I fear that Trump's fascist America walking out of the UN is sadly underpriced... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve written a bestselling book about it & still despair at everything described in this excellent thread.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

“This is a chance for the government to listen and lead… I was not elected by my constituents to idly stand by and defend a broken political system and failed status quo.” Luke Akehurst MP calls for Proportional Representation in @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Red lines based entirely on someone else's lies, fantasies and delusions is a strange hill for your party's electoral prospects to die on

The look of incredulous contempt being directed by Gillian Tett at the terminally stupid and deeply unpleasant Robert Jenrick is priceless #Newsnight

The gulf between Jeremy Bowen & most of his BBC colleagues when reporting on Donald Trump is deeply embarrassing for all concerned. Except Jeremy Bowen.

For the attention of every single Labour MP on this platform

The special relationship doesn't exist. Our fantasy about it deprives us of our dignity. But we can once reacquire our national pride if we make hard decisions about our future. inews.co.uk/opinion/brit...

I would very much like the orange fascist to fuck off even more bsky.app/profile/robw...

Disappointed that @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social is going for the radio equivalent of click bait and suggesting that the UK could or should bail the delusional orange fascist out of his disaster. America is not our ally any more

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

What Sarah said, in spades. The Labour Cabinet is full of the last believers and Brexit lie apologists in the same world. Keir "I'll be honest with the country" is still not being honest. Labour is still fucked. And fucked for continuing to pretend that other people's lies are true. Pathetic

He looks as bored as we all feel about what are now interminable negotiations with the EU for better terms. But his arguments for not being bolder are feeble. Being out of the SM and CU = erecting growth-repelling trade barriers. So, what TF is he on about here? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

The feeling's mutual

Currently very much missing the view I had in January. It's Clarens in the Drakensberg Mountains. And so to bed

Another example is the AI policy over copyright- it caused so much bad blood among Labour supporting voters and donors and all happened because DSIT was pushing it, no.10 didn’t care and Lisa Nandy was writing about cancel culture in theatres

Gibbering pig. His use of an exclamation mark after bragging about how much of the country he is destroying shows how brazen & nonchalant he is about Iranian lives. If the world made any sense, this alone would be enough to try him for war crimes.

I suppose the only diplomatic response to this is to tell Donald Trump to fuck off

It goes almost without saying that Hesgeth is morally depraved and intellectually inadequate. It's also increasingly clear that he is totally out of his depth and becoming rattled.

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

Love this cover. Thanks so much to the FT Mag team. First 300 clicks free: as.ft.com/r/c220d67b-1...

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

I should also mention, given how disappointed I've been in this government, that this is probably the most important issue facing us today and it is the one area where the government's performance has been very impressive. Thank fuck for Ed Miliband.

It's increasingly clear that #KemiBadenoch is a fucking imbecile #PMQs

First anniversary of a really outstanding public service. Do follow this newsletter and @monkemma.bsky.social, if you don't already do so, for reliable, painstakingly researched rebuttals/ debunks of false/ misleading news stories.

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

The Mail is now leading on the UKs supply of gas. Every minister asked about this should explain that Labour is trying to fix another disastrous Tory legacy

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next. There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

Chris Philp really is an obnoxious little turd, isn't he?

The gulf between what people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East & what Tony Blair thinks people think of Tony Blair commenting on war in the Middle East is positively Badenochian.

They've either allowed the use of their bases, or spoken in favour of the intervention, or cast it in traditional military terms. This approach encourages further recklessness. Going softly on Trump doesn't work. Only international ostracisation has any chance of success. Sanchez gets it.

I would very much like Tony Blair to have a period of reflection and silence, and then just fuck off

I really, really hate VAR

One reason why the UK is poorly placed in the event of LNG supply issues is because the last Tory government refused to invest in having enough strategic reserves. In 2022 the EU mandated the MS must refill gas storage facilities to 90% capacity by November 1 every year. www.dw.com/en/why-uk-ga....

Thursday was a lovely spring day to walk along section two of the #VanguardWay from Warlingham to Limpsfield Chart. Rarely has the borough of Croydon looked so beautiful...

We cannot become the vassals of a semi-deranged Donald Trump The sight of the British right cheering on the half-mad, semi-senile leader of a quasi-hostile foreign power shows that conservatives have lost their patriotism – and with it whatever common sense they once possessed

Manufacturing consent: why all the pundits & politicians proved wrong about austerity, Brexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss & Donald Trump are now ignoring objective reality, the lessons of Iraq & public opinion on the war in Iran. open.spotify.com/episode/2SOT...

Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...

New post just out: "Sovereignty for sale" The UK is uniquely exposed to the power of US tech monopolies - from Palantir to AI and cloud services. Why is it so dangerous? What are other countries doing? And what should we do? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

I still don't appreciate anything Gillian Keegan says or does because she's fucking stupid. #Newsnight

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict www.ft.com/content/eaee...

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

Perhaps the UK could choose to send Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to the US 250th Independence Day anniversary instead of the King? That would send the appropriate message...

Here's an idea for the first hour of your show tomorrow @mrjamesob.bsky.social Better a moronic fascist or a clever fascist? Discuss....