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‘The most powerful member of the western alliance is, at best, an unreliable partner and, at worst, in league with the alliance’s chief enemy.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There now follows a party political broadcast from the Patriot Platform party. (Inspired by @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social) youtu.be/f3UCAQSFxCQ?...

“The moral degradation wrought by Trump and his gang will not be undone at the flick of an electoral switch.” Quite.

‘Dad, is it true that 4,000 people have died of the plague in Russia?’ Somewhat surprised to be asked this by my daughter at bedtime yesterday… and saddened…

“It hasn’t been ok to be smart in the United States for centuries” - Frank Zappa youtube.com/shorts/KPtrf...

" The headline on Juliet Samuel’s comment piece ('Kemi Badenoch invites excellence back to the party') must surely lead to Excellence demanding a right to reply for being so thoroughly slandered: 'I’ve never met the woman and certainly never partied with her.' " - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social 😆

Keep political activism out of classrooms. Oh goody, that old chestnut - bashing irresponsible lefty teachers. I am surprised the hall was largely empty though, Tory delegates usually love that stuff www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Inspiration for Don Jr perhaps 😱

What a load of absolute toss just spouted by #IDS re how wonderful #Badenoch is on #5live just now. He really isn’t fooling anyone

I was never a particular fan of either Nick Robinson or Andrew Marr but they are absolute titans of political analysis compared to the drivel produced by Kuenssberg and Mason.

Their responses to the charges reveal quite a lot about who they are… #mancity

great zoom call this evening. person A and person B couldn't hear person C (me). person A could, however, hear person B, but B couldn't hear A. Person C couldn't hear A or B. so that was all good.

'The big takeaway was thus,' says the Times review of the War Game. 'In case of Russian aggression, without the Yanks coming to our aid, the people of these noble isles have about two weeks until we’re all eating bortsch [sic].' So we'd all be a lot healthier then?

“When I was young, I was heavily into drug abuse. I used to run into Boots and shout insults at bottles of paracetamol.” Alexei Sayle

Oh dear, Giles Coren is going to have to eat Mary Beard www.thetimes.com/article/0201...

The @privateeyenews.bsky.social review of ‘Hyperpolitics’ has a great opening line: ‘This is a wonderful book to take to the beach, if what you’re intending to do at the beach is drown yourself.’

'The author offers an affecting meditation on art, mental fragility and faith.' I'll give it a miss, thanks - I'm highly suspicious of anything that reviewers describe as a 'meditation'. It's usually code for 'tediously self-indulgent'

Ahh. Isn’t it nice that Zuck* and the Winklevi are on the same team now. So glad they were able to set aside their differences for the greater good 🙄 * yes I know he’s not on this list but I think we know where he stands in relation to the OPOS

Of course #Farage didn’t go to the count. Like all self-styled ‘men of the people’ he simply cannot abide plebs. Unless they worship him, of course.

Chapeau, Count Binface... or should I say Couvercle de poubelle? #Clacton

Some politicians are capable of basic civility; others aren't.

Good grief, #Anderson is such a moron. Sunak has a lot to answer for, making him deputy chair of the Tories, thereby gifting him a national platform to spout rubbish

I see Laurence Fox is standing in #Clacton. Who knew? Or cared?

The 'Fridamania' stuff incldued in that @tate.bsky.social #fridakahlo exhibition may have some value but I couldn't help feeling a lot of it was little more than fan fiction

"We expect to have movements in the next few weeks, obviously," said #Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta. A bit too much information there, Mikel. He went on to say "we won't sit still," which isn't ideal when you're having movements 😬

Indeed

Wait… Kuenssberg isn’t on?? Dammit, I was really looking forward to that, said no one ever

Heh - sounds like my kind of author

‘You can genuinely imagine that the only situation room Trump wouldn’t lose focus in after about 10 minutes is one where he was required to cheat remotely at golf’ 😄 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Alongside Farage and Truss will be Jacob Rees-Mogg, Toby Young, Suella Braverman, US conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and Lucy Connolly, jailed for inciting racial hatred during the 2024 riots.' Hmm, great lineup 😱

A bit like when the useless David Davis tried this trick...

This really is below the belt. Typical lefty gutter press...

Actually, I think it is. These days, if you make any money, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

Reggie Perrin would be furious 😄

Everything he touches turns to s**t

'Done no wrongdoing'? That in itself should be enough to disqualify him from political office

Hopefully Pocchetino will do the decent thing and leave Balogun out of the team. The smart thing, too, as his presence on the pitch would be massive extra motivation for Belgium 🇧🇪 #FIFA #WorldCup #allezlesbelges

‘England might want to slow things down more.’ Good grief, if we slow things down any more we’ll be playing walking football www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

“Trump-branded Bibles” 🤮🤮🤮

Pff. Our entire political culture for as long as I can remember is an epic failure of journalism

The real problem with the Today programme is that it just isn't very good and is often downright annoying #R4Today www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"The versuses have got much worse since Harrison published his poem 41 years ago" - indeed www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the good things about getting older is that you are much less likely to get annoyed about England not playing that well at the World Cup. Vs Morocco 1986, Ireland 1990, Romania 1998, Sweden 2002, Portugal 2006, Algeria 2010, Uruguay 2014, Tunisia 2018, USA 2022... seen it all before mate

Don't have anything to say about the Brexit anniversary except: What a goddamn waste of time.