...and in this week's mass shooting, the majority of Americans remain unconvinced that guns are bad for you. Thoughts are prayers are expected to ameliorate any collateral damage to people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Getting rid of Trump doesn't solve the greater problem. Until America can conceive and support a political party that advocates in the real public interest (education, healthcare, gun control, equal rights, etc.), nothing will really change. And the Democrats are NOT the answer. That, we know. 2/2

Americans seem not to grasp that the Trump regime doesn't represent a sudden lurch into lawlessness. It's the inevitable end product of a right wing political landscape (BOTH parties) that has summarily prioritized greed (the pursuit of individual wealth) over the public interest for decades. 1/2

To soften the blow of tariffs imposed on it's former allies, the yanks are now exporting drunk American wife abusers to dispense free political advice to elected foreign leaders. How grateful we all are for this gesture of good will. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honest question: How the fuck do Americans live with themselves? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Holy shit, Batman, I've found an American I like. He is, though, one of our own.

It's reached the "yawn' stage. After eighteen plus months of caring about stopping Trump and presuming Americans would do something to avert outright corruption, these days I just flip to the next story, and leave them to enjoy basking in their sea of shit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Forewarned time and time again, and yet... Nothing so unattractive as self pity. No sympathy here. Own it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The cheer in the pub last night when Gabriel missed that penalty 😂😂😂. Even the Brexiteers turned French for the night. As for the arse, watching them and their arrogant, plastic fan base well, not hard to see why.

So Kemi reckons that Tony Blair should vote Conservative. Who the fuck does she think he's been voting for up to now?

No words...UTFP. South London and proud tonight.

My impression is that many Americans on here and elsewhere think that turning out the vote and winning an election or two will restore the normal order. It won't. I really don't think most grasp that Trump has destroyed the USA for good. It may be reborn in future, but what it was is beyond revival.

Our manager, Oliver Glasner: "Living in some very challenging times right now all over the world, and migration is a big topic. I'm a migrant, and now I feel I will leave as one of South London’s, and this shows if you are open to the culture then it's possible to find a great way together."

Imagine hosting a World Cup and not allowing a team to stay in your country. America is the scum of the earth. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Have any of the Americans on here who post the same exact line every single day ("Trump is a rapist/liar/felon", etc.) while he continues to be their president, ever stopped to think just how impotent and thus stupid this makes them look to the entire rest of the world? Asking for a friend.

To Leipzig, we're on our way.

New York Giants release new quarterbacks uniform for 2026.

Congratulations to one of our own, Adam Wharton, on his decision to stand up against the Trump regime and boycott the World Cup.

When Americans won't police themselves, other nations joining together to do it for them becomes an inevitability. And we're about to see it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So Starmer thinks the Arsenal game should be free-to-air but not a mention of us or Villa. Nothing ever changes. You know what they all are.

Steve Gibson 😂😂😂😂😂

I know that Americans will doubt this (or be too busy posting Epstein memes to notice it) but the things that happen when you, er, put scientists in charge of your science. Who could possibly have guessed? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

😂😂😂

The world turning its back on America story just gets funnier and funnier. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Seriously, these muppets need to stop the pathetic bet hedging. I wouldn't support anyone or any party whose position wasn't explicitly Rejoin the EU now. When it comes to self destruction, no middle ground is needed.

We're the famous Crystal Palace and we're going to Germany...

Americans are apparently surprised that nobody wants to come to their country 😂😂😂. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just for once, Farage tells the truth. He certainly can't be "bought by anybody". Only by those with a few million quid to spare.

Political decision-making is binary. Streeting will bottle it because he knows (by now, if not before) that he doesn't have anywhere close to the support he needs. Declaring and running has been a fool's errand. His over-reach has been suicidal, both to his own career and Starmer's leadership.

Feels like today's the day it all implodes, or explodes (depending, I guess, on your point of view), and a leadership race begins. No reason I can see replacing Starmer with pound-shop Starmer so my guess is Rayner (or a dark horse yet to emerge?) wins. Off we go... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Apparently Wes Streeting is mounting a leadership challenge, even though I can find no reports at all of Kemi Badenoch resigning.

This is happening why exactly? A Prime Minister no one wants meeting a "challenger" so unpopular that he can't mount a challenge...what are they going to talk about? And it's front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Labour MPs current position seems to be "we haven't got anyone capable of leading the country, but it's definitely not the bloke we've got now. Anyone got any ideas?". Well, that's a novel tactic for government if nothing else. Unlikely to end well, though.

Jess Phillips' resignation letter is a pretty fair summary of why Starmer is where he is, whether you like/agree with her or not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, in ending the USA's global influence, perhaps Trump has done the world, if not his own country, a favour. How nice of the American people to let him do it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Whatever you think of Zak Polanski, he is 100% right about this. He gets it, and Starmer doesn't, and that in a nutshell explains Labour's demise and the Green surge last week. Amazingly, today's speech shows Starmer STILL doesn't get it, which means he's effectively done.

I suspect it's "when, not if' for Starmer. He's finished. Once this much shit rolls downhill this often, it becomes impossible to stop even if he clings on a little longer. Wells, meanwhile, is obviously a stalking horse, but whose? Will the runners and riders declare next week, or wait?

The endgame is coming fast... This week, largely due to wrecker Trump, the writing is on the wall for the future of the US as number one global superpower. With all his blundering, this know-nothing numbskull has put China in the driving seat... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The real winner on Thursday wasn't a party but the people. The UK achieved what the US desperately needs to achieve...the ending of the two-party system. Yes, navigating the waters of coalition will become inevitable now but that needn't be a bad thing. And with it, likely a leftward shift.

Extrapolated and simplified, admittedly, this suggests that had Thursday been a General Election, we might (finally) have a proper left wing (coalition) government in the UK today. Safe to assume Labour, Green, and Lib Dems would act together against Reform. Two party politics are dead.

He's going to go too late, isn't he, and leave us to pay the price for his self-interest? Keir 'Biden' Starmer.

Selhurst shook. And it was beautiful.

This is the way billionaires treat you. Allow them to fleece you, and they'll throw in a hot dog for your troubles. "Let them eat cake" is back with a vengeance, Y2K style. The World Cup is dead and football is dying. FIFA and American truly deserve each other. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Donald can ruin the world today. For once, I won't notice. We're in a European semi final and I'm off to Selhurst. Crystal Palace in a European semi final. Let that sink in.

In a pointed suggestion that the era of American leadership was coming to an end, Carney said: “It is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, America. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

America disintegrates, part 273. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

America: a nation whose men think they're Ron Jeremy when in reality they're John Wayne Bobbit.

Reading all the Epstein memes and posts on BlueSky reminds me of the old truth: the louder and more outraged Americans get, the less likely they are to do anything. A nation that measures itself in decibels rather than moral courage. There's a word for that. Cunts.

Trump/Putin have cemented the Cold War fallacy. Finally Russia and the USA went head to head and...China won. The winning strategy...sit back, keep your mouth shut, and let your rivals take each other out. USA, Russia now receding into irrelevance. China surging ahead, building alliances, influence.

On his tour of New York this week, I wonder if King Charles visited the trap house where his brother stayed? Abolish the monarchy.