Thank goodness Richard Tice isn't a Labour MP, or he'd be hounded out of his job.

Trump begging for help against a military he claims is 100% defeated and from allies he has spent a year insulting. It’s over. Not yet officially but politically, Trump’s Presidency died this week.

I have nothing to add here. Yes, it’s that bad.

Trump is stupid, mad, dangerous, rich, and ridiculously powerful, but most of all ... the stupid bit. That's what should worry us most.

Days after declaring total victory and boasting that no other military could match the US, Trump is now begging other countries — including China — to send warships to stop his Iran war from spiraling into catastrophe. A galactic humiliation.

Sure. Lift tariffs. Pay back every single penny. Lift the illegal embargo on Cuba. Enforce UN resolutions on Israel. Prosecute those responsible for the unlawful attack on Venezuela. Withdraw threats on Greenland. Support Ukraine. And then, sure. We'll consider helping.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck... Trump knows that any ships trying to relieve the blockade are vulnerable to drone and missile attack. He would like British ships to be sunk not American ones. Starmer should tell him to get stuffed.

..... but you said you didn't need the UK to join the illegal #TrumpsEpsteinWar now that it had been won!! You got the world into this fcuking mess, now you can get us all out of it!

How it started v How it’s going

Dear Europe, Please help me to unshit myself. In return, I will harm your economy with tariffs, and insult your leaders, your cultures, and your military. Kind regards, A very stable genius

An historic humiliation for the United States. Trump is so deranged he will not realise this.

One TRILLION dollars! Me in @theguardian.com on the addiction of UK politicians/commentariat to large, and largely meaningless, numbers and why it's bad for policymaking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans died to stop “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" 80 years on, with Musk and Bannon saluting it, the enemy is truly within

Brian Bevan scored 796. He's nowhere near. #rugbyleague

I’m so sick of being ripped off. Petrol companies and supermarkets are the worst offenders. So they don’t like being called out for it. I say get used to it we have a Government on the side of the people.

The Greens' economic policies sound brainless and extremely damaging. It's a sign of how infantile our politics has become that this is not damaging them far more in the polls. www.economist.com/britain/2026... From The Economist

Very important not to lose sight of how insane this is. If the US Constitution was working- if the people sworn to uphold it were actually doing so- this wouldn’t be happening. Individual failure enabled by collective and institutional failure.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m... Podcast competition obviously a factor in the decline at Today but so is the shift to an objectionable editorial position in recent years.

So, the fuel bosses won't meet Reeves because they might be told to lower the prices? That's the real reason, right?

“There’s no reason to expect that Trump’s Iranian debacle will prevent him from lighting yet another match of chaos or conflict. In fact, experience teaches that Trump bristling from a failure makes him more, not less, likely to do something equally stupid, and to do so soon.”

The feeling's mutual

This should make every team boycott the World Cup in USA.

💯 this!!!

Labour delivering. Where’s the media coverage of? - NHS waiting lists falling by 43,000 in January (down 374,000 in 18 months) - Fastest ambulance response in 5 years - A&E waits the shortest for four years

This could easily apply to most of the players and visitors. Fuck knows why it's going ahead.

Labour government's comms have been woeful, and they've got a lot of stuff just plain wrong. But also:

New in PN: Trump’s military excursion, into an abyss "The evident fact is that the president is completely nuts, and that he’s 'governing' the country — and has now taken the US to war — based on his impulses alone, without even the pretense of a strategy or goal."

Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.

What a shame our bigoted rightwing hacks are more concerned with trying to unseat a decent and atm much needed PM. Meanwhile this fucker barely gets a crit. Get over yourselves!

It's being presented by e.g. Goodwin as part of a 'war against the past', but these people evidently don't know much about the past: as a boy I used to collect old farthings (yes, I was a peculiar child) which had had a wren on them from 1937, replacing, gulp, Britannia!

We live in an era of perpetual outrage. The right are so at war with everything that I reckon that if you were to put the late Queen and Churchill on every bank note, coin, credit card and forehead in this country they'd still be screaming and beating their chests over it.

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted: More and more rot.

Polanski stood by breast enlargement hypnosis claim He is a weirdo

Honestly can’t believe what the Bank of England is putting on our great British fiver

Truly world class

Headlines: 3 cargo ships have been attacked. The Strait of Hormuz remains choked off. Reports of some Iranian oil getting through to China. GCC slowing down oil production due to lack of storage. Gas prices have gone up for 11 straight days. Donald Trump is a pedophile.

Rick Scott: "Is it gonna be easy to get the Strait or Hormuz open? It never was gonna be easy." (The Strait was open just fine two weeks ago!)

A liar, a clown and a coward

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

I know it won't make any difference to his voters, who pay no attention to what's actually going on, and think foresight is for pussies and consequences can be wished away. But if Farage was PM, we'd now be in a moronic, illegal war he demanded we join 2 days ago, and now thinks is a disaster.

As predicted Robert Jenrick now pretending Farage said all along our aircraft shouldn't be deployed in attacking Iran, lying is the Reform Party Ltd default mode. They've seen the opinion polls and are back tracking like crazy, will Badenoch have the wit to follow suit.

The BBC is lost

I wonder if this u-turn is being reported as breathlessly by Chris Mason as it would be were it regarding Keir Starmer.

This is also a fucking word salad response. 'It all depends what the definition of Zionism is' - except this motion (which he refuses to condemn) literally does not make any distinction! You could be a left-wing Histadrut organiser who hates Netanyahu, this motion would still define you as a racist.

A bit of Monk for your Monday evening x

The #BBCNewsatTen played two clips from this speech, but not this one. Protecting Trump?

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

Twat