The US can still win the World Cup if Donald Trump has the courage

Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal www.thetimes.com/article/aa2f...

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

We ALL do….🥺

At last! Well done Lisa Nandy

Operation 'manage expectations' executed perfectly. On to the next one #england

From the archive, 7 years ago. “Woke up, watched Grandstand. Wrote ‘Candle in the Wind’. Went to London, bought Rolls-Royce. Ringo Starr came for dinner.” #Top10 Diary Entries www.independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

Asap Burnham needs to introduce a new 'pensioner contract'. Remove the triple lock in return for reforming social care. Pensioners are the richest cohort in society but don't feel rich because of the looming prospect of care home draining all their wealth. There must be a social care solution >>

Needs to be done. Andy Burnham ‘should ditch pension triple lock’ — follow live www.thetimes.com/article/41c7...

Never fails to miss.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

They are all very deliberately ignoring the express wishes of Henry Nowak's family; the judge's sentencing report & the obvious, albeit brief, consequences of a crime being reported exclusively by a lying associate of the perpetrator. It may feel futile but this has to be repeated again & again.

He keeps on digging www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The World Cup is being hosted by three countries, but somehow only one made it feel like a parole hearing.

Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏

First rule when you're in a hole, stop digging. Nigel Farage’s £1.4m property claim ‘at odds with company accounts’ www.thetimes.com/article/3032...

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

#Burnham goes straight in as a strong number 2 in the Potential Party Leaders Papped Jogging Looking Demented chart. Hard to imagine BoJo ever losing the number 1 spot. Corbyn's down to 3 and Gove pushed out of the top 3.

If Wes Streeting is the answer, we've got the question wrong.

Good news #sheffield ! Our train station pitch is now open 7 days a week from 7am (7.30am Sundays) 🙌☕️. You deserve good coffee

ALWAYS start a train journey to London with a @motorecafe.bsky.social #Flatwhite - one of our amazing #Sheffield #independent #coffee setups #Motore

Politicians not being transparent is the reason for #Reform 's success. We all know where we stand with them- a £5M direct gift to leader and £22M to the party equals a change in policy to favour the payer. No ambiguity. Rate card available on request.

Someone explain Zia Usuf to me? A Muslim responsible of overseeing the vetting of #Reform candidates! Including a man who said "all mosques should be closed", another "Ismam is a cancer" & "Nigerians should be melted down". I remember when Frank Bruno was called an Uncle Tom for appearing in Panto!

Just watched BBC News have to spool through 17 party politicians from England, Scotland and Wales on election eve. Not the fault of my old colleagues but the antiquated Ofcom rules around election coverage- at a time when online is a wild west- have never seemed more ridiculous.

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I'd suggest there's something wrong with a vetting process whereby even if you fail, the people appointing you to a role can't be told.

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

You know what's really embarrassing about this conflict? Iran has a 90 percent literacy rate while 50 per cent of the US reads at the 6th grade level or below. Iran sent Phds to the ceasefire talks. The US sent realtors.

Good. The wreckers have been setting the agenda for too long.

Whilst I very much don’t want to look at everything globally through the lens of British political culture, I also want to point out that Matthew Goodwin was getting paid a lot of money by the Victor Orban led government and highly likely he won’t be from now on and that’s y’know very funny?

In summary..

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Tuesday

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Nurse! Middle East crisis live: Trump claims Iran ‘begging to make a deal’ and has let some tankers through strait as a ‘present’

They're openly mocking Trump. He's having a complete nightmare. Iran war latest: US ‘negotiating with itself’, Tehran claims www.thetimes.com/article/0b76...

I'm envious of anyone walking around blissfully unaware of the magnitude of the f**kup Trump has made with #Iran and the scale of the consequences. It will destroy him and his legacy (not so bad) and seriously damage most western economies.

Greg Bovino won’t just get to walk away — he will be held accountable and responsible for the damage he's done to our nation. We won’t forget, and neither should you. No one is above the law.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

For someone who used to be so populist savvy Farage is damaging his support with this hero worshipping. Trump is very unpopular with the voters he needs to win over, plus nobody thinks 'lapdog' is a good trait for a future prime minister.

It's a war crime, to go with the one in Venezuela. One day, this man must go to jail

"Real military commanders aren’t going 'woohoo, look how many people we killed today' - yet that was the tone of Hegseth yesterday." "It was, frankly, repellent." Is Pete Hegseth "revelling" in the deaths of Iranian sailors?

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Pete Hegseth, the most incompetent, corrupt, and viciously stupid Secretary of Defense in American history: "We didn't start the war we started; we're going to end the war we have no plan to end." This is all going swimmingly so far.

Reform now down to 23% despite the constant bluster. Who'd have thought hero worshipping Trump and becoming a care home for the most conniving Tories would lose them support.

It is a shame that Andrew's still 8th in line to the throne, but surely if we woke up to find the 7 ahead of him were all dead, including 5 children under the age of 12, the circumstances would be extraordinary enough to take stock of the situation before crowning the next in line?

Obama on Trump's antics, including posting a video depicting him and Michelle as apes: "It's important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling. It is true that it gets attention. It's true that it's a distraction ... people still believe in decency"

DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...