FOARP
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China, Taiwan, Poland. Ukraine and IP law mostly
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Yugoslavia nostalgia is funny to me because its just this aesthetic fantasy totally detached from reality. The nationalists who collapsed it where ex-Partisans (Tudjman), Communist apparatchiks (Milosevic) and academic intellectuals writing thesis on Marxist class struggle (Seselj)
I don't think that he is sad about the Soviet dream but rather about Yugoslavia. Ironically he doesn't admit that that state was torn away by Nationalism, not by Western bombing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Yugoslavia nostalgia is funny to me because its just this aesthetic fantasy totally detached from reality. The nationalists who collapsed it where ex-Partisans (Tudjman), Communist apparatchiks (Milosevic) and academic intellectuals writing thesis on Marxist class struggle (Seselj)
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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"If it weren’t for Ukraine, Russian tanks would already be in Poland. For four years, Ukraine has been fighting for all of Europe, and we are still debating whether to admit it to NATO." - Kasparov criticized NATO at the International Security Forum in Halifax.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"If it weren’t for Ukraine, Russian tanks would already be in Poland. For four years, Ukraine has been fighting for all of Europe, and we are still debating whether to admit it to NATO." - Kasparov criticized NATO at the International Security Forum in Halifax.
The supreme irony would be net migration falling to the tens of thousands, about a decade too late for the Cameron government...
So we are already back to the levels of migration of the early 2010s and declining faster... let's hope all those new restrictions, based on previous higher numbers, don't make Britain massively unattractive to those migrants the government DOES wish to attract.
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The supreme irony would be net migration falling to the tens of thousands, about a decade too late for the Cameron government...
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It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's almost like much of the mainstream media and right wing press has an agenda, isn't it.
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Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
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Made an effort to establish a timeline of this latest iteration of essentially the same old attempt by the Trump administration to force a peace deal, doomed to fail like the previous three times.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
The Rise and Fall of the Dim-Wit Plan
The latest iteration of a "secret US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine" would have been funny, if it wasn't so cruel to Ukraine.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Made an effort to establish a timeline of this latest iteration of essentially the same old attempt by the Trump administration to force a peace deal, doomed to fail like the previous three times.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
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Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
This story at long last has legs, and it’s good that it does because it speaks to Farage’s utterly bankrupt character.
I said this about Owen Jones posting about supporting the IRA on his 16th birthday as well.
I said this about Owen Jones posting about supporting the IRA on his 16th birthday as well.
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This story at long last has legs, and it’s good that it does because it speaks to Farage’s utterly bankrupt character.
I said this about Owen Jones posting about supporting the IRA on his 16th birthday as well.
I said this about Owen Jones posting about supporting the IRA on his 16th birthday as well.
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new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
You know, 3 years from the election, growth should not be a “fight for another day”.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
You know, 3 years from the election, growth should not be a “fight for another day”.
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The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Not a criminal lawyer, and Hopkins is hardly a sympathetic character, but I'm not sure the case here is well made out.
If the charges are only blackmail, the question is whether the threat to protest appearances by Hopkins were unwarranted and menacing demands.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
If the charges are only blackmail, the question is whether the threat to protest appearances by Hopkins were unwarranted and menacing demands.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Venues cancelled Katie Hopkins shows after man blackmailed them, court told
Oliver Hutchings accused of threatening to disrupt UK shows and campaign against venues that booked Hopkins
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Not a criminal lawyer, and Hopkins is hardly a sympathetic character, but I'm not sure the case here is well made out.
If the charges are only blackmail, the question is whether the threat to protest appearances by Hopkins were unwarranted and menacing demands.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
If the charges are only blackmail, the question is whether the threat to protest appearances by Hopkins were unwarranted and menacing demands.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
Here's a quick list of things from recent years that we apparently couldn't deal with without ditching capitalism.
I absolutely cannot stand the people who were always just anticapitalists first trying to shoehorn in "but anticapitalistly" into every climate change argument.
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Here's a quick list of things from recent years that we apparently couldn't deal with without ditching capitalism.
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Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
Inducing immunity against cancer via the gut
Could a microbe that can smuggle antigens into the immune system of the gut provide a simple way to treat cancers?
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Yet another unique way to stimulate cellular immunity against cancer.
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
“Using the gut immune system to induce cellular immunity is a unique approach,” Shirakawa notes. “And it should be very easy to extend it to other antigen proteins and also infectious diseases.”
#ScienceSunday
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
A film that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
A film that takes place where you’re from
What’s in the box, Charlie Brown?
"Had you come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And that by chance if an honest man such as yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you."
"Be my friend...Charlie Brown?"
"Be my friend...Charlie Brown?"
They're made of meat, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What’s in the box, Charlie Brown?
This is a step in the right direction.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
European countries propose radically different Ukraine peace plan to US
Document omits some of Washington’s pro-Russia points and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is a step in the right direction.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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The Polish prime minister reacts
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The Polish prime minister reacts
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Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"
I did fall into the trap of "What's his angle with the NATO stuff?" before realising it's not that deep it's just what he believes as a fundamentally unserious individual.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"