It is an irony that the religious fanaticism so vehemently scaremongered by MAGA is largely because it stems from a slightly different Abrahamic faith.

A defeated Trump turned his indictments against his opponents, using the spectre of witch-hunt to propel himself to the 2024 GOP nomination. If and when Trumpism is defeated, what succeeds it has to find a way of securing restitution without that process becoming a cudgel for more corruption.

Every single word of this.

LOL. Russia isn't even ready for the war it chose to start.

For heaven's sake, don't anyone tell Marjorie Taylor Greene about this.

That's not fry theft. That's ambition.

I can't help feeling the benefits of overnignt stays and a change of training venue are being grossly overestimated here. (Not that I approve of the shabby and spiteful treatment of the Iran team and entourage, mind. I just don't think it can turn a competitive team into an also-ran.)

When clicks count for more than conscience.

Mamdani didn't win and isn't governing by triangulating Elon Musk and the New York Post. He created his own space, ignored the baiting and lies and let his authentic message come through. Burnham can drown in a pro-Farage cesspit or he can swim in his own clear waters. Doesn't seem like a choice.

I support the Iran v Egypt Pride match, but would also like to know by which set of criteria this is permissible while simultaneously blocking Haiti from commemorating its 1804 independence from France on the team's shirts? Football's incompetent international leadership needs to be purged.

SCOTUS isn't even pretending to uphold the Constitution any more, is it?

Much of "Fleet Street" is lost to any Labour government at this time. If you look at the Starmer period, it wasn't just the foaming-at-the-mouth hostility. They didn't even cover legitimate, positive developments. Burnham shouldn't even try and court such press. And he should get HMG off X.

There ought to some sort of international treaty banning the publication of heroically optimistic timings in recipes.

Either that or they'll just say it's fake news. Just like their fuckwit president does.

The UK needs a head of state. It doesn't have be a monarch, but it can't be the Prime Minister. So if you think £100m for the Sovereign Grant is excessive, you cannot just assume that a replacement would cost nothing. By my (admittedly rough) calculations: 1/2

I confess to feeling shouted at by Katie Phang. She's undoubtedly one of the good guys, I just have to fight the feeling that I've done something wrong when listening to her. But by Jupiter she's done some outstanding work here.

What does Trump have on these spineless toads? Please tell me. I mean, I'd assumed that Congressional GOP doormats were just afraid to lose their jobs. But Bill Cassidy has already lost his - and he STILL tucked tail. What is it? Family members held hostage? Kompromat? Sorcery? Free meth? What?

In just an ever-so-slightly-less fucked up world, the planet's wealthiest man would be funding climate research, not kebabing it.

Hmm. Let's talk about who's taking things away from hardworking folk *Cough Medicare* (Also, Communism isn't even 180 years old.)

Stewart For America '28

My ex-wife would be very interested in a proof of concept.

I deprecate TV news coverage of the Royal finances. It's not that I object to legitimate journalistic scrutiny, nor that I object to greater transparency in this use of public money. It's just that it entails beholding the offensively ugly Norman Baker.

They should hang the treasonous bastard.

Legislating? Is that what Congress does?

If Iran wins the World Cup, the fact that Donald Trump handed them the trophy won't even make history's footnotes.

BBC News cuts to Leonardo Lopez, a Venezuelan political exile currently in Geneva to tell us what he reckons about the earthquakes he's also seen on telly from another continent 🤦 In perhaps the least newsworthy news item, Mr Lopez blames the incumbent administration.

I've been handed a Mongolian tea bag. It has salt in it. Look, I'm trying to broaden my horizons on my travels. I really am. But there are limits.

NEW: Mamdani’s rent freeze APPROVED. Tell me again how he’ll “never get anything done.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n...

Who's got the cards now, motherfucker?

I didn't want to depend on US-censored news so I googled "how to watch BBC" and immediately got content so bold my red wine blushed.

Messi wasn't produced by the MLS. He went there for an easy payday.

Good. Here's the three point peace plan. 1. Russian forces to immediately withdraw from all internationally recognized Ukrainian territory. 2. Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine 3. Vladimir Putin and his associates to stand trial in the ICC for their war crimes.

Faith (or, in this case, lack of faith) without works is dead.

With insight like this, I say he should damn well run.

3 for 3.

Now Sir Keir has gone, I say we put in a record breaking transfer bid for Mayor Mandami.

Was I wrong?

Kemi Badenoch really is the most witless and graceless oaf ever to have led the Tory Party - and that is a dauntingly high bar for her to clear #pmqs

Gaining the swamp.

“A significant body of research by legal and rights experts concluded that Israel is intent on destroying Palestinians, including analyses by by UN investigators, rights bodies such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and genocide scholars worldwide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I can only assume this self-victimising twaddle plays well with the base. Because he just looks like pathetic crybaby to everyone else.

Gosh. What a remarkable coincidence.

FIFA's leadership should be overthrown.

"After days of soaking up the World Cup atmosphere in Boston, fans have arrived in a city that couldn't feel more different." They're going to lose in both places, so at least there'll be some consistency there.

I've been on a train from Ankara for 19 hours and I have at least another 9 to go, before I reach Kars, on the border of Armenia. From this, I conclude: a) Turkey is a big ass country b) The trains move real slow and: c) Possibly both of the above.

Nick Robinson: "Will you give this money back?" Nigel Farage: "Will you give your salary to charity? How about that? If you give your entire salary to charity, maybe I will". So is Farage now agreeing that he was taking a salary? That the £5 million was a payment for work done?

Sealant Team Six guarding our vulnerable shores against Algae-Qeada, Algaetifa. And Algae Sharpton.

Wow, just found this amazing deep blue, crystal clear pool in Ankara...