General Boles

Is it ok to laugh at people who left the "crime ridden streets" of London for the safety of Dubai?

safe-ish

If anyone at the FCO has a sense of humour they'll currently be commandeering hundreds of small boats to transport the tax exiles / refugees down the UAE coast

Fantastic stopping from Raya there, if Khamenei had someone like that in defence he'd still be in charge

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Judging by his hi-vis tabard that's one of the marshals temporarily forgetting his crowd safety remit

Members of the Iranian community take part in celebrations following the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on March 01, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. Sign reads "Khamenei is fucked"

I need the most Glasgow sign you've got #Iran

No that's too Glasgow

Big operation underway at the Foreign Office to help Brits in the Gulf.

76,000 so far registered their presence, mostly in the UAE - unprecedented numbers already.

Officials looking at possible evacuation routes, but current advice is follow travel guidance and local authorities.

It’s 2036. As the political spectrum has fragmented further, the SNP is now the Official Opposition at Westminster. It’s still apparently too difficult to reform the electoral system.

brilliantly sceptical analysis as always from @gideonrachman.bsky.social on Trump’s big military gamble

www.ft.com/content/4371...

He's coming home
He's coming home
Reza's coming home*

*to a highly unstable country and a brutal civil war

Not mine. Credit below.

"They say they're going to appointment a replacement soon but when? There's some big fixtures coming up and Arafi's totally untested at this level"

I'm all about the deets

Alternatively Rich & Izzy could make the short 27 hour journey by car to the safety of Yemen

We are welcoming in Wales, but a sheep from Northern England coming over here to try and replace our beloved sheep is maybe too much even on St David's Day, so it looks like he has been shunned

Shaun does not look like he's enjoying the St David's Day parade

🎶"Spider-Plant, Spider-Plant,
Does whatever a spider can't.
Can grow big, any size,
Because it can photo-synthesize.
Look Out!
Here comes the Spider-Plant..."🎶

aircon 😂

- sea views
- 2 minute walk to pier
- ask about our 'no Shaheds or your money back' guarantee
- rooms from £55 per night

I tell you where isn't getting their 5 star hotels bombed - Skegness that's where.

As soon as they can get the 1979 committee together

(bit of Tory parliamentary humour for you there)

Is it ok to laugh at people who left the "crime ridden streets" of London for the safety of Dubai?

but it was the morning, why would he be wearing a dinner jacket in the morning #blueskyreplyguy

He's taking it well. Incidentally, I would happily contribute to the crowdfunder for someone to contact every single one of the the distinguished academics who signed that letter supporting him to ask what they think about it now.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now achieved the impressive accolade of becoming the first ever presenter of Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message to have been taken out by an Israeli airstrike.

Tbh, they're not especially keen on anyone

Why do we never talk about the gay of Hormuz 🤔

Country Life editorial not keen on Reform.

Well he was engaged in a brutal conflict with the Boy Scouts of America