The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions. Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

Don't waste yoghurt on Farage when he comes home. The water companies have a plentiful supply of ordure to use instead.

Thoughts on the news at 10:30: When Trump says what he'll do next and to whom I hear the first line of a song in my head, "If I ruled the world...". He really thinks he could. The War is exposing just how oil-dependent so many are. Maybe they'll do something about that? And Badenoch is very stupid.

The debate has been postponed until 23rd March.

NHS England has been slow to act on supplying teenagers with cross-sex hormones. Young people who've already had them could supply all the evidence needed of the harm they do. While trans activists threaten legal actions, it's likely that more recipients could sue for damages.

‘The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.’ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The Green Party has committed £540,000 of its members' money to fighting its own women in court. Not on climate policy. Not on housing. On silencing women who state biological facts. The Green Women's Declaration has formally begun legal proceedings for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

I see St Eustachius in Tavistock still has squatters

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns: Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable The British government should be stockpiling food, according to a leading expert on food policy, ...

So much for not getting involved. I'm slow to anger, but this makes me angry.

I'm not proud of being British, just because I was born here. There are many British achievements to be proud of, if you contributed to them or share them, but this small country's successive governments have caused havoc in The Middle East and the Far East (named in relation to us) and elsewhere.

Fiona Bruce asked how many of the Question Time audience thought we (the UK) should be involved in Trump's war. Hardly anyone put their hand up. I'd be surprised if many Americans thought it was a good idea.

Any god that looked approvingly on Trump and his cohort would be of the malevolent variety. I feel nauseous ...

Hearing about gung-ho Pete Hegseth, who seems to be enjoying the war, reminded me of the end of Dr. Strangelove.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

The BBC's Chris Mason would make a lousy politician.

Sent a strongly worded message via a business's not very well designed website to tell them the information on the packaging of a frozen meal is illegible. Was only able to read the heating instructions because I have a clever AI app. Drives me mad.

When I was in primary school, I had a Ninja Turtles lunchbox. On it, Michelangelo was carrying a pizza. Standard However, one kid insisted it was a cake. No matter how much logic, evidence, and wider context I gave him, he refused to accept it wasn't a cake I think that kid works for GB News now

The Norway Consumer Council is so on the ball with this! Absolutely love it vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

I joined two support groups for people with health conditions like mine, but the effect was negative, so I quit. Their members would benefit from learning stoicism. Epictetus wrote, "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens," or, "Shit happens; deal with it."

There's a story on Facebook about French shelters for the homeless being decorated by artists. Seems as splendid idea.

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

They say we must fight to keep our freedom But Lord knows there's got to be a better way, oh War, huh (God y'all) What is it good for? You tell me (nothing) Say it, say it, say it, say it

Well said.

Trump says that Starmer is no Churchill, but neither is he. Churchill seldom minced words. I can imagine what he might have said about Trump. "Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip." - Winston Churchill

I keep seeing pictures of Trump in his tastelessly gilded Oval Office, and think of King Midas.

An antidote to all the nastiness in the news. XXX

It's Shock and Awe all over again, or deadly liberation.

I used to know a racist farmer's widow. She became aware that I disapproved but still confessed, after we'd had a snack in an Ipswich store, that she didn't like accepting her change from the lady on the till, who was black, for fear she'd catch something.

This report is from last summer, since when work on a new nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast has begun. A friend walked along the coast in the last few days and saw the devastation. Tonight's news was of the rapid coastal erosion a few miles south. The site could be submerged before long.

Trust The Sun to frame this in the grimmest way possible. It's called aquamation, Desmond Tutu had one and it's way better for the environment. Be chill.

My cat just woke up from a nap on my lap and told me something very important. I wish I knew what it was.

Took this photo of my garden from upstairs on this day 8 years ago. Today it's been bright and sunny, as far as I know. I've slept through most of it.

On the 2003 anti-war with Irac demonstration on London I found myself next to a tall, well-dressed woman, who appeared to be alone, carrying a neatly-worded placard with the words "Down with all of that". I smiled at her and she smiled back. Would love to know more about her.

His followers don't realize this either

And while the lunatics in The Middle East are fighting, there's another example of stupidity in Nigeria, which is comical rather than lethal. Anglicans, whose ideology owes its existence to Henry XIII and Pope Paul III, say the British are doing it all wrong. I wonder if Jesus was gay?

What's happening in the Middle East is a clash of religious & nationalist ideologies, none of which are compatible with reality, all stirred up, without difficulty, by the megalomaniac in Washington who's unaffected by any of it. None will ever admit they were or are wrong. Our species is primitive.

Douglas Adams was right. I've shared this before, because it's true.

She had nothing to do since finishing her film. Good she has something to keep her busy.

None of the current warmongers were ever interested in the rather urgent matter of dealing with climate change. Trump doesn't even believe it's happening. And they're distracting less aggressive political leaders from doing anything about it. Nature has the potential to destroy much more than them.

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." - Mark Twain

I've got some new hearing aids. Now everything sounds really LOUD! If only they made spectacles that had the same effect.

What my cat sees when we wake up in the morning.

#Dartmoor National Park Authority is looking for a Landscape Project Officer www.dartmoor.gov.uk/about-us/wor... #jobs #devon

I've just been followed by someone who's following 24.4k people. Ridiculous! If you're "follpwing" a huge number, you're not actually following any of them. It's simply attentions-seeking, so I'll block you. Bye bye!

Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To be expected.

For a good look at what's happening in the Middle East, listen to this.