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What is it with this man? Very happy to continue hearing from other ex. PMs like Gordon Brown and John Major. But I'd quite like Blair to permanently fuck off.

If only this were generally true. Andrew is an easy victim as he has made himself unpopular in all quarters. There are prominent people who are known to have profited from corrupt COVID contracts who still seem to have impunity.

I’ve spent a lifetime studying this question and the answer is no.

Boss: how are you getting on with that report? Me: Very complete, pretty much

It's just bloody marvellous that Cory Doctorow is here. Another excellent read today:

Sorting by colour is what children do with Skittles and Smarties 🌈

Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Murton (Durham) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 50.6% (+17.6) ➡️ RFM: 39.6% (-4.5) 🌍 GRN: 4.8% (New) 🌳 CON: 3.1% (-2.0) 🔶 LDM: 1.9% (-2.3) No Ind (-13.6) as previous. Labour GAIN from Reform. Changes w/ 2025.

Oh. Amol on #r4today just said that ICE killed innocent US citizens Good and Pretti. Finally.

Cory Doctorow is here!

Back in 2018, the Singletrack blog published a widely read article explaining the lethal trigonometry of a UK intersection where drivers kept hitting cyclists: singletrackworld.com/2018/01/coll... 1/

Noem has been fired. Senator Markwayne Mullin replaces her at Homeland Security.

Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch: international law matters apart from where it doesn't #r4today

Kemi Badenoch was desperately bad yesterday at #PMQs - I almost felt sorry for Conservative MPs. Almost.

truly Awful. This ship was in international waters travelling back from an exercise Trump & Netanyahus actions becoming more bizarre & yet Tories & Reform seem to think we should be jumping onboard. Yes Iran has a murderous regime but there is no evidence of a lawful reason for this conflict

So we killed almost 150 humans who posed no current threat to the U.S. Dept of War Crimes.

So it's OK to torpedo warships when not engaged or anywhere near the theatre you're operating in, is it? Without asking for a surrender? I suppose it's like blowing up boats and killing people in the sea without any reason or due process? It's not good at all.

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict www.ft.com/content/eaee...

Having handed the Canadian election to Carney, Trump now seems determined to keep Starmer in No 10 …

At least in the nuclear apocalyptic 80s we had good music.

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

Great, so you've moved to Dubai. Why not get a job on a newspaper there you tragic turnip.

They should just rename themselves Reform Dubai and be done with it

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

How far the Telegraph has fallen www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Labour's immigration/asylum policy is doubly ridiculous. On the one hand, it flies in the face of Labour values by any measure. On the other hand, it's being done to try and attract Reform voters, and Reform's support has been declining for a while now. Government needs to open their eyes here.

If Trump likes to see people cheering in the street when the rule of their brutal authoritarian leader comes to an end then he knows what to do.

If ZP was just talking about large reactors we would agree - not because nuclear is old, but because it simply doesn't make economic sense. We heard in the last few days that Hinkley Point will be delayed *again* with costs rising *again* www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It’s fine. He’s only the US president, he can’t do any real harm.

Those paid a fortune to assess global risks say ‘not these global risks’.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Well.....

"Trying to compete with Reform not only feels inauthentic... but a betrayal of what Labour is supposed to represent. We must address the concerns and fears of voters, not play on them." Damning stuff from Sadiq Khan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Emmanuel Macron: ‘A major blow to the shadow fleet: in the North Sea, our French Navy helicopters helped last night in the boarding by Belgian forces of an oil tanker under international sanctions.’ 1/

Farage and Reform are so slavishly following the MAGA playbook, he’ll soon lead a march to stop Hannah Spencer from being sworn in

No Ukip election petition in Oldham in 2015. No Brexit Party election petition in Peterborough in 2019 nor Reform in Rochdale 2024. Nor Gorton/Denton Electoral integrity should be taken v seriously. Shouting fraud while never producing any evidence does not do that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...

The lying, racist Mail on Sunday going Full Trump after its Far Right candidate got spanked in the by-election. We need proper controls on dishonest journalism that peddles racial hatred.

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

I don't know. When one country starts kidnapping some presidents, and killing others, it makes me quite nervous.

Oakeshott and Tice: "We are fleeing Sadiq Khan’s London war zone for Dubai” 😂

2nd busiest airport in the world

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As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

I criticise KS plenty when deserved, but the "island of strangers" attack is cynical and low. In context, KS said nothing like what you imply and it really bugs me to see progressives using RW tabloid techniques, at which we get outraged when against GPEW (eg on drug policy). @michaelwi.bsky.social