Claudette

@_truthtopower Your post is, without question, one of the best tweets ever. I wrote this yesterday 👇

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be. This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War. Read this part: "In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power." Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏 Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War. Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline. Truth matters.

@RnaudBertrand So interesting. The political secretary at the Soviet embassy came down to my school in the mid 1970s and gave us a (quite brilliant) talk on the Soviet perspective. This was at the height of the Cold War.

Billionaire Trump donor, private equity boss in line to make millions from Thames Water bid. Attempted to fund Robert Jenrick’s bid for Tory party leadership. Wants to be exempt from sewage dumping fines. Will extract returns, customers will be fleeced. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Kaja Kallas who - I kid you not - is supposed to be the EU's top diplomat, just described China as a "disease," specifically "cancer." 🤦‍♂️ Just as the entire rest of the world - including Trump's US - are deciding to re-engage with China, the EU prefers to insult them. Why would China be "cancer"? Because, in Kallas' own description, their companies are more competitive and this forces what she describes as a binary choice for the EU: "morphine" - subsidize EU companies - or "chemo", become more hostile to Chinese companies. Or maybe, just maybe, it's not binary, and if there's any cancer eating away at Europe's future, it's precisely Kallas' mindset - the reflex to call "disease" what is simply someone else doing a better job.

To anyone confused: Elon Musk doesn’t know shit about software, or AI, or rockets, or anything at all. He’s a midwit conman who bullshits his way through every single conversation or interview. All of them.

We're always told the supermarkets operate on "tiny margins" so it's a mystery how their profits are in the billions and their CEOs earn salaries in the millions. #r4today

I am proud and thankful to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives with my friend Thomas Massie, a giant among weak pathetic men. Releasing the Epstein files was our demise. But it was worth every single bit because now everyone knows the truth. You are ruled by the Epstein class that cares nothing about you and your elected leaders are bought and controlled by a foreign lobby. Tonight the future of the Republican Party was destroyed. The Real America First Movement will rise led by the younger generations, who hate the old guard with an unquenchable passion. Let us pray that we have a country left by the time these creatures are gone.

Important to remember that Massie remains in Congress until January 3rd, 2027. It’s time for him to expose EVERYTHING.

Celestial archway. This morning's photo is from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

Water privatisation has been outright theft. Whoever is next PM must commit to ending this scandal and take our water back into public ownership. No more failed regulation. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@Phil_Lewis_ Reminder that DuckDuckGo is free and all AI slop options can be fully and permanently disabled. Imagine searching for something and getting the best result first again! Like this ⤵

The US government is officially Israeli occupied. These are dark times…

"Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid." Meet who is now the de facto owner of Thames Water. It's a tragedy in 3 acts and it does not end well. 👇👇👇 theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Andy Burnham's Centre for Social Justice wants to remove PIP & LCWRA from 1.1m claimants - those currently assessed as too ill or disabled to work But simultaneously only expects 10% (110,000) to move into work So enforced poverty on ~1 million chronically ill & disabled people

Spain has 2464 miles of high speed rail which cost €55.89bn UK will have 200 miles of HS1 + HS2 at a cost of over £100bn Why?

Hilariously by the time it opens in 2039 HS2 will be... The most expensive high speed railway in the world. The slowest high speed railway in the world. The longest time to build railway in the world. And the shortest high speed railway in the world. One word, CORRUPTION.

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

No lies detected Apartheid Israel exploited America’s undemocratic oligarchic system to take out Thomas Massie

@AuronMacintyre A sad state of affairs when rural Kentucky is turned into an international test of algorithmic programming, nudging, and mind control.