Russian MFA will say you can't illegally attack a country and capture its leader for a bullshit reason.

Trump: putin says Ukraine attacked his house. Ukraine, you should not attack a dictator’s house A few moments later Trump: I’m very proud to announce the US has attacked dictator Maduro’s house and arrested him

India's ministry of technology has given X 72 hours to report on the action taken to comply with its legal obligations in India over obscene & nonconsensual imagery www.ndtv.com/india-news/i...

Actually heard a Labour peer on the radio deploy the words "the civil service tricked the government into cutting winter fuel payments". Excuse generation is reaching new and dizzy heights.

This is your occasional reminder that there is no way out of this without unpacking SCOTUS.

Having a customs union relationship with the EU is not a great first step. Joining the single market could be a different matter but it seems no one, not even the Libdems, can talk about that because of freedom of movement. Yep, we're still stuck.

The reasons for Marco Rubio selling his soul to the Trump cause lie in the smoking ruins in Caracas today and Havana tomorrow

Maybe Trump thinks he can claim the $50 million reward for capturing President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela? 🤔

Anglophone BlueSky is like “this is a lawless and unprecedented U.S. administration” and Spanish-language media is just “The Gringos are at it again”.

If you're also getting the wife of a dictator out of the country, that's not a decapitation strike, it's a managed transfer of power

Interesting how much more competent the US forces are vs Russian

Of course it's worth bearing in mind that the USA has got form here, namely the invasions of Granada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. Not to mention Chile.... U.S. invasion of Grenada share.google/7olHJhiidukv... Inside the US invasion of Panama www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-l...

Days like this are a stark reminder that the UK undertook Brexit at historically the worst possible moment. Bloc politics is here to stay and fiddlearsing about with 2mm advances towards smoother customs arrangements with the EU is not the leadership Britain needs.

The euro-kids downstair are glued to the BBC because even in their crazy coming of age years they've not seen anything this mad, & don't trust SM. We're the comparing US invasions of the Americas of our early adulthood & concluding that this is by far madder & scarier than the maddest & scariest.

Another misplaced attack on the OBR. The government dictates fiscal policy, not the OBR. That includes the OBR's mandate and the fiscal rules. The fundamental problem is a weak fiscal position, which requires tough choices on tax and spend

"How did you hear the news?"

Maduro goes the way of Noriega This isnt new folks - US did this in Panama under Bush Senior but we’ve memory holed it It’s not just Trump!

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Excellent from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on Venezuela and how this will inevitably also suck in Cuba substack.com/@phillipspob...

“No more foreign wars”

Michael Gove admits regret at turning on Boris Johnson. Gove flies a new Brexit fairy tale: if he’d not turned on Boris, he could have made Brexit work (defying the laws of economics, we presume). What a conceited awful man he is.

Kharkiv right now ‼️

Just as a matter of record here, this is just a lie isn’t it? I do not believe this version of events, and I am not saying that to defend this government (who I have broadly written off), I just don’t believe this happened

One thing that the government could do easily and simply is withdraw from X. There’s no downside.

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Mariangela Hungria developed a bacteria fertilizer that saves farmers about $25 billion and prevents 54 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions every year.

Afternoon.

It’s crazy the UK has not yet rejoined the EU's roaming area. Another example of us being left behind

The aggregated map with all Russian air attacks which occurred in 2025. Russia launched a record number of missiles and drones into Ukraine, making clear that Putin has no intention in peace. All while Trump is in office.

“Housing developers in this country have a track record of pushing back against requirements that enhance energy performance of homes. We have seen this with insulation, heat pumps and other technologies. Ultimately, it will be to the detriment of the homebuyer.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agree with this. What we are confronted with is 40 years of deliberate degradation of state capacity. In certain areas may have been justified/beneficial. But in too many it was neither and simply ideological. And irony is cheerleaders then are often complainers now re nothing working.

Which tbh just sounds like cakeist gibberish

Housebuilders have been lobbying against the inclusion of batteries which would cost an estimated £2,000-5,000 for each new home but... savings on an average 3-bed, semi-detached home from a heat pump, solar panels and batteries would be roughly £1,350 a year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m sure it’s all the fault of immigrants Or people with lanyards

This is just such a damned disgrace. A crime against knowledge and humanity itself.

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:

NYT: Hegseth demanded the resignation of the commander of U.S. forces in Europe and NATO, General Christopher Cavoli, who stated in a declaration submitted to the Senate committee in April that Russia poses a "chronic" and "growing" threat

Remember when he was done with Republicans forever and starting his own party? A few months ago?

France chooses European for its AWACS needs www.saab.com/newsroom/pre...

Europe is reportedly preparing to send up to 15,000 troops to Ukraine to oversee a potential ceasefire, according to WELT. France and the UK are ready to deploy without a UN or EU mandate, Kyiv’s invitation would suffice. Turkey is expected to take responsibility for the Black Sea region.

I wonder which subjects it is that Yarvin thinks only Hitler spoke the truth about…

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They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Ofcom’s refusal to hold GB News to account is now simply embarrassing isn’t it? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

The relentless outpouring of stuff like this is bound to have an impact on public opinion.

Personally find it rather odd El-Fattah is not facing investigation/prosecution à la Connolly

Gone full Neil Oliver No wonder he had to leave Radcliffe Chambers

🇩🇪 Merz: We are not victims of external circumstances. We are not a plaything of great powers. Our hands are not tied. Let us not listen to the fearmongers and the doomsayers.

President Trump, as always, believes Vladimir Putin more than his own intelligence services. It’s apparent there was no Ukrainian attack on Putin’s residence. I’ll refrain from saying more.

The public are nowhere near as consumed with anti-immigrant hatred as the political class believe, but if only one side is making an argument (and has most of the press onside and sets the agenda for the broadcasters) then what do you expect? www.ippr.org/articles/the...