Jerry and Bob being reunited is the only piece of this that isn’t absolutely gutting. What a man, what a band.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

The problem with trying to triangulate Trump is Starmer/Labour will lose any ability of trying to expose Reform as having a Trumpist agenda.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

He’s really good

There’s a tone he takes when he’s joking and this isn’t it.

📺 Today’s report: X didn’t respond to the Government or the EU - so we went to try to have a word. Meanwhile, AI Minister urges EU to immediately suspend Grok and says she’ll speak to the Taoiseach about the Government off X. 🗣️ @conorom.bsky.social @virginmedianews.bsky.social

The widely reported statement about restricting the feature to subscribers was a hallucinatory answer by the AI Grok - not a statement by the company itself

How much of the carnage of the last 10 years could have been avoided by a decent therapist?

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

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I give up.

Well

“And then, what?” I don’t think we need to discuss military invasion scenarios of Greenland - the US doesn’t need to do that. They might just declare Greenland is theirs now. And then what? My comments from yesterday. Full interview www.welt.de/politik/ausl...

New analysis of the economic impact of Brexit is clear cut ➡️ it was bad. The author breaks it down ⤵️

If Starmer gave a press conference where he showed example after example of what this platform is publishing, and then said ‘we are banning this from this from the UK until Elon Musk and X stops it’, what would happen?

The problem with the govt position is that it’s obvious they will eventually have to leave X, but are going to lose all the potential upside by holding until the last moment.

Classy.

Farage wants UK ICE. Shouldn't we just be saying this over and over? Anyone voting for ReformUK will be voting for the introduction of a UK SS, armed to the teeth and ready to terrorise.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Threatening to disconnect Elon Musk's X in Europe would be unprecedented, but it might be time to play that card

If he's not dead, he's going to run in 2028. And Republicans will line up behind it.

Government don’t think he would annex Greenland because…there hasn’t been a military build up in the Arctic Circle in the middle of winter?

It’s a small point, but should pollsters not now be including 16 and 17 year olds?

If Trump wanted to end/get out of NATO without dealing with congress, this would be the way to do it.

Watching Attenborough’s Wild London on BBC iPlayer and the dog is utterly captivated. Cannot recommend the show enough.

The ability of the U.K. to play both sides - reset with the EU while seeking proximity to Trump - is going to hit a wall in 2026 if the US advances its plan to annex Greenland (which it will)

Question for Europe re. Greenland is surely less about US invasion than the scenario in which Trump says he withdraws from all Ukrainian assistance unless Denmark signs over the territory... or similar. Basically the mobster approach.

I'd like to add that Denmark has been under pressure in the Baltic region by another well-known superpower. Some might say Denmark is experiencing a pincer moment. If you were so inclined.

Even wilder that the statement isn't immediately supported by the other NATO and EU members.

Starmer could be weaponizing this by pointing out that it was a lovely idea to be a sole independent nation state once upon a time, but then trade wars, then Russian invasion, and then the US became an aggressive, out of control adversary. For which needed European togetherness and solidarity.

Europe and Canada need to move carefully to avoid creating further dangers, but they need to decouple from the US in areas like defence planning, intelligence sharing, and defence procurement.

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with Michael Scherer, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland.

"In the tearooms and bars of Westminster, in voting lobbies and on WhatsApp groups, Europe is becoming the defining topic of the year ahead." For @theobserveruk.bsky.social, I look at how Labour backbenchers are planning to press govt on the UK-EU relationship observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Keir Starmer’s stated preference in today’s big BBC interview for greater EU single market alignment - and access - rather than a customs union deal is a significant choice which, in terms of economic growth, would probably do more good. ukandeu.ac.uk/thinking-swi...

This long form interview is so much better.

I think what China understood and the rest of the world has been slow to do is that Trump is running a protection racket more than a trade or foreign policy. He wants the payoffs more than the invasion or regime change.

Now that it has been made clear that this isn't simply a leader kidnapping but actually a full-on invasion and occupation of a sovereign state, our European leaders who said they were "closely monitoring the situation" have apparently now gone into hiding.

Just a few more facts needed. Any minute now we’ll have enough facts.

Not one question about international law.

Wouldn’t be sleeping terribly easy in Nuuk tonight.

He retains the ability to make my jaw hit the floor.

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Trump isn’t predictable or consistent, but this particular action *would* be consistent with the emergence of a G2+1 order where Washington and Beijing, with Moscow as a junior partner, give each other free rein in their purported spheres of influence.

After this, the EU should absolutely proceed on the assumption that Trump meant what he said about Greenland. Nothing is off the table anymore.

@aphclarkson.bsky.social has been prescient on US foreign policy last year, and reading this doesn’t feel great.

Btw, the big story overhanging all of this is that US government is deadly serious in its stated plans to dominate and control the western hemisphere. Take the threats against Greenland very seriously indeed.