Can everyone please stop excusing the US president by saying that he has dementia. He's always been like this. It's not dementia. He's a deluded, arrogant, nepo baby, chock full of Dunning Kruger degrees of self-belief and deep rooted stupidity and rich and influential enough to get away with it

It's funny how I remember the taste of the "spoon" more than the ice cream.

There isn't 'one answer' to energy; there are multiple answers. Indeed that has been the - largely ignored - argument for more investment in nuclear for a quarter of a century already. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control both sides” - David Icke.

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

Global super-rich may have hidden $3.55tn from tax officials, says Oxfam

'Dominance in coal' is rather like claiming that you're 'dominant in cooking over open fires with cow dung': not quite the win you think it is. www.foxnews.com/politics/epa...

Ugh!!! #Primates

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

never again want to hear that it’s woke nonsense to want our energy to come from the sun rather than being completely at the mercy of Putin or the IRGC being annoyed

Pretty horrific to read www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Iranian regime is a murderous totalitarian piece of shit. But it entered into a politically painful nuclear agreement the US which the US tore up, negotiated with the US only to be attacked during talks, then negotiated once more and was attacked a second time.

They want to make an endangered whale species go extinct so some guys can make more money and cook the planet

Britain's position will be MUCH worse if we're the only country that answers Trump's call to dip our hands in the blood he's spilling in the Middle East. That will win his favour for about an hour, until the next shiny thing distracts him. But it will stain our nation forever.

Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

Why do British Airways planes always feel so dirty? I'm surprised this one doesn't have rats

eating microplastics on purpose bc i dont want my body to decompose when i die

Hormuz replacement therapy

This is his 'deplorables' moment

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:

With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

Enjoy the growing heat of spring whilst you can. This winter's going to be cold.

Trump and the UK have much in common - both avoided getting involved in the Vietnam War.

This video - seemingly created by, and for, 12-year olds - is real and to be found at x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

Please excuse the indulgence, but I'll scream this into the ether: it's unreal to see my little brother David nominated for an Olivier Award. In my mind's eye, he's still an 10 year old clowning around to amuse my university friends.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

Is the policy of Reform et al still that fossil fuels offer the most reliable and cheap form of energy? You'd think they had learned their lesson during the start of the Ukraine crisis.

The current Ukrainian drive for EU membership does spectacularly blow out of the water the Brexit lie that the EU is in any way incompatible with national identity or practical autonomy.

We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater Russia has lost on every concievable axis

Just found myself - after he saw the news - explaining the Epstein scandal to my 12-year-old. I gave a quick run down of what Epstein did, his arrest & death, and his links with Andrew M-W, Mandelson, etc. "And it goes further; he was friends with Trump." "*Of course* he was," he sighs dryly. Yup

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The Game Rangers Association of Africa says more than 30 protected wildlife areas across the continent are now “severely affected” as armed extremists, separatists and organised crime groups expand in scale and sophistication. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Christ PayPal has churned out some d*ckheads fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

Kermode on phenomenal form here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyU...

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

The man behind donations of £200,000 to Reform is a church warden from Potters Bar, who just happens to work for a billionaire from Kazakhstan. But it's definitely not money laundering or interference in UK politics by a foreign national.

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Melania

Spain Dismantles Vast Narco-Fleet in Record Atlantic Drug Bust gcaptain.com/spain-disman... 30 boats seized. Hundreds of people arrested. No one had to bomb fishing boats and then turn around and bomb survivors.

Certainly, but if comms on environmental issues have taught us anything over the last few decades, it is that pushing manageable, incremental change gets you places that advocacy of a Big Shift ironically doesn't. I'll coin it here: "Ooblactivism", a non-Newtonian approach to environmental action.

🚨 "Advocates of Brexit, ought to apologise for taking us into a world where we are now entirely isolated. We cannot rely on the US. We've got a Russian aggressor on our doorstep. We're now out of the room when European decisions are taken." Closer relations with the EU are vital for our security.

The Algorithm put this scene in front of me this morning. I've had enough of rationalisation, of collaboration, of division. Something of this spirit of collective defiance against overweening power is needed with regard to this odious regime in Washington. #lamarseillaise youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc

Nazism & fascism are specifically rooted in early-20thC history & politics, and I do think it's shrill/anachronistic to call ppl 'nazis'. BUT neo-nazi 'blood & soil' ideology & sympathisers are v much alive & well. At v least these ppl are extremist authoritarian ideologues with a weird nazi fetish.

"So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery."

Very much worth your time and sharing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EF...

"No."