreBritain

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@RangersBear55 I think the £88.6k is Murrell's share. Presumably Sturgeon owned a similar share in the house. This brings it up to an unlikely £177,000 unless it is a distressed sale. Anyone buying the house should lift the floorboards to check what is underneath...

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

So it turns out the 999 call that was released wasn't the full call. This is the full call which is 12 minutes long, the version that was released had a lot of bits taken out. Now why would they do that 🤔. Notice the emphasis on it being an attack on a brown person and they want immediate action. Also the mention that they were restraining Henry. The call handler also says that an ambulance is on its way due to Henry bleeding from his mouth. I've had to share it in 3 parts as it wont let me share the full length version. Part 1 👇

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

If Satan has a residence on Earth, it is in Russia: the story of former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko, who survived Russian captivity.

After seeing Russia from the inside, he described it as a moral void, completely incompatible with Ukraine.

In captivity, he survived purely through willpower—holding on by sheer determination. When he finally returned home on August 24, 2025, it felt as though he had grown wings.

What struck him most was the way Ukrainians welcomed the released prisoners. From the Belarusian border all the way to Chernihiv, crowds stood along the roads waving Ukrainian flags. For the first time in a long while, he felt genuine respect and love.

Mykolayenko neither hid nor fled, even though he had the opportunity. He joined the Territorial Defense Forces because he asked himself a simple question: who else would protect his family?

He was given an assault rifle, but quickly realized that rifles alone cannot stop tanks.

The Russians lured him to a meeting under false pretenses, threw him into a car trunk, and took him away.

In captivity, he was beaten almost daily and suffered a broken rib. The occupiers offered him the position of head of the occupation administration, but he refused.

They demanded that he publicly condemn Roman Shukhevych, yet Mykolayenko instead called him a Hero of Ukraine.

Later, he was transferred between detention facilities—first to occupied Crimea, then to Russia’s Voronezh region, where the beatings became even more severe.

He never received a single letter from his family. He even refused prisoner exchanges, insisting that wounded young soldiers should be released in his place.

In his view, this war did not happen because of abstract mistakes. It happened because of geography and irresponsibility.

Russians chose Putin twenty-five years ago, and many continue to support him today. At the same time, too many members of Ukraine’s elite behave as if they have a “backup country”—Paris, Prague, New York—places they can escape to while blaming the people who were left behind.

But most Ukrainians have no alternative. There is no second homeland. There is only Ukraine.

According to Mykolayenko, the true strength of the country lies in its people—those who have survived occupation, torture, and loss, yet continue to fight.

Victory rests on two pillars: the soldiers who destroy the occupiers every day, and the civilians who do everything they can each day to ensure that the army can keep fighting.

He himself endured for the sake of his family and his faith in victory. He is proud of his daughter, who has been fighting since the first day of the war, and hopes that his grandchildren will one day be proud of both him and their country.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Oh, do gather round everyone. Matt Turmaine, actual Member of Parliament, has emerged from whatever rock Labour MPs hide under to announce that the government is... not going to make petrol more expensive for a few months.

Stop the presses. Alert the historians.

This is the same government that has just spent months gleefully hoovering every spare penny from your wallet through tax hikes, pension raids, and economic vandalism. But sure, Matt, stand outside a petrol station like you've just split the atom and tell us all how grateful we should be that Rachel Reeves has temporarily paused her campaign to make driving unaffordable.

The sheer audacity of posting this like it's some masterstroke of governance. "Look! We didn't make it worse today! Worship us, peasants!"

Meanwhile, the replies are absolutely eviscerating you because even your own followers can see through this embarrassing theatre. Highest energy costs in Europe, a stagnant economy, and you're doing photo ops at a Shell garage pretending this is leadership.

Do carry on standing there looking pleased with yourself though, it's the perfect visual metaphor for this entire government: empty gestures, hollow victories, and absolutely zero self-awareness.

Another clown with that Labour look.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Allegations of cash for seats coming on top of serious questions for the Crown & the Police make it increasingly likely there will be a Westminster inquiry. Scottish public life will be fixed from above unless the Scottish Government has the guts to set up an independent inquiry.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a bridge in the Chonhar area.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a precision strike on a bridge near Chonhar. The structure is considered one of the key elements of the Russian military’s logistics network in the south.

The bridge was used by occupying forces to move military equipment, ammunition, and personnel between occupied territories. As a result of the strike, a section of the bridge was damaged, significantly complicating Russian military movement in this direction.

According to preliminary information, the strike caused substantial disruptions to enemy logistics. Russian sources have already confirmed that the bridge was hit, although details regarding the extent of the damage have not yet been disclosed.

This strike continues a series of successful Ukrainian operations aimed at disrupting the rear-area supply and logistical support of Russian forces.