Dan O'Neill

The challenge for the UK and France will be using their veto to block this, because it will heighten the debate about whether either of them should still be UNSC members. By tradition, they almost never use their veto these days, and def not against the US, but Orban as UNSG is intolerable.

Simon Heffer in The Daily Telegraph has a zero star review of Liz Truss's Bank Job, but gives it the accolade: "Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged". www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Pleased and proud to be writing the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on John Prescott. A key figure in the country's recent history, rather neglected in the literature. A monumental life story, and a huge contribution to policy. Hope to do him justice.

This has all become so normalised and yet... this is not normal.

Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

Still ageing like milk

it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

Still waiting for a legacy journalist to slap back and say they’re not going to take any more abuse from this sick and disgusting man.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

JD Vance on Vladimir Putin: "He’s more soft spoken than you would necessarily expect. The American media has a particular image of him." Putin is still wanted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. What the hell is going on? www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/d-vanc...

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Also covered extensively in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sen. Brian Schatz: "I think JD is going to have enough of the infrastructure to get the nomination, but none of the juice to win the presidency." From his lips...

The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.

Big pre-election authoritarian moves happening - US immigration authorities raid Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

Possibly the most sad and pathetic we’ve yet seen him - and that’s saying something. Embarrassing.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, massively overreaching for someone with tiny arms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. “And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC, and that rely on American service members for their defence, to rein in this rogue court.

Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"

This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

"A big petro-state did it and ran away"

They will cut all non-MAGA-loyalists. That’s the goal.

Yeah it’s a real mystery

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

it might backfire horribly on him but if so, boy is Andy Burnham going out with a bang. Do wonder if that speech could only have been made by someone who was out of Westminster for the madness years & isn't as scared of the public - he's gambling on them still grudgingly respecting conviction

Man City being guilty of 115 charges is serious business. 115 slaps on the wrist is gonna leave a bit of a bruise.

The absolute funniest way for Liverpool to win more domestic leagues than Manchester United.

Two-tier policing anyone?

If you think Trump wouldn’t demolish the Kennedy Center, that this is all some kind of bluff or only a calculated distraction, you clearly haven’t been paying attention all this time.

Perhaps the UK government should take Piddington at its word. It could set up border posts around the village & arrest any residents who try to cross as illegal immigrants. There would be tariffs on goods, of course, and no access to the NHS or UK schools, police, fire, pensions or utilities.

Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?

BREAKING: The Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes and branding dispute with President Trump, AP sources say.

US President Donald Trump's administration is expected on Monday to scrap limits on carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, the source of nearly a quarter of the country's climate pollution u.afp.com/SjnE

🕊️ "Downing Street is saddened to announce the death of Roy Burnham, following a battle with dementia. The Prime Minister has cancelled all engagements for today and tomorrow."

MAGA and Trumpism in a nutshell. He ruins everything. Congrats, America. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...