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Wild goose on an Aerbus
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Beyond parody
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the start – Trump’s party is turning on him trib.al/e5Khxsr
Marjorie Taylor Greene is just the start - Trump's party is turning on him
More Republicans say they are planning to quit, leaving Trump in crisis mode
inews.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Guess what.
All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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"A person hors de combat includes anyone who is wounded, sick, or shipwrecked, in the power of an adverse power, or clearly expresses their intention to surrender" redcross.ca/how-we-help/in…
https://redcross.ca/how-we-help/in…
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Recommended
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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While American families are expected to pay more for goods this holiday season due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, small-business owners are facing an existential crisis, Annie Lowrey reports:
Donald Trump’s War on Christmas
It’s a bad year for shoppers. It’s a terrible year for small-business owners.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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David Coburn, former leader of UKIP Scotland & mentioned in WhatsApp messages sent between Gill and his handler answers "no" when a journalist asks him if he took money to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.

The video of him outside his chateau is lol

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Retail expert Katie Thomas scours her local shopping mall in Pittsburgh to divine what Americans' shopping habits reveal about the economy and the nation's future.
This expert watches shoppers like a hawk. Here's her holiday forecast
Retail expert Katie Thomas scours her local shopping mall in Pittsburgh to divine what Americans' shopping habits reveal about the economy and the nation's future.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Experts advise against prostate cancer screening for most men in UK

www.channel4.com/news/experts...
Experts advise against prostate cancer screening for most men in UK
It affects one in eight men in the UK but an influential committee of experts says there should be no routine screening for prostate cancer for those aged over 50.
www.channel4.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Apparently the incident on JetBlue flight 1230 with a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude that seriously injured several passengers was caused by intense solar radiation, and they need to put in a software fix in over 6000 jets.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering an immediate software change on a significant number of its best-selling A320 family of jets in a move that industry sources said would involve some 6,00...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The reason for the A320 EASA warning 3 weeks before Christmas…
Apparently the incident on JetBlue flight 1230 with a sudden uncommanded drop in altitude that seriously injured several passengers was caused by intense solar radiation, and they need to put in a software fix in over 6000 jets.
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Airbus issues major A320 recall after flight-control incident
Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering an immediate software change on a significant number of its best-selling A320 family of jets in a move that industry sources said would involve some 6,00...
www.reuters.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The backbone of most European airlines except Mickey O’Leary’s fleet
EASA issues Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Airbus A320 family aircraft Elevator aileron computers (ELAC). ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Christmas with the Windsors just went up a notch Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion

www.thetimes.com/article/4953...
Prince Edward pays peppercorn rent for 120-room Surrey mansion
Campaigners have questioned whether the royal family can justify Edward’s occupation of Bagshot Park, which could otherwise be leased for taxpayer benefit
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I get the feeling this latest letter from the OBR - setting out what forecasts it provided and when to the government - may be quite consequential
November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Trump calls Minnesota Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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EU countries back plan to scrap tariffs on US farm, industrial products
EU countries back plan to scrap tariffs on US farm, industrial products
The Council also backed a proposal to allow duty-free imports of US lobster, following the expiration of the previous arrangement in July
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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NEW

When is an order an ‘unlawful command’?

And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law?

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

(In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.)

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
On the 28th day of November
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Now that’s inflight service
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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‘It’s crazy to think we haven’t had it’; World champion Lara Gillespie on cycling velodrome
‘It’s crazy to think we haven’t had it’; World champion Lara Gillespie on cycling velodrome
The €100m National Velodrome and Badminton Centre is set for completion in early 2028
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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With Jimmy Kimmel, James Comey, Letitia James and now the Democrats giving correct statements on unlawful orders, Trump and his cronies are picking fights which they are almost instantly losing.

Odd to watch in real time.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Steve Bannon: No games. Recall Mark Kelly today. Convene the court-martial on Friday, verdict by Sunday, let’s go to Leavenworth and throw him in prison by Monday.

The other five will wet themselves, then let’s roll them up. Let’s go.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM