Finnish President Alexander Stubb, "Brexit was a colossal mistake" "I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit" "It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot" "It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"

Faisal Islam is utterly hopeless. Like Newsnight.

Brilliant Gillian Tett says to Islam ‘sorry I’m doing your job’ as she queries Jenrick’s lies.

Faisal Islam lets Jenrick drone on without correction or interruption. The BBC is a disgrace.

Apparently Scott Bessent’s son is at Eton.

Joe Kent, director of the national counterterrorism center, resigned today over the war in Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

‘One diplomat with knowledge of the (Geneva) talks said: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” Surprise surprise, not.

A Hard-Knock Life: A Trump Cabinet Hopeful Is Moved Offstage www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u... Epically nasty bastard

Everybody’s looking for choke points they can use, and the Finns just found one

Haven’t posted this for a few weeks. Aging absolutely tremendously

Mandelson received more than £1.5mn for stake in collapsed advisory firm Global Counsel

Let Israel send its navy to Hormuz. They got the dumb American to start this war; let the two of them finish it.

Never mind Iran, Starmer needs talks with partners to constrain rogue state of Israel.

That White House National Security Strategy document sure was useful. It said the Middle East was no longer a central theater of U.S. strategy, and Iran was not on the same strategic level as China or Russia. The U.S. would avoid American military commitments in the region, letting others lead.

Congratulations to France.

8/And same game is being played from outside — Trump family seeking contracts as part of international negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Nigel Farage pocketed £27,800 after flying to the US last week to address an anti-climate think tank with close ties to Donald Trump.

Turns out that Alan Mendoza of the Henry Jackson neocons is Farage’s foreign policy advisor. Israel Uber Alles.

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

Coverage of this war on Al-Jazeera is superior to anything here.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic... Isn't he just one big whinge about everything?

Middle East crisis live: Israel ‘targeting Iranian weapons facilities’ as rescue effort continues after US plane crash in Iraq China donating 200,000 dollars to parents of dead Iranian schoolgirls says much about the world Trump has created.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-... That Labour are even considering him as Starmer's replacement suggests the crisis is deeper than one thought.

Marvellous photograph of ? Just before his death in 1859.

aje.news/k0vx7m We should do the same.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Farage forgets which country he aims to govern Great piece

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... Very good piece.

Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos. This deranged creature is in charge of a war.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b131... Just in case anyone wants to read the Mandelson files

'Israeli spokesmen..(like David Mencer) think that with a little initial ingratiation, followed by endless repetition, rudeness, outrage, tendentiousness, spin, messaging and interruption, they will see off or avoid the points being put to them'. Mencer's the worst.

My latest inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

King Bibi is now saying that Turkey is ‘the next Iran’. Unlike his ghastly rogue state, Turkey is a staunch NATO ally. We go to war to defend it.

www.wsj.com/world/china-... What we should be doing, urgently. Odd the article does not mention nuclear power, in which China leads the world too.

www.wsj.com/world/asia/t... This is a very fine piece of reporting, about death, food and XL clothing.

Nigel Farage takes stake in bitcoin company run by Kwasi Kwarteng

Farage misses out on Trump meeting as their relationship cools

Sack the useless Dr Shah and offer BBC chairmanship to Gillian Tett who has guts as well as a big brain.

Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.