Alistair May

A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.

British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

5 people in the UK, of whom 3 have never been near a church, and the other 2 are on strong meds.

Trump says Starmer is 'no Winston Churchill' over Iran strikes Sir Keir Starmer had refused to grant the US permission to use the Diego Garcia military base.

and, Mr President, you're no Jack Kennedy either

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Deep fried ayatollah?

I'm not sure what I think about the attack on Iran, but listening to their UN ambassador complaining about illegal attacks on civilians, and violation of sovereignty, is so thick with hypocrisy.

Marmalade explosives

There's no doubt we are in a new age. Reform and Trumpism will pass, but we're not going back to 2006. We're in post-globalisation. Populism (left, right, and nationalist) is here to stay: easy answers that won't work. But, yes, with FPTP a two-party dominance will return.

Is that an example, or an exception. I think it's the only time one of the two parties has been replaced. Reform will implode (granted, it may be the other side of the next election).

I'm old enough to recall so many times that one of the big two parties has been written off as unrecoverable. Still, here we are. Labour were dead in 1983, 2015, and 2019. Tories were dead in 1997, and 2024. It's Labour's turn again now.

Harry could always return from overseas and save the day. Harry IV (Boilingbrooke) did this in 1399
Harry VII (Tudor) in 1485

which would need royal assent

"(1)the Regent shall be that person who, excluding any persons disqualified under this section, is next in the line of succession to the Crown
(2)A person shall be disqualified from becoming or being Regent, if he is not a British subject of full age and domiciled in some part of the United Kingdom

True. Although, the Regency Act is interesting. It excludes children, and UK non-residents. Which means that Andrew is second in line. If the King died, and anything happened to William...

Ach well, maybe you'll win most of the constituencies, and won't need the list top-ups.

That's not good. I do salute the fact that it's all constituency candidates. I'd like that to be a legal requirement, and the ranking to depend on the constituency votes returned. Let the voters decide.

This is quite remarkable. The UK is the most sceptical about US reliance, and most open to European autonomy in defense. So much for the "special relationship".

Other than that, Mr. Kermode, how was the film?

@daviddark.bsky.social you need this

It starts, I think, by valuing the truth. And speaking it, even - perhaps especially - when it is inconvenient to our own tribe. It starts by celebrating the pillars on which our democracy was built: rule of law, free speech, and the willingness to lose any vote, no matter our passions, peaceably.

He can't remember whether (or not) a convicted pedophile gave him $75,000? Gosh, I can see how that might slip your mind if you don't have good record keeping.

"Allegations which I believe to be false that he made financial payments to me 20 years ago, and of which I have no record or recollection, need investigating by me." - Mandleson

So, you're not sure whether or not some convicted pedophile gave you $75,000 dollars. Right... I think I'd remember.

For a clear break with the old politics, vote Reform: a collection of ex-Tories and a member of the Lords to govern Scotland.

"Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss"

The case has got little to do with her. It's this: do you want a Government minister to be able to rescind your citizenship, without due process or fair trial, simply because you are accused of something (however vile)? It's not that criminals have a right to due process, it's that all of us do!

I just wear my tinfoil 24/7, it's just safer

Unfortunately, serious journalism has been replaced by cheap clickbait marketing almost everywhere. In their defence, when we expect content for nothing, this is what journalists (if there are any left) are reduced to doing.

It shows what an upside down world it is when John Bolton is the voice of sanity.

Trying to imagine a context where this wouldn't be blatantly racist. Em... Yes, still thinking...

Ah, I see the mythic immigrants who allegedly come for the benefits and are more workshy than us natives! We need government to tackle this dangerous fictive problem.

(However, I'm less sure that this sentiment makes it less likely people will vote Labour. It should, but it probably won't.)