Spanish air traffic controller here (civilian, but military ATCs coordinate with us). No plane is gonna enter our airspace without clearance to do so, less so land on Spanish airports (at least not peacefully). Cutting trade with Spain only pushes us toward other global markets, not good for the US.

Labour doubling down on everything that's collapsing their vote, is quite the sight to see.

Not really, but at least they made the effort to bullshit the UN into submission.

Not so long ago, situations like this were eased by professional US diplomats, armed with proficiency in the local languages and vast amounts of knowledge on the region. Now, if Trump sends anybody at all, it'll likely be a 24yr old Reddit troll, who got a job with Trump by complimenting his hair.

I wish Starmer had been different. I wanted him to succeed. 14yrs of Tory rule (the latter half dominated by absolute chaos) wrecked the country. Radical solutions were required. A vision. A continuation of the status-quo with minor tweaks, accompanied by bizarre attempts to court fascists? Nope.

As discussed in here the problem with Labour attacking Reform and Greens as two sides of extremism is that Labour and Green voters are very similar in their views. And the big majority of Labour voters would be willing to join a coalition with Greens, when almost none would with Reform.

BREAKING: “It’s a very disappointing result. Incumbent governments quite often get results like that mid term” says Keir Starmer

The results: Greens win big. Farage/ Goodwin sorest losers in party sore losers. Starmer gone into hiding. Telegraph/Mail etc spin into "end of liberal democracy" wank fest. Tories lose their deposit. Party Elon Musk backed, Advance UK, beaten by Sir Oink A Lot.

Has Starmer said something about getting on with delivering for the people, yet?

Wheeeeeeeeeee

Great news in Gorton and Denton, slightly overshadowed by the fact that Farage's orange mentor may unleash a hellstorm in the Middle East this weekend, to try and stop Americans talking about his place in the Epstein files and his catastrophic presidency.

It's grim to contemplate, but part of Reform's vote will definitely have been made up of working class renters, who heard the 'we're going to shaft working people and renters' announcement from Reform, but still voted Reform regardless, because Farage promises to make the people they hate suffer.

No shit, John

So Farage and his rabble are going to try and import the very Trumpian 'if we don't win, the other side winning is invalid' bollocks. Much more chance of it being received here with a collective "oh, fuck off, mate" than across the Pond.

Rayner and others now warming up for a proper leadership contest. By the time Labour is slaughtered in May's elections, it will be nearly 2 years of constant fumbles from Starmer, while he's chased the votes of the worst people in the country (who will never vote for him). Tragic. What a waste.

BREAKING: Angela Rayner response to Gorton and Denton by-election result

The Green vote was 11% higher than constituency polls, and Labour's 4% below polls. Reform result was in line with polls. This suggests tactical voters went Green to ensure Reform were stopped. Tactical voting was the real story of the last general election, and will be the story of the next one.

When you know you've alienated your core vote, because the PM is a political void and has relied on very weird rightwing people who inexplicably label themselves as Labour, for all his policies.

The genius of Morgan McSweeney and the legacy of that genius, writ large.

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile

I live about 200 miles north of London, barely visit the city, know nothing about the thinking behind this move and yet, I have decided it makes me very, very angry, so I will call into every radio and tv talkshow, loudly declaring that this decision is the end for London.

Hopkins is about to embark on a major nationwide tour. Some venues are sold out already and local councils are doing diddly squat to prevent hate coming to their local towns, theatres and civic centres. This woman is not some mainstream comedian. share.google/uaobB9avMPQF...

This really does need to be said. British voters keep making decisions at the ballot box, which only exacerbate the issues, and it's taboo in mainstream discourse to call them out for this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm assumimg Jersey doesn't have a load of batshit pensioners in a second legislative chamber, who spend 50% of their time in said chamber asleep and the other 50% trying to insert Jesus Christ's PoV into secular law. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

"What's a line delivery you'll never forget?" "I turned around and found myself face to face... with a six year old kid. Well, I threw down my guns and walked away. The little bastard shot me in the ass..."

OK JD but how do we get them off you exactly?

BREAKING: Scientists have discovered the world's oldest writing in a cave in Germany. It predates all human civilisations at 38,000 years old. Excitingly, it has already been translated. It reads: Warning: Iran is just two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

I don't understand the point of Starmer turning up to 'boost' a Labour candidate's campaign, when the reaction of most constituents will be "oh, it's that twat off the TV. Really don't like that bloke."

In 1995, I spent the equivalent of about $3000 in today's dollars to get a Schmidt Cassegrain telescope & film camera with dreams of astrophotography. Spent MANY hours to net a few barely useful prints of the Moon. Last year I spent $500 on a Seestar and captured this last night after an hour.

I've always imagined Mandelson constantly updating an Arya Stark-style vengeance list, so I suppose Lindsay Hoyle's name has now been added in very large letters and underlined repeatedly.

Captain Contrition is back to his contrite ways.

Would'st thou like to live deliciously?

Obviously, The Guardian can't say "OMG, this is going to be insane. They'll pump him full of uppers to keep him standing and talking, he'll probably declare war on Belgium and say that his secretary gives the best BJs, before shitting himself (again)" so they're going with this, instead.

"Totally unregulated sexual economy" What he means, of course, is that women have too much bodily autonomy and need to stay home and breed lots of white babies, with Reform-approved men. Absolutely barking.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Night of the Demon (1957) 🎥 Directed by Jacques Tourneur #FilmSky

Best of luck with that, Vova. Your economy is collapsing, you're running out of meat for the machine, you're installing Soviet-style information blackouts because you know the country is in deep shit and people are very, very pissed off. Those 'war aims' are never going to pan out.

I suppose the gamble with deeply unpopular stuff like this (and repealing Labour's employment rights/renters bills) is that people who like racism, will forget about the deeply unpopular stuff and vote Reform, because they promise to do lots of racism too.

Getting out of bed, when you're over 50.

A couple of estate agents are making potentially world-changing political and military decisions, on behalf of an elderly man with a horrifying personality disorder and ever worsening dementia, who millions of Americans decided to install as President. Good times.

Doesn't understand what a tariff is. But because people are telling him 'no', he's having a meltdown and declaring MORE TARIFFS FOR EVERYONE (while not understanding what a tariff is). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

No WAY the fucker typed this mess. Multisyllabic words? Lower case? Be less obvious, whichever 23yr old groyper staffer was responsible.

Filing all these new Trump factories with the hundreds of new NHS hospitals built when Boris Johnson was PM. 🙄

As in the US, loads of dimwitted thugs here in Britain would be celebrating the formation of an 'ICE-style' agency, because they'll finally be able to get a job.

Hard working royals earning respect for our country through their unique soft power. God we are so lucky to have them. www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/...

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron. 10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

The documentary on Shudder about the making of Aliens, is 283 minutes long. 283 minutes that absolutely flew by. It was so, so good.

Denmark is sending a library ship full of books in return.

Keir Starmer has made a LOT of fuck-ups, but I think the biggest problem is his obvious belief that the status quo is fine overall, with some minor tweaking permitted. But it isn't fine. It's only working for wealthy people. Like Keir Starmer. People need hope. He's not providing it.