From a slightly different era

Trump and his weirdos like to say that if he's been president in 2022, the war in Ukraine would never have happened. Yeah right. But the war in Iran is only happening because Trump was president in 2017.

Laila Cunningham doesn't know the difference between an "act of war" and a "war crime", maybe just don't have her on. #Newsnight

Ah, Trump – between games of 5d chess – has been reading The Prince, gotcha. #Newsnight

I wonder whether Prince Charles will have any luck rekindling the special relationship later this month when he meets President Vance.

Maybe a whole civilisation *has* died. 🗽

At least the Mad Mullahs aren't actually, you know, mad.

He's your president, America, this is on you. We hear a lot that you're a nation of laws, so, you know, use them.

You guys, the rest of us - we're the big blobby bits that aren't America - we don't have till the midterms. While we wish you well, we don't care too much right now about your internal due process, but do note you've several constitutionally sound tools at your disposal. You have to stop him - now.

Netflix's Three Body Problem really nails how hot Oxford physics graduates all are.

Have Trump and Trigger Pete seen Top Gun: Maverick all the way through? Somehow I think this is a question which might matter.

It is very interesting that NASA rightly spends enormous amounts on making sure their hardware works safely and in an understood way in all scenarios it might be exposed to; then use off-the-shelf software which tends to breakdown precisely at edge cases (which a ride round the Moon definitely is)

Penny Mordaunt seems to defend the hot war terrorising Iran, the Levant and the Gulf as part of economic war against China. #bbcaq

I don't think many listeners are coming with so brute a set of lazy prejudices about teaching as Jonny is ventriloquising; uncharacteristic of him, and rather a waste of an interview. #wato #bbcwato

All that has been said by her enemies of the outgoing Attorney General, all the names she's been called, prove without doubt that Americans have never heard of Bondi Beach.

US gas prices top 81p a litre

Not being cynical, the moon flight is very exciting. But what other things first done in 1968 would be exciting and futuristic if we did them again today?

"You're really getting to the interesting stuff with this plan to invade Iran. Your thinking is very smart — your idea of bombing your way to regime change in particular is insightful! If you like, I can also suggest a girls' school for you to bomb. Then, we can think of new names for Hormuz" #bbcpm

Reporting of Israel's lynching law suggests it's *de facto* discriminatory, because it requires that a terrorist attack aim to "negate" Israel. But in the occupied territories, it applies only to Palestinians and excludes Israelis (including murderous settlers). It's in fact discriminatory de jure.

By Trump's count, the war against Iran is always 14 to 21 times further from its end than the war against Ukraine. Not sure why the oil markets are on a trigger hair

Just nonsense. You can't "reset the dial" while the clock's movement's broken. If we're sending him for immediate pragmatism, that's fine, but there's no "reset" coming till Trump's gone – if then. #bbcpm

You'd think that an adventure, at Israel's behest, to a middle Eastern shipping channel over which you are no longer up to imposing control and where important allies don't join you is a really specific way for an Empire to fall, but looks like we're heading for a third in seventy years.

American media, politicians and people need to stop awarding points and demerits for how the administration is performing against "normal times" norms, and uhm stop them.

America could drop the bomb and be over it in a news cycle.

Bob Jenrick would doubtless have approved of the Psalm Psunday procession that just went past my house, but I was surprised they were carrying an (uncovered) crucifix - isn't that a spoiler that's meant to be avoided in Holy Week?

Nobody's last words were ever "I wish I'd played less Mario Kart"

Oh my god this old man on the radio who wants to ban social media and bring back Netscape Navigator is my age. #bbcaq

Darren Grimes is deeply simple, he's very lucky that the rightwing leadership are loyal enough to give him his sinecures. #bbcaq

Netanyahu explains Israel and the US are fighting for "the common goal of achieving the objectives of the war" so that's cleared that up then

Surely this man must wake each day as happy as anyone else, till after just a few seconds he remembers "oh shit, I'm Bob Jenrick, what have I done". #bbcwato

Maybe what I love the most about DJT is how good a diplomat he is 🥰 #bbcwato

"I lost my phone so the messages are gone forever" is roughly equivalent to an 18th century claim that you'd lost your quill and so all your past correspondence had been consumed by flames.

My god what a load of bollocks. Imagine saying it's the Catholic church that's obsessed with ritual, then having a reverse cherry-knock and a round of musical chairs, neither of which has anything at all to do with God, and are at best only about mundane power. #bbcpm

Not very long after those with white collar jobs have finished prompting their replacements, the welders and plumbers will finish building theirs. #r4today

"you're the baddy and you've got no bullets and also I shooted you and you are my prisoner and I have a big boat but you don't and now we are doing a pea treaty." "What's a pea treaty?" "Shut up and also lie down you're dead remember, ok now you have to say 'I lost'" "You lost" "NOOO YOU SAY "*I*...

Kleptocracy gunna klep. Least surprising news ever, literally all of us knew this would happen. #bbcpm

Are the Tories calling on the government to renationalise the North Sea oil fields? Are they proposing we don't compensate? It doesn't really deserve to be in the headlines, as though it's an actual policy #bbcwato

US fuel prices have gone over a pound a litre........

Oh god, those around Trump are pretending to him that they're making progress, so that he won't greenlight a catastrophic attack they know America can't back up, because they're not ready to depose him yet. They should at least get Iran to pretend as well. #bbcpm

Jenrick: they banned Chrismas, what an insult to our Lord Chris

For all the mundane provocations of fashion, why has absolutely nobody ever dared move the logo to the right breast of a shirt?

I've told ChatGPT I've been teleported to a Waffle House, and this seems to be enough to have it doubting its own reality.

Nobody, really, wants to "destroy Great Britain" you weirdo freaks.

'Halima Aziz, head of hotels at Zedwell, said: “Oxford is one of the world’s most iconic and culturally rich cities, making it a natural fit for Zedwell as we continue to scale up across the UK."' Zedwell and Oxford, together at last.

Amazing to reflect that Japan's PM had almost certainly been briefed that Trump might do a Pearl Harbor joke, and that that brief came as no surprise to her.

It's our grandparents who didn't like the marriage, and it's not up to them anymore. #wato

If a war can now be prosecuted as "bomb and bomb and bomb a country half the size of India until it buckles", we're surely aboard the nuclear escalator.

Spring, sprung

I think the minister shouldn't be talking about "megawatts per hour", it shakes my confidence that he knows the numbers. #r4today

"War on the edge of Europe" can someone get Laura a map? #r4today