Ps interview with President Zelensky 6pm today uk time

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social QandA - is NATO finished? Is Orban finished? Do the right use history better than the left? Why the tech bros misread Lord of the rings. And with Rory away and Dominic S stepping in we have a rare TRIP chat on football podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Extraordinary. (Douglas Murray and Tim Montgomerie also mentioned in this article.)

You may wonder why the Europeans aren't responding more forcefully to JD Vance in Budapest 1/ Because Orban looks set to lose & any EU intervention could be counterproductive 2/ Because the US is so far beyond the pale - Greenland, Iran, Ukraine etc. The EU is quietly moving on

Tree of the Day. Any of them

With @rorystewartfilm.bsky.social on holiday my thanks to Dominic Sandbrook for stepping in for this week’s @therestpolitics.bsky.social - we focus mainly on Iran but also revisit our election night agreeable disagreement about whether Trump is a fascist podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Is Trump really a fascist? This week, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social is joined by The Rest is History's Dominic Sandbrook to reignite the US election night debate on fascism, and ask - who is winning the Iran War? Link in the replies 👇

Tree of the Day

Tree of the Day

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Labour MP Naz Shah. It is a shocking story yet inspiring too as she overcomes almost unimaginable family pain, violence and suffering on the road to a political career podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Dan Rather represents an era when journalism wasn't as polarized into political groups. I miss those days. 😭

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini-series out today. Talking to Labour MP @liambyrnemp.bsky.social about populism. Why the charismatic charlatans are winning and how to beat them. He has thought deeply about it. We all need to to get the world back on track. Wherever you get your podcasts

PM of Poland

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social QandA - is Cuba next up for Trump? What now for social media firms after massive court defeat? Putin or Netanyahu the bigger villain? How big a problem is Rupert Lowe for Farage? Books, films and more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - Trump’s delusion of omnipotence, Rory’s sense of US indifference to Iran war; plus crazy betting on war and why we need to get crypto out of our political funding even if it upsets Farage podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Some fine urban trees when out and about today. Tree of the Day pic 1 rain from top of No 1 bus … blends so well with the Ukraine flag colours or the nearby building

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Democrat Congresswoman Sarah McBride. Fascinating on life and politics in Trump’s America, with some tough words for her own party and historic back story as first trans Congresswoman- great to meet her podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Who would have think it? That Farage and Matt Badloss talked a lot of nonsense about being cheated when they just, er, lost? Wasting police time anyone ?

Here is the man I wrote about in this week’s @thenewworldmag.bsky.social - John Burton, who died recently aged 85. Tony Blair’s constituency agent and one of the best and kindest men you could ever meet. I think this picture was election day 1997. John was a big part of making it happen RIP

Terrific morning at Northampton Academy speaking to the students there and 7000 more online from sister schools. “My Culture” day so lots of flags/national dress. Tony Blair opened the school a while back but it still feels very new and modern. And I got my Tree of the Day in the library

From Epstein to bankruptcy, Trump’s avoided accountability. Jon and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social debate if his invincibility has limits.

Jon and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social look at the looming questions around Trump and Netanyahu’s plans for the Middle East.

Tree of the Day (the one of the left)

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social QandA - the right and Islamophobia dressed up as Christianity; anger at aid cuts; Labor landslide in South Australia; why we must not forget Ukraine amid Iran chaos; book recommendations and more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Wonder if some stuff might be going on that would explain this?

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the winners of Trump’s crazy was in Iran. Russia, Israel (for now) and USAinsider traders. Plus we discuss the abomination of a few members of the House of Lords killing the assisted dying bill podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Robert Burns surveys my Tree of the Day in a London park. Runner up from my friend Sonia in Lancs

So Weiwei also King of the Selfies

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Grim.

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

Obama will always be the better man.

King’s Cross blossoming. Team win for Tree of the Day

Here we go. 24 points to go !!! #utc

Tree of the Day

One week, three very special funerals. Alison Irvine, Chris Boffey and today Tony Blair constituency agent John Burton. TB delivered a wonderful eulogy to a wonderful man. Trimdon church surrounded by lovely trees and daffs. But Tree of the Day pic 4

Tree of the Day

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social Q and A in which @rorystewartfilm.bsky.social and I are joined by a real expert on Iran past present and future to answer your questions. Thank you Karim Sadjadpour podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Baum des Tages. Vienna

Seating plan at UEFA throws up World Cup final draw

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - folly of Trump war becomes clearer by the day. Plus two catastrophic failures of regulation closer to home. Water (thank you DIRTY BUSINESS TV show) and @ofcom.bsky.social chocolate teapot re @gbnewsonline.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Finnish President Alexander Stubb says Brexit was a “colossal mistake” “It’s like amputating your leg without medical reason for doing it”

Richard Tice thinks him being criticised for aggressively trying to avoid tax is some kind of evidence of British moral decay… …rather than his aggressive tax avoidance when he was (notionally) a public servant being the problem

Is corruption still a problem in Spain?

BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer answers questions from the public about the war in Iran

"We should have woken up, smelt the coffee" President Stubb on how Europe underestimated Putin's ambitions with the annexation of Crimea.

Tree of the day. The thin one in the middle

Attention BBC and Daily Mail newsdesks. It is being reliably reported that Reform UK MP Richard Tice dodged a £600,000 tax bill. Where's the media coverage?