Danielle Blake

I have seen absolutely nothing positive come out of this mess, just a total lack of empathy and now a revolting pile on from the extremely powerful Hollywood set against an ordinary person with a disability.

well, time to slowly end my holiday and check the news properly for the first time since Friday morning

Enough of those, I will be checking in with The People's Columnist

I’m sorry, our president is so fucking stupid that he didn’t realize Iran might escalate with attacks against its Arab neighbors??

If you are running a large global hedge fund, I'll happily come and show you this magical thing called "a map" for a 10k daily rate

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

Roses are red,
Tax me not a smidge,

Oh my God I’m so glad he ditched this because that would have completely killed all the tragedy of Boromir’s character

Kemi saying other people have “silly views”

one of the most unserious British political figures, adjusting for importance of position held - and sometimes even not - of my lifetime

fwiw there is never going to be a good answer to the question "what should a UK government do faced with a mad US President given frightening levels of powers by his own party?"

It says a lot about the state of the Tory party that Badenoch is safe as leader at the moment when this is her idea of a policy. Dire.

a thing that doesn't really get enough discussion about platner is that, even if you assume the latter here is true (and i do), it's going to make him strongly susceptible to malign influences if he gets elected to the senate; the framework to think about him isn't fetterman, it's gabbard

The gap between how cool he thinks he sounds and how he actually sounds would take light eight centuries to traverse.

In shocking news Matt blames muslims for his defeat and would like you to pay him money so that he can keep pointing this out.

We know what happened Matt, you got your arse handed to you.

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | A new painting by Rembrandt has been discovered

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum have confirmed that the painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) was made by Rembrandt

It will go on public display on Wednesday

That’s wound up being such a gigantic negative turning point for millions of people in Israel and outside it now.

Contemplating how close we came to living in a much better world when Bibi was briefly kicked out of the premiership post-election by a coalition which unfortunately failed to hold.

MAGAZINE John Bolton Sounds the Alarm on Trump's Iran Gamble In an exclusive, Trump's onetime national security adviser warns the strike on Iran may deepen conflict, create a dangerous power vacuum — and plunge the region into turmoil.

Wait. Who? What? Huh?

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The innocent people you kill in catastrophic wars aren’t less dead because your intentions were good.

Also too, this is just so much bleaker than what the neocons did.

Hell no. So why do it now? For the same reason France & Germany now say they're ready to defend Gulf allies: US cluelessness seemingly extends to 'not having planned for consequences to everyone else in the region' As @samfreedman.bsky.social points out, Gulf states can't shoot down drones forever

What a bunch of idiots the Iranian regime are. What on earth were they thinking when they mapped out this response strategy? Attacking the gulf states, and even Cyprus. Dragging the Arabs and Europe into this war. Absolute fucking imbeciles.

Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe

Badenoch is like a facebook algorithm that has been designed purely to exploit whatever conflict it encounters in pursuit of more heated emotions, without any actual interest in the conflict as such

Who exactly is her statement meant to appeal to? The Tories are not going to magically win back Reform UK voters by turning the dog whistle up to 11, if that's what she's hoping.

Problem with both the question and answer is that "do you join an insane pre-emptive war of choice" and "how do you deal with the consequences of an ally doing one of those without telling you, given your knowledge of WWI" are quite different questions and the second is generally the important one

Badenoch’s being disgustingly bigoted here, but unfortunately Starmer’s now in no position to condemn it as he basically said things along the same lines in that mad letter to Labour MPs.