John Petrie

Private Eye seems to sum this up quite accurately

Seems like the right replacement

Maybe this is a generational thing but it made me chuckle. You could also change MAGA for Reform.

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Well it made me smile

There are times when a photo captures the moment and tells a much larger story. Rosa Parks on a bus, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in the back if a car, a girl in Vietnam running from a Napalm attack etc. This photo is one of those moments.

Billy no mates at the G7. Consequences of treating friends as pariahs and enemies as friends. Europe has moved on and whilst Trump will be temporary, the damage to the US will be longer lasting.

Nobody should.

The criminal President is sending the DOJ after a woman he raped….

US military veterans have just launched a major lawsuit against Trump to stop the construction of his giant arch, which would obstruct the view of Arlington National Cemetery. “It's disrespectful to those that I served with who didn't come back,” one veteran said. people.com/vietnam-vete...

In 2011 Keir Starmer approved the robust investigation into Murdoch and phone hacking, and into newspapers beyond the Murdoch stable. In 2024 they started to take their revenge and will continue. A challenge to the heart of democracy. www.theguardian.com/media/2011/j...

There is a major campaign against @kajakallas.bsky.social underway. It is being spearheaded by Russian intelligence, but, interestingly, MAGA and pro-Israel slop accounts have joined in. The objective is to remove her from her position in the EU; she poses a threat to their operations.

Private Eye gets this spot on - sad to lose Kuenssberg and Mason 😂 (It's a parody for those that don't know Private Eye)

I have cast my vote in the local elections. A few in the queue but turnout will be traditionally low and given the amount of money spent by Reform, they will probably do well. That will not happen on the same scale at a General Election, but how gullible are Reform voters.

🚨NOT RIGGED, JUST ‘REMARKABLE’ — PRIZE WINNERS TRACE BACK TO FARAGE’S BREXIT PARTY CIRCLE”! Ray and June, who won the Reform UK energy bills prize, go back all the way to the Brexit Party with Farage. Source: Don McGowan/X #UKNews

Thailand-based crypto businessman, Christopher Harborne, donated £12 million to Reform. Hong Kong-based British crypto investor Ben Delo has donated £4 million earlier this year. The government placed a £100,000 cap on donations by Brits living abroad last month. Cap all donations! #RejoinEU

If I were Starmer trying to find a way of announcing a rejoin of the EU, I‘d prepare UK: - showing it’s possible as well as desirable - helping voters see it’s OK for a country to change direction - showing them Brexit has caused damage and he is acting in time to avoid more damage And…

Well this aged well. Just like most of Farage's beliefs.

Remember that Nigel Farage is Donald Trump's biggest supporter. Remember that Nigel campaigned for Trump and even wants to mimic all his policies. This is the sort of insanity Reform want to bring to the United Kingdom.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

1/3 He said he cut ties in 2005. The files say otherwise. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had contact with Jeffrey Epstein after the 2008 conviction. DOJ documents contradict the public story.

If this does not have people close to the President brushing off the rules to invoke Article 25, then nothing will. It is actually a real post.

This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely

I'm not saying you should, but you could actually do this with all your unwanted junk mail and flyers

Trump just said this to the Japanese Prime Minister: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habor?” A more worthless human being does not exist.

Nick Timothy is an uncannily perfect encapsulation of the crapification of public life in the UK: a bigoted failure blithely oozing from one disaster to the next while being rewarded at every turn by the far right media/political ecosystem. A golf club boor with the intellect of a burst balloon.

Within seconds of her autocue freezing, the Reform MP started making jokes about Islam

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A war that is apparently having unforeseen consequences, embroiling the wider Middle East, economic damage for millions around the globe. Except - it was not unforeseeable. The Gulf States are rightly furious with the US, and all because of an incompetent narcissist who thinks he is all knowing.

This is next level insanity. I never imagined I would see the day when a President of the US would speak like this.

Just a reminder of what this is really about

Following Trump's statement that Starmer is not Churchill, we now have a response to Trump from Churchill.

Starmer along with Mark Carney and their allies are planning life without the US. You keep the insults coming, you thick orange piece of shit.

It is worth remembering that this is a US/Israeli operation It is not a Nato operation It is not a coalition operation There was no joint planning with other countries before the attack started I suspect most of the people in the UK support Starmer's position

AI can be very good sometimes x.com/i/status/202...

The 53 missing pages in the Epstein files have the same smell as the 18 minutes missing in the Watergate tapes. Tick tock www.mediaite.com/opinion/epst...

If only the CIA has been as diligently tracking Trump's emails, there may be enough to arrest him by now. Or maybe they were?

Those people who didn’t vote are just as responsible as the people who voted for Trump

Not something you will see on the UK media but this resonates with what business leaders are saying. No wonder they want Starmer out.

Mandelson’s always been shifty, though we didnt know the full extent. Farage is fully shifty out in the open! Racist, lazy, selects traitors, sexist & racist candidates, umpteen lucrative 2nd jobs, dodges interviews but does cameo videos. Just grotesque, yet there isn’t 1% the furore Starmer faces!

All that stuff in the headlines about Starmer’s days being numbered is just these two far-left leeches from Socialist Group Campaign trying to wreck the party from the inside. Act accordingly. #UKPolitics

This is not a joke. The sitting president audibly defecated... the room reacted... he rushed everyone out of the conference. Imagine what MAGA would say if any other president did this. 😅

Great analogy but who could they be talking about?

It is normal to redact details of victims to protect their identity. It is not normal to redact detail of perpetrators. Whoever this is should be prosecuted. Why is he being protected?

Howard Lutnik is the US Secretary for Commerce. This email to Epstein...just weird. Why would you include children's ages unless.....

Nothing says "guilty" more than Epstein files being downloaded then the Department of Justice blocking access to specific ones. Lucky someone got to them first

Millions of new pages from the Epstein files dropped. Blanche says "there is a hunger and thirst for information about Trump that he does not think will be satisfied with these documents" Of course it won't - they are sitting on them

Well Melania's going down a storm in the UK