Cancelling a trip to Gulf region - Agent: “Well this will be over by May, cancelling is over reacting” Me: “I’m sorry am I talking to the President of America right now?”

On reports of thousands of Kurds engaged in an offensive in Iran

LATEST: U.S./Israeli media reports claiming Iraqi Kurdish groups launched a ground offensive in Iran have turned out to be fake.

Letters in The Times and iPaper that reflect the views of British people far better than the deeply partisan, stupid and disloyal headlines of the rightwing press. Showing there is simply no issue on which they will just calm down and support a Labour govt. Not one. Not even in a war no one wants.

⚠️ 150,000 more Democratic voters than Republican voters participated in the Texas primaries. This includes turnout in SEVEN congressional districts that Trump won in 2024, with five being majority Latino and four having been redrawn to benefit Republicans last summer.

An Irishman, Chris, sings the Ukrainian national anthem by the Russian Embassy in Dublin every day. He has been coming to the embassy since the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 📹: ivavovk / TikTok

Not entirely sure the Kurds remember the multiple occasions the Americans have left them high & dry but here we are again

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

This one can be filed under the category of not solved. With @marinovik.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/11fc084c-3... UK by-election council calls for evidence over claims of voter fraud

Worse than that: Iran builds fuck hard helicopters

The law of intended consequences.

More spies caught inside UK politics & yet again it just doesn’t seem to be sinking in we have a problem

This is the thing that may cause economic bed shitting now

JUST IN: Jasmine Crockett concedes and urges Democrats to rally around James Talarico, who is now officially the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas.

Okay maybe they've got a point about lawless London after all this is some pretty blatant boasting about crimes

Every time the sun comes out, I sit in it and smile and then I think of this @morganj0nes.bsky.social tweet. It's a big leaf day.

I do wonder if you compare Badenochs attack line to what Grok might suggest would you get same results? This is mad bad Badenoch stuff once again.

In the grand tradition of TV shows of Britain since woodwork Nazi tattoo guy

Monkey wrenching is such an under appreciated form of protest

Spain reminds fellow Europeans why there’s an EU to begin with.

I love it when a CEO is asked if his firm is a societal sickness or benefit. Just once I want a CEO to say: “Oh we are a fuckin disease; but a disease manifest in already morally dying host. So what are you gonna do?”

It’s worth noting it’s still rather hard to understand how vast the US defence budget is yet somehow it ran out of stuff in a less than 1 week conflict

*Doctor looking at my X-Rays* Doctor: Ah, this is exactly what I was afraid of. Me: Oh my God, what? Doctor: Skeletons.

I see the travel insurance industry now regards acts of war as something they don’t need to pay out on

A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the Müller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. Müller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.

I often see the takes of “how sociopathic & ruthless the left are” and honestly I would imagine “they” are just so very tired of pointing out these are the consequences of 20 years of hyper conservative performance heading towards this inevitable conclusion.

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(Trump throws his paella and castanets against the wall)

You couldn’t make this up. And if you did, everyone would say it’s too much.

10/10 No notes.

(Looks to camera) “Why don’t you look for answers in Ma-anus?”

Let’s not forget for a minute some of the migration is literally Americans fleeing America now.

I mean, FFS. Where’s the front page retraction?

BUY GREGGS

Just been pointed out that Trumps ‘board of peace’ members dominates the nations in this evacuation order. Trump delivering only irony to the world with a sense that your pocket is being picked the entire time

Of course, about now the American & UK press should screaming about how Trump 2.0 was about stopping wars & cutting the costs of living for the average American but instead they are apparently oblivious to how his actions are doing the exact opposite to his campaign message

Don’t they look tired?

DINOSAUR JUICE IS BACK BABY

Reform increasingly looking like they are snorting their own copium

I’m just putting it out there that this warning is somewhat problematic when the entire Gulf region airspace is largely closed? What are they doing - walking? Canoe?

What in all the parallel universes of hells am I know being advertised with? FAITHTECH Hallowed, the prayer app, advertised by Mark Wahlberg & Chris Pratt. I wonder …. Have they invested in it?

You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.

Montie being a plonker with a purpose.

The film shoot em up is on Amazon prime in Uk. If you need some nonsense action movie stuff with Clive Owen it is absolutely top drawer.

Kevin McKenna is of course entitled to his opinion as much as I’m entitled to my opinion of him as a journalist. However: only one of us is right

Earth: (does current events) The Voyager Probe:

(Starmer jumps onto a plane) (Meets a British carrier in the Gulf) (flies jet that takes out both Israel’s & Irans ballistic capability) (Has dinner with US fleet force captain & convinces him to stand down, ending conflict) Daily Express headline: “Starmer Abandons UK for global showboating”

Huh, look at that, the fish rots from The head down

Ah yes, the Russian heart failure diagnosis

This is the thing that utterly infuriates me: I was in ME around time of Arab spring & you absolutely knew this was a possibility. You had plans, knew embassy numbers etc. You got paid danger money because of it. In last 10 years there’s been this deliberate ignorance because of new skyscrapers