Helene
@forwantofanail.bsky.social
🔶’So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’. European. Anti-fascist. Friend 🇺🇦 District Councillor
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Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).
This is the next step and it always was.
This is the next step and it always was.
February 16, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).
This is the next step and it always was.
This is the next step and it always was.
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15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
February 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM
15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
I genuinely can’t believe it is only Wednesday night
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I genuinely can’t believe it is only Wednesday night
What on earth is this about?
The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons."
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.
FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights
The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
What on earth is this about?
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"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Their gormless open-mouthed faces when they realise they are expendable, despite all they have done.
January 27, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Their gormless open-mouthed faces when they realise they are expendable, despite all they have done.
Not an apology.
No respect for NATO.
This singling out of the UK for this shit stained golden star is only to divide NATO further.
Damage done.
No respect for NATO.
This singling out of the UK for this shit stained golden star is only to divide NATO further.
Damage done.
January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Not an apology.
No respect for NATO.
This singling out of the UK for this shit stained golden star is only to divide NATO further.
Damage done.
No respect for NATO.
This singling out of the UK for this shit stained golden star is only to divide NATO further.
Damage done.
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Russia’s latest attack disrupted heating for 5,600 residential buildings in Kyiv, including our Ukraine reporter @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social's.
Here is her guide on how to survive in a city that Moscow is attempting to freeze.
🔗 #[politi.co/49y1kEu
Here is her guide on how to survive in a city that Moscow is attempting to freeze.
🔗 #[politi.co/49y1kEu
January 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Russia’s latest attack disrupted heating for 5,600 residential buildings in Kyiv, including our Ukraine reporter @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social's.
Here is her guide on how to survive in a city that Moscow is attempting to freeze.
🔗 #[politi.co/49y1kEu
Here is her guide on how to survive in a city that Moscow is attempting to freeze.
🔗 #[politi.co/49y1kEu
Thank god that has ended
January 21, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Thank god that has ended
‘We’ve never gotten anything’ from NATO. Every time he says this, I remember people I knew who died and were injured.
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
‘We’ve never gotten anything’ from NATO. Every time he says this, I remember people I knew who died and were injured.
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Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
I hate having to listen to this drivel and lies every day, because he is destroying everything. I despise it. I wish he didn’t matter. I wish he was a worm at the bottom of the garden
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I hate having to listen to this drivel and lies every day, because he is destroying everything. I despise it. I wish he didn’t matter. I wish he was a worm at the bottom of the garden
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"Without us you'd all be speaking German", Donald Trump tells an audience in Davos, in Switzerland. Where the most common language is German.
January 21, 2026 at 2:05 PM
"Without us you'd all be speaking German", Donald Trump tells an audience in Davos, in Switzerland. Where the most common language is German.
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An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security
This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.
www.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM
An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
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"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your insubordination"
We are desperately lacking such direct and stark language in the UK.
We are desperately lacking such direct and stark language in the UK.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your insubordination"
We are desperately lacking such direct and stark language in the UK.
We are desperately lacking such direct and stark language in the UK.
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
I am so bored of the Tories.
January 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I am so bored of the Tories.
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2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.
I am wondering today is the day when the British political body finally acknowledges that geography matters
January 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I am wondering today is the day when the British political body finally acknowledges that geography matters
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Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.
January 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole.