Annette Dittert

Satire was dead long ago. Now he did the same to standup comedy.
Flabbergasting.

A dusty awkward attempt of spring. But it’s coming…

Call off King's US state visit over Iran war, urge Lib Dems The party says the planned trip should be scrapped after Donald Trump's criticism of the UK's response to the war.

Cancel the April state visit to the US.

A state visit from our King should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults our country.

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

The Ayatollah of The West Now that Trump has anointed himself the new Supreme Leader of Iran, a few thoughts on where his crusade to bring peace to the Middle East via death and destruction from the sky may be heading

Now that Trump has anointed himself the new Supreme Leader of Iran, my (not very optimistic) thoughts on where his crusade to bring peace and stability to the Middle East via “death and destruction from the sky” may be heading…

Tony Blair might do better to keep schtum on this particular subject.

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Rather than concentrate on the wildfire war he's just started, Trump is spending his time on the phone with British journalists slagging off Keir Starmer. Their dictation skills turn out to be excellent www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...

Can't be a good sign (for him) when Trump is even losing his temper with the Fox News reporters...

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say — The Washington Post The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

In defence of hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers To surrender the fight for international law is to accept worse outcomes and more civilian deaths

Three cheers for @robertshrimsley.bsky.social. Am reading and listening to too many self-styled fans of liberal democracy saying, in effect, 'let's park international law for the moment and talk about....'

The poisoning of the wells Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy

A timely warning from @davidallengreen.bsky.social

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Tx! - The UK is so much more complicated than Gemans think. Not an easy task indeed. Good luck with your writing 🍀🙋🏻‍♀️

Sri Lanka Airport. While the world is on fire, these guys have a well deserved break.

🥳. Glückwunsch und sehr gut !!

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

Russia says ready to ship 9.5 million oil barrels to India amid supply crisis India has witnessed a vulnerability in terms of its crude reserves, following the breakout of the Middle East crisis. At present, it has crude stocks covering 25 days of demand along with low inventor...

Remember when Trump promised that India would stop buying Russian oil? Well it turns out that Trump's decision to bomb Iran has had the exact opposite effect, leading to a surge of Russian oil being sent to India. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...

“Hanging on to President Trump’s latest words is not the special relationship” …a useful message there from Starmer for the BBC’s hyperbolic political reporting as well as for Badenoch.

Die Grünen in UK zeigen vor allem auch, dass die extreme Rechte nicht die populärste Partei bei jungen Wähler_innen sein muss.

Sie sind das Antidot zu Reform.

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Wholly unprepared for the consequences. As the whole operation was from the start.

The King’s visit in America could be yet more damaging for the Royal Family. His own son’s war contribution insulted, our PM insulted. It might be wiser to cancel it.

It’s getting ridiculous.

This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination Killing anyone without a trial, let alone a foreign leader, involves a moral choice.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's killing shatters “a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, and logistical concerns,” Tim Naftali argues:

🚨 Rachel Reeves rightly points out the damage Brexit has done to our economy:

"Brexit cut us off from our closest trading partners."

Yep.

To some extent, the Trump/MAGA camp seems to treat the UK and other European allies like internal politics - where Trump is commenting on Starmer not like an equal national leader, but like a state governor from an opposing party.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I fear for Iran and my family She dreamt of a free Iran during her six-year incarceration. Then when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe heard America had attacked she was worried for her relatives. She reveals why sitting for a portrait wa...

Thinking of those with Iranian links in the UK, worrying about family and friends.

"There is every chance the regime will get tougher on Iranians to cover its vulnerability. I worry that ordinary people in Iran and beyond will be in harm’s way.”
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

SCRIPTED REALITY
Eine Krypto-Influencerin und ein Schönheitschirurg liegen in Dubai am Pool und filmen mit dem Handy, wie Raketen ins Nachbarhotel einschlagen. Es ist Krieg in Nahost, weil sich ein demenzkranker Ex-Reality-TV-Star in den Kopf gesetzt hat, ein Mullah-Regime zu enthaupten.