Guy Stallard

French Response French Response @Fr... • 26/01/2026 Confusing how much each country spends on its own military with its contribution to NATO's common funding = confusing how much you spend on your sports equipment, shoes, and coaching with your annual gym membership fee. The U.S. pays about 16% of NATO budget = equal to the largest EU contributor (Germany). X NATO Common-Funded Budget Cost Share by Ally (2025) Germany United Kingdom France taly Spain Turkiye Netherlands Canada Poland Norway Sweden Belgium Denmark Romania Czechia Portugal Greece Finland tungary Slovakia Bulgaria Lithuania Slovenia Croatia Latvia Luxembourg 1 Estonia - North Macedonia - keland Albania - Montenegro - + 10 Share of NATO common-funded budgets (%) 12 Investment Programme (NSIP), "Cost share at 32", valid from 7 March 2024 to 31

The French once again taking no bullshit.

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

With Stephen Muller etc

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour.

Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.

Nick Timothy – the great genius at....

Morgan McSweeney – the great....

Steve Hilton...

Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

Swansea man's surprise after finding abandoned Welsh village The reason it was abandoned remains a mystery with the local council and developer tight-lipped.

This is a great story, and very odd.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Topics covered include:

* A review of the contest and most likely winners
* How "left-wing" they'd be on economics (are markets right to be jittery)
* What could be done differently on policy and politics

Would the incitement to murder boyfriend be seen as tittle tattle these days - in US sadly yes

Thorpe added to Je and if you go phonetically so sweep in Geoff

Sky presenter reflects on Trump's since-deleted video depicting Obamas as apes Sky News presenter Kamali Melbourne weighs in on a video shared online by the White House of the Obamas, which has sparked outrage after featuring imagery widely condemned as racist.

Well said that man…

Sky presenter on Trump's post

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Someone should do a predictions league table for commentators. Fairly sure Heath would be at the bottom.

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

In the US. Not across the world.

No one believes a staffer did this.

At last, Musk has chosen the right side. Only took him four years.

Highlight of the Olympics opening ceremony as J D Vance is booed when he appears on the screen.

He certainly will everywhere in Europe outside a NatCon event. Universally loathed. More so than Trump.

Ian is also right: this is the absolute WORST SCANDAL to rock a British government since.... well... since.... ummm.... since the last Conservative government under Boris Johnson.

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Gove forever plays the awfully polite gentleman who entertains this sh!t, but he never really knocks it down. Because that would be impolite.

This is just another reason why the hard right is running rampant through Conservatism.

The staffer.

This has now been deleted. So Piers Morgan can continue to fawn over Trump.

I hear he has and blamed a staffer? But his spokesman had previously defended it

Has Trump deleted/denied this

Oh dear - how come business leaders are so weak in US

The Washington Post has laid off every reporter and editor covering the Middle East and Ukraine. Looks like Trump doesn’t want any reporting of those critical areas.

Has anyone senior in UK or US right criticised this utter racism?

It’s brilliant cc @iandunt.bsky.social

OMFG cc @rolandmcs.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

OMFG cc @rolandmcs.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com