UK would be blocked from rejoining ‘wounded’ EU, says Juncker ft.trib.al/jVrEBYp
I'm shocked and so deeply saddened that my colleague and friend, Ran Hirschl, passed away. A towering figure in law and politics, he was so supportive of junior faculty like me, and had so much intellectual firepower to go. I'll miss him so much 😢 www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...
The most corrupt president in history:
Oh, the replies.
Yet again, anonymous tankie accounts incapable of acknowledging that communist regimes were highly repressive and widely reviled by their own people.
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Excellent summary of where the UK economy is one decade after the Brexit referendum.
To read them all now, check out @lawfaremedia.org:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The scale of Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department against his enemies www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“Rayner endured months of scrutiny over her living and tax arrangements. But when it emerged that Farage’s partner had bought an £885k house for cash, much of Fleet Street ignored it,” writes Alan Rusbridger
IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today!
These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable.
Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
Not yet worried about tyranny in Britain? This is why you should be | Owen Jones
Financial Times
Former Commission president says other countries would ‘cold-shoulder’ Britain because of its closeness to the US
Communist regimes in the 1940/50s battled what they saw as “alien anti-communist agitators,” traitors trained and paid up by the West.
Autocratic regimes can never quite believe their opposition is sincere, popular, and intense
🚨🚨When closing down on the momentous (and disastrous) #brexit referendum @rjpartington.bsky.social has published a great concise piece titled "How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts". 🧵https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/14/how-uk-economy-changed-since-brexit-vote-charts
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Chilling comments by Reform figures can’t be dismissed when you consider the overwhelming power of the UK’s centralised state, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website.
Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that.
And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.
Tom Joscelyn
Jacob Öberg
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."
