Elliott Green

Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A bit like American tennis over the past 25 years

I disagree - no one in the line of succession was arrested in 1936! The fact that QEII and CIII allowed their son/brother to engage in potentially illegal activities with no oversight does indeed suggest very poor judgement in both case.

Very unlikely - it was Buckingham Palace who promoted Andrew's appt as Trade Envoy in the first place, at a time when he was already best buddies with Epstein. If you keep pulling on the thread this scandal will likely only get bigger and bigger.

Oh, the grand old duke of york
He ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
And he ██████████████████

Luke Cooper looks like Shia Labeouf acting as a far right politician

Republicanism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

It is also worth pointing out that British republicanism has been gaining a lot of support in the past decade, with >25% support in polls leading up to 2024. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Republic We want to see the monarchy abolished and the King replaced with an elected, democratic head of state. In place of the King we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but represe...

Just a reminder to those in the UK that it is possible that Andrew would not have been arrested without a crime report sent to the police by the CEO of the anti-monarchist group Republic. I joined on the day I became a British citizen. Membership only costs £30 per year! www.republic.org.uk

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

In memoriam

It is with great sadness that the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa must announce the passing of our inaugural director, Professor Tim Allen.

You can read more about Tim’s life and legacy, and leave a message of condolence, on our website
www.lse.ac.uk/africa/about...

Remembering Professor Tim Allen - LSE International Development The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen. Tim joined the Department in 1997, later served as Head of Department, and went on to become the D...

Remembering Professor Tim Allen

The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department.

One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.

There should be a special wikipedia page for politicians in one country who are named after a political leader in another country. One obvious member of this club is MK Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in India.

John Major is an another example, in his case of someone using his platform to criticize leaders of his own party for taking the country in the wrong direction

Important perspective from Greenland.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

There is of course a long grim history of alcohol abuse in SA, going back to the Dop system. IIRC at one point it had the highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world.

The same goes in the UK, from Reform and the far right. These people hate cities like London and NYC as successful examples of multiculturalism

A bit like what France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia, etc lost when they ceased being monarchies

Gosh I miss X so much...

I once had to give up a package of Christmas crackers at Gatwick when travelling to the US. I had the airline staff promise me that they would not throw them away but take them home themselves and use them

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.

As always, the fact that Brits of foreign descent like Benjamin Disraeli and most of the royal family never seem to get mentioned in these conversations shows how historically illiterate most of these 'journalists' are

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Is guilt over slavery “imaginary?” | Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan

One can avoid humiliations like this simply by spending 5 seconds thinking through the implications of one's views.

The fact is that Biggar is an laughably unserious person, and would have remained in total obscurity if his views weren't useful to the political right.

youtube.com/shorts/_grv4...

The response in a debate on this stupid issue should always be the same, namely to ask whether it was a problem that Queen Victoria's first language was German.

The UK should instead use 49 days in office as a moment of reflection, in honour of Liz Truss

Most people seem to reverse the phrase 'eat your cake and have it.' The only reason I know the correct version is that it came out in the news that the Unabomber was correctly identified by his rare correct use of the phrase.