NATO should bring back Anders Fogh Rasmussen because, no homo, I feel he could persuade anyone to do anything.

Ok I often make fun of the absurd things I get served on Instagram, but I just got a promoted post about a museum in South Dakota where they have an original Florida 2000 Presidential voting booth and ballot paper, and yeah, you got me, that's a thing I would go and see.

Like Chernobyl 🤦

oh no

"I'll tell you something that's not so funny. Right now, Rory Stewart is at home, crying like a little girl!"

That's what domestic staff are for, and incidentally why the price difference between big and mahoosive isn't that significant once you are more than a chopper ride from Central London.

Look, if anyone wants to bung cash to promote the centre right, you know where I am.

I'm not sure the US can ever fully redeem itself in the eyes of the rest of the world, but if they want to start, watching JD Vance cry his eyes out in Nov 2028 would be a start.

Can't believe it's been nearly 218 years since them slags made stamp duty as valorem on estates, it still freaks my nut out to this day.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Think this is true, and part of a broader good thread. And often it is addressed at people in countries where people have faced down more authoritarian regimes in living memory. Or posits it as a certainty that they can't rather than that they are exercising a choice about the risks.

Will never miss an opportunity to post this

I have an idea for a coat.

I’d never have believed I’d be posting a piece in April backing a manager who’d won only one league game all season - but hear me out, this is #SWFC ! www.thestar.co.uk/sport/footba...

Some enterprising 2022-24 Tories should move to the US as copium consultants.

Look, if this gets us to "US Harold Macmillan" by the summer I'll concede it might be worth it, but that seems unlikely.

More seriously I think a lot of this is rooted in seeing Reform as merely a troublesome disaffected faction of the Conservative Party, rather than a political opponent.

One of the things you gain from befriending criminal lawyers is an insight into how stupid most criminals are.

Goodbye, Lenin! remake but it's just using twitter dot com and Times columns to convince Westminster right wingers the Tory party is still alive.

Oh, and the Veep spent the day making Kremlin talking points for the khuylo's greatest European accessory.

If US politics had discovered the concept of object permanence, he'd be fucked. Alas...

Anyway, if anyone fancies taking on the most chaotic fun job in politics, they are hiring:

Seeing a lot of US accounts talking about "nuclear war" and the "threat" to them when the real horror of this right now is the US performing a nuclear-armed genocide, or conventionally delivered massive crimes against humanity, and you all really need to remember the lives of other people matter.

Throw you in jail, these days...

Trying to get Gen Z interested in Roger Bushell by calling him that.

Would be interested in what the tendency is for contracts in the industry on stuff like this, because it's entirely possible that this just means he gets the money for doing nothing.

Anyway, at least Harold Hering is seemingly alive to see this. share.google/K5VYBtmld9gN...

Croesus looking at this "Oh, mate"

Protect yourself economically, and commit to stopping smoking with this one simple trick.

Thinking of this again, and more generally how little info there will be about the impact on the Gulf's most marginalised workers. This is about the only thing I've seen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This reminds me of finding an encyclopedia from c.1934 at my great-aunt's house. And guess which entry ended with "some of his views are rather extreme"

One of the best awkward social interactions I've ever observed was at uni, between a guy who told people his dad was a builder (actually a director of a major construction company) and one who told people his dad was a property developer (actually a builder and maybe had a BTL).

Watching Streeting do the media round on the doctor's strike, and think a fundamental mistake in the politics here is not realising that the BMA aren't on the ballot paper for voters.

That "almost physical horror of violence" is showing again.

Lot of people replying to this have never been to Banja Luka.

The Roger Scruton cafe is one of the weirdest things in the world. Basically a generic Insta friendly brunch place, with the most grafted on nods to Scruton, frequented by locals who pay no heed to the theme, and British politicos there for the novelty.

Would love to read a book about TV shows, books, etc that were massive cultural phenomena of their times but left almost no lasting impact/legacy.

The existence of The Board of Deputies of British Jews implies the existence of a Board of Sheriffs of British Jews

Not the first to make this observation, but Mamdani's political superpower basically seems to be that he is happy and enjoys life.

The pessimistic case is "There's no civilisation left".

Think another bad thing about the Sunak 24 election was the half-baked National Service plan which kind of stymied what could and should be a serious conversation, especially when you look at European allies.

I play the ultimate card of living on the top floor of a block that's heated individually.

Unless you have some actual medical reasons for this, instead of an energy cap there should be an escalator, getting more expensive once your usage becomes this insane

Enjoying* the spectrum of political Easter postings that run from "no acknowledgement this is a religious holiday" to "weirdly shoe horned bit of religious imagery".

Need someone like David Mitchell fronting a sort of "buy a bike, get a jumper" type public awareness film.

On to the third proving and now slightly regretting my "I'll make paskas for Easter" enthusiasm.

If anything, MPs experiences will skew towards those in difficulty because no one goes to their MP to say "Hey, I'm doing fine"