Steve Bullock

This is an excellent and extremely informative listen for anyone, like me, whose understanding of Iran and of Middle-East dynamics in general is fairly superficial.

Nice to be clamping down on refugees just when we’re participating in a war that will create hundreds of thousands of new refugees.

Oh no, I’ve not seen that. I’m assuming it’s not good?

All the takes that FIFA must be feeling pretty stupid now make the mistake of assuming that Infantino and the others that run FIFA have a conscience or the slightest sense or understanding of shame.

I feel like someone got confused while designing this, and things just kinda got out of hand. Oddly like it though!

World Cup 2026: What does the Middle East conflict mean for the tournament? What does the US conflict with Iran mean for what was already set to be a highly politicised World Cup this summer?

Every country should boycott it, no fans should go.

It's not safe, and it's morally reprehensible in many ways
#boycottfifa

Oh shit.

I guess if you don’t really care about children being killed in their schools in your own country, it’s unlikely you’ll care about it happening in other countries.

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Grimly, the total appears to be well over one hundred now. Unspeakable horror.

It’d have to be a job share with someone else doing the Shahing in the mornings.

This is put better:

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You can try to call it lots of different things, but when it comes down to it the objective is the same and that is the removal of one government and its replacement with one the US government prefers. That’s regime change.

But surely an avowed ally wouldn’t do that to us? Not us here in Europe?

[Spoiler: they explicitly say they will in their own publicly available foreign policy strategy.]

There are many forms regime change can take once it’s adopted as a preferred method to achieve foreign policy objectives.

E.g., Bombs & war, kidnappings & CIA sponsored coups, natch, but also funding far-right parties opposed to liberal democracy and flooding the media with chaotic misinformation.

Nope, I can’t live with it. I’m going to delete and repost.

Ugh, I hate typos in serious posts but it’s nearly 2am.

The US is not a 'partner'. It's in their National Security Strategy to support far right parties that oppose multicultural liberal democracy here. They are behaving lawlessly at home and abroad, summarily executing their own citizens, and now bombing Iran with no coherent rationale or plan.

I had a friend who insisted on only recording at even-numbered (in beats per minute) tempos so when I recorded and mixed them I’d always secretly make sure the EQs, compressors etc were set to odd values for my own amusement.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Two smiling tax administration employees standing at Arrivals section of an airport with a large hand-drawn banner with the text translated above

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

Hahaha! Aye, why not.

That one did have electric radiators that produced no heat but ran down the credit in the leccy meter so fast you could watch it disappearing in real time.

The landlord was some sort of local hard-man and had made it very clear that in return for us keeping our mouths shut and paying on time we’d get the benefits of low rent, no paper trail, and not having some neds come at us with Stanley knives taped to hammers while we were walking home at night.

It sounds almost Dickensian reading that back, but this was two years *after* Amazon started FFS!

FFS trying to get that bloody fire to light on Scottish winter mornings was a frezing cold pain in the hump.

That flat was so iffy! We we’re 90% sure the landlord was pulling some housing benefit scam with it while living with his girlfriend, and would come round to get his mail every week, the rent in cash, and to ask if anyone had come round looking for him.

The heating was a coal back-boiler fire.

Plus a week’s unwashed dishes in the sink, a sofa covered in rock burns, and a huge stack of glass iron bru bottles being saved up until we can buy a pack of Marlboro Lights with the deposit refunds.

Must get gigantic posters of the covers of Bob Marley’s Legend and Radiohead’s The Bends to complete the experience.

The passing of culture and wisdom from father to son.

Am playing Brawlhalla in Street-Fighter mode with Mini Moog while listening to Dookie and it’s giving me flashbacks to an outstandingly grotty student flat in 1996.

Pass the bong, dude!