this is interesting, France has never offered the use of its nuclear weapons to the defence of Europe. the argument has always been that France has too few, that Europe is too large and that there's absolutely no way Paris will burn for the sake of Berlin. The UK on the other hand has for decades

There's currently an advertising exec who's clearly into Roots Manuva, Brand New Second Hand tracks are on at least three adds at the moment. Nice one!

Neighbours got dark!

Listening to the news agents and Emily just said "are we entering a time when wealth can ignore power?" It was all I could do to not shout at Alexa "yes, and we've been warning you this would happen for over a century".

Oooh new word to add to my database of words banned on CIF. Pogrom.

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social the other day you said you didn't think the rebellion held any real threat for Starmer. Do you still think he's safe?

I despair. Instead of trying to tackle the drivers of criminality (poverty, addiction, poverty) they invited tech companies who proposed creating prisons outside of prisons. They'd rather create the infrastructure of oppression than just pay a little more tax.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This is a fascinating study in disfunction.

One of the worst things about bezos is he doesn't even like books.

If the report isn't wrong why did Israel bomb the sites again yesterday?

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social is Labour going to have to pull the bill? How serious is the rebellion? Lastly, how damaging could it be for Starmer if he has to rely on Tory and reform votes to pass the bill? Thank you.

I fear that if NATO members fail to properly sort out spending today then the UK will side with the US permanently.

If our dreams for Zionism are to end in the smoke of assassins' pistols and our labours for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany, many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so consistently and so long in the past.

I've been thinking about this. The UK will never now let Scotland leave willingly. There's too much that's too vital from natural resources like water and electricity to nuclear weapons. The UK will never grant independence and I don't know what can be done to change that especially as international

For fucks sake Labour. You don't beat the far right by giving in to their demands. You don't beat the far right by telling them, for example, they're right about the ECHR. No. You beat them with hammers. Hammers!

Do you know who's absolutely brilliant? Tonia Antoniazzi. Gower is very fortunate to have her.

Just because I really want to spread my fear right now. en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Threads...

Genuine picture from today's NYT telling you how to tell the difference between a copper and a hired assassin.

Insurance companies get an awful lot of shit but Churchill after misselling us our policy took a day to investigate, agree with me and send in the builders.

I've never seen this before,it's one of the most stunningly erotic paintings I've ever seen and everything about it is female. You can feel it's a woman lusting after another woman. The languorous almost feline stretch. It's pure feminine sex. Wonderful. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

@newsagents.bsky.social eleemosynarianism is in no way a replacement for state support for young people.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... America just stated its support for ethnic cleansing. Their values are no longer our values.

Why do we need self-driving taxis? Why are we destroying an industry which while never making you rich does provide steady if monotonous and sometimes lonely work for hundreds of thousands of mainly men up and down the country?

Are we watching the start of the second American civil war?

Right now this is possibly the most important map projection going. It's obviously the arctic. It's also the reason why I've slowly, very very slowly come to the conclusion that Trump (and presidents and generals for the last 80 years) may actually be right bout Greenland and it's all because of

When in the future Americans wake up to fund they've no allies, no friends and no good will it's shit like this which will be used to explain "why". Your president is planning for the day when he has to attack the UK. Prick.

discussion.theguardian.com/comment-perm... It's taken a year but I think I was right.

Ukraine seems to have launched another hidden drone ambush: this time from train wagons. Reportedly, more than 100 armored vehicles were burned [SBU, June 2025] https://www.europesays.com/2144081/ Ukraine seems to have launched another hidden drone ambush: this time from train wagons. …

It doesn't? Learn something new every day.

Nigel Farage comes from Thanet. The place with the highest rates of webbed feet in the country. And he doesn't know cousin marriage is legal?

@jakubkrupa.bsky.social is it usual for the Dutch to take almost five months to hold a general election? If so, why? It seems an awfully long time.

In a day of deeply disturbing documents the last line of this paragraph has me a tad spooked.

Three days to come off morphine. That was the shittiest three days I've had for years.

Is anyone good at editing images? I just need to know how to get rid of the Watt at the top of the image. And the second T in the second Watt.

discussion.theguardian.com/comment-perm... Seven years ago and we did nothing to prepare.

Congratulations to Royal Chargers. Some fantastic cricket (I've just seen the highlights!!!) Such a shame about the dead.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j... I can't wait!

I've an incredibly bad feeling about this. The Israelis have gone mad, last time they raised the ships. This time I think they'll do something terrible.

Fucking hell Poland

More Dr Who nonsense. I think as Billy was the first person we saw in new who she'll be the last we see of the programme for a while. It would fit with RTDs aesthetic were she to bookend the series, for now.

My god, the SBU of Ukraine are suicidally brave.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j... I'm in awe. She's just amazing but in the article was something I've read previously about the french health care system. There's a really strong system of post birth gynaecological care, something I'm told is completely absent in the NHS. The benefits- manifold.

Well i can't say I'm not incredibly disappointed in that incredibly beautiful young man.

The politics of gcap is getting really interesting, if only because of what it says about America. The disquiet over Japan moving away from American dependency is growing and as others such as Saudi are mentioned so too are comments about maybe the US joining.

Come on Poland, don't let the fascist in!

@newsagents.bsky.social if you want to really scare yourselves after today's episode there's always Harold Herring and National command authority. He was a colonel in the USAF and asked the question "what happens if the president is insane". The answer was the law isn't concerned with the sanity of

Can anyone recommend a really good book of Diego Rivera's Mexico education ministry frescos?

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social is the power struggle McDonnell talked about today real?