He must be feeling the heat

Perfect

No idea why (I do actually; friends have lost partners recently) but I may have shed a tear at the end there. What a brilliant writer she is.

He's doing a pretty good job all by himself to be fair

Guy has a point

Sooooooo true!🤷‍♀️

Fine work

The other way of looking at it Pete is you don't have much of an alliance if some of its members actively threaten to invade others

This is pretty extraordinary. A lot can happen between now and April 12 (and after, for that matter), but fingers crossed.

Goodwin crashes and burns. Hugely enjoyable

Want to strengthen EUropean democracy? (1) Do not accept anti-democratic behavior within the EU (2) Become less dependent upon NATO/US (3) Convince EUropeans of importance and costs of democracy (4) Develop a humane immigration discourse and policy

You bet we're seeing the results

These people

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

as a seasoned Trump watcher it's clear to me that his tale about Iran reaching out to make "a deal" to end his war of aggression is mostly if not entirely fabricated and represents a desperate attempt to find an offramp before the economy and his political standing totally tank

This account @alexjungle.bsky.social has been told by multiple people it's spreading fake news, but continues to defend it and to insult everyone who tells him why it's a bad idea. Up to you what you do about that but I'm blocking.

Thoroughly recommend Gail, really gorgeous work and couldn't have been more helpful in all her dealings with me - esp on complicated delivery to France

This is an excellent point, also valid for Reform UK and others

Qatar: Have a lovely shiny jet, Mr President. Trump: Thanks. Have a 9% gap in your GDP.

Top work

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Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

For French-speaking followers, this is a sobering but hugely readable look at a world in scarily fast transition, by someone who has witnessed (and understands) more of it than most of us. Top work @pierrehaski.bsky.social

Delighted to have finally encountered in person the legend that is @eurostarjustin.bsky.social in St Pancras this morning

Hey ho

Terrific read, can't recommend highly enough www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hahaha

🇫🇷‼️ France is assembling an “unprecedented” fleet of eight frigates, an aircraft carrier and two helicopter carriers in the eastern Med and “off the straits of Hormuz”, President Emmanuel Macron said today. 1/

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

Haha www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/03/e...

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has given US permission to use UK bases to launch “defensive” airstrikes against Iran - destroying its missiles “at source” to prevent them firing across region.

US dept of education has a five-storey high banner honouring Charlie Kirk as one of the heroes of American education, seriously

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

How dim actually are these people

Oh, hello. [From a Labour Gorton & Denton campaign video]

Gripping read, culmination of many months' work by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Carney's incredible secret sauce seems to be - say what the problem is, whose fault it is, what you will have to do about it and what it will cost.

Welcome to the Brexit, sir

Haha, just for the record: he blocked me first :)

I particularly admire "dissent". Lol, indeed. What you're doing is the actual definition of bad-faith engagement. Bye now. Blocking you as soon as I can be reasonably sure you've read this.

Troll account, do not feed

This is fantastic

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

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Some day I want to travel to the Arctic just to check if Uber tells me there are lots of drivers nearby

Germany foreign ministry playing a blinder on Insta www.instagram.com/reel/DUGW47K...

Hahahahaha

Hear hear