“You guys just got to the last page?”

This is David Marsh. He went to my old school. He is one of the small number of European troops who went to Afghanistan and never did much nor went to the front line according to Donald Trump. He died in 2008 aged 23 in Afghanistan when the patrol car he was in was blown up in Helmand Province.

If this user is British, surely there must be a way he can be prosecuted in this country. This really cannot go on, it is horrific.

No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

Can someone unplug & not plug back in my president, please? He seems to be glitching again. I suppose that’s what we get for buying a Russian model

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. “As the name suggests, it is used only once, making it effectively impossible to crack.”

Mark Carney’s not going to fuck you

A view on the US from Greenland: “We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. We would not sell ourselves. We know what happened to Indigenous people in Alaska and Native Americans. Their land was taken, and they were not treated well.”

The US backed the Chagos Islands deal last year. The news today, if it can even be called news, is that deals with the current administration aren’t worth very much.

He’s basically Idi Amin with a nuclear arsenal isn’t he? 🤦‍♀️

I would like just one day where I wake up and the Americans havent made it worse overnight

The world knows the US is being run by a madman.An immature, hateful, greedy, racist, in fact. The saddest part is we do not have a single branch of government functioning in the people's interest. The world's once great democracy is no more. It is our struggle to get control and rebuild.

They're good questions. I think re Russia, the answer is just "yes". With America, the answer is less "are we getting ready to fight America" and more "we need to invest to ensure our military and intelligence can operate as independently of America as possible"

A date for everyone's diary. USA vs Denmark. Feb 14th. Mens Ice Hockey

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

The choice was because he hates Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz Its never strategic. Its always vendetta and revenge.

The only U.S. heavy icebreaker turns 50. That's an interesting landmark given recent U.S. criticism of other countries for not taking Arctic security seriously.

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it. All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow. WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.

You've got to admit he's good at distracting everyone from the Epstien files, which he is clearly in big time. Up to his weird neck. Look, Greenland! Look Venezuela! Look, Minneapolis! I haven't forgotten about the Epstien files, have you?

This is like the 10,000th thing wrong here but threatening Denmark because the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee didn't select you is like bombing Canada because you didn't win an Oscar

The Epstein files

Imagine being the first ever citizen of Greenland to go into bankruptcy from medical debt.

Useful thread

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

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Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Are you saying that if I steal one of Tiger's Green Jackets I didn't win the Masters?

When you 'telling the truth' is such a novel concept you feel you have to announce it in advance

Multiple injuries reported in central London as Alistair Campbell stampedes to the studio to record an 🚨EMERGENCY PODCAST🚨

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

I am begging Starmer to be a sensible boring centrist who makes hard compromises and gets things done. But he’s not, while having the charisma of someone who is.

always good to see a government cracking down on degenerate art

sauvignon bloc

This is incredible. I had never even considered what the German stock market did during WW2.

Very heavy cormorant

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

A headline for the ages www.politico.eu/article/fran...

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

My god that must be a hot ladder.

It shouldn’t be the BBC’s job to be balanced (“and now, after the truth, here are some lies) … it should be the BBC’s job to search out, and tell, the fucking truth.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Renee Nicole Good was shot in self-defence in the same way that people who oppose Putin keep falling out of windows.

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

Later, Edna was forced to sell her Brussels sprout house.

Bradford City v Brentford at Valley Parade, FA Cup third round 12 January 1955 📸 Northcliffe Collection

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

Badenoch always has to be sneery and rude, doesn’t she? About as far away from a statesperson as it’s possible to be. Just a bolshy article with nothing decent to say.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.