Jo O'Reilly

Once you start torpedoing ships in international waters, that are not involved in conflict, you cease to have a limited theater of war.

You have taken a war global.

Every single US asset and citizen, worldwide, just became a target.

Catastrophically reckless.

(🎥 Department of War)

The Prime Minister is asked about abolishing leasehold.

He answers on management companies and ground rents that makes it really clear Labour have no intention of abolishing leasehold.

5 million people stuck paying service charges because Labour stand with property developers.

I really do not like Starmer, he has done enough in this government to make me seriously consider whether I'll ever vote Labour again, however I still feel for him having to deal with Trump and this whole mess.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Sadiq Khan responds to Donald Trump's latest attack. A spokesperson says: "The Mayor is clearly still living rent free in Donald’s Trump’s head. He’s obsessed with him. Sadiq could probably claim squatters rights"

The Middle East - famously a geopolitics-free zone.

Incredible that Trump's just dunked on Starmer for taking too long to fold. Starmer's managed to deliver his personal specialty: an outcome where he's pissed off literally everyone for zero gain.

Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe

I too had forgotten she existed, but no, here she is scolding the pope.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.

May he rest in peace.

I was not about to sit that one out. I packed my loudest shirt, a pair of flip flops, and took the next flight to Havana … After a month on the island, one question will not leave me alone. What exactly is the United States afraid of?*
Photos: Paul Conroy

You can understand the Iranian regime is oppressive and murderous and also understand that this war of aggression against it is illegal and immoral and that those who will suffer the most from it are the people of Iran.

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.

You'll never sing that, etc...

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9

Starmer:

“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”

Voters:

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

As we all said, Labour didn't win in '24: the Tories lost. People consistently voted for whoever would beat the Tory candidate and Labour were the overall beneficiaries. When there's an actual alternative, we see how colossally unpopular Starmer's fash-curious management consultants truly are.

As someone from Essex I can confirm that we use 'from Hertfordshire' derisively.

can you love Spurs on a cold, rainy night in Stoke?

Abolish the Home Office.

I know people who have minor drug charges from their teenage years who have still never been able to get a visa to visit the states.

Goddamn. The charm of this man 💚

If you are registered to vote in Gorton & Denton, please get out & vote today.

Given how close to the line it may well be, wouldn't it be something to be able to say years from now that it was your vote that tipped the tide of politics in the UK to hope over hate?

JUST ONE DAY OF SUNSHINE. WE HAD ONE DAY.

the specifics here are just confounding -- did BBC purposely create a controversy involving humiliating both Davidson and several black award-winners and presenters, or if not (and I tend to guess not) how many institutional failures were required to allow this to happen?

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away Exclusive: Alvi Choudhury claiming damages against Thames Valley police after biased technology confused him with man looking ‘10 years younger’

Cool! Fine! Good! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They failed everyone.