Today's general election in Hungary is probably the most significant of all recent stress tests of western-style democracy. There has been open interference and disinformation campaigns on behalf of Orban's party, especially by the Russia and the US, and open bribery of voters. Result late tonight.

You don't invite someone like Tice to give their excuses.

What a hypocrite..gave Angela Rayner a hard time...he should show some decency and resign, but we all know he won't..

Trump: "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Thoughts trying to enter, or leave, my Brain (otherwise known as the Strait to my Arse)"

Trump: "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Thoughts trying to enter, or leave, my Brain (otherwise known as the Strait to my Arse)"

Does he need the help of the European navies to do this? You know, as he asked for their help before?

🤔 If it's a verb, then it could have a gerund, and we could say "The blockading of the Strait of Hormuz is another ploy by US to persuade everyone to buy their oil from US"

I don't hold with the use of 'blockade' as a verb. It's really a noun, and describes for example what's evidently happening to any thoughts that attempt to transit Trump's brain.

Richard Tice is facing demands to “urgently explain” himself over allegations his company broke the law by failing to pay more than £90,000 in tax.

I don't hold with the use of 'blockade' as a verb. It's really a noun, and describes for example what's evidently happening to any thoughts that attempt to transit Trump's brain.

Gosh, why didn't I think of that?

Only a very stable genius could come up with a proposal like this to address the problem of the Strait being blocked to ships.

Obviously if the Iranians are blocking the Strait to ships, the solution, for a very stable genius like Trump, is for the US to block it to ships.

Obviously if the Iranians are blocking the Strait to ships, the solution, for a very stable genius like Trump, is for the US to block it to ships.

Only a very stable genius could come up with a proposal like this to address the problem of the Strait being blocked to ships.

He is a very stable genius.

He is a very stable genius.

A Catholic Church leader warns Cuba is near humanitarian collapse as Trump sanctions and fuel shortages choke aid delivery.

Good point Laurence; the buggery & Nazi frat houses. Even so... Thatcher?!!! But John Major was a grammar school boy like me..... no excuse for a poor education with him.

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Helping how?

Remember, after Obama made an absolutely historic verifiable deal with Iran to stop them from developing a nuclear weapon, 47 Republican senators sent a letter to Iran promising to rip the deal up. None of this would be happening if EVERY Republican in Congress wasn't helping Trump.

That sounds terribly helpful!

I think that's overcomplicating it. The war was launched at the insistence of Israel and at a time when Trump was persuaded that the victory which he wrongly expected would counter his party's likely losses in the coming midterms.

Well,to be clear,they believe that they're winning not despite global economic& security collapse but because of it.It is spelled out in project 2025.They want a new world order& this is how they intend to bring it about.So,not winning for the people of any country,but winning for the "ruling" class

She must have been an acquired taste, although it's not one that I ever acquired. Petronella loved her, but for me she was always a wicked harridan.

Surely I'm not alone in being unsurprised by the collapse of the US-Iran talks? The US has not sent any serious politicians (it no longer has any) and those it has sent appear still to believe that they're winning despite their war on Iran having precipitated global economic and security freefall.

Surely I'm not alone in being unsurprised by the collapse of the US-Iran talks? The US has not sent any serious politicians (it no longer has any) and those it has sent appear still to believe that they're winning despite their war on Iran having precipitated global economic and security freefall.

Maybe that's because you weren't educated in an English boys' public school (I don't know). If you had been, you might understand that women remain forever mysterious to many such men and are regarded like the school matron and mummy - fragrant vessels of intuition and authority with magical powers.

What I never got is she "used her sexuality" to get her own way amongst cabinet, fluttering an eyelash with husky voice (soz I'm about to vomit). How depraved would you be to respond to that? Wasn't John Major one? Might explain his tryst with Edwina Currie that gave me the biggest laugh in the 90s.

This piece is pretty good. It appears in the Telegraph India, which is thankfully entirely unrelated to its UK namesake newspaper, which is said to have become a travesty of its former self (although I was never much attracted to it's earlier incarnation). @mukulkesavan.bsky.social

You're thinking of Thatcher, whose grave has been pissed on so many times and for so long that the site on which she is buried has almost become geographically distinct as an island.

You're thinking of Thatcher, whose grave has been pissed on so many times and for so long that the site on which she is buried has almost become geographically distinct as an island.

There are a number of commentators pushing the notion that international law is a mirage. At best, more honoured in the breach than in the observance. It's true that the US has long honoured it only in respect of breaches *against* itself. No coincidence that's much like US religious observance.

There are a number of commentators pushing the notion that international law is a mirage. At best, more honoured in the breach than in the observance. It's true that the US has long honoured it only in respect of breaches *against* itself. No coincidence that's much like US religious observance.

My wish is to perform another bodily function on it

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The bastard is 14 years older than me & I hope I live to see the end of his entire fascist movement & get to say “I told you so” to some people I know.

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Trump is over 6 years older than me, so I have a reasonable expectation of surviving him. And if I do, I am *so* going to dance on his grave.

Mark Twain *didn't* say, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure'. And nor did I. However I have said, 'I’ve often wished men dead, but none more so than Trump.'

This is one of several possible roads to global war. No one who has had any close dealings with the Chinese could be surprised. If US military aircraft get shot down by Iranians using Chinese hardware, that's a certain route to direct US-Chinese hostile engagement. bsky.app/profile/news...

This is one of several possible roads to global war. No one who has had any close dealings with the Chinese could be surprised. If US military aircraft get shot down by Iranians using Chinese hardware, that's a certain route to direct US-Chinese hostile engagement. bsky.app/profile/news...

The lies linking me with the disgraceful Melania Trump need to end today. I never had a relationship with Melania or her accomplice Donald. I was never even invited to the same parties as the Trumps (and had I been, I would not have accepted).

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Mary Trump dismisses MAGA defectors as self-serving opportunists who helped enable her uncle's rise.

The lies linking me with the disgraceful Melania Trump need to end today. I never had a relationship with Melania or her accomplice Donald. I was never even invited to the same parties as the Trumps (and had I been, I would not have accepted).

Take a number, join the queue.

Mark Twain *didn't* say, 'I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure'. And nor did I. However I have said, 'I’ve often wished men dead, but none more so than Trump.'