Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

For the last few days the President of the USA and the White House communications team have been active agents of Russian influence, spreading the Putin narrative and trying to undermine democracy.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Iranian drones have hit Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry says. Two injured. Widening.

"It's the proudest I've been of our Prime Minister in a long time." @mrjamesob.bsky.social believes Trump's public criticism of Keir Starmer could actually be a good thing.

Gavin Newsom: Some are talking about Israel “appropriately as sort of an apartheid state.” On whether the US should rethink military aid for Israel: “…the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice about that consideration.”

Remember when Trump promised that India would stop buying Russian oil? Well it turns out that Trump's decision to bomb Iran has had the exact opposite effect, leading to a surge of Russian oil being sent to India. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...

I’ll have some of that.

"Few Reform supporters have voted for Labour at any point in the 21st century. This is true if we look at where Farage’s parties drew votes between 2015 and 2025, and across twenty years of voting history" This type of conclusion is not specific to the UK.

Who will rid us of this flatulent beast?

Did you see this headline? Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you? Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️ Would you like to know the reality behind the headline? Course you would!😜 Let's take a look 🧵 1/25

This says it all really….

Big money has bought British politics 75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS. Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

Netanyahu not only has zero interest in being bound by the two state solution of the 1947 UN partition plan, but seems to have ideas about a "Greater Israel".

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

If Trump really can’t control Netanyahu, it seems at least feasible that Iran becomes Gaza 2.0, up to & including the hideous pretence that they bomb a land to smithereens to somehow help the people living there.

Anyone who wonders why Trump is Netanyahu's bitch hasn't been paying enough attention to the Epstein files.

In case you missed it, here is @raskin.house.gov when Nigel Farage came to Washington. www.youtube.com/watch?v=reQa...

I suspect @raskin.house.gov will enter the history books as one of the few heroes of America's Trump era.

“Hanging on to President Trump’s latest words is not the special relationship” …a useful message there from Starmer for the BBC’s hyperbolic political reporting as well as for Badenoch.

He’s like a really bad actor in a 1980s B action movie that went straight to video.

Badenoch today, "A Type 45 Destroyer isn't going to stop missiles". It's literally what they were designed for.

I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs

Badenoch cites last week's by-election as proof Labour is failing. Brave. #PMQs

Two Reform councillors leave party as one hits out at ‘misogynistic undertones’

Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.

Gonna make a point of eating in as many Spanish-run tapas bars as possible. America’s loses out again www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Next time anyone you speak to says, 'yeah but family voting', make sure you've read this and have it up your sleeve. @jamesgraham.theliberati.net 👏 www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever. The gold standard of leadership. A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

I’m gonna say this and I’m gonna be very ugly about this. This stupid idiot needs to not even put Winston Churchill in his mouth. This is an embarrassment and an insult to people that live in Britain.. Winston Churchill is a better man than this piece of shit we have for president

Centre for a Better Britain says it’s an ‘independent think-tank’, but the echoes with Trump’s project for power are difficult to ignore 👀 https://goodlaw.social/we1s

There is no better way to insulate yourself from global oil & gas price volatility than to invest in technologies that generate useful heat & power without any oil & gas input. The Trump WH attack on renewables is a direct attack on your economic security.

Spain, you had me at food, wine, history, architecture, stunning landscapes, a fabulous climate and rich culture. Honestly I didn’t think you could get any better but you have. 💚 🇪🇸 🍷

There was a time when the President of the United States criticising the UK Prime Minister would have been a big deal. Not any more. The world is learning to live without America. This is not Eisenhower we're dealing with. It's a lobotomised George W Bush with dementia and a personality disorder.

So Trump isn’t happy with the UK. Well guess what fuckface we hate you. Brits will dance in the street when you’re gone. And keep the name of our Prime Minister out of your mouth. He may be a dick but he’s our dick. And sure he’s no Churchill but at least he doesn’t lick Putin’s ass like you Comrade

To anyone who thinks Trump can bring peace and equality to Iran – I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Going cheap | Marina Hyde

Just over half (54%) of Reform UK members want ethnic minority British citizens born abroad to be encouraged/forced to leave. This drops to 1/5 (22%) for British-born children of migrants. A Survation survey of 629 Reform members, commissioned by Hope Not Hate www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today in Iran…

It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

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Iraq; Donald Trump’s character; his contempt for soldiers, dead or alive & the obvious necessity of having a “lawful basis” & a “viable thought-through plan” for military action… Just a few of the things all our local neighbourhood warmongers have completely forgotten about. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Because the Prime Minster of Israel is telling the stupid buffoon in the White House what to do?