PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

Led by donkeys played a blinder 😃😃👌

Trump got called a declining nation to his face by a foreign autocrat he flew 20 hours to grovel before, and his response was to post a Biden blame thread. Staggering levels of humiliated delusion on full public display.

Trump must have just learned that when Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap to his face, he was essentially calling the United States a nation in decline. Now, Trump is trying to spin it, claiming that Xi must have been talking about Biden. Really humiliating stuff.

Trump delights in his deference to Xi, his strongman fantasy made flesh www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

Donald Trump will arrive in Beijing this week knowing that Xi holds all the cards | Simon Tisdall www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform's vetting failed. Now its leadership is failing too. 👎 Tice was asked to condemn Gibbins's racist comments today and couldn't do it. 📎 Our original investigation: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/01/m...

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Iran is at it again. This time they added the Tesla logo. 😂

the optics of this Oval Office event are absolutely insane. get a load of this. crazytown.

Martin Rowson on King Charles’s visit to the US – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

Met this feisty pheasant on a recent walking weekend in the Angus glens of Scotland. Real tough guy. Didn't like us being on his land. Stood his ground and finally chased us away to the city. Much respect, sir!

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BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Arsenal fans have reportedly sent a round ticket for JD Vance to come over and support Manchester City for the premiership....

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

The President of the United States and the Secretary of State are attending a UFC event tonight as negotiations with Iran collapse in Islamabad—raising the risk of a massive war restarting. 📸 Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Pool via REUTERS

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Stephen Miller says that the US is "the apex of civilization". Rest of world laughs and points.

In a war with no winners, Netanyahu looks like the biggest loser www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

More reflections. Control of Strait of Hormuz is big win for Iran, which they won't relinquish long-term. Surprising number of Iranian missiles/drones were not intercepted. Should be more attention on Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Hezbollah/Houthis likely emboldened by Iranian resilience.

Reflections before more Trump hubris. To claim legitimate victory Iranian regime only had to survive war. Uranium remains in place. Airstrikes don't remove regimes like Iran. Trump confirmed (again) as unhinged and unreliable. War unpopular in US. Outlook for Gulf economies (travel/tourism) bleak.

In a sane world, in a world of accountability, the man who incited a deadly insurrection five years ago never would have been able to hold public office again. That reckless, abusive man needs to be removed from office. Now.

For how how long have we been told that the US has this fabulous written Constition whereas we do not? But the US Constitution has been shown to be the emperor with no clothes It might as well be a blank sheet of paper It might as well not exist The US is acting entirely on the whim of one man

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

Spot on.

🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 French Senator Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

BREAKING: Iran says regime change operation in US is well underway as a string of senior officials and military chiefs resign from their roles 👀

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

How humiliating. @economist.com www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.

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.

He’s absolutely insane. video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

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NYC NO kings

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

The delusion of easy victory from the air may have seduced the US into another war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...