Yup. Totally. The relationship between Europe a d the US will never be the same. The French have been right, since Suez. Reliance on the US is mistake. Europe must stand on it's own two feet. It took Trump to show us that, but now there's no going back. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Only if she can be helpful to Trump in some way.

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I really hope this is true.

It seems HMRC (and the Post office?) do have a sense of humour.

Is it just me or does anyone else think the phrase "Dutch oven" sounds like a euphemism?

And the fact that he is a Muslim is relevant in what way? Bloody Telegraph rage-bait. Ffs.

Sorry - not sorry. His distasteful attitude is out in the open. Also, surprisingly bad with numbers/data for such a rich person.

Looks like Thunderbird 2 to me.

This seems important. No one in the US seems to have faced consequences. (Unlike in the UK). Is that because the DOJ is protecting people? Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian share.google/4XVm85MsgOGK...

Oak trees are beautiful things.

The article is paywalled so I can't read it. But .. Wow? Is this a vote of confidence in Sterling?

It feels like it's rained continuously for weeks. Hopefully that's topped up groundwater reasources and reservoirs, making summer water sources less likely this year?

The talk about Andy Burnham has died down a bit since he was blocked. But maybe one day? Begs the question, does Sadiq Khan not have leadership ambitions? That would certainly wind Trump up. Maybe he'd have a heart attack.

This is all part of Trump's character flaw that he is unable to admit a mistake and back down. (Same for his Cabinet members). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Getting a steady trickle of dodgy followers over 5ge last couple of days. Potential romance fraud or porn. Sob stories from potentially worthy causes (eg Gaza) but strong possibility of fraud. Etc. Anyone else getting the same?

Why do the casters on office chairs always have a mind of their own?

Rugby question. It used to be a requirement that the scrum half put the ball into the scrum "straight", and the hookers would compete for the ball. Not straight was an offence. These days they seldom put it in straight. The scrum half sends it directly into his side's scum. Has the rule changed?

The irony of this. Someone watching "spy cam porn", finds themselves on one of the videos. Difficult to know whether to laugh or cry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wouldn't it be great if they standardised the placement of the date on credit/debit card receipts. Eg. Top Left or top right or whatever. An end to eyeballing each receipt to find where they've hidden the date.

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*is doomed

To quote Mandy Rice-Davirs "Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

One that's not reliant on the US?

Bluesky slow today?

Vietnam revisited?

This guys deservesd to go bust. Why would you use biodegradable cables? You want them to last ffs. Or is this a wind up? share.google/bJenTCYOcS3R...

Erm, yes, of course, his civil rights were violated. But, more important, he was murdered. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow! Do they not know when to stop? This could make even more terrible footage, and this time perhaps on live TV in front of millions. share.google/WoBJa1fOZm5J...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Is "Placed on leave" the new "Placed under arrrest"? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

She's only saying what we already knew. And I can't imagine myself ever voting for them again. It's approaching ten years since I last did, and that turned out to be a mistake.

Tesla fan-boys are so gullible. share.google/Azo33W6j84Qm...

But ICE are incompetant, so how well will that work? 🤞 "The governor of Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, sought to calm the situation, suggesting that ICE agents would be deployed in Italy to protect US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

*100-mile boondoggle

"If" it gets built.

Wow! I feel conflicted.

What a lot of fun this is.

All of the dregs. BBC News - Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If there's any upside to the latest tragic ICE shooting/murder, it's that it's potentially a wedge issue amongst the MAGA lot and the gun rights lot. www.axios.com/2026/01/25/g...

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This is farcical ,surely "noise and vibration" are things that are solvable in standard ways. Back in the day many combustion engine cars were noisy and vibrated. Now even cheap petrol and diesel cars almost all run smoothly and quietly for the occupants. share.google/60yNP0a6PS2i...

Gosh who would've thought.

This is a big shame. Insulation is vitally important. No need to deemphasize it just because the Tory governments were not across the detail of how to run a Government subsidy scheme without letting cowboys make hay. Similarly as inept as the PPE procedurement. share.google/YXzYveFzj3Jy...

Just wait to see the generation that grows up in the AI era.

It was inevitable that AI models would start ingesting the output of other AI models a training materials. Bollocks fed off other bollocks. What could possibly go wrong? Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal | Grok AI | The Guardian share.google/F2VIJANRtyvO...

I'm a bit conflicted about this. If the article was about somewhere like Canada - great. But Saudi - not so much.

The word "if is doing some heavy lifting here. “If this is the case, it could mean that the Trump family is profiting from funds appropriated by Congress to keep Americans safe, .." www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/b...

In 10 to 20 years time, Elon Musk will no longer be the world's richest man. 🤞