What’s weird is that the SNP is cited as having “reversed its longstanding opposition to further drilling” and now I wonder if I dreamed up all those times some MSP wailed about the impact of closing down the industry

Starmer's call, which he explained in Parliament, was that: (1) The attack on Iran violated international law. (2) The attack was poorly conceived, had no defined objectives and no exit plan. Badenoch made entirely the opposite call when it mattered. She was wrong. Starmer was right. That's it.

“This will be a long crisis . . . energy prices will be higher for a very long time,” Dan Jørgensen told @financialtimes.com, warning that for more “critical” fuels “we expect it to be even worse in the weeks to come” The EU is “preparing for the worst scenarios,” he said as.ft.com/r/e4e37b2b-8...

Scenes from a personalist regime

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Went to the big Sainsbury - petrol station out of petrol but plenty of flags on the approach road 👍

Seventy-six Attorneys General..

Consider the opportunity costs of the war in Iran. The missiles might have been sent to Ukraine, to end that war. The money might have bought healthcare for Americans. The attention of Europe and Asia might have been focused on countering Russia and China, not re-opening the Strait of Hormuz

While David Frost explains why he has turned to Rome, historian David Starkey argues for seeing the value of the history of anti-Catholic legislation not as intolerance or discrimination but as a relevant model for dealing with what he calls Islamist supremacism today. He says this may offend some.

Ed Miliband to approve first major North Sea gasfield project in decade

US Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George has been told to retire immediately by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Pentagon official told CNN. https://cnn.it/4drOhqw

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

BREAKING: Hegseth forces Army Chief of Staff General Randy A. George to stand down and retire with immediate effect. [SOURCE: PENTAGON] Did he refuse an illegal order?

Enjoying the trend of European leaders trying to find ways to criticise Trump using words he might not understand.

Daily Mail's explanation. GAWD I'm tired to having to read this rag every day. [Note, Pammy may simply have been trying to comply with the laws demanded by the far right.] www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Fascinating trend in British politics of leaders who think they are harder workers and better thinkers than Boris Johnson, who…really really aren’t.

“We were taken aback.” Really? Were you? Researchers expected "'benevolent sexism' — a belief that men should protect and provide for women. This seemed to them to fit with an ethos where he earns and she cooks and cares for the children." And they didn't put any more thought into it than that?

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

For the avoidance of doubt, those who are arguing for “drill baby drill” really don’t get the seriousness of the situation. We should not be falling back on technologies that damage us, our economy and our future, but rather be embracing increasingly cheap and reliable home grown renewable energy.

I am curious what it is like for an actual believing Christian to see this. If you believe in the gravity of Christ's sacrifice, to see it compared to briefly not getting a way with Jan 6.

There is no level of loyalty that provides protection because ultimately he is a complete narcissist and cannot accept any responsibility.

As Trump second term falls apart he's starting to lash out at those around him. Noem first, now Bondi, probably Hegseth soon.

Matthew Goodwin’s publisher, presumably.

Trump says MAGA should boycott Bruce Springsteen concerts.

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

I'm often reminded of the old saying 'the way you do anything is the way you do everything'

Nick Candy sells most expensive house in London for £275mn as.ft.com/r/47afa0f4-f...

As an aside, it's interesting that the Conservatives, Reform, the Lib Dems and Greens are united against market forces driving the adjustment, if for different reasons.

We have a weak hand because households and businesses responded to incentives and invested in equipment that relied on fuel that have turned out to be insecure. We need to maintain incentives to switch to more secure energy. So Labour's right to allow the price mechanism to do its work

#ArtemisII crew: OK Houston we are go for the translunar injection burn Houston: roger that Crew: oh wait Windows is forcing an update on us

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

A perfect example of somebody who wants to go back into the EU dismissing the crucial and very hard diplomatic and political work being done to achieve it, purely because “I want it all right now!” This is how Brexit happened. People refusing to apply any critical thought.

And that’s also when Trump visits Xi In Beijing.

Guess who holds presidency of UN Security Council in May? China. My take: That’s where you can expect changes, establishing China as a leader in these negotiations.

If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions of these idiots would be hilarious.

I'm struggling to think of a President who has gained so much kudos from the religious right whilst demonstrably having absolutely no faith whatsoever. Even Reagan went to Church without it being a photo-op. A lot of this is just Millennialism/Left Behind stuff, isn't it?

Good morning - please enjoy this picture of sad Andy Burnham standing in front of a Nigel Farage digital billboard

A passenger flight from Costa Rica to Atlanta got the chance to witness Artemis launch. I imagine how painful it was to be sitting on the wrong side of that plane!

I was in Vietnam last summer. People there still talk in horrified astonishment about General Curtis LeMay saying North Vietnam should be bombed "back to the Stone Age" in 1965, even though it's disputed whether he ever actually did. Whereas, in today's Washington...

Been thinking about this headline and this paper. Beyond disgusted by both. It’s the most unpatriotic, irresponsible, ridiculously rightwing shitrag of them all… and we have several. But the Daily Mail is a real prejudice-peddling menace, dressed up as a newspaper. Shameful to buy or read it.

Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...

Ali Khamenei is dead and Jonathan the Tortoise is alive.

That's the thing. There's nothing notable or even worrying about an idiot talking rubbish; every pub is full of them. What is a problem is when they get platformed by the mass media, to the exclusion of intelligent voices.

Weird to ignore the literature, but you do you www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Trump is the only bull who carrries around his own china shop with him.

You have to laugh because the alternative is contemplating that we, as a country (I mean, I voted for the qualified Black lady), engaged in an act of world historic irresponsibility, the suffering of which will be born by millions of people worldwide, but will stain our very souls nonetheless.

This is beautiful.

Why we shouldn't cancel the King's visit to Washington. www.thetimes.com/article/8759...

“Extracting Grenfell from the statistics, actually people dying in house fires is rare. Many, many more people die on the roads driving cars, but we’re not making cars illegal, so why are we stopping houses being built?” Reform's Simon Dudley speaking in opposition to building fire regulations.

"Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen." Reform's Housing spokesperson Simon Dudley on the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left 70+ injured. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...