Andrew Burton

Nobody tell the American government what the British used as their excuse to intervene in the Suez Crisis in 1956.

And nobody tell them what happened to British influence around the world after the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Joint declaration of President Macron and Chancellor Merz. In the spirit of their close partnership as set out in Article 4 of the Treaty of Aachen, France and Germany have decided to enter into closer cooperation in the field of deterrence in response to the evolving threat landscape. France and Germany have established a high-ranking nuclear steering group that will act as a bilateral framework for doctrinal dialogue and the coordination of strategic cooperation, including consultations regarding the appropriate mix of conventional, missile defence and French nuclear capabilities. France and Germany have agreed to take first concrete steps beginning this year, including German conventional participation in French nuclear exercises and joint visits to strategic sites as well as development of conventional capabilities with European partners. France and Germany will also increase their ability, as Europeans, to manage escalation beneath the nuclear threshold - in particular in the fields of Early Warning and Air Defense and Deep Precision Strike. This Franco-German cooperation is based on the shared understanding that the nuclear dimension of deterrence remains a cornerstone of European security, relying on US extended deterrence, including US nuclear weapons forward-deployed to Europe, and on the independent strategic nuclear forces of France and the United Kingdom, which have a deterrent role of their own and contribute significantly to the overall security of the Alliance. This Franco-German cooperation will add to, not substitute for, NATO's nuclear deterrence and NATO's nuclear sharing arrangements, to which Germany contributes and will continue to contribute. France and Germany will continue to comply with their obligations under international law including the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In light of their strong commitment to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and Art. 42 (7) of the Treaty on European Union, Franco-German cooperatio…

Like a Bridgerton Over Troubled Water

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

“Wag the Dog,” by the tail.

The founding principle of the modern GOP is that the exercise of power by Democrats to facially illegitimate.

We had to destroy the town in order to save it.

There are 600 stories like this and every one of these people will be throne-sniffing to the point of asphyxia again in a week. We’ve been over this 1,000 times. There’s no point.

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.

the Venezuela example does suggest that Trump wanted a comprador Supreme Leader who would let him personally loot a bunch of Iranian oil. but Israel wants it to became a blighted dystopian hellscape

Louise Mensch? She still exists?

The fun thing for Trump officials has always been that you can *never* say “we won’t do X” about *anything*, because maybe the boss will decide to do X, and he’s gonna be pissed at you telling him what he can or can’t do

As predicted Trump's Medicaid cuts are already starting to have a terrible effect on disabled people and their families.

The Winner’s Curse is real, yo’.

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

My “I have no concerns about this spiraling into a longer war” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Donald Trump is literally a psychopath: a man emotionally crippled by the inability to respond sympathetically to others’ joys and sorrows. He cannot feel empathy for grieving service families, still less for ordinary civilians killed or maimed in a war he launched.

YouTube video by Trump White House Archived President Trump Receives a Tour of the Tennessee Tornado Damage

It’s hard to find a shorter clip, but go to the 9:20 mark here: after being informed that a small boy’s parents and sister have been killed in a devastating tornado, Trump has no emotional response at all - zero, none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2r_...

'Separatism' is when British Muslims vote for the most socially liberal candidate in the race to stop Matt Goodwin, who Kemi Badenoch herself explicitly said was a threat to minority life in this country, becoming an MP.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Thread. I remember a group of BP analysts (when I worked for the company) confidently predicting that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a death knell for the small Gulf monarchies. 35 years on, they’re still there.

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons - Lawyers, Guns & Money It’s time to say it again: It’s highly doubtful that the Iranians were pursuing a nuclear weapon. And they certainly don’t have any. Donald Trump says that (one of the purposes/ the purpose) of his attack on Iran is to make sure they never get a nuclear weapon. He has also tried to look reasonable […]

Iran Does Not Have Nuclear Weapons

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

“So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation with Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

So many ostensibly straight news stories just flatly assumed that any friction in leaving Afghanistan had to be a result of incompetence by Biden, like there was a "no chaos" button he could have pushed to make the mass withdrawal of troops from an instantly failed state happen with no risk

Even if Platner isn’t an antisemite (he absolutely is), if your judgement is so fucking bad that you REGULARLY do an antisemitic whoopsie because it has never occurred to you to just fucking look something up then you ARE NOT FIT FOR OFFICE.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life