Another day, another abuse of power from the Trump administration.

If only European governments had had this kind of foresight and done some planning. This Is Not China’s War, but Beijing Started Preparing for It Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Sadly, I think @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com is right. I can totally imagine an aging, desperate Trump deciding to “go out” in a “blaze of glory”. I wrote exactly that here that the nuclear taboo was another core element of world order which Trump is upending bylinetimes.com/2026/03/20/t...

Everyone should be very worried by the rightwing take over of mainstream media in the U.S. Must-read article from Oligarch Watch open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

Colin Powell told George Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war: "You break it, you own it". Trump's Iran message to allies in Asia and beyond is: "I break it, you own it". Good Evan Feigenbaum on how Trump's war could prove a disaster for US Indo-Pacific ambitions carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

Wonderful read. Inspirational story about a man who never gave up chasing his dreams. From self-taught racer to founder of ZXMOTO, Zhang's journey serves as an inspiration for Chinese firms aiming to get a foothold in high-performance motorcycle manufacturing. www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-03/i...

"War is not a game show; peace making is not a real estate deal; the world is not a casino”, UN official tells Trump. About time someone told that orange buffoon but shame governments are only now standing up to him. It's too late - the damage has been done www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

PM of Poland

So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...

We study NHS GP practice closures in England: nearly 1,700 practices closed since 2013, directly affecting 600k+ patients. Using a staggered DID design, we find that closures reduce patient satisfaction AND increase support for populist right parties (UKIP, Brexit Party, Reform UK) by 2–4pp.

Many More Should Have Also Been Prosecuted….

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to people briefed on the discussions. www.ft.com/content/d304...

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

UK growers warn of cucumber and tomato shortages as gas prices surge ft.trib.al/2v3GZk2

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week. Is it time the NHS did the same? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

The answer to this is to overhaul our unfair tax system to make it more progressive, and close loopholes that allow the wealthy and the financial sector to pay less tax

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people will have their benefit almost halved if the government assesses their condition might one day improve. Charities warn the move could cause large-scale hardship, including “destitution.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is terrifying. They will get slaughtered by Iran

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome. And here, this is especially welcome. This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all. www.ft.com/content/2d2b...

Kemi Badenoch on the Laura Kuenssberg show is doing a great job of pretending oil and gas from the North Sea will be 'ours' and will bring bills down and increase energy security. Rather than be sold on the global market and be mainly exported.

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to join a massive “No Kings” demonstration against Donald Trump, which organisers promoted as “the largest day of protest in US history”. ft.trib.al/mZDgCS2

Donald Trump’s willingness to attack adversaries while rattling allies is threatening to push the world into a new nuclear age. Now governments are debating more publicly than before whether they, too, must get the bomb. Read more: bloom.bg/4bCpZbY 📷️: Stefanie Hauck/US Navy

Interesting: BBC mobile app has a report about the #NoKings protests in the U.S. on its front page but still no report about the massive anti-far-right protest in London yesterday. Funny that. No Kings protesters across the US rally against Donald Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Agathe Demarais for ECFR: Why China, not Russia, could be the real winner of the Iran war – ‘With the Gulf and Iran now out of the equation, Moscow’s reliance on Beijing could deepen.’

President Trump, "I always like to hang around with losers because it makes me feel better" "I hate guys that are very very successful" "I'm only kidding - I want to say that" "Meh, sort of"

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

The scandal of Reform in local government isn't just these multiple cases of racism, it's the multiple examples of incompetence. And they're linked: because they wrongly ascribe every problem in the UK to immigration (& associated wokeism), they can't provide solutions to those problems.

Everybody is getting enraged about a fake disability claimant who had to repay £23,000 The billionaires in the UK under pay £32,000,000,000 of tax every year £23,000 is 22 seconds of the tax they avoid In the time you read this Tweet they stole more, and they never pay it back

Here is a quick masterclass on how to maintain a blatant lie even when directly confronted with the truth.

Nigel Farage is undermining democracy, not promoting or protecting democracy, when he loudly alleges fraud every time he loses a constituency where there are any visible Asian voters, yet has NEVER once actually brought any evidence to any authority of his allegations, despite OFTEN saying he will

Absolutely spot on here from Jane Martinson in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interesting and rather forceful comments from China’s foreign minister. just boilerplate diplomacy? or a sign of growing concern about the impact of the war on the global economy, which China won’t be able escape even if it’s not as badly hit as other economies. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A really depressing read from Li Yuan but this is also happening in the UK. Laid Off in Midlife, China’s Reform Generation Braces for Downward Mobility www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/b...

EXC: Reform UK may have broken data privacy laws with its energy bills lottery, lawyers say. To enter, you are asked how you voted at the last election and how you will vote at the next one. But this has nothing to do with entering a competition… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As President Trump redefines world order, might China’s Communist Party benefit the most? If you’ll be in London on Monday, March 30, please join me for a special Frontline Club conversation with Robin Brant and Yu Jie where we’ll address that and other existential geopolitical questions.

Finding BBC and #r4today analysis of Trump’s insults of Starmer to be bizarre. Why are we even considering what Trump said? It’s meaningless. Genuinely. Not even Trump knows what he means. The story is - Starmer stood firm and acted in the national interest. Trump threw some toys out of his pram.

Reuters: EU sanctions Chinese and Iranian companies for cyber attacks – ‘China-based Integrity Technology ​Group and Anxun Information ​Technology’ ‘Anxun is seen to have provided ​hacking services aimed at critical ​infrastructure, […]. Two co-founders of ‌Anxun ⁠have also been individually listed’

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry 👇

wait is he going to delay the meeting until Xi sends the PLAN to work alongside the US Navy??? i'm fucking dying

Two weeks into the war, this is the bottom line: The Strait of Hormuz has *become* the objective. Trump has lost control, to the point where the closure of the Strait & its global economic implications have overtaken all the boastful goals of regime change or destroying the Iranian missile arsenal

With almost every passing hour Tony Blair’s calls for U.K. - and Starmer - to fully commit to US and Israel’s war in Iran looks more deranged

So Farage regrets move to run bankrupt council does he. Reform crumbles at the first hurdle. And he wants to run the country … www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)