When we bought our home some 12yrs back I calculated on using around 2100 litres of winter heating oil, costing £750. So far this year I have spent £1973 to buy £1700 litres. I wonder how many of my neighbours are freezing in their homes. If you care more about sticking it to Putin, we disagree.

These two assumptions, and their concomitants, appear to have been driving the lion's share of European defence policy for a very long time. If they are at all right, we're in the kind of trouble that cancels all business-as-usual. But if not we're in a gaslighting cult. Colour me bewildered.

This ... @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social Thank you ❤️💐

The best of the best that American money can buy, Barack Obama, looked this way and that... Then he determined that all of that bailout treasure should go to the banks. There was always another option.

Everything today is so desperately and infuriatingly explicit and crude. Dumb, raw power exercised. The media seems to pretend the manners and theatre of democracy, once the reserve of the colonisers, remain intact. But as an immigrant, I feel the Britishness of this place is fast evaporating.

A fair bit of #LucyLetby content out there across #Channel4 , #Netflix etc. But the best take yet comes in the form of a new podcast by @amandaknox.com which has started really promisingly. She seems to be asking all the right people the toughest questions. podcastaddict.com/doubt-the-ca...

Blue Sky? Those were the days ...

How I Trained My AI Dragon Today when I posed a question to an AI bot I sometimes use the first line of the answer was, for the first time: "Here’s the clear, factual answer you’re looking for — without political opinion ..." Huzzah! Success. Never let the bots take liberties. Curation is salvation.

What's the bet: if US education improved even to the point that over 50% knew where #Iran is on a map, they would not vote for a president that bombed it.

England take note: "If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be" Epictetus (Discourses) #greens #gortondenton #hannahapencer

#AlysaLiu and #AmiNakai have an #Olympic moment for the ages ❤️💐✨ Still waiting for the first male athlete who can radiate and share freely a fraction of this joy and abandon.

In case you were wondering, IRL for Wim Wenders the Perfect Day means not having to face facts. Here he is at the Berlinale ... waffling about not mixing film and ... politics! 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

Minority #Oscars    opinion: I felt #MartySupreme was little more than an unprovoked assault on my better judgement and bailed after half an hour. I think that at the time I may have found Rupert Pupkin more likeable.

American problems ... when you did need a "De Niro" you elected an "Oprah" instead and gave HIM a peace prize. Sadly, the dufus went drone-happy, lost the key to the executive order cupboard and instead of shutting down Gitmo & the war as promised he opined instead "when they go low we go high". 🙄

www.jmail.world Question is: are these THE emails or just a troveful of Epstein fakes? At this point folks could be making up absolutely anything and post them in clumsy pshop-email-filter mode to pass them as "Epsteinish". Anyhow ...Enjoy searching 😉

Ho speso le ultime 48 ore nel tentativo di stabilire cosa possa essere uno/a #SPID, la nuova identita' digitale senza cui non si puo essere completamente Italiani. Conclusione: Se una database digitale di provenienza ignota non ti riconosce come tale, non sei piu' operativamente Italiano?

Best take by Amir on X "... kinda antisemitic how Israel has been doing all the work but Russia is receiving all the credit ..." #EpsteinFiles

Pep #Guardiola is clearly not holding back on the injustices of the world. He has openly called himself a "Palestinian". I wonder: will #Brighton or #Arsenal now ban him from their grounds? Will #Trump ban him from the World Cup?

#TrevorNoah successfully hosted his 6th #GRAMMY night without crossing the Zionist lobby. He is truly the #Beyonce of hosts. Or maybe just another hostage.

Have just finished #InTheMouthOfTheWolf, the latest @amandaknox.com doc & I highly recommend it. Though, crazy as this might sound, I had my heart in my throat all the way. The jeopardy as she pushed through to her remarkable redemption of Avvocato Mignini felt excruciating. Remarkable. Top lady 💐

Just finished the brilliant Season 5 of #Shoresy and I think I know now just what Mark Carney has been watching on loop in his travels around the new world order. youtu.be/lZ3irrsn7mA?...

Carney has delivered the best speech by a leading white person that I've heard outside the movies. Delighted for the Anglo world to now have at least one coherent world view to work with. youtu.be/kDMyeGQm3NA?...

The same people who would sell you a fictional crime crisis in London have also previously sold a Venezuela crisis and an Iran crisis. Why are you sure of the last two but dismiss the first? What are the chances almost all our culture is the product of political agendas undeclared?!

To those who fled the X network: I would like to make the point that right now on X, the voices that are braying away turning the conversational air febrile & manic -- using words like "war" like confetti at a wedding -- are all ... identifiable grown-up media and political professionals. Grow up

Have any of you spent even five on X recently? Well, right now it's filled with RL political figures - presidents and premiers and the like - and commentators too - wrapped up like moral pretzels spaffing absolute drivel. It's madness! 🖖🏼🤯

"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a Western leader to utter more than one coherent foreign policy statement ..." #ukraine #israel #venezuela #greenland ... Posted by the wife of the White House Chief of Staff today accompanied by the single word "Soon ..."

Note to everyone applauding the violent attempt to install an American-friendly regime in #Venezuela: "Denmark" (aka Greenland) is next. Oh. And don't you dare go on bring up #Ukraine even one more time ...

#CoverUp on @Netflix right now, is a reminder that #SyHersch is a straight arrow & one of the great journalists of my lifetime. One of its few features. Never its bug. He was right about My Lai just just as he was about Abu Ghraib, Ghouta and Nord Stream. www.imdb.com/title/tt3766...

The New Yorker at 100 is a love letter to the magazine I thought it was before it fell for the Biden illusion and learned to live with genocide. A media treasure for a world that, like its hero Obama, can admire Mayor Mamdani's "style" but never his policies. www.imdb.com/title/tt3563...

The wildly aggressive stupidity of almost every character in uniform or in authority in every sci fi show is what makes that content so much more credible and satisfying than any straight drama. #Invasion on #AppleTV

Some films leave you a little sad the next day, because you know you will not be able to see them for the first time ever again 📷 www.imdb.com/title/tt3340...

Old age Venn Mo'

30% del mio Tiktok è fatto di stranieri che comprano l'Italia a prezzi da sagra. E il 5% mi ricorda degli Italiani che non riescono neanche a campare. Poco passa che ci rinominano il paese "Il Villaggio Turistico Lo Stivale" ... 🤦🏻

Of all the reasons?! 🤦 Davie's politicization of news to whitewash genocide and Brexit should have done for him. But it turns out the only ones who really call the shots in this country are all ... abroad.

Turns out that the New York Times thinks China's ownership of China is up for debate. 2025 Bingo is 🤯🤦🏻

Caught up with the #MexicanGP ... Can anyone explain to me the new FIA rule that says the only driver who can gain an advantage by going off the track is the black dude?!

#LaterWithJoolsHolland is the perfect antidote to #QuestionTime and #BBCNews Thank you #JoolsHolland 💐 Shame it's still 1 : 2

Sorry to hear of the passing of "Mamma Erasmus", Sofia Corradi, the 🇮🇹 educator who conceived and built the Erasmus Programme. That's the exchange programme of students between European universities. Che bella signora 💐 #rip #SofiaCorradi

Sunday service: Watching something that reminds me how beautiful people can be. #ExhibitingForgiveness www.imdb.com/title/tt2852...

The "Guardian" of what?

Watched the #Tuchel presser 🤦‍♂️ If Italian hacks patronised #Gattuso that way in pursuit of gossip ... I think notebooks might fly. Eight minutes in and still zero chat about football. I don't know what "fans" think they deserve but a dash more curiosity about actual football would be refreshing.

“You’re media incarnate (Mr Klein) ... War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy ...” Have to wonder what Paddy Chayefsky would have made of the Coates-Klein exchange. It did remind me of Network, tho'

Proud of 🇮🇹 today. Their govt may be just another of Trump's Euro-hostages but at least its people are determined to demonstrate their humanity regardless. #flotilla #nationalshutdown

Have not felt a bonfire of the vanities quite as warm since all those celebs got together to sing Imagine. #riyadhcomedyfestival

The thing that makes Labour electable is its willingness to do what it takes ... #PleaseVoteGreen

There has never been a better time to go out in the middle of the night and spreadeagle a pair of your old pyjamas on the steps of a church along with a note saying “If you’re reading this, you missed the Rapture.”

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

Funny thing is ... they waited until it was practically unrecognisable #palestine #starmer

"What the great #GeorgeCarlin had to say back in a distant 1988 about the limits of #freespeech and the unique vulnerability of TV in America. I wonder whether there was a single lawmaker in these past 37 years that gave a thought to cutting the FCC down to size. #JimmyKimmel