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Update as Sadiq Khan confirms when Oxford Street will be pedestrianised The Mayor of London hopes to use the traffic-free street for events this year

Coming soon: a traffic-free Oxford Street.

Following strong public and business support, we’re moving at pace with plans to pedestrianise the heart of the West End.

A full mile between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street is set to go traffic-free by the end of this summer.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

If you delight in Trump having a go at Starmer, if you don’t mind having worse trade terms after Brexit, if you’re happy for the economy (and therefore public services) to tank, impacting fellow citizens, you’re not patriotic in the least, your loyalty is to Farage, not the UK

Has there ever been a political party before that has come to power through the method of openly despising and rooting against the country they nominally represent?

So he’ll be getting rid of that? What an arsehole.

* single shit. 🤦‍♀️

All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend.

European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law.

The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades

International law died yesterday. And Europe helped kill it. Macron, Starmer and Meloni gave their stamp of approval to Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela to run the country and take its oil. Who can take them seriously now on Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

The writing was already on the wall with European leaders' reaction to Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela, and to his first attack on Iran in June.

They've tacitly endorsed the new might makes right era.

That will not end well for Europeans.

This frivolous garbage was said today by the man who launched missiles without giving a sigle shit ahout what happens next.

The man is a genuine moron. What the fuck have you done America and why aren’t you undoing it???

Becaude you have to have some honour?

Please let him be decomposing and let it hurry up.

US aircraft leave Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iran attacks Fifteen U.S. aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain since the U.S. and Israel launched weekend attacks on Iran, maps by flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed on ...

Spain's decision to expel US assets being used to attack Iran exposes an uncomfortable truth for countries like Germany, Italy, Britain & Belgium.

The rest of Europe is still indirectly collaborating in the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack by allowing bases here to be used.

Iran has made it clear that it does not see a distinction between whether US allies are actively attacking Iran themselves or if they are hosting US military assets at their bases that are then used to attack Iran.

That is the reason they're giving for launching missiles at 🇬🇧🇨🇾.

Drivers lose faith in EVs’ savings as pay-per-mile road tax looms Duty on electric cars is ‘wrong tax at the wrong time’, says expert, as motorists believe new vehicles will not be cheaper to run

Electric shock - new tax threatens to make EVs more expensive to run than fossil fuel cars bit.ly/4tVfveK

Farage is frequently called a ‘character’, and the dictionary definition of a character is ‘something that gives the impression of being a person’.

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

"The attack came despite US intelligence assessments that Iran was unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the US mainland within the next decade."

So why do it?

"A weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia..."

Ah. Not just weak, but cheap, too.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Farage: Immigrants don’t integrate!

Also Farage: I will not let immigrants integrate.

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

What the hell do they have against postal voting? I mean really, I don’t understand their problem with it 🤷‍♀️

I bloody HATE this thinking. Foreign people who live here and have to live through the consequences of elections are far better placed to vote than U.K. citizens who vote while living somewhere where the consequences will never, ever touch them.

The Board for Peace starts its first war...

Starmer wants to be Macron. He risks becoming Hollande. And why Conservative/Reform shrieking about the rise of "sectarianism" rings hollow

Starmer set himself up as Macron. Today he looks more like Biden or Hollande.

And why claims of the rise of sectarianism in British politics ring hollow. Apparently British Muslims, uniquely, aren't allowed to decide who best represents them.

New substack from me

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Trump: "Maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba."

Trump: "Maybe we do one more term. Should we? Do one more term! We're entitled to it."

Whenever he speaks of the country, he means him personally.

I try not to get too conspiratorial in my thinking, but it is getting a bit coincidental how every time the Epstein scandal closes in on Trump, the US launches a major military operation in another country

This is very odd framing from Starmer. Half of Labour's vote in Gorton and Denton just went to the Greens. Saying they've all been duped by extremists isn't going to help

Jesus! Yet again we are teased with a few hours of hope that lessons will be learned only to have it dashed again. Depressing.