Ken Gray

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

Vučić’s defeat could mark a geopolitical turning point for Serbia. It could also inject fresh momentum into EU enlargement across the W. Balkans, where progress has stalled for years. A Serbia firmly anchored in Europe would transform the region’s outlook and significantly weaken Russia’s influence

Beautiful scenes in Serbia tonight where a student-led protest movement has overthrown the corrupt and autocratic Vučić regime. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

While we're on this fucking subject, who know where there's a GIAAAAAAAAAANT gap between "the elites making millions" and "the common people dying in the trenches". Russia! There's exactly one elite who wants this war. One. Even the oligarchs over there hate it. Why not yell at him a bit?

Holy crap, I’m 10 mins in to World’s End and i have never seen ANY of this! I’ve ‘seen’ this film about 20 times. This is mental, how have I managed to miss the opening every, single time?

This one is at it again in the Times. if she doesn’t like being an immigrant in France as much as she writes about not liking being an immigrant in France, there is an obvious avenue open to her www.thetimes.com/article/7a25...

But he did disavow them - and again, you face the same question as "Tommy" faced: what is the point of asking AES in particular? Do *you* disavow them? Have you asked everyone you know to disavow them? Do you disavow Nazis? Would you enjoy being repeatedly singled out and asked to disavow them?

Given the dire GOP polling you have to wonder how long its going to be before there’s another ‘assassination attempt’

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

So sad to hear that Les Enfants Rouges is no more, many is the afternoon I’ve spent, some lost, in there #SadForParis

For what it's worth, I think Trump completely made up the Russia diesel deal as well. He makes sh1t up, that's all he does, and he also knows that because America is powerful, others will sort of roll with it/ work around it/ jump to it. He f***ing loves it. C***.

How is it that Gillian Anderson didn’t get to play an elf in any of the Tolkien films?

How long post-Trump do you think we’ll have to get before scriptwriters feel able to portray the US President and Gov’t as competent, moral leaders. I can see a generation of Mars Attacks type portrayals on our horizon

As sure a sign as any that someone is a complete c€€t - the thumbs up in a photo. A single should always be viewed as a serious red flag, the double is the clincher If in doubt look at pretty much any photo of Johnson or Trump. Your least fave person will also have done at least 1 #ThumbsUpWanker

“right of center”? I hadn’t realised Politico was American

Zelenskyy reports that today's Russian strikes on Ukraine killed 25 people. 19 of them died in Pryluky in a missile strike on an ordinary apartment building. 5 of them were children.

Apparently my car’s new software update now wants me to interact with google Gemini. Why? What possible use could I have for a shitty AI assistant when I’m driving my car? I thought you weren’t supposed to use distracting things when driving. I want my car to be a car.

The time is urgent to protect Ukraine's skies - not since the early days of the war has the impact of Russian air strikes been so devastating

👀🇺🇦❗️ 97% of jet Shaheds launched by Russia were destroyed today, - monitoring channels

Belgian VAR, a great bunch of lads.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Well, this seems less than optimal

The Ukrainian tifo for tonight’s match was both poignant and a thing of beauty #SlavaUkraini

and everything they can that keeps his war going. And they will prevail. Edmund Burke said that all evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Well good men are doing something - and evil will not triumph, not in Ukraine.

Currently running 2 iPhones like some sort of half arsed suburban drug dealer because Barclays are a total bunch of shitbags re authorisation of their app on the new one. Side by side EVERYTHING happens sooner/quicker on the old iPhone 13 than on the shitty ‘AI powered’ iPhone 17. Progress eh? 🙄

🚁🔥 Update: Yesterday in the Voronezh region, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet shot down its own Mi-8 military helicopter, mistaking it for UAV.

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

You know someone is an intellectual if they refer to something that has had all its component parts replaced as the ship of Theseus rather than Trigger’s broom

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.

“I should be glad if something occurred to me as a main idea that occurs to Dvorak simply in passing.” – Johannes Brahms Anyway, here are four Stevie Wonder songs that didn’t make it onto Songs In The Key of Life.

Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets--hospitals, universities, markets--knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.

@footballweekly.bsky.social well Max, I’m sure you’re wondering what you and the team could possibly find to talk about during this eternal international break… “Will! Will? Why isn’t Will answering his phone?”

So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.

Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Am I the only one who finds the possibility that ‘the Putney pusher’ to have died of a drugs overdose a little bit on the nose?

Round them up yesterday - they’re telling you who are they. Make them cry in court & post it on their facebook groups

It was Phil Oakey’s sister Carrie who invented the interactive entertainment system where people sing to a backing track. She called it the Singalonga3000

I don't think since Maurice Johnston signed for "Thaym" has anyone gone from so high in my estimation to so low. Is it so hard just to let people live the lives they want to live if they are doing no harm to anyone?

I don't think we should be giving the racist village all that attention, I think they deserve to be ignored