I remember the looks on the faces of the folks in DC after the events of Jan 6th. This isn't that.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I spoke to former cabinet minister Robert Buckland about the government's proposals for SEND reform Buckland spoke about his daughter Millie, who is autistic, has learning disabilities and a physical condition. “Politicians who bleat on about overdiagnosis don’t know what they’re talking about."

Did any of the journalists have their guns with them so they could take down the bad guy, or was it like one of those NRA events where you have to leave it at the door?

Right, it's important to remember that this is unfortunately a fairly common experience for most presidents, but normally presidents don't spend all their time crying about it in public.

Good piece. Especially the point that three quarters of degrees are already “vocational”

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

To be fair, seeing the sun in Scotland back then was probably akin to a religious experience. [Ducks]

Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.

The silence about this case is incredible.

Remember the Hortmans as the whole "political violence is only on the left" machine starts up again.

The shooting did not take place on the same floor as Trump www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

All whilst the US is at war with a prime sponsor of global terror.

These images need posting on every story reporting that he was shot. Just point out where he was hit, it shouldn't be hard.

America is at war with Iran - one of the prime sponsors of terrorist groups across the globe. If the incident at the WHCD wasn't staged then we should be expecting resignations from the Secret Service asap. (And if I'm Iran, I'd be bemoaning a clear missed opportunity for a decapitation strike).

You have the President, the VP, Miller and others in one room and somebody smuggles that much weaponry into the same venue? Come on now...

It's the principled nature of Labour's stances, like the pressing need to give young people a stake in democracy, that I most admire about them.

Farage & Reform UK addicted to foreign money. £22m in political donations from ex UK resident living in Thailand with crypto business in El Salvador. What return has been promised? People not living in UK, not paying UK taxes changing UK political landscape.

But Rayner’s frock and Starmer’s glasses.

In a new massacre Israeli drones directly targeted a phone-charging point run by civilian Imad Miqdad in Gaza, killing him along with other civilians 3 years ago they cut off their electricity, so solar-powered & improvised energy points have become essential for survival; so deliberately targeted

Damn Republicans really got that “push building the ballroom” memo fast. Not at all artificial or coordinated.

Trump is so unlucky. Every time he’s trying to win a close election or is bombing in the polls because of his failed policies someone lets off a gun in his vicinity.

Every time the media reports that Trump was shot on the ear in a previous assassination attempt, they should be mandated to show a photo of his ear and highlight the wound.

Karoline Leavitt said the first honest thing in her career right before the WHCD shooting incident. “THERE WILL BE SOME SHOTS FIRED TONIGHT IN THE ROOM. EVERYONE SHOULD TUNE IN. IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY GREAT.”

Everyone immediately assuming that an attempt on the President is staged is probably not a sign of a healthy democracy.

Gosh, would-be assassins are so much less competent than they used to be. Trump just lucky I guess.

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Nigel Farage should definitely threaten the income of the unemployed and low-skilled.

Particularly as the main beneficiary will be the guy who reportedly sang "gas them all" and said "Hitler was right" (when he wasn't imitating gas chambers)...

It’s honestly insane to watch American conservatives pretend that the energy transition just is not happening. Batteries are bridging the gap in California. Many countries in Europe get the majority of their power from wind and solar. It’s just… here.

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The banter move is surely for Ukraine to announce that they are going to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran and they’ll let the US know which states it has to hand over.

‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?

The Conservatives and Reform backed Trump’s idiotic war in Iran. Since then, it’s dragged down the economy, driven up inflation, and now the US is openly questioning British sovereignty over the Falklands. This is what sucking up to Donald Trump gets you.

Shorter @katie0martin.ft.com today bsky.app/profile/alda...

In quickfire responses Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch sees VP Vance as "more responsible" than Pres Trump Interesting snippet that Tory leader does not now prioritise USA > EU as a partner for post-Brexit Britain: "Both. We don't have to choose. We can do both" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Remarkable how accepted the double standard is when it comes to attacking voters. The right can have senior leaders call progressive voters every name under the sun. If some left wing Twitch streamer so much as hints the right aren't all economically anxious saints, we get 150 op-eds about it.

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

I wonder where we would be in the league if we had given Jesus this role earlier in the season? Would have maybe helped Kalimuendo find his feet as well? Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I guess #nffc

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Almost there! Professional performance in the second half. Hope Jair Cunha is ok for Thursday 🤞 #nffc

Really pretty kooky the amount of firepower the US has expended so far during the Iran campaign. A quarter of Jassm missiles gone. A third of its Tomahawks. Half of the Pac-3 Patriot missiles. And for what? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Yeah, like this side and system. #nffc

Our investigation has found a Merseyside Reform candidate, hoping to be elected in next month’s locals shared holocaust denial claims on social media as well as 9/11 conspiracy theories and various other deeply troubling posts

We need to completely rethink the Lords. Sham of a democracy.

'It used to be a warning from history; now it's the news' Well said Mark Gatiss on #C4News

West Brom joining the ever growing list of clubs suffering points penalties whilst we await the outcome of the Man City investigations... really is beyond a joke now.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.