I mean, look at this (excerpt from behind the paywall): bsky.app/profile/thet...

How much of a menace to the world does Trump have to become before the world opts to stop him by using tactics other than soft-soaping persuasion? (In the UK we have established ways of dealing with XL Bullies.)

Cymru am byth, motherfuckers

@ayeshahazarika.bsky.social If we heard the voice and views (not to mention the story) of Dr Uran Ferizi every day in the UK we might be a very different, better, and massively more inspired country to face a perilous future. Thank you for an extraordinary interview.

He has the emotional maturity of my dog when she sees me stroking my cat.

Performative stupidity simply gets less and less entertaining. Clear statement of motive and intent would be far more interesting: “I kidnapped Maduro as a bribe”. Or (more Trumpian) “I had no choice. Machado was extorting me.”

@davidallengreen another very Brexity vote. Failed to strike the hallowed 52-48 only because of one unfortunate absence.

L'État, c'est moi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Your Prospect piece on the death of Renée Nicola Good is excellent and a perfect reminder that “killing good” (in all its manifestations) appears to be the sole item on the US government agenda.

Musk in meeting: ”Hey guys, we can actually make more money here while escaping all legal responsibility!”

The right to life comprises a right not to be unlawfully killed and a right to have any killing properly investigated.

@davidallengreen.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/blad...

The mushroom clouds will be rising all around us and we'll be arguing over whether it was a nuclear strike or a permament ceasefire.

But also, read this: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr...

I don't mean to be Polyanna-ish, but history is littered with examples of change being collectively forced on rulers who think themselves omnipotent, often starting from things that seem small, and examples of strongmen overreaching towards their doom. In fact that *is* the paradigm, on the whole.

Video analysis clearly contradicts what Noem and Trump claim about the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. By @devonlum.bsky.social @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social Ainara Tiefenthaler Courtney Brooks for @nytimes.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCv...

Uncanny. Like Season 1 of “The Capture”, but just not bothering with all that hard work ‘Correction’ footage - or even a bus.

Well isn’t this going well? Of course, weight loss jab producers are now arguing obesity is clearly a chronic condition (like hypertension and diabetes)requiring lifelong, uninterrupted medication. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Magnificently naked reply. The absolute definition of imperialism.

If the Marinera ends up in a Scottish port, what happens when Russia mounts an operation to ‘retake’ it?

It takes two dots to draw a line, and we now appear to have a bearing. MARINERA (9230880) is now facing east-by-southeast towards northern Scotland/Shetland; thereabouts.

In my report, I assessed that MARINERA was likely tied to the movement of high value personnel, ISR capability, or sensitive mission equipment, and that the early U.S. interest combined with Russia’s political response suggested this was being treated as a protected transfer rather than a 5/9

U.S. special forces have likely already seized the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera in the Atlantic, Reuters. The operation is supported by U.S. and British surveillance aircraft, including KC-135T Stratotankers and P-8 Poseidons. Despite a nearby Russian sub and navy ships, the U.S. proceeded.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 NEW: Map by the Telegraph shows the journey of Marinera, formerly known as Bella 1.

Trump’s most recent cognitive challenge may prove the toughest yet: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Russia fiendishly, perhaps inextricably entwined:

The drama around the heap of scrap metal known as the BELLA 1 / MARINERA is so excessive that it raises the possibility that it is carrying a shipment of Russian weapons from Iran originally destined for Venezuela.

@hugorifkind.bsky.social You have a good brain, a thoughtful outlook and a tangible (if sometimes compulsorily ignored) set of bullsh*t-detecting antennae. How on earth were you bullied into welcoming Nigel Farage, a sitting MP neglecting his democratic duties, to appear on your PMQs coverage?

Fiona Hill’s 2019 evidence about Trump/Russia/Venezuela has finally got some attention. And she’s talking about it. The New Statesman‘s just published an interview with her where she sets out her predictably riveting, substantive views on where we are now: bsky.app/profile/news...

Does every Trump geopolitical brainwave come straight from the Kremlin? Consider this too (Putin and Venezuela): bsky.app/profile/sara...

I’m reluctant to bash Chris Mason’s journalism - he’s become an automatic target for so many already - but is gossipy fun really the right tone at this moment? Compare this trivialising piece www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/2

10/10 for headline, FT, a++ No notes. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

A month ago the US dictator pardoned a head of state convicted by jury of being "at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world," and today extralegally kidnapped a head of state to "face the full wrath of American justice" for "Narco-Terrorism".

And then they eat the child’s pets… “Not believable” is spot on.

The Dunroe Doctrine demands contradiction and inconsistency at every depredatory turn.

Bizarrely, since giving up most ultra-processed food I’ve been adding (sea) salt to everything with shameless abandon and my GP now tells my serum sodium levels are too low! “Eat more salt” she tells me. There may be more to this problem than we fully understand… #wato

Which preface to which primer on law has Kemi Badenoch glanced at?

The world treats Trump in the same way Polonius treated Hamlet. And we know how that ended…. (Even worse, Trump’s “antic disposition” may be full-blown real, whatever “method” appears to be in ’t.)

The presentation doesn’t even count as sophistry - it’s just plain bollocks.

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

If a certain man’s aspirin habit were to lead him suddenly to snuff it, would Starmer feel able to express a different view?

That’ll teach junk food companies for taking up precious space in the gambling advert break

Abandoning your lifelong intellectual and moral acuity must be an excruciating form of self-denial. Sayable truths are shrinking by the hour. Many Afghan women will empathise with Darren Jones’ plight here.

Abandoning your lifelong intellectual and moral acuity is a very curious form of self-denial.

Trump’s America behaving uncannily like Daleks: (As Wikipedia puts it: “xenophobic mutants…absent of any emotion other than hate…bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination of all other forms of life…”)

Bullies run rampant so long as decency keeps its head down. Shivering, cowardly, on the beach watching democracy being swept out to sea…

Starmer’s entire premiership seems to be an exercise in slowly, painfully, finding the courage to speak the blatant truth.

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Meanwhile, others are having a go:

Regime change could now happen *anywhere*. Imagine if a foreign power did a deal with members of a US administration and kidnapped Donald J Trump…

Political limbo dancing reaches its improbable, perhaps final, backwards-bending flourish. Good things can be “contrary to international law”.