Agh! Boyfriend has left his suitcase on the train as he arrived at Paddington station half an hour ago! Had his passport and everything and he's meant to fly tomorrow - anyone know if there's anything we can do right now? Is it worth going back to the station tonight??

The White House sticking to the line that military is an option in Greenland

Warner: "Nothing would lead to the absolute destruction of NATO more than US aggressive action against a longtime ally like Denmark" Schumer: "I asked for assurances that they were not planning operations in other countries like Colombia and Cuba, and I was very very disappointed in their answer"

attacks on pensioners, disabled people and asylum seekers suggests they might be a bit short in the empathy stakes too.

photos from Trump's speech to House Republicans (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

I like the implication in these pictures that on the other 364 days of the year, the zoo has only the vaguest sense of how many lions it should have

On 12th March 1938, 100,000 German Troops invaded Austria, they arrested more than 70,000 Austrians who opposed them in a few days. Less than a month later they held a vote under German guns and counted by the Nazis '99.7% voted' to join Germany The world did absolutely nothing

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London Zoo are doing their annual stock take and it is a thing of joy (pics from Getty Images) www.gettyimages.co.uk/editorial-im...

This is chlorinated chicken propaganda! 😂

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Cut the tape. Embed the video into every single Democrat's campaign video.

Trump: "You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."

Kemi Badenoch says critics of Trump's invasion "couldn't find Venezuela on a map yesterday". For context this is the first reference to Venezuela that I can find Kemi Badenoch ever having made in her entire political career

What does Badenoch do all day? Her response to Yvette Cooper's statement suggests it's not research or preparation. Her pettiness and manner are repellent.

Badenoch always has to be sneery and rude, doesn’t she? About as far away from a statesperson as it’s possible to be. Just a bolshy article with nothing decent to say.

Ken Clarke once told me Badenoch was the only person he'd met who could - and would - start a fight when she was alone in a room.

Scarborough on what Trump told him during a phone call yesterday: "Joe, the the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. To underline his point, Trump said his comments were no long on background."

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Joint Statement on Greenland 🇬🇱 stm.dk/statsministe...

He once posted a picture of himself "officially opening" a Lidl in his area though the supermarket says that no ceremony had taken place...

Pretty clear statement from Starmer re. Greenland Sure it won’t be enough for some who think diplomacy is about vibes, not consequences.

January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy. We will never forget it, and we will not let the nation or the world forget — despite the revisionism of Trump and his lackeys in the Republican Party.

It's so embarrassing to be an American these days: "In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the Danish territory is now an American 'protectorate.'" 🙄

In the end, someone has to ask *why* people have been persuaded to be so terrified of immigration, when it has so many benefits and so few real downsides. Almost all of the claimed downsides are either lies or misinterpretations of statistics. Why would any sane country do this to itself?

imagine a cheery BBC news report in 1938 breezily asking "which countries could be in Hitler's sights after the Sudetenland?"

Wrote this last January about Trump and Greenland. Feels like it’s where we are heading. Too many Europeans just haven’t been listening to them because it’s been too disturbing to confront the potential reality. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper: "Let me be very clear... Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark... The future of Greenland is a matter for the Greenlanders and Danes, and no one else."

Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.

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TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force? MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO T: So force is on the table? M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland

When the delta guys drag the president of another country out of bed, zip tie his hands, and throw him into a helicopter blindfolded, that’s the definition of regime change…

All three people on the Sky News review use the word 'kidnap' to describe what the US has done (although the host remembers to add the words "if you see it that way"). Unlike over on the BBC, where people are under strict instructions not to use that word.

"What is your assessment of the legality or not of what happened over the weekend in Venezuela?" Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics: "Its illegal... this was an egregious violation of international law"

On #GMB this morning Michael Gove opines on people living a party lifestyle.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Car crash interview with the Venezuelan opposition ambassador to the UK 2019-20, Vanessa Neumann who seems to have no interest in international law, and just the power of might

International Law Test. If you invade another country to kidnap their leader is it? A. Illegal because no country has the right to unilaterally do that. B. Fine because it is the USA doing it. C. It's illegal.

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Badenoch bangs on about “consultation” while forgetting Trump didn’t even tell his own Congress what he was doing in Venezuela. No briefing, no warning, no clue. He ran foreign policy like a unplanned shitshow and she’s still defending it. Clown logic. #ukpolitics

At the United Nations security council the representative of Mexico condemns the actions of the United States as a clear violation of the UN charter

I understand that governments across Europe have to be careful about what they say regarding the actions of the big orange toddler (I don't!) and sympathise with them. However how about those in the media who are backed by billionaires perhaps growing a spine and pointing out the insanity? #bbcpm

Is it now BBC news policy to call all climate protesters "far left" & "radical left" or is it just this German group? And is Murdoch's The Times now the arbiter on these matters? #bbcpm @evanhd.bsky.social

This person was arrested for speaking. SPEAKING. She was on a sidewalk, speaking to the press. WAKE UP. PLEASE.

Here's the link to the story

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

According to this reporting, Trump will keep the popular Venezuelan resistance leader Maria Machado from power in Venezuela because she not he won the Nobel Prize. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reasonable to ask whether Americans just got played by Cubans and Venezuelans who will now stay in power in Caracas and who understood that after 24 or so hours of gringo euphoria this will be a disaster for the US. macspaunday.substack.com/p/the-dog-th...

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!