"cabrones locos" would be a better translation of "crazy bastards than" than "locos bastardos", which is just word for word

madman theory when the man is really mad

A lot of this brain dead comment about. There's a huge amount to criticise about the war and whether it should have been launched at all. Willingness to sacrifice expensive kit to rescue a comrade from a horrendous fate isn't one of them

a key moment in UK history, it started a process which led to the loss of a quarter of its national territory within five years

The weird part is that the average Brit who has even heard of it thinks of it as something that happened abroad

The Irish farmhouse solution: you can have one room as hot as the surface of the sun if you like, in all the others you put on a jumper, and use enough bedclothes to stave off hypothermia

my wife works in the legal dept of a multinational you have never heard off, she uses AI bc she has been told to, or else

pretty much

Fun fact: a friend of mine (Argentine, of course) tried this during a stay in New York and pronounced herself erm.... fully satisfied www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Iran is treating its Gulfie neighbours as if they were Israel. This makes the ayatollahs as dumb as Hegseth

no puede ser verdad. el hispanista top del The Economist dice esto 🤣🤣🤣

Imagine if the Iranians had captured the guy; the forced "confession" to war crimes on TV, the one hour "trial" the execution on TV😱

Yes. Seize and protect a perimeter, fly in heavy plant and civilian experts. Wd take weeks and 100s of personnel minimum. Serious casualties certain

Absolutely wild they were able to get him www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

This guy is The Economist's house expert on Spain and you couldn't wish for a better illustration of the elite anglophone media confusion of Madrid with Spain. Monday is a public holiday in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearics and probably some others places

the Bach of popular music is still with and talking about his life youtu.be/xCJnykh4BPE

Marcelo ❤️

After careful consideration I have decided that The Pitt's Dr. Santos is the closest in character to my GP. Knows her shit and assumes that her patients are fucking idiots

illegal immigrant in Portugal has views🤡

looks like Trump's not going to TACO this one, goodbye the basis of a functioning modern society in Iran, hello to a new province of The People's Republic of China

really

Super interesting for anyone who loves Spain. However, at one point Misha Glenny says, and I quote, "Duh!" #Britainhasfallen #Endtimes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

the EU and its "shit show" rules have helped make Mick an extremely rich man. Like all extremely rich men he thinks there should be no limit placed on his capacity to get richer still

The horror of the airport tho, the queue for check in/bag drop off, the luggage rules, security with some wannabe nazi patting you down bc the gate beeped while your most important possessions are out of your control.

Guaranteed way to get me to flee from your small, indy bookshop: as soon you spot me, come right over, 30cm from face and ask me if I need help/have been here before with a big smile. when I say I'm good tx, move away to about 60 cm and stay looking at me

the least the fuckers could do

when my Dad - who was no one special - died we got Mass cards/condolence notes from all five local TDs. IIRC a couple said that if we needed anything we should let them know

Just had a relapse on my run and listened to a UK politics podcast: Heard R@s T@ylor's analyis of KS's EU remarks: she said the EU must realise how vulnerable it is and stop being obstructive, esp Macron. Remember ppl like R@s see themselves as liberal cosmpolitants 🤣🤣🤣

*wakes up, turns on BBC Radio 5, hears a journo ask some expert questions of epic stupidity about the downed F15 and what it means for the war. despàirs*

in 2025 if you showed up at a Catalan hospital with not much wrong with you the average wait post triage was about an hour. The average for urgent cases was 20 mins. If we lived in America we wdnt have to suffer like this 😜 beteve.cat/societat/urg...

Five weeks into a war with a country of 93 million people that has spent four decades preparing for it the USA has to mount its first combat search and rescue mission. And people are losing their shit 🙄

another problem is that here is fine if your main interests are the UK and US, if you want to, for example, be up to date on the war, are interest in politics elsewhere in the world you have to drink the dirty water from the muskhole

thousands of sorties and aerial refuelings and this is what the Iranians have to show for it, hmmmmmm I'd say the US and Isr have air superiority

Jeremy Corbyn was quite rightly slammed for the people he shared platforms with. I am immensely confident the same standards will not be applied to Reform’s policy chief. The hypocrisy is off the charts but entirely baked in.

I've had feedback at another place that this is too optimistic, I think tha's mad, just that the pessimism needs to be a bit more balanced

Gloriosa la Najat

loss of just one aircraft five weeks and 1000s of sorties aerial refuellings into the war is an insanely good record.

If the Iranians have captured a US pilot does Trump a: fold and do whatever they ask to get him/her back b: go even more insane than he is already and do something immensely stupid and destructive? I'm going for b

Carter finished his term.

While most extremely successful businessmen either go mad and start sweatily shouting about the anti-Christ, or vomit cascades of management speak.....

Argentina's most popular football club founded 121 years ago today. A pronunciation tip for Spanishless anglophones: the first syllable of Boca is bo as in what Robin Hood used 🏹, not bo as in box

Fabulous piece. the emphasis on listening is particularly interesting and reminds me, of all things, of Cardinal Tim Radcliffe's views on evangelisation! Also JH's views on Gaza were a refusal to blindly follow the herd, a hallmark of his career,

“Europeans don’t have clothes dryers” or “Europeans don’t put ice in drinks”: amateur efforts. This is the new gold standard for Americans talking absolute nonsense about Europe.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... How is this supposed to deter the US from a land op? Why does the "bombing only hardens their determination to resist" argument only apply to Iran but not to the Arab states and indeed Israel?

USA as scripted by Don DeLillo.

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Here we go 😱😱😱

almost certainly the reason was refusal to approve some insane shit

Tehran and DC have both lost touch with reality