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May 17
6 min read

Dear John. Life is so different here under Trump that my partner has banned watching The News on TV as it is too depressing and your weekly Newsletter invites me to share some of the news without him knowing - so - thank you John. Much appreciated and welcomed each Sunday. It is just too depressing here under tis fascist regime we have voted into place under Trump. The man and his party are the Anti Christ posing as Christians and fooling millions of American voters who are as thick as shit. Thanks John, keep it up, every week I am more and more impressed with you and more and more disgusted at the United States.

Oslo - Stanford, Califormia.

Ryanair is ordered to refund passenger £124 after court rules hand luggage is essential and should not incur extra fees

Ryanair has been ordered to refund a passenger £124 after charging them for hand luggage, which a Spanish court ruled to be an essential part of air travel

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Prince Harry’s popularity sinks after BBC interview attacking King

The Duke of Sussex’s popularity in the UK has plunged after a BBC interview in which he claimed the King refused to speak to him. A new YouGov poll revealed Prince Harry’s favourability rating had dropped to 27 per cent, its lowest for more than two years.

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Dear John: I am leaving the USA. Born and raised in Ohio. Lived fo decades in NYC and SF. Work for European importers who are moving out of the USA and back to Europe. Trumps new tariffs are destroying the business and things are out of control and the whole anti LGBT thing is taking the USA down the proverbial toilet bowl. Trumps hand is on the flush. Many are leaving to Canada or Mexico in sympathy for these countries and what Trump is doing. Many good and decent folks are leaving the country. America is in self destruct mode. Got to get out while the going is good. Our Hitler / Trump is the worst kind of dictator imagineable. Shameful for America to loose global recognition and what little respect we did hold, now lost completely. I am booked in with you in September and shall be house hunting in the UK ? Any suggestons John ? Robert T.

Keep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America

Many people have decided a trip to the US isn’t worth the risk after recent border detentions. But if you are going, what do you need to know? Immigration lawyers explain it all.

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Stockholm Floored After Trump Administration Sends Letter Demanding They End DEI Programs

Authorities in Stockholm, Sweden, called out a "bizarre" letter they got from the U.S. government ordering that they end diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the city.

THIS IS DANGEROUS TALK AND WORRYING FOR THE FUTURE FOR US ALL IF THIS IS TO CONTINUE

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Conservative raged at a bank over its Pride flag. The bank told him where to go.

The man then escalated his complaint to a national organization. Things didn't turn out like he wanted...

When a client of the U.K. bank NatWest saw Pride flags at a local branch, he said the flags caused him emotional distress because of his disabilities and religious beliefs. He asked the bank to remove the decorations, but the bank’s response compelled him to escalate the matter.

'Frankly pathetic': World leaders treat Trump like a 'toddler' who needs a 'shiny toy'

Adam Lynch

International columnists Lydia Polgreen and Nick Kristof discussed with the New York Times how the world is coming to terms with an international superpower run by what they perceive to be a "toddler."

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2-year-old girl separated from parents by US deportation arrives in Venezuela

A 2-year-old girl separated from her parents by deportation arrived Wednesday in Venezuela where her mother was deported from the United States, a move that the South American country has repeatedly denounced as a kidnapping.

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Our council made £1m from driving fines in six months – we took them to court and won

After months of working around the clock – staying up till midnight, starting at 6am, or giving up weekends to fit campaigning alongside their full-time jobs – 54-year-old Almira Mohamed and her neighbours finally got the news they were waiting for: they’d won their case.

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Pete Hegseth’s pastor says homosexuality is caused by abuse & can be cured by Jesus

The pastor called gay people "sodomites" that are "perverting" God's beautiful design.

Joshua Haymes — a far-right pastor of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a church near Nashville that counts anti-LGBTQ+ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a member, according to Right Wing Watch — has claimed that “Jesus can cure” “sodomites” and that 100% of men who seek counseling for the “perversion” of homosexuality” have suffered “horrific” abuse by a gay man as children.

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JB COMMENTS: What utter and complete garbage. A Jahova Witness once said to me, on my doorstep on Christmas Day, that every time I think of having sex with a man I should think of Jesus and I IMMEDATELY replied, -

' Oh when I see a hot man and my dick gets hard I do indeed think ' Jeeeeeezus he is hot...'

And he was absolutely not amused while we stood there giggling ...

So many people assume they are right and that Jesus has the answers to everything that does not sit comfortable with their lifestyle of limited ambition. ANYTHING out of the ordinary is therefore, Un Christian - according to these blasphemous fools.

This single Trump order is the one that should scare the hell out of you

D. Earl Stephens

We are running out of time, folks, because as I am typing this, the groundwork is being laid by the most lawless, corrupt administration in United States history to come after our right to due process, and incinerate the most elemental piece of a democracy: freedom.

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Trump claims credit for new American Pope Leo’s election - despite having nothing to do with Conclave

Donald Trump has suggested he played a role in Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s election as the new pontiff.

That’s despite the U.S. president having nothing to do with the traditional Conclave process that selects a new pope.

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Council tax worker who embezzled £1m ordered to repay £165,000

A former Aberdeen City Council employee who embezzled more than £1 million over almost 20 years has been ordered to repay more than £165,000.

Michael Paterson, 60, was jailed for four years at the High Court in Edinburgh in July 2024, after pleading guilty to a charge of embezzlement.

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Boil your tap water alert issued in UK 'until further notice'

People in parts of North Yorkshire have been asked to boil their tap water after routine tests showed higher than usual levels of bacteria. Customers affected by the "boil order" received hand-delivered notices urging them to take the precautionary measure until further notice

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'I'm not thrilled': Trump greets sultan's gift with childish sulk

Adam Nichols

President Donald Trump went into a childish sulk over a gift handed to him as he left the United Arab Emirates Friday.

In video posted to X by Trump’s special assistant Margo Martin, the president finished his first foreign diplomatic trip by accepting the present.

He immediately mocked it — to his host’s face.

NO :- Even the American Embassy in London wasn’t US territory. It’s owned by the Duke of Westminster. The US did once ask if they could have ownership. The Duke asked if he could have the territory lost during Independence.

US embassy to move from Grosvenor Square to industrial estate

The current embassy was always an oddity in the US diplomatic set-up because of the lease arrangement with the Duke of Westminster - virtually every other major mission is owned outright by the US.

The Duke reportedly said he would only sell if the US government returned his family's land, confiscated during the American War of Independence.

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