110 years ago to the day, my grandfather Henri Auclair led his squad in the assault of the "tranchée de la Madone" in Verdun and was met with a barrage of machine gun fire. He was knocked unconscious by one bullet; but saved by his helmet, without which, well, you wouldn't be reading this.

GOOD NEWS! #auspol And yes, SO TOXIC! Plan for $1.5bn Trump Tower on Gold Coast scrapped because brand ‘toxic to Australians’

I'm not a fan of Starmer. I think his leadership is insipid and his EU red line are foolish. But, he needs to sack Streeting, cancel the Palantir contract and pin that on Streeting. Mahmood needs to be sent to the NI Office or Transport. She's unfit for office www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"Facts matter ... some witnesses have said things that are just wrong, and demonstrably so" - veteran magistrate David Heilpern tests the evidence from the Bondi Royal Commission #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-bondi-ro...

If I was still carrying mail, his ballot would be the only one I would pull from the mail stream...If no one else could do it, he wouldn't be able to either.Trump order would force mail carriers to police voter eligibility: 'It'll be a disaster' www.rawstory.com/mail-carrier...

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

It's a tough life being a doggy. 🐶🌞

Just rewatched Dean Spanley (2008) on a long haul flight. I'd forgotten just how good this movie is. So many outstanding actors and performances. 😍🤣😭 Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfit, Bryan Brown, Sam Neil, Jeremy Northam. #filmsky #movies #moviesky

Last night we hit $70bn in revenue lost because the government had not put in place a tax on gas exports when it came into office. Every week is another $350m australiainstitute.org.au

The ocean system that shapes Europe’s climate

Wu Yize beats Shain Murphy 18-17 in a cliffhanger of a final. World Snooker Championship 🏆 #snooker What an amazing result.

IIRC, my grandparents sold their terraced house to the council and were given access to a one bedroom retirement bungalow and lived comfortably on the aged pension. Then Thatcher forced the sale of council property 😬 Blair of course gets a government pension. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Reform troll / bot. Highly recommend people consider blocking.

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - The Grayzone

Mahmood’s plans to handcuff migrant children ‘abhorrent’, 150 children’s groups warn

#Trump now threatens the UK. Sooner this idiot is gone, the better.

Now "Remoaners" have jumped on the Lego bandwagon. Good!

I'm not a fan of Starmer, I 🤔 no he's wasted his parliamentary majority. But let's talk about errors of judgement shall we? Johnson slipped his security detail, partied with the son of a KGB agents who he subsequently ennobled, and they still made him PM. www.theguardian.com/media/2019/n...

It kills me how actually decent and incredibly talented people who contribute so much to society and their communities struggle to find work, while the worst people to ever breathe who demonstrate incompetence several times daily, remain gainfully employed. some at the highest levels of government

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

US DoJ files for overturning January 6 convictions for far-right groups’ members www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... This is just another despicable lawless and unconstitutional action from the Trump administration

This moron is destroying the global economy for his vanity and tens of thousands of people will lose their lives. Millions will lose their livelihoods. All because we have a mentally ill paedophile in the Oval Office. 🤬 #Trump edition.cnn.com/2026/04/13/politics/trump-strait-blockade-hormuz

The centre win in Hungary defeating the far right. I bet the centrist win will not be focussed on in the uk broadcast media.

Well, I suppose we have to be optimistic and it appears #orban has had the good grace to concede unlike #trump. A new era for EU politics? 🤔🙏 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

NATO member state actively working with Russia against Ukraine and the EU. Colour me shocked. 😬🤬

“Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our core military objectives in 38 days,” Leavitt said in a post on X. 🤦🤦🤦🤦

Crude oil futures since January 2026. Thanks Donald. 🤬

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

Binge watched the first series of this quite brilliant show over Easter. Not sure how I missed this previously. 🤩 #designatedsurvivor

"‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

music.youtube.com/watch?v=EFmu... we had this concert at mossvale park in Gippsland

Remember Venezuela?🛢️🔥💀 "🇺🇸 has displaced China as V’s top oil customer, Chevron more than doubling shipments..new government passed sweeping oil law reforms ending 20 years of state control, capping royalties at 30%.. opening the door to foreign investment" www.riotimesonline.com/venezuelas-o...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor probably claimed the same about a Pizza Hut in Woking. 😬

"...the trafficking of Lethal Drugs ravaging our Communities." He does remember this but, right? 🤷 #Trump granted a "full and complete" pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year sentence in a U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.

Trump says he’s really a peacemaker. What a total joke. The man has lost all sense of reality. 😬 #trump

A hedge fund with a flag substack.com/@kieratkinso...

Judge denies asylum claim of family of Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old boy taken by ICE with his father in Minnesota, lawyer says The USA is just hostile. 😬🥺 edition.cnn.com/2026/03/19/us/liam-conejo-ramos-family-asylum

Hegseth slams European allies as ‘ungrateful’ and says they should thank Trump for ‘winning’ war. 😬 Can someone send Hegseth a bottle of bourbon so he can sit quietly in a corner and shut up?

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We have not forgotten that ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti

I can hold several different thoughts in my head at the same time. Anti-semitism is bad & stupid. Islamophobia is bad & stupid. Racism is bad & stupid. Zionism is a white settler colonial ideology that needs to stop right now. All white settler colonial ideology needs to stop.

The stupidity of this position is just astonishing. 😬🤬🤦#brexit www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Highly recommend blocking this PoS. 🤢

$4bn in freight locked up in transit, 200% increase in insurance costs, policy cancellation, sea and air freight costs spiralling. All fallout because of this spur of the moment decision by #Trump to unilaterally declare war. 🤬 www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/436...

Advance is blatantly creating and fermenting racist hatred towards migrants to help the Liberal Party win voters. This is happening out in the open for everyone to see and it’s just treated as an entirely legitimate political strategy - normalised and mainstreamed. I’m so sick of this crap.

Finally, the cosy lie that the UK & US have a special relationship is exposed. Time for the UK to turn to Europe and commit to the EU. #Trump wants American isolationism, let him have it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Came across this from 2017. Andy Serkis reading Trump tweets in the style of Smeagol & Gollum. Boy did I need this laugh. 🤣 youtu.be/TV3d_sml1Ms?...

Can't have countries offering free health care to their citizens! What would the shareholders think?😬 This is just more Project2025 and this lunatic must be stopped. #trump 🤬 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Awesome. India but Russian oil helping to finance Putin's war on #ukraine because dump #Trump started another conflict. Everyone suffers because of Trump. 🤬 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...