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BREAKING: Trump shuts off intelligence to Ukraine, cutting off data for drones, air attacks, and air defense This is a clear and direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 - in which US gave security guarantee to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up nukes and ships

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment Claude Malhuret

Thank God. With the US halting intelligence sharing on Ukraine, France has already to stepped in. Paris is providing Kyiv with its own military intelligence. This has also been confirmed by the French MoD.

Every time someone says "Donald Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine", we should all be clear that they mean "Donald Trump's plan to let Putin win."

With #bbcqt in Skipton tonight I’m not sure I should watch. I like my neighbours, what if I have to stop shopping somewhere because they cheer for Tice..? 😱

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

Well I hope I see this man in the Narrowboat soon! Gladdens my heart hearing my neighbours clap him too. Yes the UK needs to have a backbone We need to stand up to USA & alongside EU, before the UK has Russian tanks at its door.

Now I’m back after my extended holiday, something tells me nobody will be seeing my posts given most will be calling out American leadership 🤔

Trump says Ukraine is difficult to deal with and Russia much easier… surely not for the master negotiator? Taking the easy option by pressuring an invaded Country to surrender its territories? Sounds weak to me.

Who is surprised?

Sky News: MP's pay to rise 2.8% to £95,000 2010 MPs pay: £65,738 2025 MPs pay: £95,000 2010 carer's allowance: £2,804 2025 carer's allowance: £3,986

The BBC are so obsessed with pandering to Reform UK that they are refusing to show Ed Davey calling out Nigel Farage's divisive and destructive politics. Watch it here instead:

Ministers approve the £10bn Lower Thames Crossing. Meanwhile here in the North we have Donkeys that get us to our nearest cities faster than trains 🙄 Some things never change - big sigh. cityam.com/government-app…

The challenge now for Keir Starmer is to counter Reform UK not by imitating them but by eloquently explaining why this toxic bunch of unprincipled and prejudiced carpetbaggers is morally, practically and historically wrong for Britain. We are not Trumpland.

Congratulations to Ros Jones - Mayor of Doncaster re-elected as Doncaster Mayor. Reform a v close 2nd though. Too close. Lots of work to be done. Hopefully with gov change se will finally see the town centre & villages have proper investment so lives & communities improve.

The UK economy is not suffering because we trade too little with the USA 🇺🇸 It’s suffering bc we sabotaged our biggest trading relationship ie Europe. And The Labour Party is protecting that sabotage, not fixing it. Jonathan Reynolds confirms that our biggest trading relationship is with

A newborn baby died following an airstrike, 60 people died from hunger just this month, thousands starving & being killed daily in Gaza. Israel are committing war crimes! We opened boarders for Ukrainians yet we do nothing for Gaza. We should all be ashamed.

Unpopular view here: rather than threatening the gesture politics of recognising a Palestinian state (that may never happen) why doesn’t Keir Starmer begin with: - expelling Israel’s ambassador - full trade sanctions - full arms embargo - stopping alleged RAF Gaza flights

If it’s right to recognise a Palestinian state come September… why is it not right to recognise it now?