You could mistake it for strength if you’re a complete fucking moron, which is entirely the point.

She’s absolutely right on both counts.

This is actually pretty good. He’s no Mamdani in this situation, but what he’s saying is clear, coherent and pretty informative.

NATO's entire foundation is based on it being a defensive alliance - original members did so because of the threat the USSR posed, and its newest members did so after seeing a non-member brutally occupied. Trump's entire ideology cannot comprehend 'defensive', never mind 'alliance'

This looks like a series of screenshots of a man caught repeatedly wanking to minors on a webcam.

The likes of Braverman can no longer clutch their pearls whenever anyone swears at them over the fucking disgusting bile they now spend every day spreading. They deserve it.

Trump attacking Starmer on immigration though it’s plunged and despite the rhetoric that’s been used and tolerated by the UK government, shows, yet again, that nothing will ever be enough for racists and bigots, so don’t bother trying. It’s inauthentic, morally wrong and economically insane.

More of Farage’s behaviour that I’m sure his ex-wives will be grimly familiar with.

....this is literally a punchline from those Mitchell & Webb sketches about a post apocalyptic gameshow ("Your prize is... fuel!")

Important data about Gorton & Denton from @bwalker.uk. 1. Only around 5% of Lab 2024 voters switched to Reform vs 36% to Greens. 2. No evidence of support for Reform among under 35s (sub 10%) - it's all over 55s 3. Progressives were undecided til last minute www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...

Rachel, you're trying to make it illegal for a decent percentage of your tech talent to go to for a piss, and threatening to report the families of another decent percentage

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Just a former British prime minister spreading antisemitic propaganda material under the pretence of “investigation”

Mason is one of the worst offenders, but this tone is everywhere, and it’s just so out-of-place as well as morally wrong.

Negotiating the Strait of Hormuz is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman. Start off by navigating the safest route and then ease on carefully up the narrow passage. Finally, unload your cargo, say thank you very much and get out of there as quick as you can.

Depends which side you're on

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A really depressing feature of modern society: the number of organisations run by people who fundamentally have no affinity to them, or actively dislike them.

Why can't we compromise and have Winston Churchill balls deep in a badger on the £10 note?

Migrants from Britain are always ‘expats’, and here they are, worrying about their tax bills while their adopted countries face an existential threat. Lovely people.

“In a statement Reach said ‘The BBC is using its Statement Continues Below PLASTIC SURGEON REVEALS SURPRISING HOUSEHOLD ITEM THAT CURES BELLY DROOP <AI generated photo of some horrible eggs> pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

I think anyone sentient in this country would say "who gives a shit, the world is on fire"

I do wonder why some people go into journalism if all they do is act as stenographers.

You have to say that's magnificent #mastermind

'WILL YOU UNBLOCK THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ FOR ME?'

Destroying Reach should be a BBC KPI

For someone who claims not to want to “dwell in the past”, he goes on a lot about… things in the past. All of it bollocks.

The thing is, it would be easy to discuss this as the comical rumblings of a facile politician, but this matters. The choice to invade or not invade is about the lives lost, the physical and moral cost, the unknown unknowns, it is the single biggest choice a government makes and she Does. Not. Care.

Within a week she has gone from insisting the UK should join with Trump, to denying she said that, to opposing further action and if you asked her, she would tell you that she has never once changed position.

“You wouldn’t know these countries. They go to a different UN.”

"I might as well say this now, the Federated States of Micronesia have pulled out."

“Donald’s Funny Stories”

we start by making people too embarrassed to ever admit things like this in public again.

Reach made £107m profit last year, cut much of its regional & national newsgathering operation with 300 jobs axed, two printing plants shut and various newsdesks merged. They can, absolutely, fuck off complaining about BBC damage to regional journalism. Reach are damaging it fine on their own.

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Slowly. Sensually. With my teeth.

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

"How could we possibly improve on a procedure that allowed a man to pretend to be the boyfriend of a guest that checked in as an individual, and gain access to her room to abuse her, just by knowing her name?" Aye, a fuxking mystery for sure. Best ask the victim. Wankers

This includes centrist and left-leaning parties, which have often proved pathetically unable to articulate the connection between the pro-Russia far right and the serious risk to European security.

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

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To me, one of the most depressing aspects of this Labour government continues to be how ‘un-European’ they are. Insular people for an insular country. It seems so discordant.

Trump's clearly been talking to Lord Glasman.

RUSSIA CAN’T WIN HERE

Apropos of nothing, “Wes” is just not a name a Cabinet minister should have.

Hello, I'm mental.

Not that hard to make this statement, is it?

Anyway, on a happier note, the actual content of what the government is doing on energy is much better than the rhetoric. The only good thing about Trump's war is that it is at a time when the government can hopefully design a better energy support package than the Truss madness, too:

It would also be a happy consequence for him were the involvement of European countries to prove so disastrous and incompetent that pro-Trump far-right parties gain politically.

Above all, it needs saying again: Starmer is a very, very odd man.