You miss an important point, this chaos has enabled his cronies, family & those in the know to make millions through what is a giant insider trading scam. They always say, the best place to be a con man is the USA.

Reputably the best in Brussels. Do the pavement cafes in the square still allow you to eat your frites from Maison Antoine at their pavement tables ? Back on the Brussels run again soon.

If indeed he is, it's the old adage "He owes his elevation to the flatness of the surrounding terrain"

Trump can't explain what he's supposed to be doing today

"How much further to Rwanda, Dick ?"

Daily Mail headline "Farage demands SAS rescues tax dodging expats in Dubai"

Lager and crisps at Communion

US economic is so dangerously overdependent on military expenditure that it means permanent war.

I prefer retribution in this life

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Many of us don't need to "rededicate" ourselves, we never left our Labour principles, but were suspended, expelled, excluded, badmouthed, briefed against, kept off shortlists by Mandelson, MacSweeney & their like.

"Our Daily War" by Andrey Kurkow. open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...

Starmer Labour is so enmeshed in its obsessive tactical clever-clever manoeuvres that it's disappeared up its own proverbial & lost to a sensible, sincere working class Lancashire woman with the principles of "old" Labour.

What an irony, Labour thrashed by a sensible, spirited, practical working class Lancashire woman.

We live in an age of high cynicism.

"Our Daily War" by Andrey Kurkow. open.substack.com/pub/mhindley...

Good gracious, a human candidate who pronounces "done" as "dun" Good luck.

This should apply to Zarah Sultana, too, who was elected as Labour MP. I signed the Petition to Parliament to make it mandatory for all who switch parties to face a by-election.

If this really is being put out by Labour, this is an utter disgrace. Worse than the infamous Labour campaign against the LibDems in Littleborough & Saddleworth by-election in 1995 when they accused Lib Dem candidate Chris Davies of being soft on drugs.

Not least Starmer who persists with his "Make Brexit Better". I was one of many who campaigned for "Remain and reform the EU" in 2016 & now I campaign for "Rejoin and reform the EU"

Vote Green to give Labour a slap, is just wrong. It assumes a Green win in a by-election will somehow bring Labour back to being a progressive party. I agree with you often, but I think you misjudge the tectonic shift in UK politics. Let's see. Cheers

Too early to say that, Kresten. Orban is on his side & Slovakia wavering. Trump is certainly on Putin's side see my labourhub.org.uk/2025/12/18/t...

Meanwhile Scots fishermen complain about Brexit disrupting their exports to EU.

Is this the same Starmer, who crossed the floor to have a friendly chat to Farage not a hundred years ago ?

It's the job of the pundits/press etc to offer "unsolicited" advice. It can be better that the advice from Chief of Staff, MacSweeney, who advised Starmer to send the disgraced Mandelson to Washington & several other senior staff Starmer has sacked in a very short time.

Trump Declares Europe ‘Public Enemy Number One’ labourhub.org.uk/2025/12/18/t...

Every time I use an automatic ticket machine in France there's always someone, and it's often a French woman, or man struggling to buy a ticket. I anticipate with trepidation travelling in the Paris region next month.

Putin's strategy is simple & effective - to destroy the EU & that means keeping UK in Brexit mode & backing nationalists inside the EU. Trump now shares this strategy & intent. See my labourhub.org.uk/2025/12/18/t...

I've always thought Mandelson was a malign influence on the Labour Party & a shady character, but his swift fall is an old story. When such characters become an embarrassment, they're dropped by those who used & praised their talents. It's an old saying in politics "never kick a man until he's down"

Many people see Reform as a danger, Gordon Brown, but less and less people see Labour as the answer. Farage is making Labour's immigration & Europe policy.

So it may all come down to the potential for bijou resort apartments on the Caspian Sea Coast ?

I gave my talk on "Fair Trade, Free Trade, Tariffs & Trump" to a local Labour party in Red Wall territory. In the chat afterwards there was universal expression that Labour has no appeal to the young & that those with a spark of idealism are turning Green.

It's like the last days of an Empire, insider trading tips for cronies, grabbing everything which isn't nailed down, eat-drink-and-make-merry & find a bolt hole for life after the inevitable collapse.

A dazzling exhibition inside & out. Also, a brave decision by the Rijksmuseum to dedicate a section to the collaboration with the Nazi occupation and to expose, research & help return Nazi looted art.

Would Trump be able to stay awake ?

From a reliable source. Trump's first reaction to the SCOTUS tariff decision.

Shameful - a Labour government in a safe Labour seat, sinking to this level.

Farage is driving Labour's immigration policy, not Labour members, MPs or international human rights.

3. What to do about the world's most powerful military in the hands of an erratic, vicious, demented, megalomaniac ?

Great and Congrats. I'd offer a slight amendment. The bags are packed for Mar A Lago. But once again, great.Cheers, Andy B.

Back to Comintern in 1920s denouncing Social Democrats as Social Fascism and refusing a common front against the real fascists. The left's constant cry in "learn from history" yet they so seldom do.

This tactic has run out of credibility, like the first stones rolling down hill to become an avalanche.

You might consider the state sponsored criminal theft of Indian land. Then the state sponsored colonialisation of Cuba & Philippines posing as liberators from the Spanish rule

At end of WW2 British military occupied Saigon & used Japanese POWs to control protests for Vietnamese independence & allow France to restore colonial control of Vietnam.

"Good luck, Andy. If you ever get out, there'll always be a place for you at Mar A Lago"

History buffs out there. didn't it take an Act of Parliament to arrest King Charles I ?

No. French lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954.= & withdrew US had military advisers. JFK sent covert operations. Open hostilities broke out under LBJ 1964. A good and accurate guide is Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" (1955) which is also an excellent film starring Michael Caine (2002)

Didn't JFK start US involvement in Vietnam ?

Mandelson next ?