Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.

Europeans when being asked to unblock the strait of Hormuz

"Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by Regina, was convicted of stabbing HER stepfather to death in 1974, bashing a man to death in a robbery in 1981, and beating HER former partner to death while on parole in 1991. SHE was released on parole in 2020." Fuck this shit. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

Before the U.S military seemingly blew up a girls elementary school in Iran killing dozens of children, the Trump administration got rid of a civilian protection program designed to avoid just this kind of incident. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

NEWS — Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears. “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trump’s wishes. We’re officially in the dumbest timeline.

The phrase 'live as a woman's is so regressive. How does anyone 'live as a woman'? Does it mean dresses and make up? Are cup cakes involved? Stilettos essential? How does a man 'live as a woman' other than by adopting oppressive, sexist stereotypes? The whole idea is deeply, deeply sexist.

The impact of Brexit on UK immigration - new research by @johnspringford.bsky.social & me for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social & @ukandeu.bsky.social Brexit a) reduced EU-origin employees by 785K (2.3% of workforce) b) increased non-EU origin employees by 992K (2.95%) www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

Several years from now, a thoughtful scholar will write a book called “Trump’s Willing Executioners” about how a nation of 340 million descended into abject depravity.

Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus. When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue. He then got detained by Saudi guards.

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On day one of the war 165 children were murdered in a terror bombing of a school. At one time such an atrocity would result in widespread condemnation. Not any more. We remain silent at our peril. My latest piece. charlieangus.substack.com/p/world-at-w...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran. In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack. So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera]. The US has just committed a war crime. (🎥 Ary Jeay)

Dozens of schoolgirls in Iran just died in an Israeli bombing.

BREAKING: A US-Israeli missile strike has hit a girls school in Iran. Multiple fatalities reported. (SOURCE: Al Jazeera)

ICYMI — BILL CLINTON: "Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran, because that way he can stay in office."

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Looks like a tired school teacher who tricked a five year old kid into doing his homework

a year is a long time in politics

there's a nugget here which helps to explain Brown's character and why he was so incensed by the allegations against Mandelson from their time in office

We must stop every single proposed ICE concentration camp. #StopICE bsky.app/profile/dyts...

'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

RIP Virginia

L: Private Eye front cover, yesterday. R: News headline, today. Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

"Back in the day...they were mostly pre-pubertile boys who felt that they were girls. Left to their own devices, because we didn't have hormone treatments and the internet and all the rest then, most of them grew out of it and became gay men" - Hilary Cass 15th Feb '26 Accept children as they are.

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

Gender pay gap won't close for another 30 years. Myth of equality used to hike women's state pension age. Women hold 69% of low-paid & insecure jobs. Women hit first by benefit cuts, wage freezes, two-child benefit cap. More likely to be unpaid carers. Why are govt policies loaded against women?

Laughing and crying and then laughing some more

Menfolk who maybe don’t want to vaccinate, please google “orchitis”. It occurs in 20-30% of post-pubertal boys and men who contract mumps.

Michael Foran's excellent clear explainer of yesterday's GLP v EHRC judgment. knowingius.org/p/good-law-p...

This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.

A study has found that an intellectually active lifestyle cuts the risk of Alzheimer’s by nearly 40 per cent

It also states that children should not be able to use the facilities allocated to the opposite sex.

UK has lost its official status as a country that has achieved elimination of measles, as vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% required to achieve herd immunity. So sad, and likely due vaccine misinformation. If you haven't already, get your kids vaccinated ASAP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

#Homicides in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales have dropped to the lowest level on record, with 499 killings in the year to Sep 2025. That’s about 7% fewer than the year before . There were also big drops in killings involving knives, marking a significant fall in serious violent #crime over the past year 🧠

And all credit to him for doing exactly that. Absolutely right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

Canada school shooting tragedy. The killer, a trans-identified boy with what were clearly severely dangerous obsessions.

A transgender teenager has been identified as the attacker who opened fire on a school in remote western Canada in one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history

Referred to as the ‘gunman’ on Sky News. news.sky.com/story/what-w...

just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.

I can listen to JD Vance — the most hated man in Europe after Putin and Trump — getting booed loudly at the Milan Olympics all day long. 🤣🤣

I mean, I accept that I'm an outlier here, but I don't think Starmer is terrible? He led Labour to a thumping majority nobody thought possible; they're delivering on some big things: ending the 2-kid limit, renting reforms, renationalising railways, employment rights; support for Ukraine ...