This is serious. Gazprom is unlikely to become profitable again without sales to Europe and they will not return.
And Gazprom is the main source of personal income of the Putin organized crime group.
Sanction Gazprom fully to break that Mafia!

Something major has happened to the Daily Mail. A dam appears to have broken.

4 of its last 5 Brexit headlines have been 'true' (allowing for their knee-jerk anti-EU house style).

That's absolutely astonishing. And they're not minor issue stories either.

Sea change on its way?

What presidential immunity means.

Got to love this from Mail+

1. These rules apply to *all* 3rd country nationals. The UK is a 3rd country.

2. 'British and non-EU passport holders'
Almost getting it, but British exceptionalism is a powerful thing.

2. The UK helped devise these rules when still in EU

1/n Actually quite the opposite: As of the end of 2022, Covid vaccinations saved between 14.4 million and 19.8 million lives globally. Article attached. Watch out for health disinformation from those conspiracy podcasters, they have a different agenda…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jp…

Undoubtedly, wars must end with a peace agreement. Convention wars. But... In #Ukraine , we are dealing with a genocidal war waged by #RF against us. Where all its actions are well thought out, systematic, and clearly understood.

Experts (because they lack the will to call a…

Link to original article...
archive.ph/2024.04.30-184…

Here's how the new Brexit incoming border checks are likely to play out...

1. They will cause initial chaos, of an extent and duration still to be determined.

2. Things will eventually settle into a steady state that's worse than the current situation, but magically 'priced…

Goddamnit this is obscene. These are desperate people who have been through hell. And you take away their freedom as a political fucking stunt. Sunak is an affront to civilised values. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

I could use my lovely blue tick to go off on some thousand word diatribe about how beyond awful these low-lying scoundrels are, but instead I’ll just stick with: register to vote, make sure you have the right ID to vote, and vote.

So, to be clear, 🇬🇧 pro-Europeans should be arguing for a 🇨🇭-style SPS deal in any circumstances. Better for the UK. Brings it closer to 🇪🇺. Solves issues in NI. And it's the only realistic option.

#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien is off the menu.

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A brilliant response by Timothy Snyder to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s accusation of Nazis in Ukraine. As a leading scholar on the subject of nationalism, Snyder makes three points:
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The Rwanda scheme dismantled, through numbers.

There’s a book to be written on how Sunak got to a place where his Rwanda policy with its unworkable, cruel, expensive, law breaking nationally embarrassing contradictions- Rwanda is safe but it’s a deterrent etc, etc- became his make or break policy in a country where public…

St. Petersburg, Russia: people are fighting over expired food from trash cans.

One of the local TG channels mentioned that a supermarket “Pyaterochka' and a nearby bakery discard their expired products there.

Another local TG channel writes: “Neighbors are already complaining…

Unless blocked, Sunak is going to send c.100 terrified refugees 4,000 miles away in a symbolic gesture that will neither 'stop the boats' nor save him electorally. The main result will be to cause intense pain to a group of people who have already suffered plenty.

1) Since Senator Josh Hawley wants to play this ridiculous game of “Ukraine stole from my state of Missouri”, I decided to look into the facts. Hawley is, in fact, lying because Missouri does get significant federal funding. So let’s look into this, shall we?⬇️

Yep ..'taking back control' to give up any control..😆
The UK policy of continued unilateral favouring of the EU (their exporters over its own) - you'd think the Brexiters would be most livid about this? - & open door to smugglers/illicit trade/uncontrolled diseases will continue

After all the corruption we've seen from the Tory party and everything they've done to bring our NHS to its knees, Sunak dares to suggest it's the sick who can't work who are the problem? The very people he and his party have let down so badly? The sheer nerve of it.

When I worked on the Magnitsky Act in 2012, it passed the Senate 92-4. I joked afterwards that “there was no pro Putin torture and murder lobby in Washington”. I’m afraid to say that times have changed. Senator JD Vance is now parroting Putin’s exact words claiming that seizing…