The first invasion of Russia since WW2 enters its second week. So far, the Ukrainians have taken more territory than the Russians have taken in all of 2024.

This is a story about how a reported antisemitism row involving comedian Reginald D Hunter unfolded. If you've only read mainstream media you'll have a partial view. The story unravelled on social media and we now have much-needed context. It began with this in The Telegraph

Great that Jonathan Portes provides the truth about immigration. He is SO right that it’s not a problem that people want to come to the UK – it gives us a major competitive advantage. With a top heavy ageing population and low birth rate we NEED immigration. Our culture is enhanced

Chief Wiggum, Springfield PD, here… they’re doing WHAT?

I know it. You know it. Brexiters continue to deny it. (or be ignorant of it)

the room next door - Donald Trump Fact Check Special

Musk’s great tragedy is that he has all the money anyone could dream of but will never have the thing he craves most of all: to be funny, charismatic and well-liked. Ironically, this is the only amusing thing about him.

Tim Farron, "The unpleasantness about this debate is only matched by the lack of proper information" #BBCQT "85% of refugees settle in the country next to where they come from" "The French take 3x more refugees than we do" "The Germans take 4x more refugees than we do" "If

The great irony here is that Donald Trump is the ONLY sitting US president to have attended Davos in the past 24 years. Indeed, he went to the World Economic Forum twice while president, which was twice as many times as Bill Clinton...

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Really is incredible to think that the Tories announced compensation for victims of two scandals, then did nothing to arrange the money. Labour has had to put aside a massive chunk of the money they secured yesterday to fulfil a promise the previous government made.

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. I can see why RFK Jr is so concerned. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

Just the most astounding couple of paragraphs. Pure oligarchy territory.

Musk didn’t invent Tesla, he bought it Musk didn’t invent SpaceX, he bought it Musk didn’t invent Starlink, he bought it Musk didn’t invent “X,” he bought it Musk didn’t invent Trump, he bought him