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Like, with all respect - what the heck do you mean “lowering gas prices”? With enough diesel for 16 hours spread over 3 months? Come on. Are you NY times or Moscow times.

Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: “The USA haven’t spent a single cent on Ukraine since January 2025, so more than 1.5 years. We in Europe are doing it.”

I'm starting to think that, despite its tax status, Facebook isn't really an Irish company.

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

Ukraine just did more to clean up American elections than Congress has done in twenty years.

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Trebles all round in the Kremlin tonight. Again.

Getting married to this gorgeous girl tomorrow, so I'll see you folks later.

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

Is this an attempt to desensitise a population prior to whatever is coming next, after Trump loses the midterms?

The psychopaths in charge of America believe violence and savagery are how you prove you’re strong, and every problem is solved through the application of strength, and if problems weren’t solved you weren’t strong enough, and thus problems are met with perpetual escalation of violence and savagery

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Obviously.

call me crazy guys but I don't think ethno-nationalists should be allowed on mainstream political tv shows. because of the ethno-nationalism?

I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

ETHAN HAWKE on why you shouldn’t have a favourite Beatle…

Labour aren't winning over Reform voters by pushing for anti-immigration, anti-asylum, anti-trans, anti-disabled voters. They are reinforcing Reform's, Restore et al's arguments that marginalised groups are an "issue" and to be blamed for all the ills of the world though. That's not helping anyone.

If you've got a child calling for people to drown I'd suggest that might be a matter for social services. Clearly that child has been radicalised

The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.

Burnham's trivial localism and "the 80s were bad" stuff may play well, but is peripheral. Try reversing some of the crazy anti-immigration measures. Think about trying to save HE. I'd prefer the young to have a future.

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

Ok, here's a compromise: Print out the unredacted Epstein Files and tape them to the Kennedy Center. Boom! His name will be all over the place.

0.0C above 1850 temperatures: nice 1.5C above 1850 temperatures: current chaos 3.0C above 1850 temperatures: 4 billion dead 4.5C above 1850 temperatures: 8 billion dead

Canada is not taking Trump’s abuse anymore.

This is going to be one hell of a comeback

Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue

Hearing about Matthew Rhys's historic double Emmy win while listening to his delightful NYT interview made me very happy for him. Incredibly charming, modest and Welsh. Link to audio and text versions: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/m...

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

You know how some AI doomers argue we should shut down AI research all together until we work out what the hell is going on and how to proceed safely? I think we should do that with newspaper columns. At the current rate, there is a 10% chance columnists will eventually destroy all life on earth

Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.

This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is

“The pogrom had bad intelligence” is really a bad stance for a Labour MP to take

If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?

Hyperrealistic ‘GTA VI’ Feature Makes Players Serve Out Prison Sentences In Real Time https://theonion.com/hyperrealistic-gta-vi-feature-makes-players-serve-out-prison-sentences-in-real-time/

👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣

Trump’s 9/11 comment that he went down to the scene to help has been a lie he’s repeated for 25 years. It’s his own version of stolen valor. He did nothing except go on TV & brag that he now owned the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers went down. Which was also a lie.

These numbers are the consequence of the government's weak response to events in Dover and Portsmouth - their core support aren't paying attention, but their opponents are.

"You can't need a £5 million donation because you're so concerned about your own security but allow your supporters to assault whoever they want, and respond with 'boo hoo'." Why is Robert Jenrick OK with a young woman being attacked by Reform voters? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...

A load of grandparent-aged people, thugs and flag-wearing misfits cheer at the prospect of our children performing NKorean-style “patriotic” chanting… but would shit themselves at the idea of those children learning European languages or having better opportunities on our own continent. Tragic.

Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition

We now go live to Nigel Farage’s party conference speech…

Jack Benny: To win an Academy Award, a picture has to have absolutely no jokes in it. Bing: Your last one came awfully close.

It's explosive. It's also completely predictable. To see Reform say on camera that Electoral Commission is useless and toothless wasn't shocking... it's plain to see.

The Curse of O’Brien claims its latest victim… @mrjamesob.bsky.social

This is actually outrageous. The more I think about it, the more angry I get. I was in full support of Healey’s impassioned and principled resignation. Now I feel like a complete mug.

My word I love an hour long compulsory data protection training course, where I learn such fascinating insights as that if I work on laptop on a train someone might be looking over my shoulder. "Shoulder surfing" I learn. Fascinating. Not a complete and utter waste of my f*&king time. /1

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