Politics

2025-03-11

Inside the Reform civil war: Perhaps the Lowe/ Farage conflict and its drivers will weaken the party (if we’re lucky).

2025-03-11: Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $200 Billion Donald Trump inadvertently …

2025-03-10: Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday. Here’s the …

2025-03-09

‘Nigel Farage feels real’: why young British men are drawn to Reform

2025-03-06: Since I last looked at the news, it seems that the US has unilaterally decided to stop sharing …

2025-03-06

US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine: A further development in the US' attempts to help Putin win his war of aggression.

2025-03-05: British pharma company GSK uses the US president as an excuse to 'pause' its DEI programs

2025-03-05: Elon Musk supports the idea that the US should leave both NATO and the United Nations. Of course …

2025-03-04: The US freezes military aid to Ukraine after Trump and Vance's horrendous meeting with Zelenskyy

2025-03-04

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters gather outside showrooms to rally against Elon Musk’s role with DOGE: Musk lost $52 billion due to the plummeting price of Tesla stock last month.

2025-03-03: Yet more additions to my books-to-read list

2025-02-26

Starmer slashes aid to fund major increase in defence spending

2025-02-26: The Executive Order that deports you for acts of protest

2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation

2025-02-22: The first few weeks of the Trump administration - from the ridiculous to the horrific

2025-02-17

Trump’s birthright citizenship order shows how he is challenging the Constitution itself: He holds no more respect or love for ‘America’ than for anything else that isn’t himself.

2025-02-16: Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan. Wouldn’t it be …

2025-02-16

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.

2025-02-11

Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support

Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift: An article from 2020 on Musk’s mission ‘to get unimaginably rich by maximally gaming the government’s largesse…taking advantage of programs meant to help people who earn in a lifetime what he earns every minute.’

Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies: Old news, but let’s remember Musk’s success is at least partly down to government largesse.

More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin.

2025-02-09

Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid to avoid power being used ‘as a weapon’: ‘Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania disconnected from the network in a move to block Russia’s ability to geopolitically “blackmail” them via the electricity system.’

2025-02-08: TIL: It’s illegal to sell or consume alcohol in Colombia during the days surrounding an …