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BREAKING: The High Court has dismissed the Good Law Project’s challenge to the EHRC interim guidance on single and separate-sex facilities.
Mr Justice Swift endorsed the EHRC update as an accurate statement of the law for employers & service providers.
Mr Justice Swift endorsed the EHRC update as an accurate statement of the law for employers & service providers.
The update says service providers and employers can only provide lawful separate sex facilities based on sex, and suggested where possible they offer a unisex alternative.
GLP was judged not to have standing as it lacked “sufficient interest”. The anonymous claimants did have standing, and so their substantive arguments were considered.
Worth watching. The rate of change is still accelerating.
Read an interesting article the other day about the "Middle Powers". The two Great Powers of today are the US & China. The Middle Powers are nations such as Germany, the UK & Canada. They are fearful & angry
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Read an interesting article the other day about the "Middle Powers". The two Great Powers of today are the US & China. The Middle Powers are nations such as Germany, the UK & Canada. They are fearful & angry
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because as the World splits into competing geopolitical blocs, both Great Powers are dropping the facade of fair & equal competition among equal nations. Instead, both are openly wielding real power, and aren't acting like equal partners of the weaker nations.
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The Middle Powers are not at all happy about this, and some of them like Carney, Starmer & Macron are trying to put together a coalition that will allow their safe & artificial world to continue.
They want to trade among themselves, while building individual & collective
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They want to trade among themselves, while building individual & collective
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$129 million a month. That is what Russia’s steel lobby wants to remove from the budget in tax relief.
Bloomberg: Moscow faces mounting corporate rescue demands as wartime spending strains state finances. 1/
Bloomberg: Moscow faces mounting corporate rescue demands as wartime spending strains state finances. 1/
A steel industry group asks to scrap the raw steel excise and iron ore extraction tax. The move would cost about $129M per month. Profits at top steelmakers have fallen, though they remain globally profitable with low debt. 2/
The Transport Ministry seeks 65 billion rubles for Russian Railways. The state monopoly had requested 200 billion rubles in emergency aid in late 2025 to sustain operations and investment under rising costs and heavy debt. 3/
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin: Russia’s war against Ukraine is criminal aggression, and Russians can love their country while supporting Ukraine’s defense. 1/
Buterin: Two arguments are used to justify the invasion — Russia’s right to block NATO expansion, and claims that Russian speakers in Crimea and Donbas needed protection. Neither explains launching a full-scale invasion in 2022. 2/
Buterin: NATO expanded because countries feared Russia after Moldova (1992), the two Chechen wars (1994–2000), and Georgia (2008). In 1991, 51% of Crimea and over 80% in Donbas voted for Ukrainian independence. 3/
The Moscow Times: After Russian frontline units lost access to Starlink, Ukrainian forces regained the village of Kosivtseve in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, according to a NATO official in Brussels. 1/
This month, SpaceX disconnected Starlink terminals near the front at Ukraine’s request after Kyiv reported Russian forces were using them to receive commands, coordinate assaults, and pilot drones. 2/
A senior NATO official said the cutoff placed Russian units in a “command and control predicament.”
Some Russian frontline elements had integrated Starlink into daily operations despite the service not officially operating in Russia. 3/
Some Russian frontline elements had integrated Starlink into daily operations despite the service not officially operating in Russia. 3/
This is really wild.
A 20 year old interviewed 12 AI researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
They all use the same 10 prompts and you've probably never seen them.
Not the ones on X. Not the "mega prompts." Not what courses teach.
These are the prompts that actually ship frontier AI products.
Here's the prompts you can steal right now:
A 20 year old interviewed 12 AI researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
They all use the same 10 prompts and you've probably never seen them.
Not the ones on X. Not the "mega prompts." Not what courses teach.
These are the prompts that actually ship frontier AI products.
Here's the prompts you can steal right now:
1. The "Show Your Work" Prompt
"Walk me through your reasoning step-by-step before giving the final answer."
This prompt forces the model to externalize its logic. Catches errors before they compound.
"Walk me through your reasoning step-by-step before giving the final answer."
This prompt forces the model to externalize its logic. Catches errors before they compound.
2. The "Adversarial Interrogation"
"Now argue against your previous answer. What are the 3 strongest counterarguments?"
Models are overconfident by default. This forces intellectual honesty.
"Now argue against your previous answer. What are the 3 strongest counterarguments?"
Models are overconfident by default. This forces intellectual honesty.
8 HIDDEN GEMINI COMMANDS THAT 90% OF USERS DON’T KNOW
Most people use GEMINI like this:
“Write a post,”
“Make a list,”
“Explain this…”
But if you’re doing that, you’re missing out on 90% of its real power.
Here are 8 advanced commands that will make GEMINI work at its full potential:
Most people use GEMINI like this:
“Write a post,”
“Make a list,”
“Explain this…”
But if you’re doing that, you’re missing out on 90% of its real power.
Here are 8 advanced commands that will make GEMINI work at its full potential:
1️⃣ “Act as…” – Turns GEMINI into any expert.
→ Generic prompts give weak answers. Defining a clear role improves results dramatically.
→ Example: “Act as a luxury brand marketer. Develop a high-end product promotion strategy.”
→ Generic prompts give weak answers. Defining a clear role improves results dramatically.
→ Example: “Act as a luxury brand marketer. Develop a high-end product promotion strategy.”
2️⃣ “Break this answer down into 3 levels: beginner, advanced, expert.”
→ You get a response tailored to different skill levels.
→ Perfect for learning, articles, scripts, and marketing.
→ You get a response tailored to different skill levels.
→ Perfect for learning, articles, scripts, and marketing.
BREAKING: 40 British House of Lords members from all parties urge Foreign Secretary to demand resignation of UN's Francesca Albanese. Yvette Cooper is asked to join France’s foreign minister when he calls for Albanese to stand down at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Feb. 23.
2/ As reported in The Telegraph, the Lords said Albanese's latest speech on Israel—where she cited a “common enemy of humanity” and spoke at a forum alongside Hamas—called into question her ability to “uphold even the most basic standards of neutrality”.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
3/ The French foreign minister branded Ms Albanese’s comments “outrageous and irresponsible”. He criticized the official for targeting her comments not at the Israeli government but the country and its people.
In the letter to Ms. Cooper, the peers said the comments called into question the official’s ability to “uphold even the most basic standards of neutrality”.
They added: “Special Rapporteurs must uphold strict impartiality. Ms Albanese’s record shows repeated breaches of these standards including Holocaust comparisons, describing Gaza as a concentration camp, promoting claims of disproportionate Jewish influence and calling for Israel’s removal from the UN.
“She has downplayed Hamas’s 7 October atrocities and framed counterterrorism operations as aggression.”
In the letter to Ms. Cooper, the peers said the comments called into question the official’s ability to “uphold even the most basic standards of neutrality”.
They added: “Special Rapporteurs must uphold strict impartiality. Ms Albanese’s record shows repeated breaches of these standards including Holocaust comparisons, describing Gaza as a concentration camp, promoting claims of disproportionate Jewish influence and calling for Israel’s removal from the UN.
“She has downplayed Hamas’s 7 October atrocities and framed counterterrorism operations as aggression.”
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This is the story of Jutta, a Jewish teenager and Helmuth a Nazi soldier who joined a doomed plot to kill Hitler. They face almost certain death, yet luck and love shine upon them as they outwit Nazi terror and become the first couple married in post-war Berlin.
In the bustling streets of 1930s Berlin, a young girl named Jutta Sorge grew up in a world that seemed full of promise.
Born in 1926 as the youngest child in a prosperous family, she enjoyed a cosmopolitan life, with her uncle Gustav Stresemann having served as chancellor and foreign minister during the Weimar Republic, even earning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reconcile Germany and France.
Raised in a loosely Christian household that celebrated Christmas and Easter, Jutta was blissfully unaware of the gathering storm until the early Nazi years, when school forms required parental signatures revealing her maternal grandparents’ Jewish heritage, despite their conversion to Christianity.
This revelation hit hard. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jutta was classified as half-Jewish, an “enemy of the state”, which barred her from graduating high school, attending university, or even marrying.
Her family faced mounting restrictions: her mother Eva, of Jewish descent, refused to wear the mandatory yellow star, relying on her father Kurt’s Protestant background to shield them.
Outraged by the injustice, Jutta defied the regime in small but bold ways, like faking an arm injury with a plaster cast to avoid giving the Nazi salute in class. As opportunities for emigration dwindled, her parents sent her abroad for safety, first to England for a year, then to Switzerland to stay with her sister. But Jutta, fiercely loyal, returned home to care for them amid escalating dangers.
It was around this time that romance entered the picture. Helmuth Cords, the son of one of Eva’s friends, first laid eyes on the blonde, blue-eyed Jutta when he was just 15, and he fell head over heels. She, however, dismissed him at first as too handsome for his own good.
Life pulled them in different directions: Helmuth was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front, where he was severely wounded. During his recovery, he witnessed the horrors of Nazi atrocities, including extermination camps, which shattered any illusions about the regime.
Jutta, meanwhile, embodied the Aryan ideal in appearance, allowing her to maintain a semblance of normalcy, skiing, boating, and dancing at social gatherings, even as her family’s world shrank.
Their paths crossed again, and this time, sparks flew. Helmuth pursued her amid a circle of admirers, including Werner von Haeften, a lawyer and Wehrmacht officer also wounded on the Eastern Front. Haeften became close friends with Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, another injured officer disillusioned with Hitler.
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This is the story of Jutta, a Jewish teenager and Helmuth a Nazi soldier who joined a doomed plot to kill Hitler. They face almost certain death, yet luck and love shine upon them as they outwit Nazi terror and become the first couple married in post-war Berlin.
In the bustling streets of 1930s Berlin, a young girl named Jutta Sorge grew up in a world that seemed full of promise.
Born in 1926 as the youngest child in a prosperous family, she enjoyed a cosmopolitan life, with her uncle Gustav Stresemann having served as chancellor and foreign minister during the Weimar Republic, even earning the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reconcile Germany and France.
Raised in a loosely Christian household that celebrated Christmas and Easter, Jutta was blissfully unaware of the gathering storm until the early Nazi years, when school forms required parental signatures revealing her maternal grandparents’ Jewish heritage, despite their conversion to Christianity.
This revelation hit hard. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jutta was classified as half-Jewish, an “enemy of the state”, which barred her from graduating high school, attending university, or even marrying.
Her family faced mounting restrictions: her mother Eva, of Jewish descent, refused to wear the mandatory yellow star, relying on her father Kurt’s Protestant background to shield them.
Outraged by the injustice, Jutta defied the regime in small but bold ways, like faking an arm injury with a plaster cast to avoid giving the Nazi salute in class. As opportunities for emigration dwindled, her parents sent her abroad for safety, first to England for a year, then to Switzerland to stay with her sister. But Jutta, fiercely loyal, returned home to care for them amid escalating dangers.
It was around this time that romance entered the picture. Helmuth Cords, the son of one of Eva’s friends, first laid eyes on the blonde, blue-eyed Jutta when he was just 15, and he fell head over heels. She, however, dismissed him at first as too handsome for his own good.
Life pulled them in different directions: Helmuth was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front, where he was severely wounded. During his recovery, he witnessed the horrors of Nazi atrocities, including extermination camps, which shattered any illusions about the regime.
Jutta, meanwhile, embodied the Aryan ideal in appearance, allowing her to maintain a semblance of normalcy, skiing, boating, and dancing at social gatherings, even as her family’s world shrank.
Their paths crossed again, and this time, sparks flew. Helmuth pursued her amid a circle of admirers, including Werner von Haeften, a lawyer and Wehrmacht officer also wounded on the Eastern Front. Haeften became close friends with Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, another injured officer disillusioned with Hitler.
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As the war raged on, these connections drew Jutta and Helmuth into the heart of the German resistance. Both families harboured deep opposition to the Nazis, and the young couple found themselves entangled in underground efforts to overthrow the dictatorship.
The climax came in July 1944 with Operation Valkyrie, a daring plot to assassinate Hitler.
On the 20th July , Stauffenberg and Haeften planted a bomb in a briefcase at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters in Rastenburg. The explosion injured but did not kill the Führer. Back in Berlin, Helmuth helped secure the entrances to the Bendlerblock, the War Ministry building central to the planned coup.
When the plot unravelled, chaos ensued. Haeften, realising the end was near, urged Helmuth to flee and destroy incriminating love letters and photos to protect Jutta. Tragically, Haeften and Stauffenberg were executed the next day.
Months earlier, Haeften had entrusted Jutta’s family with hiding Ludwig Gehre, an escaped resistance officer carrying a list of conspirators’ names.
In November 1944, Gehre was recaptured, tortured, and forced to reveal details, leading the Gestapo to arrest Eva and Kurt.
Jutta, who had been scavenging food in the countryside for Helmuth, returned to find her parents gone. She hid with friends for two weeks before turning herself in, hoping to learn their fate. Interrogated brutally, she pieced together that they were alive.
Eva was eventually released, possibly through intervention by the Swiss Embassy due to family ties. Kurt faced a sham trial in the People’s Court on 23 April 1945, sentenced to death for listening to BBC radio broadcasts, but the execution never happened as Russian forces stormed Berlin.
As the Third Reich crumbled, survival became a daily miracle. Jutta reunited with her mother amid the invading Soviet troops, who rampaged through the city; she feigned illness to evade assault.
Kurt, astonishingly, strolled home one day as if nothing had occurred. Helmuth hid on the family’s roof to avoid capture by Russians hunting anti-Soviet fighters.
With the war over, the family pieced itself back together. In a symbol of hope amid ruins,
Helmuth and Jutta became the first couple to marry in post-Nazi Berlin, in a simple ceremony using her old dress, his jacket, her grandmother’s lace veil, and peonies picked from a bombed-out garden.
Their story didn’t end there. They had three children, and Helmuth earned a doctorate in chemistry before the family emigrated to the United States in 1952 for a fresh start.
Jutta later settled in Colebrook, Connecticut, with her son Manuel, reflecting on a life that defied the odds in a conspiracy that claimed nearly 5,000 lives. It’s a testament to how love, courage, and sheer luck can endure even the darkest times.
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The climax came in July 1944 with Operation Valkyrie, a daring plot to assassinate Hitler.
On the 20th July , Stauffenberg and Haeften planted a bomb in a briefcase at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters in Rastenburg. The explosion injured but did not kill the Führer. Back in Berlin, Helmuth helped secure the entrances to the Bendlerblock, the War Ministry building central to the planned coup.
When the plot unravelled, chaos ensued. Haeften, realising the end was near, urged Helmuth to flee and destroy incriminating love letters and photos to protect Jutta. Tragically, Haeften and Stauffenberg were executed the next day.
Months earlier, Haeften had entrusted Jutta’s family with hiding Ludwig Gehre, an escaped resistance officer carrying a list of conspirators’ names.
In November 1944, Gehre was recaptured, tortured, and forced to reveal details, leading the Gestapo to arrest Eva and Kurt.
Jutta, who had been scavenging food in the countryside for Helmuth, returned to find her parents gone. She hid with friends for two weeks before turning herself in, hoping to learn their fate. Interrogated brutally, she pieced together that they were alive.
Eva was eventually released, possibly through intervention by the Swiss Embassy due to family ties. Kurt faced a sham trial in the People’s Court on 23 April 1945, sentenced to death for listening to BBC radio broadcasts, but the execution never happened as Russian forces stormed Berlin.
As the Third Reich crumbled, survival became a daily miracle. Jutta reunited with her mother amid the invading Soviet troops, who rampaged through the city; she feigned illness to evade assault.
Kurt, astonishingly, strolled home one day as if nothing had occurred. Helmuth hid on the family’s roof to avoid capture by Russians hunting anti-Soviet fighters.
With the war over, the family pieced itself back together. In a symbol of hope amid ruins,
Helmuth and Jutta became the first couple to marry in post-Nazi Berlin, in a simple ceremony using her old dress, his jacket, her grandmother’s lace veil, and peonies picked from a bombed-out garden.
Their story didn’t end there. They had three children, and Helmuth earned a doctorate in chemistry before the family emigrated to the United States in 1952 for a fresh start.
Jutta later settled in Colebrook, Connecticut, with her son Manuel, reflecting on a life that defied the odds in a conspiracy that claimed nearly 5,000 lives. It’s a testament to how love, courage, and sheer luck can endure even the darkest times.
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A Jewish teenager and an injured soldier join a doomed plot to kill Hitler. They face almost certain death, yet luck and love shine upon them as they outwit Nazi terror and become the first couple married in post-war Berlin. Narrated by the former teenager herself and featuring the original footage shot by her sweetheart, their story would sound like a pitch for a Hollywood blockbuster were it not all true. A harrowing tale of war, resistance, love and survival - and, miraculously, a happy ending.
3/3 end 🧵
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vp331…
3/3 end 🧵
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vp331…
Building an independent Europe is a core issue for this Commission.
And independence starts with a strong economy.
That’s why we are using every tool at our disposal to boost Europe’s competitiveness. Only an innovative and dynamic European economy can guarantee our strategic autonomy.
And independence starts with a strong economy.
That’s why we are using every tool at our disposal to boost Europe’s competitiveness. Only an innovative and dynamic European economy can guarantee our strategic autonomy.
Our efforts are already delivering results:
📝 10 simplification packages proposed to save European companies €15 billion every year.
👉 New EU initiatives will be simpler by design.
📝 10 simplification packages proposed to save European companies €15 billion every year.
👉 New EU initiatives will be simpler by design.
📦 44 trade agreements already giving European companies privileged access to global markets.
🛡️ Protection from unfair trading practices thanks to a comprehensive set of EU safeguard measures.
🛡️ Protection from unfair trading practices thanks to a comprehensive set of EU safeguard measures.
🚨 THE EPSTEIN FILES JUST DETONATED ACROSS 5 CONTINENTS.
And the bodies are PILING UP.
Not literally. Politically.
Resignations. Investigations. Panic.
In the last 72 hours:
And the bodies are PILING UP.
Not literally. Politically.
Resignations. Investigations. Panic.
In the last 72 hours:
🇬🇧 UK: Peter Mandelson RESIGNED from the House of Lords. Emails showed he received PAYMENTS from Epstein. The man who was Britain's ambassador to Washington was on Epstein's payroll.
🇬🇧 UK: Morgan McSweeney, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, RESIGNED. He appointed Mandelson. Now he's gone too. Two dominoes. One week.
🇬🇧 UK: Thames Valley Police confirmed they are talking to prosecutors about Prince Andrew. Not rumors. Not tabloid gossip.
🇬🇧 UK: Thames Valley Police confirmed they are talking to prosecutors about Prince Andrew. Not rumors. Not tabloid gossip.
SitRep - 12/02/26 - Ukrainian drone attacks in Kotluban and Ukhta
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Today, Ukraine struck a large GRAU arsenal and one of the main Russian oil refineries, putting it out of action.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Today, Ukraine struck a large GRAU arsenal and one of the main Russian oil refineries, putting it out of action.
REPOST=appreciated
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We start with Russian losses
