The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse in Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous
✏️ Jay Elwes
The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse in Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous
✏️ Jay Elwes
The economic projections in the chancellor’s statement today have been made obsolete by war in Iran. Rachel Reeves would have won sympathy if she had acknowledged this. She didn’t
✏️ @jamesrball.com
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
Even if he loses the general election, Viktor Orbán will retain his grip on the country’s institutions. That could spell disaster for whoever wins – and for Hungary
✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social
Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
The Metropolitan Police claims to have changed, but its reforms fail to address its systemic issues. Five years after Sarah’s murder, I still do not trust them
✏️ @jamieklingler.bsky.social
The party which likes to pose as the anti-elite hosted a shindig where it promised lobbyists their clients would be "very rich" under Reform
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
LIVE SOON 🎥 Should we ban social media for the over 60s? Matt Muir and Lucy Reade discuss the age group that has become the most radicalised online. Watch below 👇
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On the off chance something good does emerge from this chaotic conflict, don’t rush to give the President any credit for it
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✏️ @editormattkelly.bsky.social
Retaliation is structurally embedded in the Islamic Republic’s doctrine of deterrence. The only uncertainty is its scale – and how many borders it will cross
✏️ Lynne O'Donnell
The US is pulling back from Europe. If it withdraws its nuclear umbrella, that will leave the continent dangerously exposed. It is time to plan for that scenario
✏️ Tom Arms
“Kush” had notoriously arranged for a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in the election contributions case against him. Now he has been rehabilitated as Trump’s ambassador to France
✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
The German chancellor is in Washington meeting Trump, a man who sees Europe as irrelevant, who supports Merz’s opponents and who is political poison. What can he hope to gain?
✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social
SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨 The Matts do their level best to make sense of the last three days - events which make little sense in isolation, but once a wider spectrum of factors comes into play, does a sinister strategy emerge?
Full episode below 👇
We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care
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@paulmason.bsky.social
The Mail man is nostalgic for the days of a 24-year-old TV police drama
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Pride is a brittle thing. One minute you’re soaring, the insurgent party’s tenacious rising-star, the voice of the “forgotten majority.” Next, the majority turns out to be a lot smaller than you were led to believe
✏️ Zoë Grünewald
The experiences of Iraq and Libya show what happens when the west attacks but has no plan.
✏️ Andy Owen
Should it really be necessary for all movie makers to issue Middle East position papers before attending an awards ceremony?
✏️ Tanit Koch
The US and Israeli assault on Iran has the potential to escalate into a broader international conflict. Not only that, but Trump has put the entire global economy in danger
✏️Lynne O’Donnell
White women are often portrayed as the crucial swing voters of American politics, but in reality they tend to break fairly solidly for the Republican presidential candidate – even when it’s one as violently misogynistic as Donald Trump
✏️ @jamesrball.com
Failings of the past mean the final test of King Charles’s reign will be damage control
✏️ Clive Irving
Do you secretly know very little about art? Are you interested in good stuff that doesn’t need a mortgage to buy it? Then this is the place for you
✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
The Reform candidate in Gorton and Denton tried to blame “woke” ideology and “Islamism” for his by-election defeat. Might it be that actually, he and his politics are just not very appealing?
✏️ @zoegrunewald.bsky.social
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY 💡 The problem is that the secret international network of powerful men that Epstein created around himself will only convince the paranoid fantasists they were on to something
✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Tracey Emin: A Second Life establishes beyond doubt her significance in British artistic history
✏️ Matthew d’Ancona
Trump wants to decapitate the Iranian regime. But the danger now is a proliferating conflict that runs out of control
✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social
You might imagine hope is not an easy commodity to find in a place that has been on the receiving end of Putin’s war machine for four years, with over 100,000 Ukrainians dead and half a million injured
✏️@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
The PM’s constant u-turns and lack of any apparent plan are a gift for the extremists, who feed off the sense of chaos and drift
✏️ Patience Wheatcroft
