'Can't claim a pension when we'll be forced to work until we drop, and if the work doesn't kill us, the microplastics will.'

Think this is spot on. Political parties have restricted their options by mad commitments to no tax rises and arbitrary fiscal targets - irrespective of the circumstances they find themselves in.

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Now Trump is announcing peace and war in the same statement. It’s completely incoherent batshit lunacy.

Ridley Scott’s GLADIATOR was released 26 years ago today. A sword and sandals classic, and the film that made a megastar of Russell Crowe, the making of story is worthy of the Colosseum… 1/43

In UNO that means you are losing.

James Comey has been keeping busy waiting for his upcoming trial.

Oh, look what I saw on the beach!

The thin-skinned brat who'll sue you if make a mild joke he claims "promotes violence" is promoting violence and guns in the middle of the night. What a stupid time to be alive.

Luckily for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, he only murdered someone. If he had taken a photo of seashells on a beach, he'd be in *real* trouble.

“All the fours, forty-four. Two fat ladies, eighty-eight. Unlucky for some, thirteen.”

Take a look at a State Dept design for new American passports. Banana republic stuff. Genuinely tragic to see.

Charles has gone on a fool's errand to America. Doesn't serve British interests, and nothing will change regarding Trump, who's an unpredictable lunatic. How much has this performative cavalcade cost the UK taxpayer? Why are we footing the bill?

Trump: I’m not a king. Official White House account:

People always wonder how we live in a country that could elect a dishonest conman like Donald Trump. I don't.

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

A jury unanimously disagreed

2024: Trump, "Biden has an ability to fall asleep while on camera. You'll never see me sleeping in front of cameras" 2026: Trump sleeping in front of cameras

Pointless and probably quite damaging. I don’t know why they think Trump can be manipulated. Even if it works it’ll only be for a few hours until another half-baked thought enters his empty head. Meanwhile they’re teaching Trump that he gets rewarded for abusive behaviour.

What a picture… the mafia with a sleeping Don.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Interesting how no-one around him either in office or assisting him feels able to intervene privately and explain to save him from himself. In fact the incentives are so extreme that the way to respond is to draw attention to the error and invent an entirely new arithmetic to justify it.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Asleep at the wheel.

I don’t know why this fundamental misunderstanding of numbers riles me so much but it makes me want to fucking scream - it wouldn’t even be a 600% rise you ludicrous dipshit

You can’t make this stuff up. The most corrupt first family of all time.

The Republican men who pretend to care about women’s sports standing in front of the actual athletes really sums their whole charade up perfectly

Maybe its because he's an absolute lunatic

Whether Starmer goes is more a matter of politics than about the constitution, but the Prime Minister should properly account to Parliament for his own decision to appoint Mandelson. His current approach of ducking, and blaming and sacking others, is a failure of prime ministerial responsibility.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

Narrator: in fact, he had quite a lot of cards.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

All the stuff about vetting, advisers and process misses the point that everyone knew who Peter Mandelson was, what he had done and who he had associated with for literally years before Keir Starmer made him ambassador and lots of people pointed it out at the time. He appointed him anyway

Why is this still fucking going ahead?

Credit to Kevin Maguire for maintaining sanity again on GMB. Today: 'welfare', & others. TV debates have become near worthless but could be rehabilitated using side screens, maybe driven by AI, showing the facts in real time. And the interviewer/chair pointing at it regularly. More light, less heat

“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

So the whole fawning at the court of King Trump, the mad OTT announcement of an undefined trade deal, the Mandelson affair, the invitation from King Charles, and soon the royal visit to the US.... all of it for nothing because we don't follow Donald C*** down into his self-made abyss of insanity.

Trump comparing himself to Jesus while Vance tries to lecture the actual Pope on matters theological proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘Christian’ element of their support is, morally & doctrinally, about as Christian as a hula hoop. Their conduct is literally unconscionable.

We're spending 2.3% on defence compared to 2.0% a few years ago - and 2.5% by 2027. This increasingly hysterical stuff from people employed in the defence sector is so tiresome. And especially when combined with reactionary nonsense about welfare spending. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Honestly, how much more nonsense are we going to have to go through before the people around Trump grasp that he is mentally sick, a danger to America and the world--and he needs to be removed from office?

He's not wrong.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says the King's state visit to the US must be cancelled. “(Trump) is a dangerous and corrupt gangster and that is how we must treat him.”

JD Vance is on a historic roll: He campaigns for AfD in Germany - they lose. Invited the Pope to come to US for Trump’s big event - Pope refuses. Leads peace negotiations with Iran - fails miserably. Campaigns in Hungary for Orbán - who gets smoked.

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Keir Starmer should rule out the UK joining Donald Trump's blockade, the latest escalation in his idiotic war.

Trump is going to break with Rome and become formally head of his own church.

Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people — and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.