It should not be *hypothesising* any effects it doesn't have good basis for.

Is it too much to expect the national public broadcaster to be capable of reporting on one of the consistently most salient political issues in an informed way?

Jordan has evacuated King Hussein International Airport and Aqaba seaport due to a security threat, the US Embassy says.

Even The Spectator. “being cursed with vision, hearing and sanity meant enduring an event that made Truss’s premiership look like a model of tact and foresight.” Attendance at the Far Right CPAC was described as the equivalent of “the attendance at a paedophile’s funeral”.

Had no interest in the third place game. Thought I'd just watch the first 10 minutes... and here we are. Absolutely amazing.

Sophie says thanks Theo. It's taken you all this time to get dad to sound half decent on the piano. I don't need to hide now. Shall we have snacks now 🤣🩷🐾

Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones is very sophisticated but not all of her ardent fans appreciate Elvis, dear #sophiefromromania.

NEWS:Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, dog activist, said when interviewed “at first moi thought Theo’s choice de la musique was naff. Qui is Elvis? Moi thinks ‘Tu Ain’t Nothin’ Mais Un Hound Chien’ is anti-chien! Mais maintenant moi understands that Theo knows beaucoup de super chansons about les chiens.”

This is wild because it is one area the Tories can boast about as they drove electrification of the grid!

This war would be absurd enough without Pete Hegseth but he takes it to the next level.

After this, Argentina-Spain will be 0-0 after 120 minutes then penalties.

Is there no end to Farage’s dodgy funding arrangements? Apparently not. He thinks rules are only for the little people.

Morning, Matt Goodwn.

That's a sell signal if ever there was one.

How have there only been seven goals in this match?

Well for a game I wasn't even planning to watch that was a lot of fun.

I see that David Campbell Bannerman – a Conservative who defected to UKIP, then redefected to the Conservatives again – has now defected to Reform (just as it's getting into trouble). A rare idiot-weathervane.

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta ignore the third-place playoff"

We want eight. We want eight.

Obviously England were so appalled by the thought of receiving the trophy from Donald Trump that they deliberately threw their semi final.

Great thread.

Very good point on how the simplistic Trumpers misunderstand international relations.

I really don't buy the theory that moving Mahmood to the Treasury is a cunning game of 3D chess to marginalise her... or something. No, it's a mad decision. And this is the first real straw in the wind suggesting that's correct. bsky.app/profile/adam...

And read today's post on the worsening situation over the Strait ot Hormuz which could make Burnham's first six months even harder. bsky.app/profile/samf...

What is this if not foreign interference in UK democracy? There's an Elections Bill going through parliament. Time for an amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, smart girl, said when interviewed “ma mère is très excited about le Festival de concerts-promenades, mon père was excited about la Coupe de Monde. Ma mère is une intellectualiste, mon père is plus un athlète. He scores in le foot walky walkies comme Monsieur Messi.”

I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.

I've done that. Reform's is arguably further right. Restore's definitely is.

I'd rather no one raised it in the first place but when people talk that I think it's valid to highlight the extent to which it's pyschological projection. Like Hitler and Himmler talking about perfect Aryan physiques.

He's not vile because of how he looks but he is a hypocrite when he attacks others for not looking normal.

Ooh.

This is outrageous.

The US is a predatory adversary trying to undermine our democracy and wreck our politics. I wish politicians here would call it out so that voters can be informed and face up to the hard choices that we have to make to respond. In trade, procurement, military and intelligence cooperation.

Yes, as he made pretty clear in his post match interview. But isn’t his job as manager/coach to tell the team to change tactics? This is a genuine question not a rhetorical one. I really wonder what is the right approach: strengthen the decision taken on the pitch or tell his players they are wrong?

If they're too knackered to play any other way you don't have much choice.

The Conservatives and Labour were so dominant in the C20th because they built large coalitions of support. They've spent much of the last decade turning the flamethrower on anyone outside the dominant faction. And they wonder why they're struggling to hit 20%. conservativehome.com/2026/07/14/k...

Badenoch: "Does he not agree that what the country deserves is a televised debate between Nigel Farage and Count Binface?" Starmer: "My advice to everyone is: put your vote in the bin."

Oh I agree with that - the "traders think X" crap is getting on my nervies. I was just responding to James.

Yes but it's coming from people with some claim to speak for him because it's all a bit chaotic.

The increasingly public fight about whether Miliband should be chancellor is indicative of a Burnham operation that is currently somewhat chaotic with a lot of people claiming to be working with him / speaking for him.

I think energy transition is and was always going to be politically hard but when it’s coupled with very high living costs and low growth, it becomes politically untenable if you don’t make the argument well enough to take people with you.

I will never understand anti net zero. The realistic concept for low cost, enviromentally friendly abundent energy should be enough for any society to make a breakneck drive towards, let alone the whole 'planet on fire' thing. The arguements were won years ago, and yet

It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

If Argentina beat us then Cabo Verde will have held both world cup finalists to a draw in normal time.

Going to be in Bilbao for the final. That'll be interesting.

Kind of annoying that the commentary team think all the French players suddenly lost form rather than Spain coming up with a system that neutralised them.

Bless him…. How long till he goes grey…? My bet is, within 12 months. Not a job I’d want.

Screeching 180 from Trump on the 20% Strait of Hormuz toll after the entire world told him he was a fukn idiot. And those trade and investment deals (which is his get out)? Never going to happen.

Musk's xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to power its Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee. The turbines can be heard round the clock and residents can’t do anything about it.

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