the uk has the infrastructure to put on a world cup at short notice btw.

In 1976 the doctor told me that I had a good chance to see the next century, but I'd still have failing kidneys and would die around 2015. I haven't, of course. Today is 50 years living with type 1 diabetes. Statistically, the UK is the best place in the world for living with T1D thanks to the NHS

"EIA data showed residential prices have jumped 12.7 percent nationally since January 2025, when Trump’s second term began." People didnt vote for Trump to acquire Greenland, they wanted him to curb inflation. He's not doing that.

Somewhere i have my 100m swimming badge from the 70s. If I can find it, he can have it I also have a Blue Peter badge, but he can only get it from my cold dead hands

I really hate Trump - he's actually making me agree to something Hannan has said

Well, that's the end of his "Peace Board". When will the US accept that he's completely gone nuts?

Since the US needs these to invade Greenland a wise move would be to impound them until the US replaces Trump with someone who stops threatening Greenland.

Isn't it interesting that Ireland has avoided tariffs? I guess the Irish government agree that Trump can take what he wants

No Lego for the US.

Or Dongeld? (He's someone who needs gelding)

Morrissey has just started a US tour, so our counterattack is already underway.

My sons wedding in 2 months. My wife has put a list on a kitchen cabinet of things to do. Her list are things she's completed, all but one. My list has only one ticked item. It does raise the question of why add an already completed item to a list

So will Blair now resign his place on Trump's "Board of Peace"

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Trump is bonkers. You cannot just put an "extra" engine into a jet fighter.

Just done the sums. If the US annexes Greenland its landmass will be increased by 28%. the last president to expand the US was McKinley who annexed Hawaii in 1898. I cannot be bothered to do the searches, but I guess Trump will be #1 in increasing the area of the US. That's his goal

Who knows if joining Reform will be good for Jenrick but we do know he has a potential career ahead advertising Ozempic

Tim Loughton: "Dealt with Jenrick a lot as Immigration Minister whilst negotiating amendments to Immigration Bill. He invariably had to defer to officials completely out of his depth then flounced off claiming he couldn't get his own way on reducing immigration rather than staying and fighting."

LOL, Jenrick makes the amateur mistake of printing out an important doc and leaving it somewhere. Bear in mind Jenrick is a member of the Privy Council and may have access to some really confidential stuff that he could just "leave lying around"

Assoc Pol Ed, Telegraph: 'Tory evidence of Jenrick defecting before the locals included: Dinner between #Jenrick + #Farage last month Conversations with allies repeated back to CCHQ But final straw was that Jenrick's team "left some stuff lying around" very recently, that left "no doubt" it was on'

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.

So Reform UK *is* becoming the Johnson era Tory party! Perhaps Badenoch will now understand that there is space on the Right in the UK for a One Nation Tory party and leave the far right politics to Farage?

And Offord used to be a high ranking Tory. It's clear the Right hate the NHS. And remember, as a Coalition minister, the LibDem Norman Lamb wanted to make all NHS hospitals "mutuals" and no longer owned by the public. LibDems hate NHS principles too

Relax, its Henno from Ultimate Force.

The replies to this is why I like BlueSky. Lots of philosophical and classical quotes...

No government or security organisation should be using any AI of any kind

Ok when does Kemi Badenoch defect to Reform

I remember visiting the Syatford upon Avon constituency in 2010 at the time of the election when Nadhim Zahaw had been parachuted in. The local Tory Asn did not want him and so there were no posters or banners with his name. A local Tory - who liked him - told me the Asn was very racist against him

If you asked me who was the most Cameroon of Cameron's 2010 MPs I would say #1 David Cameron and #2 Nadhim Zahawi The Tory party has got the death rattle

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Simple solution is not to go to the US. Watch the world cup and Olympics on the TV in a pub and spend your money at home

So it looks like Musk admits that all X paying customers are perverts

Doubt if its a civil servant, certainly not a senior one. The civil service DNA is risk adverse, and is utterly phobic to any "tits up" policy, so no civil servant would welcome Reform

You will find it difficult to find a single Reform councillor who knows how to run a council. Same is true about Westminster, yet the press, and political commentators are driving the polls to get them elected. We are doomed

Incredible. A woman gets murdered by an ICE agent, there are numerous videos showing this action, and yet #BBC #PM spends a lot of this evening saying "isn't it amazing how people can get different opinions from the same video?" Stick your neck out: a murder is a murder

It will be interesting to see how MAGA reacts to this since there is only one thing he can do with a "dream military" and that's forever war

"ICE, get the fuck out of our city" not from just a citizen, but from the mayor.

Refusing food is suicide. You have a choice. If you want to change the law, get elected, anything else is not democratic.

#PM Penny Mordant says that the MoD needs more money but as ever refuses to accept tax rises and says that welfare must be cut. As ever the Tories put their hatred of poor people above national security.

Fucksake #bbcToday is so dumbed down these days. Sure, a quantum computer will be fast, but that's just part of the story, you need the programs to do the work. Willow, even if it works, will NOT invent new drugs on it own.

Justin Webb yet again allowing a MAGA supporter spout nonsense without challenge. The US does not have the icebreakers to defend Greenland, but Denmark and Norway (and the UK) do.

The message is clear - if you want to beat Reform, only field Muslim candidates. (Yes I am being facetious, but its as logical as anything said about polls viz the next general election.)

These figures coming out of Trumps mouth are nonsense. Price increases to the NHS are nowhere near 200%. And its not about him anyway, its about encouraging US pharma to move to the UK.

Listening to More or Less talking about NHS "productivity", which they describe as "what you get out for what you put in". But its waaaaay for complicated. For example if I lived 100 years ago I would have died at 11 with type 1 diabetes. I was told in 1976 I would live to 50

There is an obvious compromise candidate to be the new leader of Venezuela. A man with a principled record of opposition, never tainted by being in office before now.

True. But it also shows how useless the Online Safety Act is. These images should not be viewable in the UK, but the OSA is powerless to prevent them. OSA was a waste of time and money, money that should gave gone to CEOPS

Haha!

Michael McFaul, US Ambassador to Russia 2012-14: ‘Because Denmark is trusted, democratic ally, we can deploy all the soldiers we need in Greenland without annexing the territory.’ 1/

Eh? It's still a government who stole an election. Why dont the US insist the last election result stands? Is it because María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize and Trump didn't?

The world's largest aircraft carrier, an amphibious assault ship, several destroyers and submarines, and 150 aircraft were used in Operation Absolute Resolve to capture TWO people. Billions of dollars to tickle Trump's ego