It’s fascinating to see the hardening of language by the UK government against the Trump war: Rachel Reeves has dubbed the US-Israeli war in Iran as “folly”. The chancellor said “no sensible person” supported the Iranian regime but directly criticises Washington for its lack of strategic aims.

I'm always wondering the same thing

The FT careers advice section is getting pretty wide ranging these days www.ft.com/content/fdab...

strong message

We've finally found a real-life crisis actor!

Fascinated by the implication that £200/night for a family holiday is outrageous luxury living

This sounds bad but I read somewhere that you can only reach Christopher Walken by fax so these trusts are well placed in that regard.

Why Vance is losing his cage fight with Rubio. My column. www.ft.com/content/6354...

Ed Davey reading your bloots

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

something, something, private member's, something, something

come for the pic, stay for the fascinating back story of the new non-exec director at Stack BTC, a vErY sErIoUs BiTcOiN tReAsUrY cOmPaNy that Kwasi Kwarteng and Nigel Farage are involved in as.ft.com/r/fd1c0c9b-c...

“Women”

I rest my case

Very much agree with this - there were some terrible recessions in the 80s but we had Duran Duran

I've been thinking very deeply about what Lord Robertson has said in context of the whole debate surrounding Defence / Welfare and have come to the conclusion that our only sensible way forward is to send grandma to the front. Triple locked and loaded if you will.

Ballet dancer and Ukrainian refugee Kateryna Andrushyna, Wales, photo by Joann Randles.

Watching the New Yorker pod on Sam Altman and getting distracted by the editor's resemblance to Al from Married With Children www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGU7...

"alright lads, anyone up for a leadership election"

Seems a good day to remember that, in his book An Intelligent Person's Guide To Modern Culture, Hungary's favourite right-wing thinker Roger Scruton implied that the Pet Shop Boys made a 'minimal contribution' to their own records. They successfully sued him for libel. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enterta...

Bit better

Matt Goodwin’s sitting on his own in a Scruton cafe crying like a little girl and you’re laughing?

Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-d...

Trump will never forgive him

JD stands for Jonah Dilbert pass it on

2010: massive Orbán win 2014: massive Orban win 2018: massive Orban win 2022: massive Orban win 2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime 2026:

Might pop over to the everything app to see how they're taking the Hungary news

Ok who’s next for the JD kiss of death

due to Dead

Scientists have been working very hard and have finally achieved what many thought impossible: a Mail Online comments section defending a Labour MP.

Leslie Ash was a trailblazer (prove me wrong)

I've just got off the phone with the DPP and long story short, anyone posting a "u ok Hun" bloot about the election's getting deported.

Hello, running a half marathon later in the year to raise money for Crisis, the homelessness charity. Grateful for any and all donations 🙏🏻 www.justgiving.com/page/ailbhe-...

One for fellow Janeites.

Charles Dance is by far the best thing in the BBC's Bleak House. Menacing, sinister, magnificent. The whole thing has an incredible cast (tip of the hat to @generalboles.bsky.social for first noticing).

Sometimes, one card is all you need…

We now spend 24.8% of our working week in meetings in the UK. Up from 19.3% pre-Covid. Talking about work, rather working. How did this happen? And can we do it better? 🧵1/

🎶 My man is smooth like Barry and his voice got bass A body like Arnold with a Denzel face 🎶 Whatta Man by Salt-N-Pepa feat. En-Vogue sets unrealistic expectations for male romantic partners. In this essay I will........

I’m too naive to be PM, Andy Burnham says www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The man who went up a hill and came down wishing he’d stayed on the flat

We've reached the geopolitical equivalent of my mum's approach to the family Speak & Spell "if you can't share it neither of you get to use it" #StraitOfHormuz

*me going through the London Landmarks 1/2 Marathon celeb finish times* "yeah I'd beat him, and him, and her" www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

Mr Gorbachev, I’m building my own wall.

Done a version of this joke before but *taps mic* If I had a dollar for every time that an American administration featuring somebody with the name “Robert F Kennedy” did a naval blockade I’d only have two dollars but it is weird it’s happened twice

This is what I was helping with at the City Ground yesterday... more pics as I see them (I'm not there today for the game).

Piracy's back baby, aaaarrrrrrrggghhhh

"I'm beginning to think that Donald Trump was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was"

Has Iran just successfully outsourced it's blockade to the US navy for free?