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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 15d

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · 12d

Oh. Oh well...
#princeandrew
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Prince Andrew latest: 'I must go a step further' - Duke explains move to give up royal title

Andrew has announced he's relinquishing his royal title and will no longer be known as the Duke of York. It comes as he faces scrutiny over his relationship with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey ...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · 28d

"It never ceases to amaze me that there's this person who travels around and does all these things," she told the New York Times during a 2014 trip to Burundi and back to Gombe.

"And it's me. It doesn't seem like me at all."

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RIP Jane Goodall

Primatologist Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died

Jane Goodall, known for her ground-breaking studies of chimpanzees, has died aged 91.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Sep 28

(As usual) it's the LABOUR MEMBERS, at least the ridiculous self-absorbed idealogues, that shoot themselves and the Party in the foot. Starmer can, and is (quite cleverly) challenging the populist nationalist demargoguary that dominates our (*American driven*) politics.
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More than half of Labour members do not want Starmer to lead party into next general election - poll

The Survation poll for LabourList comes after a separate poll suggested Nigel Farage is on course to be the next prime minister.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 20

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I totally support this too.

Politics latest: Billionaire backs tax hike on 'highly damaging' gambling industry instead of wealth tax

Billionaire John Caudwell has come out in support of a proposal to hike taxes on the gambling industry. Meanwhile, councils across England are considering launching their own legal actions to stop loc...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Trump's a dangerous amateur.

We are further away from peace now than we were two weeks ago

Much of yesterday's events were focused on stroking Donald Trump's ego. Many here in Kyiv would prefer he was reminded of a few hard facts about this war. Vladimir Putin cannot be trusted. He wants th...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · Aug 16

🇺🇦 Re-upping this one in the name of decency and democracy.

Slava Ukraini!

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Putin's machine has this all mapped out, including the timetable. Trump (the amateur) has no control or influence beyond what the Russians want, short medium and long term.

Ukraine war latest: Ship in Russian port attacked on day of Trump-Putin summit - as timings for Alaska meetings revealed

Ukraine says it has attacked a ship in a Russian port loaded with arms from Iran, with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meeting later today in Alaska. The pair will sit down together for the first time...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Trump is a patent amateur and lightyears out of his depth. A shallow, vain dangerous exhibitionist.

Ukraine war latest: White House distances Trump from 'making deal' with Putin at summit; Russian troops launch surprise offensive

The White House has distanced Donald Trump from expectations he could make a deal with Vladimir Putin at their looming summit on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia has seized 10km of land in a shock eastern o...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Trump wants Ukraine off the table, at any cost. He couldn't care less who dies or how many. Americans have made a stupid ignorant choice and can no longer be trusted, they've blown it. You elect an idiot don't be surprised when you tank your country, and don't complain.

Trump gaffe reveals how central Putin is to his narrative - with Zelenskyy left out in the cold

The US president has ruled out any trilateral meeting including Volodymyr Zelenskyy - for now this is a Trump-Putin power play.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 11

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He's just a ridiculous exhibitionist who hasn't got a clue what he's doing, ignorant and dangerous in his narcissism.

Ukraine war latest: Trump reveals some details of Putin talks; Russia preparing for new offensives, Zelenskyy says

Trump tells reporters he believes Putin wants to get the war "over with" and is asked whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be at the talks in Alaska. Follow the latest below.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Ignorant.

Donald Trump will deploy National Guard troops to Washington DC to 're-establish law and order'

The US president announced he was deploying the National Guard to Washington DC, saying the capital "should be one of the safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world and we're goi...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Man's an amateur, played by Putin's machine every time.

Ukraine war latest: Trump reveals some details of 'feel-out' meeting with Putin on Friday

Trump tells reporters he believes Putin wants to get the war "over with" and is asked whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be at the talks in Alaska. Follow the latest below.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · Aug 9

In my prep for LBC📻 on the fab life of Astronaut Jim Lovell RIP, I saw this 🤯 from new NASA Administrator Duffy:
"We wanna get there first and claim that for America"
Does he not know or not care that such an act would be prohibited by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty?🧪🔭

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NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means

NASA is accelerating plans to have a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 9

'Totally amateur'

"But, you know, you have to say that American diplomacy in this respect is completely inept. It's totally amateur, and the Americans are up against a very well-honed, very well-seasoned Russian diplomatic machine that knows and can see the weaknesses in its opponents

Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Ukraine war latest: Team Trump 'risk being out of their depth' at Putin meeting - as Ukraine vows to hold on to land

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine will not give up land to Russia, after Donald Trump suggested the "swapping of territories" would take place. Our security and defence analyst warns that Trum...

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Jul 29

Trump is an exhibitionist who pretends to skills and knowledge he simply does not have. An average intellect underpinned/motivated by an ignorant personality. Played...every time, continually.

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Will Trump's new threat stop Putin? Ukraine war Q&A with Professor Michael Clarke

Military analyst Professor Michael Clarke has been answering your questions on the Ukraine war, with presenter Kamali Melbourne putting them to him. Watch and catch up below.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Jul 27

I just listened to Geldof. He's right. Everything he said, in particular about the 'virtue signalling'.
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Bob Geldof accuses Israeli authorities of 'lying' about starvation in Gaza

Appearing on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Bob Geldof said 1,000 children or people have died of starvation this month.

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jul 26

I wish this were true but it’s not. A substantial number of Americans will believe any goddamned ridiculous facially fraudulent thing the Trumpists tell them, including this. And another large segment will PRETEND they believe it for the sake of power, which is indistinguishable.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is spot on.
Farage doesn’t want to stop the boats… yet…
They’re his daily ‘Breaking Point’ poster made flesh… His political strength relies on the hatred, prejudice and disinformation he can whip up on beach watch.
Humane solutions scare the hell out of him.
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Don't be fooled - Farage doesn't actually want to stop the boats

Flanked by the Emmanuel Macron, President of France, Sir Keir Starmer boasted that
the Government was taking action while others were "taking pictures". No prizes for he was referring to.
That very day, Nigel Farage was out on the briny with a GB News film crew, fishing for mackerel while observing French coastguards shepherding the handover of 78 migrants from their "rib" inflatable to the safety of Dover-bound UK Border Force.
"We are witnessing a crime yet everyone seems happy," Farage almost chortled. Yet the leader of Reform UK seemed happiest of all. Far from stopping the boats, Farage needs them to keep coming if he is to achieve his ambition of becoming the next British Prime Minister.
Waterborne migrants have been
his most spectacular political recruiting sergeants ever since he began taking videos off the south coast back in May 2020.
In their various manifestations
- Ukip, Brexit, Reform UK - the parties Farage leads are always been negative, destructively focussed. They aim to exploit widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the world. The solutions they offer are sketchy and impractical.
For once the Prime Minister slotted one past Farage at Prime Minister's Questions this week:
"He has no interest in fixing the problem because he wants to milk it and exploit it. That's the truth about him and his party."
Farage's strategy is to blame anyone he can…..

Reform UK's interests are best served by denouncing and stuffing up any productive collaboration with allies in Europe or more broadly. Reform
UK has yet to produce its
definitive policy on immigration.
This side of a general election
Farage knows that Reform UK's best option is to sabotage the Government's gradualist, co-operative efforts to turn the tables, helping to ensure that the boats keep coming.

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Jul 12

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Jul 6

'...a public falling out...'. Nah, it's like the Twitter buy out (ie no longer a threat) - it's a strategy move, think 2-3 yrs down the line. They've cooked this up between them. Americans: easily played, easily bought - Trump knows it.
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Elon Musk says he's created his own political party - the 'America Party'

A day after Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping tax cut and spending bill, which Musk had repeatedly attacked, the billionaire Tesla boss says he is forming the 'America Party'.

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Rex🦋 @rexw.bsky.social · Jul 1

So...camps.
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Donald Trump latest: Elon Musk responds as US president 'to take a look' at whether to deport him

Donald Trump visits a new migrant detention centre in Florida dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as his row with Elon Musk is reignited over the president's "big, beautiful" spending bill. Follow the latest ...

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