Richard Haviland

I understand the pressures on Rutte but he really has turned into a hapless buffoon. Helping to eradicate the rules based order he believes he's upholding.

Yes, good point!

I’ve a ‘feeling’ Trump is a deranged psychopath.

Even the European Parliament, now under a new right-wing majority, won't stand up for Europe in the face of American threats.

An attempt to table a debate about the 🇺🇸embargo on Spain was killed by VDL/Merz's EPP, who teamed with Meloni's ECR, Orban's PfE & Weidel's ESN.

Fortunately for Isabel Oakeshott, despite what she and her fellow grievance manufacturers would have you believe, hypocrisy is not the greatest sin of all.

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

Kemi Badenoch wants to be part of this.

Pass it on.

One hundred and sixty-five children were killed in a U.S.-Israeli strike on their elementary school. This is an aerial image of the graves being prepared for their bodies.

I defy anyone to justify this.

Please ask your style guide to call them “migrants” ;)

I’m confused.

If Badenoch and Farage’s view of patriotism is that we should unquestioningly support Trump with military assistance in all he does, does that mean they want us to help him invade Greenland?

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‘You’re on your own’, said the Good Samaritan. ‘You’re just trying to exploit my generosity’.

What an utterly perverted, disgusting, inhuman thing to say.

You’re very welcome, Sunder. Thank you for all you’re doing.

It’s Armageddon. But the four horsemen of the Apocalypse are only responding to provocation.

Reform’s “British ICE” — Why it would never work Podcast Episode · The Bunker – News without the nonsense · 4 March · 26m

Really good @bunkerpod.bsky.social podcast on Reform’s ICE plans and how to fight the narrative, with the excellent @sundersays.bsky.social and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Next time Starmer accuses anyone else of exploiting a sense of grievance, refer him to his own asylum policy.

The whole purpose of propaganda like this is to engender a perpetual sense of grievance among voters at the perceived abuse of non-existent generosity by Johnny Foreigner. It’s revolting.

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‘You’re on your own’, said the Good Samaritan. ‘You’re just trying to exploit my generosity’.

What an utterly perverted, disgusting, inhuman thing to say.

These brave Americans died because Trump was bored and wanted to spice things up with a fight.

Well worth a read

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Every politician and commentator rushing to take Trump’s side in all this makes me feel a little less safe in my own country.

Maybe just maybe we should stop the state visits now.

The irony is Winston Churchill lacked any of the diplomatic patience Keir Starmer has shown towards Trump.

Churchill would have dismissed Trump as an utter buffoon who sows chaos globally and wouldn’t know a war plan if it was pasted to his orange face.

"Not Winston Churchill we're dealing with" - insofar as it reveals a Starmer standing up to Trump - will do Starmer more good domestically than harm.

Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.

Hard to tell whether the subliminal message here to the refugee-haters is ‘look at this shit accommodation we’d get to put them in!’ or ‘look at this luxury accommodation the sponging bastards get to stay in’.

Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s just about the cruelty.

The implicit argument of so much of this stuff is that there is no legitimate role for Muslims in public life.

The revoltingly cruel administrative changes to asylum today are the basis of the next Windrush.

Mass determinations will be needed in 5 years time when they have collapsed under the weight of their own bureaucratic ineptitude and impossibility.

Until then we have community work to do.

Hard to tell whether the subliminal message here to the refugee-haters is ‘look at this shit accommodation we’d get to put them in!’ or ‘look at this luxury accommodation the sponging bastards get to stay in’.

Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s just about the cruelty.

There is a whole generation of politicians on the right who seem to believe that if an aspect of international or indeed domestic law is wrong, the thing to do is disregard it rather than argue for change.