On my drunkest night as a young sailor in a foreign port of call...I was able to speak more clearly than Donald Trump.

Everyday covering politics is like marinating in sewage

Trump is not the only unhinged American

Folks are saying "With Trump's insane speech at the UN, he has hit rock bottom. This is false. With Trump, there is no rock bottom. There is just how much further he travels down the bottomless pit.

If Richard Burgon isn’t in the right party, then neither is Keir Starmer. The real issue right now is that Labour, despite holding a huge majority, is letting a party with four MPs call the shots. Starmer needs to stop pandering and start standing up for democracy and liberal values. #r4today

Oh look, the fascist march in London descended into violence. Who could have predicted such a thing?

146th mass shooting this year according to news. A society which doesn't address this is sick.

WHEN HEADLINES SAY "SCHOOL SHOOTING" WE SHOULD ALL FEEL COLLECTIVE SHAME AND RAGE. KIDS DESERVE BOOKS AND PLAYGROUNDS, NOT BULLETPROOF BACKPACKS. IT IS PAST TIME FOR BOLD GUN REFORM AND INVESTMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

Does anyone know how you verify age? I keep coming to a screen which says place your face in the window. How do i do that? I mean it's a bit small!

The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)

UK ruiners tour: from Tufton Street to Russian embassy, ending at Farage’s Brussels flat and Johnson’s Oxford palace. #ukpolitics

'Top' universities are exclusive. WTF would you expect.

"An incompetent way to pursue peace in Ukraine" - strongly worded FT Editorial www.ft.com/content/0226...

Hey American people, he's rolling out the national guard in more cities this week by the look of this rant.

This is so important. Everyone should have access to education and it should be free for all.

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

Graph of British Rivers

For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD. Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.

Don't trust any of them Rogan, Jones, Muskrat, Bannon

A new mural has been unveiled in the French city of Roubaix to mark #July4th. (🎨 Judith de Leeuw)

you can't talk about MAGA and its Gilded Age revival without talking about slavery (and nostalgia for the imagined chivalry of the antebellum planter aristocracy and its enabling squirearchy)

An important point to remember is that you can be openly biased against people, & also completely correct. I am openly biased against fascists and tankies. I have experienced their drivel for long enough to know it will never be worth taking seriously, & will always be dangerous to other people.

I've reached an age where I don't really care what aged pop minstrels say in interviews. I doubt Stewart has much of a nuanced grasp on politics and anyway why should some octogenarian rock dinosaur be a lightning Rod for public thinking on Nigel Farage?

I had high expectations for the PBS documentary on Hannah Arendt, which premiered last night. www.pbs.org/wnet/america... They were exceeded. "Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny" excelled in doing just what the title says. Facing it. If you watched last night, feel free to share your reactions.

While it's disappointing to hear that Rod Stewart supports divisive gobshite Nigel Farage, it's very good of him to announce it just in time to be told to fuck off by 200,000 people at Glastonbury.

Labour are now MORE Tory, than the Conservatives are!

Does Starmer need a dictionary? Does he know what 'moral' means?

Thinks most of Europe is as stupid as he is. In reality these places have functioning political systems.

🚨 “Not For EU” Label. Check your asparagus. 🇲🇽 Mexican asparagus in @sainsburys may be grown with pesticides banned in the EU, including carbofuran and paraquat. 🥵 No EU label = No EU safety standards. 🇬🇧 Post-Brexit, UK rules are weaker. 🧪 Lower testing. Less traceability. More risk.

Disgraceful- "the BBC is going out of its way to appease Farage. New reporting shows that top BBC executives met earlier this year to discuss plans to tailor both news and cultural content to appeal to Reform UK voters. No other political party was given that kind of attention – just Farage.

Our idiot in chief continues to lower the bar. Now, he appears to confuse the Revolutionary War with the Civil War www.rawstory.com/trump-war-26...

FACT - The JCPOA negotiated by Obama in 2015: Reduced Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium Limited the number of centrifuges International monitoring of nuclear facilities. In 2018, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement. People are dead in this "crisis" because of Trump.

@llafur.bsky.social @neilevanshistory.bsky.social

Correct, Harvard today the rest of the universities tomorrow

Really enjoyed speaking with Dr Elin Jones about Minnie Pallister at the excellent Llandeilo Literature Festival yesterday. A memorable day

Tessa Marshall from the Wales Green Party added: “Child poverty in Wales is not the result of bad choices – it’s decades of underinvestment and decisions made far from communities like ours. An independent Wales can stand for children, end hunger & cold homes, & fund a decent start to life.” ✊💚

To the British government I say. You should be ashamed trying to get a trade deal with that regime, never mind offering a second state visit.

Israel bombed a Baptist hospital in Gaza on Palm Sunday.

In Jim Crow America, black Americans would hold 'indignation meetings' where they got together behind 'locked doors and cursed out white people...just [to] let off steam...because they couldn't contain themselves from the injustice that had been done.'

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

As Prime Minister I will always act in the national interest. Port Talbot not in the national interest (Wales) Grangemouth not in the national interest (Scotland) Gave Ineos £600m to open plant in Belgium Scunthorpe that’s in the national interest (England) National Interest = ENGLAND UK MAP

I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

Damn it, Daniel!

When I was in 9th grade the coach told me my sweater made me look gay. I replied that was good, as I was trying to get his wife to leave me alone. And that's the real reason why I failed gym.