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@MosiniElisa The company Trump keeps 🤮🤮🤮🤮 🇬🇧♥️🇮🇹

After Trump’s attack on Meloni, Moscow joins in. Kremlin propagandist Solovyov says: “She’s a fascist, an idiot, and a nasty little bitch. She betrayed Trump.” These words are disgusting And today I say this simply as an Italian. Full solidarity with my Italian Prime Minister

@GiorgiaMeloni 👏👏👏 🇬🇧♥️🇮🇹

Per sua natura, un solerte propagandista di regime non può impartire lezioni né di coerenza né di libertà. Ma non saranno certo queste caricature a farci cambiare strada. Noi, diversamente da altri, non abbiamo fili, non abbiamo padroni e non prendiamo ordini. La nostra bussola resta una sola: l’interesse dell’Italia. E continueremo a seguirla con orgoglio, con buona pace dei propagandisti di ogni latitudine.

@theepicmap Because we have a tunnel 🤷

Why don't they build a bridge here?

@JaynitMakwana I thought PowerPoint copilot did all this or do these do much more? Thanks 👍

🚨 SHOCKING: AI just killed PowerPoint. Forget spending 4 hours formatting & designing each slide. AI can now build presentations like a $200/hour McKinsey slide designer. Here are 5 AI tools to create stunning presentations in seconds:

@PolitlcsUK @breeallegretti "Lines to take" are standard across parties who's MPs are doing media 🤷

🚨 NEW: The "lines to take" script given to Labour MPs for Keir Starmer's statement has been leaked [@breeallegretti]

@gav1n444 @TheNewsAgents Let it begin 👋 Time to reimagine them

@TheNewsAgents 👀 .. yeah it’s not even begun….. Yet 👀📉

"We saw the same song and dance from tobacco companies 20 years ago we see from social media companies today." This year, Meta and YouTube recently paid $6m to a woman whose mental health had been damaged by social media. Could she be the first of many? thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-la…

@EVCurveFuturist @jollygandt I was told I couldn't power my EV from home generation as the home battery wouldn't be up to it. Were they wrong or kinda right and you just need to invest in big enough batteries? Thanks

@jollygandt Love it. We’re seeing the same across Australia. Rooftop solar → battery → self-supply. Add an EV and you close the loop. Your transport runs on your own energy. That’s the full system shift right there.

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS

@NotMeAllOfUs @Microinteracti1 Read the contract.

@Microinteracti1 NATO is not and never was a defensive alliance. It is Europe that is bailing out of the imperial mission which is already costing Europeans horrendous blood and treasure (well more than 1 million European lives already lost in the last 5 years alone).

Jens Stoltenberg went on Fox News this week. It did not go the way Trump would have liked. The former NATO Secretary General, now Norway’s Finance Minister, was asked about Trump’s threats to pull the United States out of the alliance. He answered with the kind of calm, precise demolition that only a Norwegian diplomat can deliver without raising his voice once. On why Europe didn’t join the war: “NATO is a defensive alliance. The strikes or the war against Iran were never an attempt to make that into a NATO operation.” On whether Europe disagrees with America about Iran: “We all agree the Iranian nuclear program is dangerous. The question is how we achieve that goal.” Translation: the problem was never the destination. It was the lunatic who decided to get there by setting the car on fire. On what Trump should have done before launching: “If you want NATO to contribute, then at least you have to sit down with NATO allies, as you did after 9/11. You cannot expect us just to be there without any consultations, any discussions in NATO before you take the decision to launch the attack.” This is Stoltenberg saying, in the most polished terms imaginable, that you do not start a war at two in the morning on Truth Social and then ring your allies for help at breakfast. On whether Europe abandoned America: “The majority of European allies have made sure that their bases and infrastructure were available for the United States. There are some exceptions, but most have contributed.” Most helped. Quietly. Without being asked to endorse a war they considered illegal. On why leaving NATO would be catastrophic for America specifically: “The United States is 25 per cent of the global economy. But together with NATO allies, we are 50 per cent of the global economy and 50 per cent of the world’s military might. So it makes the United States safer to have friends and allies — something that Russia and China don’t have at all.” And then, in a separate interview, the warning nobody in Washington wants to hear: “It’s not a natural law that we will have NATO forever. It’s not carved in stone that NATO will exist for the next ten years.” That last line was not a threat. It was a diagnosis. Trump called NATO a Paper Tiger. Stoltenberg replied, with characteristic Norwegian understatement, that paper tigers tend to be considerably less useful once you’ve set them on fire yourself. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@jdpoc @jonosooty 4th place in that event 👌

@jonosooty Not really, kid. We'd be £200 BILLION a Year better off if we hadn't left. Silly boy.

You probably didn't read this in the Tsunami of "WE'RE ALL DOOMED" from the UK media but this week, quietly, the UK regained it's No 5 spot in World's Biggest Economies, from India.

@FrankieFreedom1 @TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall Similar reason that Heroin isn't a school desert option for children to choose or vapes in candy colours 🍭 Atleast the brain impacts of heroin and tobacco are well understood.

@TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall How about we just let people have the freedom to make their own choices. Why do we need more intervention?

"What would be far more effective would be to look at the power tech companies exercise, not just over children, but over everybody," says @lewis_goodall "I don't think a ban is going to have much effect." Will the UK ban social media for under-16s? thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will-t…

@hjpidd @buffys Oasis 😂 But yeah all this and more.

@buffys Common law, capitalism, industrialisation, human rights, Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, insurance, equity markets, defeated Nazism, Magna Carta, abolition of the African slave trade, electrodynamics, Shakespeare, Oasis, and lots more. Why?

name one thing this country gave to the world

@thatginamiller Absolutely. That's a vision that feels full of hope and optimism which is rare these days.

@DavidFlavinHarr David - we should be doing this in conjunction with reducing Brexit barriers that are harming the UK

Baby steps to repairing Brexit damage - need much bolder strides that will benefit all generations To all the Brexiteers who are up in arms - you won but turned out to be a very hollow victory! Britain should be ambitious enough to give its young people the same opportunities they had before Brexit, not less. Rejoining #Erasmus+ is a practical, pro-growth decision that restores access to study, training and work placements for students from every background, while rebuilding the international links that make our universities stronger and our economy more competitive.It's common sense. Before we left, Erasmus+ widened opportunity, improved employability, and helped 10,000s of thousands of young people build skills, confidence and networks employers value. It also gave less advantaged students a chance to study abroad. At a time when Britain needs to invest in skills, openness and long-term growth, and our universities need to attract talent and deepen partnerships, turning our backs on one of Europe’s most successful programmes, which is outside the EU, was a mistake. Rejoining Erasmus+ signals that the UK is serious about fairness and future prosperity, and that we will not keep denying the next generation opportunities that were once theirs by right.

@RStrongdoctor @piersmorgan How on earth does a US president comment like that... still shocks me

He can visibly rage all he likes, but I’m not buying this claptrap. How can someone as controversial as Mandelson, fired twice from previous Govts, fail a security vetting to be Britain’s top diplomat, and NOBODY in Govt or No10 is told about it? This defence will unravel.

@PolitlcsUK Let's hear him out on Monday.

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says he is "absolutely furious" at not being told Peter Mandelson failed security vetting

@JoelTheDane @Petrie_JohnC Amazing, congratulations 👏👏🎉

@Microinteracti1 Brilliantly written 👏 On: 'Kallas delivered the European verdict: "This is not Europe's war."' US always criticised EU with the line "sounds great but who do you pick up the phone to". EU united. Spoke with one voice, but not from a dictator. EU comes out of this strong.

USA – Just Another Country Every Ally Gone. Every Bridge Burned. For decades, the alliance had a problem member. Everyone knew it. The country that invaded Iraq on a lie, tanked the global economy in 2008, and elected its own demolition crew in 2016 and again in 2025. The others adjusted. Covered for it. Kept showing up. You don't abandon a friend just because he occasionally drives into a ditch. You wait until he drives into yours. Then Trump made it simple. The friend who had always been difficult had finally done something unforgivable. The room went quiet. And then everyone moved on. America was never strong alone. It was strong because it sat at the center of the most sophisticated network of power ever assembled. British diplomats carrying influence into Canberra and Wellington. French connections opening doors across Africa and the Middle East. Norwegian and Greek shipping moving a third of the world's cargo. German engineering. Japanese capital. South Korean semiconductors. Canadian stability. Australian intelligence. Dutch and Belgian ports as the gateway to 750 million consumers. Danish and Italian naval presence across two seas. Every one of them a multiplier, lifting Washington into rooms it could never have entered alone. It was not one football team. It was hundreds of teams, running the same plays, on every field, simultaneously. Trump dismantled it the way a bored child dismantles a Lego set. Not to build something else. Just to watch the pieces fall. What is left is 340 million people staring across the Pacific at 1.4 billion. China did not need to do anything during the Iran war. It watched. It waited. It took notes. While Washington burned its relationships one by one, Beijing made calls, signed deals, and let the silence do the work. Silence, it turns out, is a remarkably effective foreign policy. The allies are not mourning. They are discovering something they perhaps always suspected: that Washington was often the ceiling, not the floor. The ally that needed managing. The friend whose chaos you had to absorb before you could get anything done. Turns out the meeting goes faster when he's not in the room. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said it plainly: "The old relationship we had with the United States is over. It's clear the US is no longer a reliable partner." At Davos he told world leaders the scaffold of American power was being abandoned. "Friends," he said, "it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down." Germany said the war had nothing to do with NATO. France blocked arms flights. Spain closed its airspace. Italy denied landing rights. Poland kept its missile batteries home. Kallas delivered the European verdict: "This is not Europe's war. No one wants to actively get involved." Which, translated from diplomat into English, means: absolutely not. Starmer condemned "regime change from the skies." Sanchez accused Washington of playing "Russian roulette with the destiny of millions." Macron said: "When we want to be serious, we don't say each day the opposite of what we said the day before." Coming from a Frenchman, that is essentially a controlled demolition. These are the countries that sent their sons to the Gulf in 1991. That stood in line at NATO headquarters on September 12, 2001. They know what the alliance was. They have decided, with remarkable calm, that they are better off without the version currently on offer. This is what it looks like when an alliance leaves one of its own members behind. Professor Robert Pape put the result plainly: "Iran is far stronger than it was 40 days ago. It is in control of 20 percent of the world's oil. It is now an emerging fourth center of power." Washington went to war to prevent exactly this outcome. It succeeded, just not in the way it intended. One country launched a war alone, begged Pakistan to broker peace talks, and came home empty-handed. French Senator Claude Malhuret said it on the floor of the French Senate, viewed millions of times across the world: "Washington has become Nero's court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a buffoon on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service." Americans flooded his inbox asking why it had to be a French politician to say what nobody in Washington would. A year later he corrected himself. Nero's court was too dignified. "I was wrong. It is the Court of Miracles." A medieval Parisian slum where criminals and thieves pretended to be something they were not. He listed the cabinet: an anti-vaxxer and former heroin addict as Secretary of Health, a climate denier running environmental policy, an alcoholic television host handed the world's most powerful military, a Qatari lobbyist as Attorney General, a Putin admirer as National Security Advisor. Then he cited a Turkish proverb: "When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become king. The palace becomes a circus." Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump had Truth Social and a golf cart. He posted images of himself as Jesus on Easter Sunday, then deleted them before breakfast. Threatened to erase "a whole civilization," then teed off by Monday morning. At least Nero stayed in Rome. A country so institutionally broken that it took a French senator to say out loud what every American already knew. Congress watched. The Republicans said nothing, because nothing pays better than silence. The Democrats couldn't find their spine. The entire apparatus of the world's oldest democracy stood on the sidelines while one man helped himself to powers the constitution told him he couldn't have. Either everyone in that building has decided this is perfectly fine. Or they've concluded it's already too late. Either way, the word for that is not democracy. The White House became the circus. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 I have two boys in primary school. The most scariest place in the world I could move to is USA 💑🔫 Happy in UK where their healthcare needs are also met.

True?

@chiky_handlr They would finally make America great again.

Trump supporters are threatening to leave the US if Trump is sent to prison. 🫨 Do you agree with them?

@Amockx2022 @Petrie_JohnC Makes sense. Move older experience into the revising chambers. Still have a voice, not day to day work. If they need a nap, they can. Bernie Sanders still has plenty to offer for example.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump : 79 years old wants war with Iran 🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu : 76 years old wants war with Palestine 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin : 74 years old wants war with Ukraine 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez : 55 years old took stand against all of them 🔥 Today, 🇭🇺 Hungary elected 45 years old Peter Magyar the Prime Minister The world needs more young leaders who take decisions for which they would live enough to see consequences, not boomers who have already lived their lives and putting the peace of Next Gen at stake