Israeli attacks have now killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon since the US-Israeli war on Iran began, despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah having been in effect since April 16. #Infograph

This Daily Fail poll needs some love and attention... #RejoinEU www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Dozens of Labour MPs want to rid us of the broken first past the post system. Praise be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is all too familiar. When I discussed Assad's horrors in Syria, people a bit like this called me a "warmonger". When I confronted apologists for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it was "US imperialist". Now, for lamenting antisemitism, it's "Zionist". In truth I'm against all forms of aggression.🧵

Drop someone with DARK HAIR

Should we ban newspaper columnists from voting?

It squeaked!

While I've seen plenty of pain vin and bière in French supermarket, I don't think I've ever seen Boursin.

Another post Andy Burnham Mirror poll Should the U.K. rejoin the EU 62% for Yes at present. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Back in the early 80s my dad was “Director of Helicopter Projects” at the MOD, working on the Westland/Aerospatiale/Agosta EH101 or Eurocopter. He found it a painfully frustrating experience. Rats in a sack. I pity the poor mug who has to manage this.

This 👇. Nothing as adventurous, but my Brompton has carried me across S France from Bordeaux to Carcassonne, down the Loire Valley, and (2 weeks from now) up the Rhône from Avignon. Transporting by train - even Eurostar - is effortless.

Many, many years ago I did a stint between “proper” jobs as a shop assistant at Harrods. I’ll lay odds these scenes weren’t half as bloody as the ladies in pearls scrapping over china in the January sales!

‘Not for nothing has the old joke been revived that the “US is a very fortunate country because everywhere it goes to bring freedom it finds oil.”’

A leading 'Raise the Colours' flag activist, who claims to be fighting to "protect our women" from migrants, has pled guilty to assaulting a woman bylinetimes.com/2026/05/18/f...

Forcing Farage to talk about the Brexit disaster is key to defeating him inews.co.uk/opinion/forc...

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Shot

Beans, beans, good for the heart The more you eat, the more you fart The more you fart, the better you feel So eat beans for every meal.

When Jesus said “suffer the little children to come to me” I don’t *think* he meant “except the brown ones”.

"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't." @maitlis.bsky.social

All democratic states that thought they were good friends with the USA, beware. If Trump can treat a free and democratic Taiwan as a “bargaining chip”, he can do the same to you.

🎶The Truth about the “Famine” is there never really was one.🎶 (I thought the generally accepted term these days was “The Hunger”)

Yes. It's like the "island of strangers" stuff. It was months later, researching something else, that I actually read the full section and realised that most "progressives" (including me) had been quoting pellets served up to us by the Mail and the Telegraph.

Good lord -it speaks!

Oh lookee here, another account which has never posted, only ever replied, and appears to be single-issue. I wonder why?

"The other thing everyone could agree they loved was, of course, Tommy Robinson, a co-founder of the far-right English Defence League, convicted of multiple assaults, and multiple crimes of dishonesty – who nearly collapsed a grooming gang trial through his contempt of court."

“When I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my earplugs”. (Lisa Nandy - possibly misheard (Ed.))

“Israel’s entry …. came in at second place after performing strongly in the public vote.” Weird, huh? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/17/bulgaria-wins-70th-eurovision-contest-dara-bangaranga?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is how you do it - none of that “collision” bullshit.

🇺🇦 Ukrainians call the 🇷🇺 tracking of 🇺🇦 civilians with drones 🇷🇺’s “human safari”. This young lad had a chance encounter with a 🇺🇦 explosives expert in a wood & had a valuable lesson in disabling drones that he later put to use when he saw one aiming for his younger siblings apple.news/A387_Q_aHRRy...

“Fears”. 😂

And they wonder why five nations were so disgusted at their inclusion in Eurovision - final tonight - that they decided to boycott the event. Three are not even going to screen it - RTÉ in Ireland showing episodes of “Father Ted” instead.

And, in a breathtaking display of Chutzpah, they’ll whine about the five countries boycotting Eurovision tonight in protest at inclusion in the contest despite their genocide in Gaza.

The most depressing thing about America’s rapid decline under Trump is that while he is busily throwing Taiwan under a bus, he has received no Chinese help with Iran. He has left the US weak and exposed with his ill conceived war.

Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi

"Blessed are the pissmakers"

It is amazing how little the press is willing to dissect US decline under Trump. The US got no help with Iran, was scolded on Taiwan, says it got a small Boeing deal (China has not confirmed) and Trump appeased on Chinese students, microchips, etc. Xi even insulted US power.

First he abandoned Ukraine and now he is abandoning Taiwan. Sucks to be a democratic friend of the USA these days.

Old definition of chutzpah - young man convicted of double parenticide appeals to judge “have mercy on a poor orphan boy”. New definition of chutzpah - whine about nations boycotting Eurovision, then murder several Gazans the night before the final.

No @zackpolanski.bsky.social do not do this; please do not do this - if this is true then you are or are becoming just like the rest of them.

What a curious comparison to make. Would you say, for example, that Joe’s wealth was five times Fred’s income? What conclusion could you possibly draw from that?

The trump Doral statue nears an uncanny resemblance to the old Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad. And I predict the same fate for it.

Extreme right wing terrorist jailed for attempted murder of muslim barber, ruled as terrorism by the judge. And you were saying, about supporting Palestine Action?

Disappointed that #KingsSpeech said nothing about SLAPPs, which enable the powerful to stymy activists & stop journalists publishing stories in the public interest. The legal sector has successfully lobbied to sink efforts to legislate, for now. Excellent piece in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

April 28th 1990, and our wedding reception was booked at Fitzpatrick’s Killiney Castle Hotel, Dalkey, Dublin. Unbeknownst to us, there was an EU summit in Dublin that weekend. We nearly had a fist fight with hacks who tried to squat the table we’d reserved in the hotel restaurant the night before.

To quote Jeremy Thorpe (commenting on Harold McMillan’s “night of the long knives”) “greater love hath no man than this - that he lay down his friends for his life."

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