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[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

It took just ten years. But the taboo has been finally broken now. 👇

[Viviane: 🌹Labour led by Keir for me @LaindonFEMINIST]

Whilst wannabes declare intentions to depose our PM,Gov continues to rebuild our country. Excellent results for our schools/teachers, better working conditions and eco training success. Not to be found in any media near you.

#DoingTheMediasJob
#FixingBritain
#LabourAchievements

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

*Shocking, Reform UK's Robert Kenyon again refuses to apologise for insulting Carol Vorderman, and doubles down* #BBCQT

Sarah Wakefield, "I spoke to Carol Vorderman this morning, she's really distressed that you, Robert Kenyon, have failed to apologise for any of these comments"

Fiona Bruce, "What, about her specifically?"

Sarah Wakefield, "About her specifically. She is watching at home tonight. And I wonder if you can look down that camera and say to Carol, you know what Im sorry"

Robert Kenyon, "You know what.. I never said anything to Carol. I commented on a comment"

"Don't get me wrong it was a disgusting comment that someone else had written, but I commented on a comment"

Fiona Bruce, "With approval?"

Robert Kenyon, 'Pardon?"

Fiona Bruce, "With approval?"

Robert Kenyon, "It was a crass joke, its not something I'd say now"

Sarah Wakefield, "Every woman in this room and at home has been subjected to shaming, in person or online"

Robert Kenyon, "That's disgusting, it's horrible"

Sarah Wakefield, "He's just proven my point. Can you believe this?"

"We have all been subjected to it, and the fact that a man like you cannot apologise, I think is disgraceful"

Robert Kenyon, "I've addressed the issue"

Sarah Wakefield, "On tope of that, Reform UK's policies on women are shocking"

"Reform on day one want to repeal the Equality Act"

Robert Kenyon, "No, no, that's absolute nonsense"

Sarah Wakefield, "That's Reform UK's party policy"

"I can't believe as a mum of a young daughter, I'm having to sit here in 2026, and make the case for me and my daughter to have the right to equal pay"

Robert Kenyon, "No no"

Sarah Wakefield, "This is what the Reform party stand for"

"They are a party that has a problem with women"

"And they need to sort it out"

Robert Kenyon, "No no"

*audience erupts in applause*

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @TullMcAdoo]

First Irish politician out of the traps to call for Aughinish Alumina to stop sending material to Russia. This is going to snowball over the weekend once other revelations about the plant come out.

[SophieSpring97 @SophieP25397]

If Keir Starmer, Ed Davey or Zack Polanski or even Badenoch took a £5million bung or used the language Farage has twice..

They would be GONE. The media alone would have hounded them out of their job within a week.

There's your two tiers alright.

And it is the media.

[snakeappletree @snakeappletree1]

He’s using psychological intimidation. Whether he goes through with it or not - sure the already would have done if that was his goal. He wants Ukraine to surrender more than he wants to bomb it. But he will bomb it. Putin has framed it that it is up to Ukraine to surrender of to be bombed. Their choice. Psychological warfare is a tool of warfare. Putin has the bombs to back up his threats.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face.

He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground.

He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”.

Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project.

But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools.
It’s pure, calculated terror.

putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word.
And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area.
Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit.
For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Goodbye to England. Many of the 73,000 US troops who will see action on D-Day, just 48 hours away, are now being ferried to troopships. Photo by the great Robert Capa. @WWIIMemorial

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is not World War II footage.

This is Toretsk, Ukraine — and it’s not as far away as you think.

A city that once had over 30,000 residents. Now almost completely erased.

There is no excuse for this. None.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

You can all see that Ukraine’s positions on the frontline are strong and that we are gradually taking back occupied territory. In May, Russia achieved almost no meaningful results on the battlefield. And that matters.

Please also pay attention to Russia's losses. They're losing 30,000 to 35,000 troops every month. And the nature of those losses changed in the past year: around 63% killed and another 37% seriously wounded. These are massive irreversible losses.

Even for Russia, this is becoming a serious problem, because the overall size of its occupation forces is shrinking.

From an address to the participants of the NATO–Ukraine Council meeting in Kyiv (2/5).

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: British schoolboy Alexander Browder has become the first child sanctioned by Russia after exposing illegal crypto deals used to bypass sanctions

"I am going to be wearing it as a badge of honour. It shows me that I touched a nerve - I am looking in the right places"

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

The sixth form student compiled a database of illegal cryptocurrency deals, including Russian transactions used to bypass Western sanctions

In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Alexander was banned from entering Russia in response to his "involvement in circulating defamatory speculations and false information about the policy of the Russian authorities"

Alexander said: "Russia can add my name to whatever list they want – it won’t change the facts, it won’t change my work and the pressure that we need to put them under"

His father added: "This is the first time in history that Russia has sanctioned a high school student. My son is 17 and studying for his A-levels. Putin’s skin is getting so thin they are going after A-level students now"

[ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸR͎A͎G͎E͎ @ShadowyPM]

@PippaCrerar Elon failed in Germany he'll fail in Britain too

https://t.co/3eHRhANG4g

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: Keir Starmer accuses Elon Musk of “trying to whip up division” in UK following murder of Henry Nowak.

Speaking on a visit in Yorkshire, PM says: “We need to assert who we are as a country because Musk again has been interfering in our politics in the last few days, trying to whip up division. That is not who we are in Britain.”

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

The Guardian reports that Reform UK have got

Another £3m from foreign based crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

And £4m from another crypto billionaire Ben Delo