Trump is deteriorating physically and cognitively so rapidly during his second presidency. He increasingly looks exhausted, falls asleep in public, repeats himself & appears confused/disorientated. Biden's aging in office had nothing on this. I can't see Trump sustaining another 3+ years of this.

Trump says the US is collecting "hundreds of trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue. The size of the entire world's economy is around $110 trillion.

There have been 263 UK prisoners released in error over the last year, but apparently it's only newsworthy when they happen to be a non-UK national. Offenders are not more dangerous by virtue of being 'foreign'. Media outlets need to stop helping the far-right poison our discourse with xenophobia.

James Cartlidge devotes his entire #PMQs stint to pressing David Lammy over whether any "asylum seeking offender" has been accidentally released from prison since Kebatu. He did not ask whether any UK nationals, who account for 88% of offenders, have been accidentally released.

David Lammy hammers Farage and Reform UK for Sarah Pochin's comments on black and asian people appearing on TV adverts: "The disgraceful racist language that we heard from a Reform UK MP last week belongs in the Dark Ages."

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

Our little *checks notes* President of the United States is growing up so fast!

Powerful and moving interview with Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky and sister-in-law Amanda: "He's just Andrew. He's no longer a prince... This normal girl, from a normal family, has taken down a prince. We are so proud of her." "She was extraordinary. She did the extraordinary."

I'm already sick of hearing how "difficult" this decision must have been for the Royals. Wanting to protect a relative is no excuse for years-long reluctance to remove Andrew's titles after credible allegations of abhorrent abuse were revealed. This should've been an obvious & immediate decision.

She never lived to see this moment, but today's victory of accountability belongs to Virginia Giuffre. It's thanks to her moral courage, perseverance through trauma and willingness to confront power that Andrew has finally been fully stripped of royalty. Justice must now follow accountability.

Buckingham Palace has announced that it is removing all remaining styles, titles and honours of Prince Andrew: "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor." He is also being evicted from his accommodation at Royal Lodge. Correct action, but it should never have taken this long.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey slams Farage and Reform UK’s links to Russia and calls for an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics: “The evidence shows Nathan Gill was a close confidant of the current Reform party leader for years.” Starmer calls Reform UK “Putin-friendly” in response.

Suella Braverman has now deleted this post - possibly after remembering she was Home Secretary when it happened.

Trump's 'peace deals' are ticking time bombs. They weren't forged through US mediation that resolved underlying conflict-causing issues but through Trump forcing warring sides into artificial ceasefires and performative 'deal' ceremonies via economic coercion. These deals will eventually collapse.

Lib Dem Leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk calls for Prince Andrew to be summoned to a parliamentary inquiry on whether his housing at Royal Lodge serves taxpayer interests. #PMQs

Trump walking the Nixon family through the White House like ‘You guys were amateurs’.

Snuck off to Czechia for a few days. Such a beautiful country.

Inadvertent honesty from Trump tonight: "I never thought we'd go into every city and take a really safe city that we've all been living with for years and make them safe... I did get elected for crime but I didn't get elected for what we're doing. This is many many steps above."

This is why Trump invites Gianni Infantino to events like yesterday's Egypt peace summit amongst other meetings where he has no legitimate reason to attend. Favours for favours. Corruption for corruption.

Trump threatens to move FIFA World Cup matches and the Olympics in Los Angeles to other locations if they do anything that "cause safety conditions".

Trump, attempting to mock Joe Biden's cognition, says the only document the ex-president signed was "Hunter's Piden".

Trump: "You wouldn't have a world domination by the dollar if I didn't win this election." Since Trump returned to office, the share of global foreign exchange reserves held in US dollars has fallen, largely as a result of the dollar's fall in value due to Trump's economic chaos.

World leaders at the Egypt Peace Summit for Israeli-Palestinian peace looking awkward as Trump rants about how the United States is the "hottest country anywhere in the world" and how he's brought in "$17 trillion" in investment.

Trump just interrupted his speech at the Egypt peace summit to ask Pakistan's PM to "say what you said to me the other day". PM Sharif then spent the next 5 minutes talking about how amazing Trump is, how he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize & parroting Trump's nonsense claims of preventing nuclear war.

The final guest to arrive at Trump's peace summit is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Oh wait no, it's actually... FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu: "Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?" Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

Trump tells the Israeli Knesset that he once asked Miriam Adelson, "What do you love more - the United States or Israel?" Suggesting that Jews have 'dual loyalties' is an antisemitic trope that goes back centuries.

Trump and the Israeli government give Netanyahu a standing ovation. This man's failings led to the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, and the subsequent largest slaughter of Palestinians in history. The most catastrophic Israeli leader in history does not deserve this praise.

Imagine how dumb you must be to have an ego the size of Earth yet still artificially create hype that you’ll win an award that you literally cannot win (Nobel nominations closed in Jan) so to guarantee you’ll appear as a reject & loser when the winner is announced. A spectacular own goal for Trump.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado. The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

Fiona Bruce shuts down Zack Polanski's attempt to press Zia Yusuf over Reform UK's links to Putin. "Bribrary from Russia. Pretty serious for our national security." "There's other things that the audience wants to talk about", Bruce responds. Good on @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public. The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart. Reprehensible.

Trump obviously will not be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow. He will attempt to discredit the Nobel Committee as 'rigged' and eventually announce that he's creating his own version of the awards, with panel members appointed by his administration. He will be the inaugural 'winner' in 2026.

Heseltine at the Tory conf: "Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

Your pitch to be the next prime minister of France in 10 words or less. Go.

The Israeli government's planned hosting of Tommy Robinson is a reprehensible betrayal of Jewish values and history. Robinson is a racist street thug. He is no friend of British Jews. We must never permit the far-right to exploit antisemitism to attack Muslims. Good to discuss on i24News.

Wow Starmer finally drawing a line! "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of the colour of their skin, that mixed-heritage families owe you an explanation... If you say that they should now be deported, then mark my words - we will fight you with everything we have".

Starmer on Farage: "I have had enough of lectures by self-appointed champions of working people, who want to shred our public services, level down workers' rights, crash the economy... politicians who lie to this country, unleashed chaos and walked away after Brexit, who equivocate on Ukraine."

Trump and Netanyahu agree not to take any questions from reporters. Two self-styled strongmen, terrified by the prospect of answering a few questions.

Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.

The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election. It won 51 seats - an outright majority. Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership. A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.

Millions of Americans marched against the US invading Iraq under the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction. How many Americans will march against the US invading itself under the false pretence of domestic terrorism?

Netanyahu: "Would a country committing genocide plead with the civilian population that it is supposedly targeting to get out of harms way? Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Of course not" Actually, encouraging Jews to emigrate is exactly what the Nazis did 1933-39. Ignorant of Jewish history.

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

The Secretary of War (Crimes).

Trump: "Everybody understand? Death penalty in Washington. You kill somebody or if you kill a police offier, law enforcement officer - death penalty." The president who, on his first day back in office, pardoned people convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers on January 6th.

Trump: "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. It's not going to happen."

I have a piece in @thenation.com discussing the rise of Britain’s oligarch backed far/extreme right and the threat it represents to democracy. 🧵/1 www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Median Kimmel YouTube views from last six months: 240,000. Last night's Kimmel YouTube views: 10,000,000+. The "poor ratings" pretext that MAGA cited to suppress Kimmel's free speech now looks even more absurd.

Yeah I’m not taking health advice from someone who still smokes cigarettes 60+ years after smoking was discovered to cause lung cancer.