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April 21, 2025 was my last day as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. I was the first female Ambassador to serve in a war zone and I am proud of our work to fight back against Russia's aggression and protect democracy. But when Trump kept appeasing Putin, I had to resign and speak out.

In 1937 Adolf Hitler purged all artwork from Museums that didn't confine to the Far Right White Supremacist Nazi ideals. Which was most of it. Reform are planning this kind of intervention on day 1.

20 countries have successfully adopted the Euro currency and currently benefit from it. 0 countries have left it and 0 have campaigns to leave it. The currency enjoys majority support in every country that adopted it. It has proven its success over and over again! #RejoinEU

Brexit Just Damages The NHS Time to #ExitBrexit

The energy used to make fuel is STAGGERING. Most people think about what happens inside the engine… But the real waste starts LONG before the fuel even reaches your car. To make just 1 litre of petrol: Around 1,700-3,400 kJ (0.5-0.95 kWh) is used just to get oil out the ground. Then another 3,400-6,800 kJ (0.95-1.9 kWh) is used to refine it into usable fuel. That’s 5,100-10,200 kJ (1.4-2.8 kWh) gone before you’ve even driven a single mile. That same energy, just to make the fuel, could be used to drive an EV 6-12 miles. Now scale that to a full tank… A 60 litre tank uses 84-168 kWh of energy just to produce the fuel. If that powered an EV instead, it would drive 336-672 miles. And here’s the WORST part… This doesn’t include shipping it around the world, transporting it to fuel stations or pumping it into a car. All of which use even more energy. The losses involved in the transportation of oil and fuel are staggering, but that’s another post. Then once it’s in your car, it’s burned ONCE, and it’s gone. All that energy used just to burn it ONCE. A petrol engine also only uses about 20-35% of that energy to actually move the wheels. So staggering amounts of energy are being used, just for 70% of what that energy creates to be wasted. Any other industry with these figures would be bankrupt, and it would be classed as an insane practice. So, NEVER forget… Before a fossil car fills its tank, it’s already “spent” enough energy to drive hundreds of miles in an EV. Make it make sense.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026. Retweet if you believe Zelenskyy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

You won’t see any of this reported but while the right-wing dominated media and left/right extremists continue to seek opportunities over Mandelson, this Labour govt is working…getting results for UK citizens not party or self aggrandisement 👏🏼

Will the same UK journalists hunting as a pack against Keir Starmer be adopting the same investigative rigor against Nigel Farage in the near future?

@RealNatalieRowe The @guardian should make a FULL apology 'in public' to @Keir_Starmer and the country, because all this nonsense has deflected his work in managing this country.

Local elections have low turnouts, so whoever succeeds in getting their voters into the polling stations will do well. That's why we have to get the maximum anti-Farage vote. The local elections will be treated as referendum. We must make sure that Farage and his billionaire and press backers are resoundingly defeated. Please spread the message. These elections are a battle between international fascism, and democracy, freedom and human rights.

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote. Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits. Nobody under the age of 28 had a say. Need another referendum. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

You may take that view, but it does not accord with the substance of what has actually been established. A growing number of people are simply weary of what feels like an ongoing media spectacle, where the narrative is being shaped rather than the facts being reported with proper balance. We are now seeing further lines of questioning being introduced, extending beyond the matter at hand and drawing in other names and issues. That does little to clarify the situation and risks giving the impression that the objective is to sustain momentum rather than to reach a fair conclusion. The essential questions have, in truth, already been addressed. The civil servant has given evidence before the Select Committee and has confirmed that the information in question was not passed on. On that basis, there is no foundation for the claim that Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament. At some point, there must be a degree of finality. Continuing to revisit the same ground, or to broaden the scope without clear justification, serves little purpose. Many will simply see this for what it is: another episode in a cycle of media amplification that has become increasingly tiresome. As for the wider political context, it is evident that opposition parties are seeking to derive advantage from the situation. Whether that proves effective is another matter entirely, particularly at a time when questions are being raised about their own direction and relevance. For most people, however, the matter is now straightforward. The facts have been set out, the answers have been given, and it is time to move on.

The reality is that in the Lebedev case the PM was both informed and advised not to proceed With Mandelson it appears clear the PM was not informed The bias of the media is blatant and obvious......

Conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig is warning that Trump is already preparing to rig the 2026 midterms, not by one single scheme but by a whole “buffet of options” to throw the election into chaos. Think about what that menu looks like in plain English: – Flooding the country with lies about “fraud” before a single vote is counted – Trying to get control of voting machines and election administration – Looking for excuses to call out troops under the Insurrection Act to intimidate and suppress Luttig warns that if we don’t defend the system in 2026, we may not get anything resembling a real election in 2028. In other words: this is not a normal midterm. It’s a stress test of whether we still have a functioning democracy at all.

Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.  Make sure to vote YES. You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

Mandelson - US Ambassador. Evgeny Lebedev - House of Lords. One receiving relentless wall to wall hysterical media coverage. The other totally radio silence from the collective media; zero coverage. This level of media bias should be of concern to us all. Wake-up. FFS!

The world faces economic turmoil caused by Trump. Climate change threatens the future of the planet. Putin threatens European security. The UK has extra problems caused by Brexit Yet, British media & politics is obsessed about a stupid ambassador appointment 2 years ago…

In Praise of Being Told What We Can’t Eat I used to find European regulations mildly embarrassing. The endless directives, the committees, the solemn deliberations about cucumber curvature. It seemed like a continent-wide exercise in missing the point. Then I looked at what was actually in my food. More than 10,000 chemicals are permitted in the American food supply. Nearly 99 percent introduced since 2000 were approved not by the FDA, but by the food industry itself.  Companies writing their own permission slips, essentially. The GRAS loophole, created in 1958, allows manufacturers to self-certify that their ingredients are safe. The EU has no equivalent.  The results are specific. BHT, used to extend shelf life in cereals and crackers, is banned in Europe over endocrine disruption concerns – which is why you will never find Wheat Thins here.  Bovine growth hormone, linked to elevated cancer markers, is injected into American dairy cows and banned across the EU. Standard American milk contains it unless the label says otherwise. Potassium bromate, a probable human carcinogen, is still used in American bread.  This is not accident. Three of America’s biggest lobbying firms work for the food industry. Pepsi alone spends nine million dollars a year on lobbying. Incentives, working exactly as designed. Europe chose the precautionary principle. Prove it is safe before it goes in. America chose the reverse. Things are safe until enough people are harmed to prove otherwise. Throw in the right to repair, universal charging cables, and food labels a human being can actually parse – and what emerges is not bureaucratic overreach. It is a regulatory culture that decided to represent the person eating the food rather than the company selling it. Critics can call that excessive. I call it civilization. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

Anecdotally, I’m getting the strong sensation there’s a ground swell of we ordinary Labour voters who are sick to the back teeth of left/right extremists and are preparing to mobilise to support our govt as it goes about repairing 14 years of Tory decimation, and getting results

Another day at this pathetic rodeo where the media between them try to destabilise an elected government for the most stupid reason…..administrative process