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[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

Christopher Harborne has become the most consequential donor in British history, transforming Reform into a multi-million private venture whose policies are closely aligned with his interests. But there is a lot more beyond Tether and fuel. Here is the Harborne Corporate Map:

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Democrats just officially requested the following Trump officials testify before Congress over the Epstein cover-up: JD Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, Steven Cheung, and Susie Wiles. Let’s go.

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[The Rejoin EU Party @RejoinP]

Britain was promised sovereignty.

Instead, Starmer stands alone with a flyswatter while Trump, Putin, Xi, Musk and Thiel circle overhead.

Europe built a shield. Brexit left us exposed.

🇬🇧🇪🇺 #RejoinEU

[Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond]

Sorry, but this needs to be said again and again, until it is fully understood and accepted:
🇷🇺 The Russian Army has been fought to a standstill in Ukraine - 1.4 million casualties with about 400K deaths. The sheer scale of human and equipment losses is staggering.
🇷🇺 It means Russia is not going to precipitate a second war anytime soon. However, the Russian economy has proved to be much stronger and more resilient than Western analysts expected. Military spending has sustained growth even if inflation is high and energy export income has fallen.
🇷🇺 It is entirely possible that a peace deal could be concluded within the next 12 months. Any such agreement will only be signed off by Putin if it gifts him a large chunk of Ukraine. This will allow him to declare victory and remain in power.
🇷🇺 When the conflict with Ukraine ends, Russia will not immediately revert to a non-wartime economy. Peace will give Putin a much needed breathing space which he will use to rearm and retrain his battered army. It is likely to take a decade before Russia regains any credible military strength while the economy recovers — and it is entirely possible that China will support Russia’s rearmament process. So we could see a Russian military resurgence within 5 years. This is the risk.
🇷🇺 Whatever happens, there is no inexorable path to war with Russia. But if we do nothing, if we refuse to bolster our defences when time is on our side, it’s the same as leaving the door unlocked — we will invite aggression, because Putin is strategically ambitious and opportunistic.
🇷🇺 A strong Europe, fully prepared, with potent and flexible capabilities, plus resilient and scalable economic production, would definitely deter aggression, just as NATO’s Cold War presence in Europe kept the peace for almost half a century.
🇬🇧 So,we have a straightforward binary choice: deter aggression through strength. Invite aggression through weakness. I do not want to send my children to fight a war that could have been be avoided. If you are a parent, I hope you will agree.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Ask yourself why the “world’s richest man” is aligned with the Kremlin’s goals, has his father meeting with a man inciting a UK race war, and is backing every known Russia-aligned political operative across ‘left’ and ‘right.’

We warned you this was coming.

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[Tory @ToryCS]

@sofiaxsmith @cymru_79 What about unquiet spirits from the Holocaust, for example?

[Phil J @PhilJC2]

This is quite the vox pop.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Peter Hitchens gloriously pushing back against the idea that 5-year-olds shouldn't be made to learn poetry by heart.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“It’s insane, we have a rogue US military contractor handling our most sensitive data. Palantir has a contract running our nuclear missile program. We have no national security.”

Palantir. IT'S WORSE Than You Think @carolecadwalla

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This is wild. 😂🤣

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

British Humor. 🤣😂🤣

[Patriotic 🇬🇧 Nation @HoodedClaw1974]

Morning all.

I think with the Defence Secretary and Armed Forces Minister resigning yesterday, this clip from Yes Prime Minister is very apt.

Enjoy.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.

Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.

Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 A terrified Bongino told Tucker that Trump shut down the Butler investigation himself.

Tucker says he accidentally obtained the Thomas Crooks social media posts the FBI claimed didn't exist, then called Kash Patel and Dan Bongino looking for answers.

Bongino, a friend of many years, allegedly became hysterical before finally telling him to take it up with Trump, who he said killed the Butler investigation himself.

Tucker says he still has every text exchange.

"There's no good explanation for shutting down an investigation into your own attempted murder.

This is not what we've been told it was."

@TuckerCarlson @TCNetwork

[Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

Fiona Hill, the former aide to Trump during his first term, participated in the #Kultaranta Talks, organised by the President of Finland, and gave an interesting interview to the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. Some excerpts:

▪️Greenland could suffer the same fate as Crimea.
▪️Hill says she sees the United States acting more like Russia, the White House more like the Kremlin, and Trump behaving more like Putin. ▪️Hill says that Trump's desire to take over Greenland is psychological. “He wants to own things. This is about him."
▪️”If we look at history, this is exactly how the Soviet Union acted towards its own Warsaw Pact allies: it occupied Hungary, it occupied Czechoslovakia, and it pressured Poland in a way that led to the declaration of martial law in Poland," Hill says.
▪️”Trump is now essentially treating his NATO allies the same way the Soviet leaders treated the Warsaw Pact members: as vassal states and states that have no decision-making power of their own."
▪️On the stage of the Kultaranta discussions, Hill was asked whether Europe can trust the United States.
Hill answered bluntly no. And she reminded that the next administration cannot necessarily be trusted either.

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[charlos @loscharlos]

“Exposure to respiratory viruses before a baby’s first birthday — when immune systems are immature and before most childhood vaccinations — consistently predicted reduced earnings, education and health decades later.”

[Henshi @HenshiG]

Cicely Saunders fell in love with a dying man.

London, 1948. David Tasma, a 40-year-old Polish Jew who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto, was dying of cancer in agonizing pain. Cicely, a 30-year-old medical social worker, sat with him for weeks. He told her there was no proper place for people like him to die with dignity.

Before he died, he gave her his life savings — £500 — and said:
“I’ll be a window in your home.”
She built that home.

Born June 22, 1918, in north London, Cicely trained as a nurse during WWII and witnessed hospitals abandon the dying — isolating them, leaving them in pain, treating death as failure.

After a back injury, she became a medical social worker, then, at 33, entered medical school on a doctor’s challenge. She qualified as a doctor in 1957.

At St Joseph’s Hospice, she pioneered regular morphine dosing to control pain without addiction or drowsiness, and developed the concept of “total pain” — addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering.

In 1967, she opened St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham — the first modern hospice combining expert care, teaching, and research. David Tasma’s £500 seeded it; a plain window honors him.

She pioneered home care, outpatient services, and bereavement support. Her words:
“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life.”
Her model spread globally, birthing the modern hospice and palliative care movement.

Cicely married Polish painter Marian Bohusz-Szyszko in 1980. She worked at St Christopher’s into her late 80s and died there of breast cancer on July 14, 2005, at 87 — cared for by the principles she created.

Before Cicely, the dying were forgotten.

She turned love and grief into a revolution of dignity that has comforted millions.

Every hospice on Earth owes its light to her window for David Tasma.