If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

This Trump tweet is a work of art and needs to be kept for posterity. It turns out that the US has destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability. Yet, to combat a military with no capability he is left pleading with allies he has regularly insulted to save him in the Gulf.

Oh NOW you want the Royal Navy do you? After slagging it off just a week ago? Sling your hook mate, sort out your own mess. You broke it, you fix it.

While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

If Trump wants more than strategic advice from Europe on the Strait of Hormuz, the price should be a gigantic US military aid package for Ukraine to compensate for the additional oil revenue Russia is receiving due to the Iran War. Military aid. Not defence contracts paid by Europe.

China? Send ships to rescue Trump from the mess of his own making? New levels of delusion. France, UK & Japan also very unwilling to enter a war on which they were not consulted. Sounds as if Trump is preparing to blame his allies for the mess he made - as EU officials suspected

Now that he has nearly destroyed the Kennedy Center, doing damage to other DC institutions along the way - the National Symphony, the Washington Opera - Ric Grenell is leaving, perhaps to ruin something else www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/a...

Snippet from @nickcohen.bsky.social that really resonates.

The blue slither is Reform MPs. 98.8% of MPs are not Reform Can someone tell BBC News and BBC Question Time please?

No one should have to live like this just because some rich, old, white billionaires think they have the right to rule the world.

If you’ve spent years abroad paying little or no UK tax, it’s reasonable to pay Capital Gains Tax when you return. You’re coming back to the roads, hospitals and schools the rest of us have been funding. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

A rather lofty #FoxOfTheDay today , shared by Angela Douglas on Facebook !

It is a big thing for a UK PM not to slavishly follow a US President. Clever politics and, more importantly, the correct action.

The Russians might want to be careful or Trump might get rid of even more sanctions on them.

Anyone shocked by Trump's conduct as President can't have an inbuilt functioning twatometer. Mine has been registering 11 and flashing red for the last decade and more.

The Greens under Polanski appear to be very much, "criticism of thee but not for me". They are allowed to tell Labour to ditch policies, but not the other way around, apparently, because that is undemocratic.

“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems” V much summing up his approach to power. Grifting and gobshiting - yes please. Hard work and responsibility - god no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Iranian regime was wobbling during the protests. Trump could have financially/practically helped opposition figures. It might actually have worked, but he never gave a damn about Iranians. The most effective & least dangerous path to regime change was blocked off by his lack of empathy.

Who called it the Claudia Winkleman Show and not Beyond the Fringe?

No quarter!!?!?

“I lost my job after harassing a complete stranger in the street because he’s Jewish”

Wind power, as it turns out, is very useful www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As Farage whines about YouGov, support for Reform falls in FIVE other polls

How it started ... How it's going

I hope the Labour Party press office is compiling a long list of clips & quotes from Farage, Badenoch, the Tories, Reform & almost all UK right wing commentators who condemned Keir for not joining the Trump/Netanyahu attack on #Iran & are now pretending they didn’t because oil prices are going up.

A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.

An 8% drop in national food bank use under the Labour government. I’d put some of this down to free childcare, some to uplift in min wage & pensions, some to breakfast clubs and some to reducing interest rates/inflation. This deserves massive applause. 👏👏👏

Labour government's comms have been woeful, and they've got a lot of stuff just plain wrong. But also:

📉 Wait lists have fallen again by 43k in January - 374k in 18 months. 🚑 Fastest ambulance response in 5 years, down to less than 29 mins for heart attacks and stroke 🏥 A&E waits the shortest for four years despite a hugely demanding winter Lots done, lots more to do.

Pretty impressive. Glad Labour are committed to green energy.

What a shame our bigoted rightwing hacks are more concerned with trying to unseat a decent and atm much needed PM. Meanwhile this fucker barely gets a crit. Get over yourselves!

Badenoch and Farage are in a mess over Iran because there was an opportunity to 'own the libs' and they took it unthinkingly. It's all about owning the libs. bsky.app/profile/rola...

NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed. Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)

My rough timeline: If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn. If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption. If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.

I’m due to remortgage next year and it’s going to be much more expensive because of the out-of-control malevolent sociopath in the White House.

Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Farage… helped fool everyone about Brexit - which he wants to renegotiate, naturally. Surely the British people can't take this absurd man seriously again? After all, even Trump doesn't.” Beyond time to boot Farage and his stale band of Tories off the stage. www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

On the absurdity of setting UK interests by a Trump doctrine when not even the US national interest is served by the president www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.

Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.

Gaffe-prone Kemi Badenoch denies calling for the UK to join Donald Trump’s war on Iran. This is a bizarre denial, as I was about 20ft away from her last week when she did exactly that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Summing up Iran news today, I think. - US/Israel strikes continue - Iran doesn't want talks, still firing on neighbors - US asked Israel to stop hitting Iranian energy infra - US claimed to be escorting tankers - oops no it isn't - Mines in the water - ~80-90% of Iran mine laying capacity intact

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.

I'm starting to find the number of senior people associated with Brexit who have 'prior commitments' preventing them from speaking at an event slightly suspicious

note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills

With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.

Donald Trump is the reason your bills are going to rise.

You're probably going to miss this unless you'd been married to a sociopath like I was, but the real tell is not the expedient lie, it's the *pointless* lie. Everybody lies to protect themselves or shore up their self image; the dangerous people are the ones who embellish reflexively, for no reason.