Feels like I'm really missing something, but WTAF was Trump's aim/goal in the illegal attack on Iran? Was it just profiting from the oil price moves?

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

🧵Reform's Matt Goodwin has said he is “not part of the establishment”, and criticised the “elite class”. But we found that his definition of “the elite” excludes the bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him /1 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

Thunderstorm in Hernebaydos, in the middle of the day in Feb?! What is the world coming too?

'Unfortunately Putin and Netanyahu can't be with us at today's Board of Peace signing as they are both wanted by the ICC for...er war crimes and crimes against humanity'

It has now been one week since a masked man shot and killed an American mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And for all intents and purposes, the shooter, and his accomplices, remain at large.

English speaking newspapers don’t seem to have picked up on Trump administration threats of sanctions against judges in current appeals case involving Marine LePen’s indictment regarding European Parliament fund embezzling which could cost her the right to run for president next year.

Excellent

Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit? – Byline Times

Reform UK are raising Council Tax across the country. They claim they didn’t formally pledge to reduce it. The graphic attached shows exactly what they campaigned on during the Local Elections. ‘Council tax rise cannot be ruled out, says Reform’ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Hernebaydos sunsets rarely disappoint

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but there's a Spitfire outside At Paul's cathedral for the VE Day stuff today, it has D-Day (June 1944) wing stripes, which wouldn't have been present in May 1944 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasio...

This article can be summed up with 2 words: "OK millennial"... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

There’s nothing stopping the Home Office from changing a) how the migration figures are recorded (who counts as a migrant worker vs a foreign student on temporary visa) so they’re more credible and reliable, and b) how migration is actually managed. And yet, instead, we get this kind of nonsense.

🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Trump's Trade Tantrum Hides An Uncomfortable Truth If the rest of the world doesn't want to buy your exploding cars and chlorine-soaked chickens, then trade tariffs aren't the real issue, argues The Bear www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...

Having the unfortunate experience of watching The Apprentice (UK). Hard pushed sales of sub-standard produce, is this the peak of capitalism or just aiming for the UK's halcyon days of British Leyland and the Allegro?

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

Worst take ever. More accurate headline would e “Putin fools Trump by pretending to agree to a ceasefire he has no intention of honoring, whilst offering terms designed to eviscerate Ukraine.”

CycloCross, beer, frites and Belgium. Inseparable. Here's a great article by @katiematherkm on @pelliclemag about all of it which I contributed to. Send it to your 'non cycling mad' friends and it might just convince them to tag along next winter! www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/2/...

Tell me you really don't like coffee without telling me you don't like coffee, "can I get a caramel soy latte?"

Tariffs on agriculture from Mexico and Canada raise the price of food for 340 million Americans in order to (maybe) increase earnings for roughly 2 million full time farmers - earnings which will very likely be erased by a combination of retaliation, inflation and aggresive ICE enforcement.

The U.S. pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. But Ukraine refused to pull its draft resolution. So the US voted... with Russia, Iran, Israel & North Korea... against Ukraine. Now read that again.

I was a bit taken aback to read CAMRA's assessment of my latest What's Brewing column, but obviously delighted. I hope you read it & it makes you feel uncomfortable. Please consider why it makes you feel uneasy while drinking the @ladiesofdarkness.bsky.social beers. wb.camra.org.uk/2025/02/03/t...

This front page deserves a special mention. Trump is becoming both a pariah and a laughing stock in the UK.

Now this sounds like a faff for the home, but given you can buy boiled eggs in Spanish supermarkets (and no doubt other countries) a method that can be easily repeated in a factory which produces nutritionally better boiled eggs is a good thing

This !!

I was salivating reading this, I love a good cassoulet www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

@thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social @lionelbirnie.bsky.social I'm loving the Mallorca KM0 series, thank you. Were you aware there's a bike shop in Sóller named Quilòmetre Zero?!

🔥 This is an absolutely devastating set of figures on the UK public's view of Brexit. Absolutely damning. Look at each category one by one - particularly the economic ones. YouGov article on these data here. 👉 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

He'll be führious if he sees this

I admit I did not have "OpenAI gets Temu'd" as a pale horse but if this is what does it, lol

Gutting, in the course of 5 years in the '80s I narrowly missed seeing Randy Rhoades and Gary Moore, but did catch John Sykes with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, now they're all gone. Great guitarist, very under-rated

If you feel like your going mad for the last 48 hours this is a vitally important listen! it won’t cheer you up, but it’ll help

Our Xitter account is now dormant so if you follow us over here: THANKS! It's a bit scary as a tiny business to be effectively losing 90% of our followers but Elon's a big fash prick, so. There'll be new drawings next week but in the meantime, here's our shop full of wonky nonsense noscoredraws.com

📣 Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality By Tony Burke

Yes. Next question?

A Polish Farmer posts this amongst his tractor videos and I can't stop watching. Enjoy.

Indeed, it would be good to read one day that the ~50 million non-native pheasant and partridge released each year in the UK have been captured and won't be let loose again, thus hugely benefitting nature and our own health (www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...)

Fact check this Zuckerberg

Is this Liz (Lettuce) Truss's Barbra Streisand moment? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars | Jonn Elledge

#uksnow CT6 0/10 fat, cold, heavy drops of rain. It's 2.4C and falling so it's near, but no snow in the bay yet

We’re aware of the bot followers. We know it’s really irritating for yall. The blade runners are working hard and we’re looking at bigger steps.

A great illustration of how Brexit has fucked UK business, thanks Boris