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The government is delaying the imposition of import checks on EU goods for another 18 months, because they must realise that doing all the required checks properly will cripple the economy.

When it works, it works surprisingly well. Given that we have no written constitution, and governments can do what they want without the House of Lords, at least when the Lords bother to do their job. (I still want to replace the House of Lords with an elected senate, and have a written...

This is the makeup of the Russian parliament (State Duma). Dark blue is Putin’s party. Lighter blue is the overly fascist LDPR. Yellow is the fake “centre left” party which backs Putin’s policies and presidency. Red is the Communist party, which is ultranationalist and reactionary...

Macron beat Le Pen. Best outcome for the runoff.

Crank politician with Russophile sympathies strikes again!

Sending foreigners to prison camps in Rwanda! That’s the British way!!!

Indeed. It’s just gaslighting by the Tories, BBC and rest of the UK media that Johnson is a Churchill figure who’s the sole reason why Putin hasn’t already conquered all of Ukraine.

Last night on the TV news we had countless Tory MPs appear telling the public that “Boris” (he’s always referred to by first name only) can’t be forced to resign for breaking the law because he’s the main opposition to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, unlike surrender monkeys France, Germany and the...

What a country this is.

BBC and Channel 4 are both public. The difference is that the BBC is funded by the TV licence (and thus airs no advertising), and Channel 4 is funded by on-air advertising. ITV isn’t connected to Channel 4. If you want the history, basically… We had three TV channels until Channel 4 launched...

First round of the French presidential elections. Macron (centre-right liberal) and Le Pen (neofascist) will go through to the second round.

Oh, this was last week, but the government are going to privatise the public station Channel 4 and sell it to one of their big business media backers. It is/was the last broadcaster in the UK to do more than follow the Tory party / government’s official line on every topic.

It’s as least as bad as the States. And the government seem to be completely above the law, if the ongoing Partygate scandal has taught us anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate

So, the Chancellor (finance minister) may be a big tax cheat. A few days ago it was even revealed that his wife is non-domicile and doesn’t pay UK tax on her millions, despite living at 11 Downing Street...

This isn’t good — Hungarian quasi-dictator Victor Orban has won another supermajority in last weekend’s election. This was with the opposition doing the unprecedented step of uniting as one bloc, everyone from the centre-left Socialists, Democrats and Greens to the right-wing JOBBIK. Even then...

Slight aside, but given this is a generally left-leaning forum, I’m relieved that I’ve not seen any pro-Russia, “it’s neoliberal EU/imperialist NATO’s fault” missives and rants here, unlike every UK based forum I frequent.

Vlad: “It’s all the fault of the trans lobby for their cancellation of JK Rowling.”

Not really a funny take from r/news, given Germany and Poland have cooperated bilaterally since the end of the Cold War, have been partners in Nato since 1999 and the EU since 2004. (Luftwaffe literally means Air Force, incidentally; it’s not some special Nazi term.) Greece and Turkey have been...