Mike Holden

Cc @iandunt.bsky.social

Donald Trump: "I'm not a dictator"
Also Donald Trump:

He is better, he genuinely loves talking about science, I have a (now signed) book of his about maths called Wonders Beyond Numbers, he spent half an hour discussing the maths of how far you can see from the shore (5km he assures me) plus loads about his past as a stand up!

No cheating, post your lock screen.

Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?

A drink and a chat with Johnny Ball

Mike and Johnny Ball, nicest guy in showbiz.

Sometimes, meet your heroes. Because sometimes they are the nicest, most genuine and funniest people you will have the privilege of meeting.
Honoured isn't the word.
(I met Johnny Ball in this same spot 5 years ago, this is the first time either of us returned. Astonishing coincidence).

BREAKING: Donald Trump says white South Africans are no longer welcome in the USA and deportations will begin immediately.

Shows there is truth in my comment last week that post-Brexit the UK has been reduced to seeking scraps from the big boys' tables
www.ft.com/content/342d...

Everyone watching the press conference:

It's always the ones you least suspect.

This is completely insane. Legal types, do get in touch with family if you can help.

A 2% wealth tax in the UK on people with over £100m (like France) would raise £30bn a year.

It's time to tax the rich.

The Poke on X: "Elon Musk said planes should fly in a straight line and was owned all the way into economy class and beyond https://t.co/70pOf5ZDn9 https://t.co/zRKye1diy8" / X Elon Musk said planes should fly in a straight line and was owned all the way into economy class and beyond https://t.co/70pOf5ZDn9 https://t.co/zRKye1diy8

You would think someone who owns a spacecraft company would have some tiny fucking clue about optimal flightpath (literally no object going into space takes a straight line).
Unless of course he was a fucking moron.
x.com/ThePoke/stat...

Brilliantly said, as ever, by @iandunt.bsky.social in this week's newsletter.
We know they are liars, and we need to hold on to that.

"Not".

Why aren't farmers incandescent that a Tory government allowed the ultra-rich to buy farm land to escape IHT, when many of them now act as feudal landlords renting land back to farmers instead of them owning it?

Catch me if you can, suckers.

1. Nhs staff were on strike.
2. This led to longer waiting lists.
3. Labour government agreed a deal finishing the strikes.
4. As a result, waiting lists have come down.

Only a right-wing loon or newspaper would paint that as anything other than an important improvement.

When did Nigel Farage take over the Labour party as well as the Conservative party?
What is happening to us?

'It's time to move on': Captain Tom's daughter says her family's reputation has been 'demolished' by charity investigation The daughter of Sir Captain Tom Moore has said her family’s reputation has been “demolished” by the investigation into her mismanagement of his charity.

Absolute entitled fuckers.
"Our lives are devastated (by the fallout from our stealing from a charity set up in our father's name). It's time to move on (so please forget our plundering of your money)".
www.lbc.co.uk/news/captain...

It's very clear now, Trump wants to capture some land - another person's country - and he's not really bothered whose or where, just so long as he can say he took it.

He wants to be Putin.

Trump is an idiot (as well as a twat).
He's imposed tariffs on energy imports from Canada.
This means simply that American energy bill will rise. For Americans.

Last night we took part in our weekly pub quiz. We won the quiz but left the money on the table.
Which shows our dedication to the pure art of quizzing.
(Or that we are smart and dumb in equal measure).
Cc @paulsinha.bsky.social

throughout his own previous tenure. And suggests that the FAA hired *people with total paralysis*.
Trump is a stain on America, and dangerous to its own people.

It's reported that Trump got rid of the head of the FAA and put a freeze on hiring new Air Traffic Controllers - no suggestion Trump's actions led to this accident, but when there is even some suggestion of criticism he immediately blames *Biden and Obama* for policies that were in place 👇

I cannot express my anger with Trump strongly enough. He will say ANYTHING to divert blame from his own actions when something bad happens.
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I have nothing to add to this.

Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view.

What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).

FFS.

I don't think Trump particularly wants to acquire Greenland, Canada or the Gulf of Mexico - there may be some US advantages to each, but the main thing he wants is to Take Some Land, to become the next Putin.

Far be it from me to suggest, James...
www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/n...