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[Nick @nickgreener76]

@FGrampia @paulhutcheon So he's been told by keir starmer to ask keir starmer, to step down as PM??

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Excellent from Alexander Stubb, President of Finland,

"What has Russia achieved in the past 4 years?"

"Taken 20% of Ukraine"

"1 million casualties and dead"

"Decreased it's sphere of influence"

"Russian economy, 30% inflation, 16% interest rates, 0% growth, no more reserves, incapacity to pay soldiers when the war ends"

"I'm more worried about Russia's unwillingness to end this war because they cannot afford to keep going"

"Than about Russia's capability to win this war"

"Let's keep things in perspective"

"This war has been a strategic failure of Putin"

"He increased the size of NATO"

"He made Ukraine European"

"He increased the defence budgets of European states"

"Are we able to defend ourselves? Yes we are"

[Tobias Ellwood @Tobias_Ellwood]

TRUMP's Chagos Distraction

👉He agreed the deal - going halves (UK pay the lease - US pay the base upkeep. ~£100m a yr each.

👉Int'l court decisions against UK were non-binding (so ignore them?) A binding decision would only follow.

👉 The history?
We got the islands by accident - after ceasing all Napoleon's overseas assets (including Mauritius) after defeating him.

👉Only in the 60's (when Mauritius sort independence) did we peal Diego off and develop it with the US as a base.

👉Rightly or wrongly - this is why int'l courts have sided with Mauritius over sovereignty.

👉Trump's team were involved in the new deal. He called it a 'good deal.'

👉He raises this now as a pushback from efforts to annex Greenland.

👉Let's not be distracted.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

🚨News of the horrendous crimes against humanity in Iran over the last 48 hours.

🚨 An estimated 7,000 killed by regime forces. Western outlets and human rights groups outside the country put it at 650 but news from inside have it closer to the number above. Many of them young girls and teenagers, I’ve seen the videos and they are too horrific to share. Yet STILL they are out on the streets in massive numbers.

This situation is unprecedented. The most remarkable story of revolution I’ve ever seen. Berlin Wall 1989 comes close - and I was there - but this is different. Very different.

The people on the streets are ordinary civilians, some of them sick, some even in wheel chairs. But the majority are young and they are fighting with all they have. And if they’re to have any kind of life ahead of them, they know there’s no way back from this. It’s a war of attrition never seen before with little to compare it to. In layman’s terms it’s do or die.

With 5 days of internet shut down and black outs so the regime can kill at will, it’s time for us to speak up. The world needs to act. We are on the precipice of something seismic.
#IranRevoIution2026

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

It's now been five days since I broke the news that Nigel Farage is not declaring his income to Parliament.

The Observer ran a piece on Saturday saying the same thing.

Have any other single news broadcasters run with this? Nope.

Any news on the Russian spy at Reform? Nope.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We will renew this country until we can say, with total conviction, that Britain is built for all.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

[Gilly 🖤 @Gillian275Gm]

£49.18 is the standard weekly allowance for asylum seekers.

It's reduced to £9.95 if meals are included with accommodation.

You need a national insurance number to claim benefits or work. Asylum seekers do not have one.

No free phone (or Ipads). Occasionally, sims, or recycled phones are provided by charities.

Just in case anyone is interested in the facts.

[Nick @nickgreener76]

@BetMGMUK #NUFC

[Anas Sarwar @AnasSarwar]

🚨 New NHS statistics today have revealed:

Almost 900,000 Scots stuck on waiting lists.

Well over 100,000 Scots waiting over a year.

GP levels still below 2013 levels.

Scotland’s NHS won’t survive a third decade of the SNP in Government.

[Sam Freedman @Samfr]

New post just out:

"The Great VAT Panic"

The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.

Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?

(£/free)

https://t.co/BRfPXbR2lC

[Nick @nickgreener76]

@GuidoFawkes This is quite the scoop.

[Nick @nickgreener76]

@blue_moonctid @afneil Perhaps, but 95% mortgages are very uncommon in the UK, the average mortgage is around 80%.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Nigel Farage wants to scrap vital protections for young people online.

Reform offers anger but no answers.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

This picture

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

The scandal is the data leak, the cover-up - and Whitehall's culture of secrecy.

Why turn the anger on the Afghans themselves?

My Times column:-

https://t.co/SnR65IfAfw

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

NEW

OBR fiscal risks report:

- Triple lock is costing treble what it was initially assumed to cost when introduced in 2012…

- £15.5bn a year rather than £5bn a year and is

- State Pension on course to cost 7.5% of the UK’s entire GDP within 50 years, was 2% in 50s, now 5%

[Katharine Houreld @khoureld]

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. https://t.co/ZZVmidOS9c

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets.

What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn.

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