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Would have been good for the Kim Jong-un watching things if we had a vid

Kim Jong-un furious as North Korea warship partly ‘crushed’ in launch gone wrong
South Korea said the destroyer was lying sideways in the water after ceremony to launch the new 5,000-tonne ship

A ceremony to welcome a new ...

Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump

Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum.

The permit granted to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) to extract anorthosite follows interest in the Arctic ...

Slick wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 8:56 am What do we make of all these Ukrainians being arrested for the fires at Starmers houses?

Russian hires?

Well it won't be long until they're up in court, so guess we might find out. Carpuic though Ukrainian born took Romanian nationality at some point

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Damn this image disappeared. It was basically a sarcastic reply to a tweet from ...

Somewhat predictably it appears that the "Peace Talks" simply turned into Russia repeating the same old demands with no pretence of negotiation or compromise, and more threats

Neighbouring Borough Council has just seen 8 Tory councillors resign from the party in the space of a couple of days, changing their standing to Independent meaning that the Tories lose the council to NOC. No reason yet given but perhaps it's simply the Tories becoming more and more of a Reform ...

Don't know if this will turn into a anything more than a bit of a spat but

Farage is running a cult, says ex-Reform MP Lowe

Former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe has accused Nigel Farage's party of being "the cult of Nigel" and says he was the victim of a "political assassination attempt".

Speaking ...

Thames Water again taking the piss - and not in the only way they should be

Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan

Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers

Ministers plan to ...

Finally, India makes it official: Trump didn't broker India-Pakistan ceasefire

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 149120.cms

I...don't know what to think about this. Evri aka ex Hermes have a pretty well deserved reputation of being largely shit, especially with near non existent customer complaints handling. That said I've had a many deliveries from them on time and without issues so service could well vary according to ...

And Putin still refuses to agree a ceasefire before negotiations - will only meet without pre-conditions. Will only agree to meetings between "representatives". Sounds like Zelensky's plan to attend in Istanbul means their bluff has been called.

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status ...

Anecdotal again but...

I currently work elsewhere (my job means I work across Councils sometimes). My local Reform Councillors have been working really hard making important decisions like:

What flags we fly?

Do we ban rainbow lanyards?

Can we stop the Halal food in the canteen? (note, there is ...

Apparently this is really a thing

A known terrorist offers Trump a tower, and suddenly the sanctions disappear.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s corruption in plain sight.

How do your bring someone like this to heel?

Worth pointing out, again, on the ‘we need immigrants to work in care homes’ point that on average each care worker since 2020 has arrived with three dependents, therefore making our dependency ratio substantially worse.

Ponzi schemes are great though.

There's also something broken with the ...

The Economist isn't exactly a neutral source but since it largely follows the genius' Truss masterplan...

Unfortunately the article is hidden behind a paywall

Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster
Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

https://www.economist.com ...

And Putin still refuses to agree a ceasefire before negotiations - will only meet without pre-conditions. Will only agree to meetings between "representatives". Sounds like Zelensky's plan to attend in Istanbul means their bluff has been called.

https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status ...

Nothing to see here!
Donald Trump has indicated he is ready to accept a luxury plane being offered to the US president as a gift from Qatar’s royal family, almost immediately igniting accusations of bribery and corruption as well as commensurate criticism. Earlier on Sunday, citing multiple ...

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1921619641329229857

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1921477823618769111

Putin’s call to negotiate in Istanbul might seem like a step toward peace, but in my opinion, it’s really just a push to revisit the 2022 Istanbul Communique and use this as a ...

Putin still playing games and doing anything to avoid agreeing to the unconditional 30-day ceasefire proposal

...The best way to counter this would be to just focus on a ceasefire and only talk about that.

It's ok folks. Trump has just announced on social media that he has brokered a peace deal
In a post on social media platform Truth Social, the US President says: "After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND ...

New Reform KCC leader wants to initiate a DOGE style audit on the County Council's books. That sure worked out well across the pond...

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/new-kcc-reform-uk-leader-reveals-plan-for-council-324062/

And this is purely anecdotal - and of course not necessarily ...

Calls to suspend councillor over 'Hitler' post

Two Labour MPs have called for Reform UK to suspend one of its newly elected councillors after a photo of Adolf Hitler was shared on his official Facebook page.

Hyndburn MP Sarah Smith and Blackpool South MP Chris Webb shared a screengrab of a post ...

Well since the Tories and Labour have their threads, we can keep an eye on how Reform manage expectations after their big success in the Mayoral and County Elections. Our new Reform led council with huge majority believes it can cut Council Tax simply by eliminating waste. In fairness we should give ...

And when they start to lay-off dock workers, truckers and shut down warehouses etc, how is the Shitgibbon going to try and spin that as being a win for tariffs?

Ports of LA, Long Beach already seeing 44% drop in docked vessels

Fewer ships mean fewer products unloading at the ports of Los ...

So apparently the latest bright idea is a proposal of an indefinite US occupation of Gaza modelled on the 2003 Provisional Authority in Iraq (which worked out so well...). The US administration excelling itself in foreign policy once again

Exclusive: US, Israel discuss possible US-led ...

It's started already, though not the usual reason this time. They were happy to run her as a paper candidate to fill numbers, but to their collective surprise she went an won the seat

A newly elected councillor has resigned her Reform UK membership after she was suspended over a social media post ...

How exactly do you put a tariff on a movie?

Quiet aside from the practicalities of that, Trump ignores actual national security threats, including those created by himself and his own team, while hysterically labelling everything else an emergency so he can use unlimited Presidential powers on ...

The idiocy gets worse

Yes, this is a real thing, see https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-con ... e-bill/867

Hellraiser wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:14 am A second Su-30 was shot down by a naval drone off Crimea.

Sandstorm wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 8:44 am Bin collection will be a hot topic budget item in a lot of towns across the country soon.

The current contract for ours is currently under review here, probably the first choice to be made is to re-tender for contractors or provide the service in-house.

It's going to be "interesting times" for the councils that have seen a near complete change of councillors this time around. It's normal for sure to have new councillors elected who need mentoring from those with experience in their party but here we have something like 40 - 50 new councillors with ...

Labour look like having a very poor time at the local council elections, but the Tories will hardly fare any better. Not much doubt that Reform will benefit greatly in many areas and make a huge number of gains, while Greens will benefit in other areas. Wonder if the new Reform councillors might ...

Have to say that, from what we know of it, this minerals deal with the US seems pretty good from Ukraine. Looks like they played Trump pretty well and it suddenly puts a lot more pressure on Russia. I've no doubt that Ukraine can now persuade Trump of the importance of keeping Russia at bay ...

In other news, a tech writer makes the humorous point that we have actually reached artificial general intelligence on the Trump level.
(basically his brain is a LLM at this point) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/

Techdirt
Mike Masnick
The Hallucinating ...

Whilst also announcing a 3 day ceasefire (in a weeks time...) and stating they have no preconditions for peace talks...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62j1848509o

Wonder if this is because of the May 9th Victory Day Parade in Moscow and not wanting to divert extra air defence against ...

Once again, proving they're only interested in capitulation not negotiation

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1916794385036890475

Russia has officially declared its conditions for ending the war, according to MFA Lavrov. Among them: Crimea, Sevastopol, "DPR," "LPR," Kherson and Zaporizhzhia ...

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years: POLL
Majorities of voters disapprove of many of Trump's policies, the poll found.

Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with public pushback on many of his policies and extensive ...

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