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Living in the East Midlands. Interested in politics, pop/rock music and Leeds Utd.
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cnn.com
Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed by a federal immigration agent on Saturday, was an American citizen and ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4rjCSwF
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland.
thecritic.co.uk/on-b...
“This has been very badly received across the UK.” Keir Starmer was doing his best to make the collapse of the post-war international order sound dull. It is a job for which he is uniquely well equipped. The prime minister could make the start of nuclear war sound like an announcement that the rail replacement bus service has been cancelled. He might yet get the chance to try. For the benefit of the future historian trying to piece 2026 together from fragments of satire, the specific subject this Monday morning was Donald Trump’s announcement that he was imposing escalating tariffs on all of Europe, and possibly the entire solar system, until we give in and acknowledge him as God Emperor of Greenland. Trump is now in the “making his horse a senator” stage of his presidency, and it turns out that the US constitutional checks and balances about which we’ve all heard so much relied too heavily on there being people in Washington with spines.
January 19, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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fisherandrew79.bsky.social
Interesting and welcome that three darkest areas, where most people have signed are Newark (Robert Jenrick), East Wiltshire (Danny Kruger) and Romford (Andrew Rosindell).

People want (and deserve) a say when what they voted for changes.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 19, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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leonardocarella.bsky.social
I'm perfectly aware this is by far not the worst thing he's done, but Trump's constant presence - day after day after day - in the lives and headspaces of hundreds of millions of people (billions?), in the US and outside, is so taxing. Every morning, we wake up and have to think about this asshole.
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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scientits.bsky.social
You will not regret scrolling up for the rest of this thread about the sheer audacity of cats to walk into houses they don't live in and swan around like they own the place

Honestly, excellent cat behaviour 💯
noscoredraws.com No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com · 10d
Just imagine - you’re a cat, with presumably a house, but you ignore that house and come instead to *my* house, and you walk in like you own the place, and come and go as you please and do whatever you like whenever you like. Just imagine how smug you’d be. Pretty smug? Not as smug as this bastard.
A smug cat who isn’t mine and who doesn’t live in my house.
January 16, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
The United States needs military access to Greenland, which it already has, to defend the Arctic, which it already does, from Russian and Chinese ships, which aren’t actually there, and this is so important we should destroy the Western alliance to get it, do I have that right?
January 14, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
In an amazing coup, Reform have a star defector, the self-described most popular politician in Britain! It's... hang on, have I got this right... Nadhim Zahawi?

thecritic.co.uk/zaha...
In which Zahawi blames the problems of the country on everyone except himself. https://thecritic.co.uk/zahawi-can-anybody-take-this-seriously/
January 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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danneidle.bsky.social
And this:
Nadhim Zahawi *was* under investigation from HMRC and ended up admitting that his offshore structure had underpaid £4m of tax., and paying £1m of penalties.
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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danneidle.bsky.social
Just thought I'd post this:
Nadhim Zahawi's lawyers threatening Dan Neidle for saying he'd used an offshore tax structure to avoid tax Nadhim Zahawi threatening the Independent for saying he was under investigation from HMRC
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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matthew-wright.bsky.social
“rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid” - too many brilliant lines in this article to paste here…👇👇
January 10, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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duncanweldon.bsky.social
To mark ten years, here’s Bowie (rather inexplicably looking like Sean Bean as Sharpe) doing Twentieth Century Boy with Placebo at the Brit awards.

youtu.be/G2MAFVgxlEQ
Placebo - 20th Century Boy Feat. David Bowie [The Brit Awards 1999] HD
YouTube video by SuckerLoveHD
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January 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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mikehixenbaugh.com
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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roberthutton.co.uk
Britain's leaders think X's diversification into child porn-on-demand is "unacceptable". Although, in good news for people who want child porn on demand, they will continue to accept it. thecritic.co.uk/poli...
One of Farage’s revenue streams is X, the social media site that Ofcom urgently wishes to speak to about the ability of its Grok AI facility to undress women and generate child porn. He has been paid just under £13,000 by the company since entering parliament. Was he still comfortable taking money from the company? Cunningham gasped at the temerity of the question. Farage seemed briefly worried. He complained first of all that the parliamentary register of interests doesn’t allow him to offset his expenses. To be fair, it wasn’t set up for people who view being an MP as a money-making enterprise. But the short answer is that he will continue to take the X cash. Other party leaders aren’t on the X payroll, but their answers are hardly better. After PMQs we asked their spokespeople what they were doing about the company. Number 10 explained that the situation was “unacceptable”, although the prime minister’s continued presence on X suggests that he can, in fact, accept it. Badenoch’s s
January 8, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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peterwalker99.bsky.social
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
“In the last 18 month you’ve taken about £13,000 from X, the social media site. Its new innovation for 2026 is child porn on demand, that kind of thing. I was just wondering – are Reform MPs and you going to continue taking child porn money?”
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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roberthutton.co.uk
If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
Or there’s X, the website formerly known as Twitter. Its owner is committed to removing the government, and seems keen to encourage violence on Britain’s streets. Now its 2026 update lets users create what are politely called “sexualised images” of anyone, including children. A Secretary of State for Culture, if Britain had one, could take a view on whether this was a welcome development. They could, if they had been appointed and went into work every day, offer Starmer advice on whether X should be one of the government’s main channels of communication, effectively supporting a site that produces on-demand pornography of real people including, let’s say it again, children.
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
The President of the United States is a criminal.

Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.
macfarlanenews.bsky.social Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 26d
Jack Smith in just-released House Committee interview … about Trump:

“The attack that happened at the Capitol … does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit”

youtu.be/1NOVLkzycPI?...
Jack Smith in House Cmte interview re: Trump: “Attack.. at the Capitol does not happen without him”
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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January 1, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
President Zelensky’s reaction to Trump saying that Putin wants Ukraine to succeed.
December 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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kolchak.bsky.social
Does it concern anyone else that every single time Zelenskyy is to meet with Trump, Trump has a call with Putin beforehand to be told what his position should be?
December 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
“The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”
mikebaker.bsky.social Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · Dec 20
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
One woman, then a model and college student in her early 20s living in Manhattan, said she attended four parties at the mansion. She cannot recall the names of most of the men she met at the gatherings, not even those Mr. Epstein directed her to “take care of” at two of them. Recruited by Ms. Maxwell and then abused by Mr. Epstein, she buried her shame and kept their secrets for years. But Mr. Trump’s presence stood out, she told The Times. He was a household name, someone Mr. Epstein often bragged about to the women around him, yet also seemed to compete with. “It was like a pissing contest — who had the most women,” she recalled. She requested anonymity to describe her experiences in detail, saying she feared for her family’s safety after Mr. Trump said some of his critics could be executed for sedition.
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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redpeter99.bsky.social
It will be news to women in areas of the country that have experienced zero immigration that there's zero violence against women.
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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helenpidd.bsky.social
What happens when Reform UK takes over your local council? I’ve been keeping very close tabs on Lancashire County Council since May for this magazine piece www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets reali...
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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atrupar.com
Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM