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Donald Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Vladimir Putin Even the puffery-prone President couldn’t alchemize his non-deal with Russia into Trumpian gold.

Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Putin

My column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Interesting polling from YouGov on who’d make the best PM.

Farage loses to every other major party leader including Davey.

▪️Starmer beats Farage by 44% to 29%
▪️Starmer’s lead over Kemi Badenoch as best Prime Minster is 36% to 25%
▪️Britons prefer Badenoch as Prime Minister to Farage by 29% to 25%

Endless references in media coverage today to the rapid increases in net migration in recent years and often too little explanation as to why: (i) keeping UK HE/social care afloat and (ii) an attempt to deal with post Covid labour shortages/supply chain inflation.

Beginning to think that myself

Wow Rachael Blackmore quits riding!

I’m sympathetic to some policies the Green Party have but it’s this kind of batshittery that holds them back.

47 years ago today

The Clash: Rock Against Racism London 1978

#punkrock #theclash #fightracism #fucknazis #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

Money buys you success. Shock horror!

Haha they’ve been sent off while Irish anthem was being played 🤣

The White House Twitter account’s dishonest & hideous doctoring of a New York Times front page describing Senator Chris Van Hollen’s meeting with a wrongly deported man with no criminal record.

The cruelty is the point. The banal, vicious, performative cruelty. Turns out ‘anti-woke’ just meant anti-decency, anti-humanity & anti-rule of law.

This will appear in a few future history books as the perfect metaphor for current events....

This is a distract the beast news conference from the orange buffoon

I see Trump has been caught by reality

Trump tells his followers to buy stock in the morning, minutes after the market opens, then announces he is pausing tariffs 4 hours later.

Nothing to see here.

@thetwomatts.bsky.social you completely missed Bob Dylan!

Tripoli Flyer as per normal can’t jump

Ed Chamberlain “Huw Edward’s will be making headlines with that ride” 🫣😬

He believes absolutely that tariffs are The Answer, as if they were passed down by God himself. It's his one big idea and now that he's escaped all accountability for everything and he's descending into dementia like his father, there is no talking him out of it. Or anything.

The British public have clearly got a sense that *someone* undeserving has taken all the money, which is true, a class of people have, but it's truly a sign of painfully evil the British spirit is that so many are convinced it's the disabled and people on benefits who have made off with it.

No love lost between Nadia Whitome and Camilla Tominey eh?!

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Have Jeremy Bowen and Bill Bailey ever been seen in the same room?

Where is Starmer's statement of support for Zelenskyy. No excuses. No equivocation.

Do you think Trump and Vance would have spoken to Putin like this? We all know they wouldn't dare.

This Zelensky, Trump and Vance presser is excruciating.

Horrific.

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Trump has now completely humiliated his apologists in the U.K. but not one of them will be honest enough to admit it.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Richard Gere, "We have a bully and a thug who is President of the United States"