I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.

COUNTERPOINT: You seem to be able to cope with some of them just fine. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I think she would look fetching in a beret

The school photographer at my son's school takes the year group photo by taking individual photos and editing them together. It looks really bad & must be 50x the work of just taking the photo properly.

My psychology degree is 25 years old, so maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure bipolar doesn't make you antisemitic or go to the lengths of writing songs & selling Nazi merch. I can't believe there was no pushback that West had to overcome on either of those things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer (rightly in some cases) gets a lot of shit but fuck, imagine Badenoch or Farage in charge at this particular moment.

I really hope the SRA is finally going to put a stop to solicitors who behave as badly as this guy.

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

I bring this one out every Thanksgiving.

The Artemis moonshot is a great American achievement. By the way, one crew member is Canadian. The service module, which keeps the astronauts alive, is built in Bremen. The communications depend on ground stations in the US, Spain and Australia. Dear America- don't give up your friends too easily

Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.

Another e.g. of a relatively small policy but one which helps address an every day irk, and a costly one too. Over past year Government has seemed to get much better at doing more of these tackling 'every day frustrations' policies and small cost of living fixes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

it's ridiculous that this "London has fallen" bullshit has been allowed to fester for so long. The best time to deal with this was a few years ago, and the second best time is now

Oh the irony. BBC News - Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, with my understanding of the metric system: he wasn't speeding, the fine was less than $1, and he isn't old enough to have a driver's license.

Someone in the FT comments last week tried to justify Trump's wild swings by likening them to individual poker hands. I'm not a poker player but if Trump is trying to play a game of poker then his approach feels like he's putting all his cards face up and shouting BINGO. www.ft.com/content/77e5...

I’m totally with President Trump. We had an empire once. We won the World Cup. We won the Falklands War. We voted Brexit. Let’s get OUR OIL back! Time to stop being woke wimps & invade the Straits of Hormuz. Let’s make Britain great again & help this brave, likeable President.🇬🇧

Put Dulcolax in Trump’s trough, Charlie!

Yup, a noose. Nice people eh?🤬

Okay I know we are all sick of hearing about the Burkes but you have to admit going on the run, realising nobody cares, then turning up to a prison to get arrested on purpose, all so you can get some more attention, is a very funny bit

In fairness, even South Africa didn't do this and I'm not even defending SA here

I'm sorry but if Israel is bringing back hanging but only for Palestinians then that's an apartheid state and no decent country should be supporting them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Channel 4 News trying to link the sale of vapes to child sex crimes is just bizarre. There may be good reasons to restrict the sale of vapes but this isn't it. I had a client who used his guitar to abuse young boys but that's not a reason to ban guitars. It's a reason properly monitor sex offenders.

The discussions I have read about Dean Acheson’s responsibility for the Korean War after he omitted one word from a 1950 foreign policy address now seem so quaint that I might just give up and live on a swampy planet in a little hovel.

I stupidly agreed to go to Aberystwyth Mags tomorrow morning. Now I'm discovering that there are no hotels* with vacancies for the night so it looks like I'm going to have to leave about 4am 😭 *of the sort I feel comfortable showing up to about midnight anyway.

Call out for other UK lawyers with an interest in domestic modern slavery (drugs) matters. Looking to build a bit of a practitioner group for a project, and just got better comms. Please share.

The UK should retaliate by speeding up the transition to renewable energy and cut our reliance on oil. Who would that hurt? The USA because that's where the UK currently buys the biggest share of its oil!

Right, like when one country in the alliance threatens to invade another country in the alliance.

Trump really is a moron. He's their president and doesn't know that the UK buys the majority of its oil from his country!! In fact the UAE comes number 11 on the list of oil importers to the UK. www.ft.com/content/b2c8...

Maybe I'll be proven completely wrong here, but my thought was that troops would go in after 4pm eastern time on Thursday, ie when the markets close for the long weekend!

Bizarre that Rosindell thought he'd be able to use the Romford Conservative Association offices despite defecting from the Romford Conservative Association to another party. These Brexiteers continue to live on a completely different planet to the rest of us.

'Death was not our fate': Syrian father crosses seas to save his ailing son reut.rs/4dnTLm9

A bonus historical anniversary today:

Do American "Christians" ever read the Bible? I'm no church-goer but I do remember from school something about an EU style directive prohibiting the killing of other people. All woke nonsense I'm sure, but aren't Christians supposed to be pretty woke!?!?

Take this 1973 quiz: Can you still be shocked? Would this have shocked you then? How about now? Ten questions, so let's get started.

Blimey. Even a plurality of *Reform voters* say that the US has had a negative impact on the world in recent years: Positive: 30% Mixed: 30% Negative: 35% Source: YouGov

Aside from the continuity & contamination issues, which are serious enough in themselves. Doctors don't just swab for DNA they also perform an examination using various tools to provide corroborative evidence that rape, as opposed to consensual sex, took place. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Reading the FT who say "EXCLUSIVE" Trump says he's considering seizing Kharg Island to steal Iran's oil. I'm not sure where the exclusive is because this has been obvious for a while now. www.ft.com/content/3bd9...

You only come to think like a lawyer because you do the thinking yourself, putting things together and then apart. If you use AI as a substitute for this essential work, then whatever you are doing, you ain’t lawyering.

We're not doing this AGAIN are we?? Don't the "they've cancelled..." crowd ever get fed up of looking stupid?

If only the UK had moved faster on switching to green power and away from fossil fuels. Little Marco's "we made this mess, what are you going to do to clear it up" plea just highlights how unreliable both the USA and fossil fuels have become.

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

i still can’t get over the god-tier chutzpah of creating this incredible mess for no reason and then saying to the world: “Welp, it looks like you guys better do something. Damn, that’s crazy. Good luck tho.”

No evidence of 'family voting' in the Gorton & Denton byelection say the Police after Refuk complained. Seems enough voters just hated Matt GPT To my mind the Democracy Volunteers group have some questions to answer on this, not least because they never reported any issues to election officials.

Reform has suspended one of its 73 Scottish candidates on day one, over diverting Covid grants to personal accounts. Defending candidates who said Humza Yusuf "not British" & who supported Britain First + Tommy Robinson, saying those posts were prior to selection! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My son's school was criticised by OFSTED for poor communication. The communication has been confused over the years. Today the head left, as a parting fuck up the school accidentally sent one kid's school report to EVERYONE!! Teaching is good. Leadership is fecked.

Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...