This former official heard the President say about American veterans: "What's in it for them? They don't make any money." Source: "It was a character flaw of the President. He could not understand why someone would die for their country, not worth it."

President Donald J. Trump Senator Tim Scott In a Veterans Day post that will live in infamy, former President Trump called his political opponents “vermin” & pledged to “root them out.” Evidence links such dehumanizing rhetoric to repugnant policy & political violence: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Every leader should reject it.

A few reminders of what Trump said in the lead up to Jan 6th December 19th: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” December 26th: “We will never give up. We will never concede.” December 27th: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me

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‘Coups are like concrete, when they stop moving, they set.’ So I see the TED Talks I gave in April is going viral again. Suspect it’s not going to get any less relevant…

Ivan Zsolt Nagy: I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s all about Orbán holding on to power. cjr.org/opinion/viktor…

I did NOT expect to be punching the air and going "HELL YES!" to Chris Patten. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly! "How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

Many, many Jews criticise Netanyahu Are they all being antisemitic ?

This perspective doesn’t get enough traction: Putin’s “SMO” has now lasted just 2 months less than the Soviet war against Nazi Germany (1941-45). By this point, the Red Army was closing in on Berlin. Russia? Still stuck around Pokrovsk, 41 km from Donetsk, where they started

"Brexit was the most cowardly thing our country has ever done." - Veteran Stuart Thomson #armisticeday

This feels like a reasonable time to share an article from The Telegraph from 2023, which certainly makes it seem that Matt Hancock knew that I was interviewed to appear on BBC Question Time (how?) and seemed to attempt to intervene to prevent my appearance. Should politicians…

The resignations at the BBC didn't come out of nowhere. A superb 5 minute explainer from Ros Atkins on why pressure has been building for some time

Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax... ...they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/…

For all his jingoism, he seems desperate for Britain to be a vassal state.

On the other side of these two big BBC resignations it has reminded us of the previous norm of the “honourable resignation” of leaders who hold ultimate responsibility. This is a thing that has slipped away a lot in politics and business. It may increase the pressure in future.

🚨NEW - The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on the crisis at the Beeb And Auntie's anti-Trump bias

Many thanks to JCB’s Lord Bamford for donating £200,000 to Reform. HMRC seem to think he could owe them up to £500m from money hidden in offshore accounts, but why pay tax when you can give it to a bunch of racists instead?

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JCB used to bankroll Boris Johnson but have decided to donate to me instead. I'm grateful to them for recognising in me those same qualities of dishonesty, corruption, selfishness and greed that they valued so highly in him.