Today's reminder that the world is trying to survive a completely rogue US administration, which is absolutely not the same as it making a new world order, so much as simply leaving wreckage all around.

Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person."

Will someone tell grandpa that NATO doesn't own Greenland?

I agree. You cannot put nuclear weapons in the hands of insane dictators. For the sake of us all, will someone get the impeachment ball rolling please?

President Trump insults the UK, again, "We don't want another Neville Chamberlain" i.e. weak leadership and appeasement

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Imagine claiming to be a Christian, waking up on Easter Sunday, and tweeting this. 25th Amendment now!

I’m reminded of Churchill: ‘We shall f*cking fight those bastards on the f*cking beaches, we shall fight on the f*cking landing f*cking grounds, we shall fight in the f*cking fields & in the f*cking streets,we shall fight in the f*cking hills; we shall never f*cking surrender.’

The front page of a national UK newspaper today that traditionally always supported the special UK/USA relationship.

France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris. German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.

And there it is. That's why we left X.

Absolutely this. What Trump and Netanyahu have done is encourage ongoing violence for the next generations to come. You would have thought they will learn from history.

Orbán has swept all before him for 16 years. But now his authoritarian facade is crumbling –and a challenger is offering a hope we had all but abandoned. With six days until the critical election, novelist Krisztián Marton on the mix of immense hope and looming fear gripping young people in Hungary

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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Trump’s chaotic war on Iran has dragged into its sixth week because he is fighting an adversary he doesn’t understand | Nesrine Malik

American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2

Ludicrous that UK Govt still planning to send King Charles on a state visit to a totally deranged tyrant! What more will it take to cancel the visit?!

Farage: “A lot of the members of the president's cabinet are friends of mine, and many of them long-term friends.” Well, how about calling them now, Nige, and having a little word… (The Times)

The bravest man Nigel Farage has ever met…

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Looks like Orban’s Russia-backed false flag operation could be underway to lead to the cancelling of the Hungarian elections. Predicted recently. Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić has informed Orban of “explosives of devastating power” found at the gas pipeline connecting the two countries. 1/2

Just a deeply unpleasant man.

“EVERYONE DIES ANYWAY” CRISIS MODE FARAGE Farage scrambles after Grenfell gaffe explodes — back to his usual “I don’t know anyone in my party” routine. #UKPolitics

🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.

This is what the draft‑dodging, slurring, wobbling lunatic is posting on TruthOptional™️.

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Incredible that no one picked that up, unless of course it was deliberate. That headline loses the punch once corrected.

Emanuel Macron: “We can’t fix the situation just through bombings or military operations. Twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that such approaches deliver nothing.”

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

Speculation Miliband will approve drilling new oil and gas field 'unfounded' government says news.sky.com/story/specul...

NEWS: Iran has rejected all U.S. demands as “unacceptable” and refused to meet American officials in Islamabad, mediators say. Regional ceasefire efforts led by Pakistan have now hit a dead end.

I don't know their names. But I know exactly who they are. A pilot and a WSO are on the ground in Iran today. I wrote about what that means — and why America doesn't leave its people behind. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The leader of the Reform Party and prospective future Prime Minister has decided it is no longer appropriate to say on camera whatever someone asks you to say in return for a surprisingly small amount of money. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Artemis II is a thing of beauty open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

Inaccurate election bar charts are nothing new. But when we challenged a Reform spokesman on the numbers didn’t apologise or plead mathematical incompetence; he openly admitted that the misleading bar chart was a deliberate tactic. Read about it here:

If I ever do want lessons on what the public interest looks like I'm pretty sure I won't take them from a thin skinned, self interested, tax avoiding, Brexit supporting, billionaire.

Even Farage can no longer deny it!

Lots of positive stories here of people saving a fortune on energy bills Also lots of Qs from people who understandably can't afford upfront costs There are 7 options I can find to get around this. 5 are available now, 2 are on their way Since I'm becoming a bit of a solar evangelist, here you go

Reform UK is having a gradual Conservatives policy transplant. Jenrick, Braverman, Kruger, Rosindell and Pochin are all making their mark. Reform UK has no distinct identity.

On what would have been her 100th birthday, German mail remembers Queen Elizabeth II with a special stamp. A very sweet image & an even sweeter wet stamp to match. Royalist or not, I think we can all like this. And no, Royal Mail, pls don't feel obliged to return the favour with one of Merz. 😉

MacFarlane: What do you think is Bondi’s legacy? Raskin: She leaves a legacy of absolute sycophancy and invertebrate servitude to Donald Trump. What a terrible way to squander your reputation as a lawyer and to essentially ruin a legal career that I understand was once promising.

According to the Times:

Consider the opportunity costs of the war in Iran. The missiles might have been sent to Ukraine, to end that war. The money might have bought healthcare for Americans. The attention of Europe and Asia might have been focused on countering Russia and China, not re-opening the Strait of Hormuz

The US Department of War Crimes.

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Dear Christian, If you’re demanding that the Ten Commandments be put up in public schools, but you’re not holding this president or his administration accountable to a single one of them, please don’t act like you actually take them seriously.

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