G7 nations agree to significantly expand military support for Ukraine The G7 nations have agreed to step up military aid to Ukraine. This includes the delivery of additional air defense equipment, new air defense systems, interceptor missiles, and long-range weapons. The joint statement on Ukraine contains no mention of negotiations, a ceasefire, or a peaceful resolution to the conflict. The focus is on continuing to support Ukraine, strengthening its position on the battlefield, and increasing pressure on Russia. The document underscores the need to give Ukraine fresh momentum to counter Russian aggression.

Three charlatans without an original idea between them demonstrating all that is wrong with contemporary Scotland. - Edinburgh book festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Liz Lloyd and Q Manivannan to appear heraldscotland.com/news/2619…

The EU and the UK are accelerating the largest European military budget increase in 80 years. By 2030, European defence spending is projected to reach around €800bn, roughly 2.5x China’s current military spending and more than 4x Russia’s. Europe is becoming the largest military power in Eurasia. Germany, Poland, France, Italy, the Nordics, the Baltics and the UK are all expanding budgets, procurement, ammunition production, air defence, drones, cyber, space and industrial capacity. EU defence spending already reached €343bn in 2024 and €381bn in 2025, up 63% since 2020.

Canada is the first non-European nation to join SAFE — the EU’s joint defence readiness initiative — and we’re already seeing results. Because we joined, Montréal-based Marconi Technologies will build made-in-Canada tactical radios for the Polish Cyber Command. This contract is worth more than $10 million and will benefit nearly 100 Canadian suppliers, their workers, and their families.

To all the morons saying #PalestineAction is just like the suffragettes may i remind you. When suffragettes smashed property, planted bombs and assaulted the police they were also sent to Prison because they had broken the law. When they went on hunger strike it was real and they were violently force fed. PA missed lunch. Finally there is a fundamental difference between the 2. Those women didn’t have the vote, they could not get change from democracy. PA thugs have that option but would rather use violence

🇩🇪 “In the event of a war with Russia, NATO will strike Kaliningrad, the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg, and the waters of the Black Sea,” — states the Commander of the German Air Force, Lieutenant General Holger Neumann. In his first interview with a British newspaper, the head of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) noted that in the event of an attack on the Western Alliance, its forces will carry out devastating air strikes on Russia. In another warning directed at Moscow, he emphasized that in NATO “there are no different security zones — this means that an attack on Estonia will trigger exactly the same response as an air strike on London.” Lieutenant General Neumann added that if NATO is forced to defend itself, the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, Kaliningrad, and the Black Sea will feel the full wrath of the Alliance — “Germany is ready to fight against Russia already today and will defend every centimeter of NATO territory,” — states the Luftwaffe commander. 
This is a strong and unambiguous deterrent statement from one of NATO’s key military leaders. It clearly signals that any aggression against a member state will be met with overwhelming force across multiple strategic Russian regions. The emphasis on unified response and the absence of “different security zones” reinforces Article 5 and aims to dissuade Russia from testing NATO’s resolve, particularly in the Baltic region.

This should cheer you up. Watch till the end… Politico awarded Kallas the prize for the worst "poker face". Her face became a "symbol of Europe's discontent towards Americans", the article says. The head of European diplomacy pursed her lips and puffed out her cheeks when US Permanent Representative to the UN Walts talked about Washington's successes in ending numerous wars.

More than 250 academics, including CAF Director Dr Edward Skidelsky, have signed a letter urging the University of Oxford to reinstate Dr Michael Foran’s lecture series after trans activists interrupted two events linked to his recent work on sex, gender identity and the legal tensions that have emerged between them. The signatories accuse Oxford of enabling a “heckler’s veto”. Full story below, plus a link to the letter for academics and students who wish to add their support: afcomm.org.uk/2026/06/15/aca…

🚨🚨 Palestine Action ban upheld. The judge’s damning verdict on their charade: “Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism. It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group, like the suffragettes”

Today at 22:00 Isar Aerospace might make history for European Spaceflight. Just a few hours, and the startup might become Europe's first newspace launcher to get a payload to space!

This is fantastic news. Firstly, because it upholds a right the government manifestly has. Members of this terrorist group infiltrated a military base and damaged aircraft. And secondly, it's going to make some of the worst people in this country absolutely furious.

Civil disobedience: 1) Non-violently transgress a law you believe unjust 2) Accept the legal consequences 3) A public shocked by the harshness of the punishment forces changes in the law. Palestine Action: 1) Smash property and hurt people 2) Demand to be exempted from legal consequences 3) A public shocked by the violence of the crimes committed thinks, "actually these sentences seem rather light under the circumstances."

It's got zero to do with free speech. It's about coercing our democratically elected government with violence and property damage 👇🏽

#Norway fans have started trickling into Boston. They’re already making friends with #Scotland who will be here all week….

Putin's russia bots and assorted western useful idiots, maga cunts and horseshoe boys are in overdrive. I assume that means Putin is about to be thrown out of the window of a tall building.

The sentences imposed on the Elbit activists explained. The judge, says @JoshuaRozenberg, was in fact "generous" to them in one respect. This blog corrects some of the misinformation and distortion around this case: rozenberg.substack.com/p/act…

RT @b_judah: Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how…

The Left: "Words can hurt people." Also the Left: "Smashing someone in the spine with a sledgehammer is a legitimate form of peaceful protest."

There’s a renewed push to wheesht for ‘Indy’ from some so-called independence supporters telling me not to be critical of the SNP, and as an ‘ex-politician’ I have no right to an opinion. II have every right to challenge any government. I will not be silenced by anyone.