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🚨 UK govt is planning to require social media and video platforms like YouTube and Meta to give greater prominence to news and content from public service broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 in their algorithms.
June 20, 2026 at 8:22 PM
🚨 UK govt is planning to require social media and video platforms like YouTube and Meta to give greater prominence to news and content from public service broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 in their algorithms.
Loads happened today across the globe, but the world didn’t stop, and the headlines were busy. Wars escalated, alliances shifted. Here’s what happened - without the noise. Let’s go 🧵
June 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Loads happened today across the globe, but the world didn’t stop, and the headlines were busy. Wars escalated, alliances shifted. Here’s what happened - without the noise. Let’s go 🧵
What in the actual simulation is happening in the United States of America 🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️
March 24, 2026 at 2:27 PM
What in the actual simulation is happening in the United States of America 🤦🏻♂️🤷♂️
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Fitness App, Lie Detectors & a 99.99% Democracy 🗳️
Iran reveals hidden missile range by striking at Diego Garcia, Denmark secretly prepared to blow up Greenland’s runways, and Cuba tells the U.S. Embassy to find its own fuel.
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March 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Attended a meeting with the ministers of Ethiopia and Uganda governments on the state of refugees and learned that little girls (6-8 y/o) are being raped in schools in masses..
What is this world. What are we doing.
Also, this ⬇️
What is this world. What are we doing.
Also, this ⬇️
March 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Attended a meeting with the ministers of Ethiopia and Uganda governments on the state of refugees and learned that little girls (6-8 y/o) are being raped in schools in masses..
What is this world. What are we doing.
Also, this ⬇️
What is this world. What are we doing.
Also, this ⬇️
So Reform UK are spending funds to subsidise fuel prices by 25p per litre for a day at a pump in Derbyshire, while also calling for the UK to join the Iran war, which will further increase fuel prices.
Hypocrisy at its finest 🤷♂️
via @bethrigby.bsky.social
Hypocrisy at its finest 🤷♂️
via @bethrigby.bsky.social
March 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM
So Reform UK are spending funds to subsidise fuel prices by 25p per litre for a day at a pump in Derbyshire, while also calling for the UK to join the Iran war, which will further increase fuel prices.
Hypocrisy at its finest 🤷♂️
via @bethrigby.bsky.social
Hypocrisy at its finest 🤷♂️
via @bethrigby.bsky.social
The White House claimed Spain agreed to cooperate with its military campaign in the Middle East but Spain’s government has now publicly denied this, saying its position “has not changed” and that no such agreement exists.
March 4, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The White House claimed Spain agreed to cooperate with its military campaign in the Middle East but Spain’s government has now publicly denied this, saying its position “has not changed” and that no such agreement exists.
🚨 NEW: The US National Cyber Director has pushed back against the EU’s bid for tech autonomy, urging Europe to wean itself off China rather than America.
“There is a clean tech stack. It is primarily American. And then there is a Chinese tech stack,” he said.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
“There is a clean tech stack. It is primarily American. And then there is a Chinese tech stack,” he said.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
Washington pushes back against EU’s bid for tech autonomy
Suggesting US tech is as risky as Chinese tech is ‘a giant false equivalency,’ top US cyber official says.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
🚨 NEW: The US National Cyber Director has pushed back against the EU’s bid for tech autonomy, urging Europe to wean itself off China rather than America.
“There is a clean tech stack. It is primarily American. And then there is a Chinese tech stack,” he said.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
“There is a clean tech stack. It is primarily American. And then there is a Chinese tech stack,” he said.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-b...
The most interesting thing about this Epstein saga:
there are calls for the UK PM to resign over appointing an ambassador with dodgy links, but in the US it looks like business as usual 🤷♂️
there are calls for the UK PM to resign over appointing an ambassador with dodgy links, but in the US it looks like business as usual 🤷♂️
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
The most interesting thing about this Epstein saga:
there are calls for the UK PM to resign over appointing an ambassador with dodgy links, but in the US it looks like business as usual 🤷♂️
there are calls for the UK PM to resign over appointing an ambassador with dodgy links, but in the US it looks like business as usual 🤷♂️
🚨NEW: UK Parliament will debate a petition on March 16 requiring automatic by-elections when MPs switch parties.
The petition argues constituents should have the right to approve or reject their MP’s party defection through a vote.
Over 126,000 signatures triggered the parliamentary debate.
The petition argues constituents should have the right to approve or reject their MP’s party defection through a vote.
Over 126,000 signatures triggered the parliamentary debate.
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
🚨NEW: UK Parliament will debate a petition on March 16 requiring automatic by-elections when MPs switch parties.
The petition argues constituents should have the right to approve or reject their MP’s party defection through a vote.
Over 126,000 signatures triggered the parliamentary debate.
The petition argues constituents should have the right to approve or reject their MP’s party defection through a vote.
Over 126,000 signatures triggered the parliamentary debate.
This book should be added to school curriculums teaching kids media literacy in today’s polarised world… fantastic work @eliothiggins.bsky.social !
February 1, 2026 at 5:18 PM
This book should be added to school curriculums teaching kids media literacy in today’s polarised world… fantastic work @eliothiggins.bsky.social !
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January 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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Grateful to @bearlypolitics.co.uk for the space to explore this: What happens when governments prioritize deportation numbers over accuracy? My piece on the Reform UK’s ICE-inspired enforcement plans and why the risks go beyond immigration 👇
What happens when the state builds machinery designed to prioritise numbers over accuracy?
A reader contribution from @brownreporter.substack.com on Reform's ICE-inspired enforcement plans, and why the risks go far beyond just immigration policy - and why our track record could make it even worse.
A reader contribution from @brownreporter.substack.com on Reform's ICE-inspired enforcement plans, and why the risks go far beyond just immigration policy - and why our track record could make it even worse.
Reader Contribution: UK DEPORTATION COMMAND: The Great British ICE
What Reform UK is not telling you
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January 29, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Grateful to @bearlypolitics.co.uk for the space to explore this: What happens when governments prioritize deportation numbers over accuracy? My piece on the Reform UK’s ICE-inspired enforcement plans and why the risks go beyond immigration 👇
🚨BREAKING: The government has dropped plans requiring workers to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK
January 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
🚨BREAKING: The government has dropped plans requiring workers to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK
A cage fight at the White House, and a country wants all the data in your phone. Just a normal week in global politics. The world is shifting fast. Don't get left behind. Make sense of the madness in 4 minutes or less. 👇
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Cage Fight, Gamer Army & The Housing Ban 🏠
Plus: Multiple countries ban Elon Musk's Grok AI, Finland is back to using anti-personnel mines, and much more
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January 12, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A cage fight at the White House, and a country wants all the data in your phone. Just a normal week in global politics. The world is shifting fast. Don't get left behind. Make sense of the madness in 4 minutes or less. 👇
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🚨 NEW: Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says UK is ‘sick’ as he defects to Reform UK
His party was in power for around 14 years and he is also cofounder of YouGov (polling firm)
His party was in power for around 14 years and he is also cofounder of YouGov (polling firm)
January 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM
🚨 NEW: Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says UK is ‘sick’ as he defects to Reform UK
His party was in power for around 14 years and he is also cofounder of YouGov (polling firm)
His party was in power for around 14 years and he is also cofounder of YouGov (polling firm)
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham backs Conservative call to ban social media for under-16s as pressure mounts on No 10 to protect children
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January 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham backs Conservative call to ban social media for under-16s as pressure mounts on No 10 to protect children
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🚨 NEW: EU demands 'Farage clause' in Brexit reset talks
Brussels wants compensation if a future UK government tears up Starmer's deal
@theguardian.com
Brussels wants compensation if a future UK government tears up Starmer's deal
@theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:54 PM
🚨 NEW: EU demands 'Farage clause' in Brexit reset talks
Brussels wants compensation if a future UK government tears up Starmer's deal
@theguardian.com
Brussels wants compensation if a future UK government tears up Starmer's deal
@theguardian.com
NEW: UK govt considering banning X? As per PM, all options are on table, including boycott of govt ministers from X
January 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
NEW: UK govt considering banning X? As per PM, all options are on table, including boycott of govt ministers from X
🚨BREAKING: Venezuela to buy ONLY American products with new oil money!
January 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
🚨BREAKING: Venezuela to buy ONLY American products with new oil money!
🚨NEW: "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington. "I'll get impeached."
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
🚨NEW: "You gotta win the midterms 'cause, if we don't win the midterms, it's just gonna be - I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump said at a retreat for House Republican lawmakers in Washington. "I'll get impeached."