Chris Dent

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

Once a lying cheating scumbag, always a lying cheating scumbag. He should be prosecuted, fined, jailed, and made to pay us all his illegal gains. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two weeks ago, tax barrister Setu Kamal tried (and failed) to injunct me.

Today? He’s decided to sue the UK for £3 billion.

Sieving the population? Sound familiar? Othering minorities and excluding them from society and 'deporting' to somewhere without a care. Note these are not criminals.

In case you've forgotten - capitalism kills.

This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life

Great insight into Kemi Badenoch and her politics

Listen up, weaklings: there’s no Epstein client list – and definitely no cover-up. Yours, Donald J Trump | Marina Hyde It’s the bonfire of the Maga hats. The real mystery is where their wearers got the idea of a paedophile conspiracy from in the first place, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Bill Clinton, "Under Netanyahu, the Israelis have no intention of giving the Palestinians a state"

"Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office for ever and ever. He's been there for 20 years"

He sent the marines to protect the guard who sheltered the ICE to catch the kids. I don’t know why we elected this guy, perh*tackled off stage*

It turns out reports of a 'millionaire exodus' from the UK last year were completely unfounded.

Zia Yusuf returning to Reform UK two days after quitting Nigel Farage says Yusuf

Zia Yusuf returns to Reform UK two days after quitting.

Explains return to Farage cult by claiming he was exhausted.

Now not exhausted enough to lead DOGE style team to slash jobs, public services, worker/consumer/human rights, promote uncosted policies

What some do for the stench of power.

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?

Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

Don't Make Plans for Nigel At least just yet...

New post from me assessing the chances of Prime Minister Nigel Farage - henceforth PMNF. I recently claimed a 10-20% chance of PMNF. Is that too low? Too high? This piece sets out what I think his challenges are. Not least the presence of a blond rival... 1/n

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This is not satire …

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If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.

Has anyone ever gifted you a plane?

Presumably these books are in French? I assume France never had the 'Net Book Agreement' that UK publishers used to hold up the price of books - until the big retailers and the supermarkets smashed it in the 1990's (I think).

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

If you need a Pearl Harbor film then Tora Tora Tora is far superior

UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza Palestinian rights group says remarks criticising a Lancet analysis on impact of the conflict are ‘sickening’

Good to see the sinister UK Lawyers for Israel getting some of the attention it deserves. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started? The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationships

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I see the winner top right of photo - the inimitable Tunnock's Tea Cakes. Lucky she wasn't trying to get through US customs with all those goodies.

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Why doesn't Labour get rid of the Tory extremists deliberately destroying the BBC's reputation, biasing it's output, and wrecking its future?

Can’t believe I blagged an exclusive interview with Katy Perry!

And those who do reach age 67 received it for 2 years less.

It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neither, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

If you or I were in this chat, we'd lose our security clearance and consequently our jobs, before being prosecuted and likely jailed. What chance this bunch going the same way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is Farage’s moment of reckoning: he can choose British voters – or Putin and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff The Reform leader and Kemi Badenoch have struck the wrong alliances at the wrong time, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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