Danielle Blake

Whatever you think the response to Iranian missiles be fired on British citizens and British allies in the Gulf should be, I don't think that 'it might hurt Labour electorally' should be part of your answer.

Genuine question: does Keir Starmer actually do, you know, anything as PM?

The obvious follow up question: why did he sign off the letter in the first place then?

Think there is something to be written about how bad the news environment has got for people who want to keep up with politics but don't have the time/knowledge to go beyond the flagships.

Welcome to the Labour Party Donald

Whatever else this is from Paul Ovenden, demanding Labour MPs back Mahmood’s immigration crackdown, it is the most over-written, pretentious thing I’ve seen for some time.

Shabana Mahmood really is putting me more and more in mind of Dedra Meero from Andor

That Conservative number is something else, the government at least have the excuse that they're crap in office, the Tories have gotten worse IN OPPOSITION.

That’s a lot of Muslims

I see America’s now also doing the ”it’s not a war, it’s a special military operation” thing.

This statement is ironically a piece of good journalism in that it unwittingly explains exactly why this dinner is and always has been a bad idea corrosive to journalism’s purpose.

“Excuse me he just said he’d wanted to do this for 40 years!”

Yeah, and the fact he *didn’t* until now is exactly Yair Rosenberg’s point. Whatever once restrained him - whether it’s cowardice or lack of support from the Israeli public or a less compliant and bloodthirsty US admin - is now gone.

I think people in the replies need to understand saying Netanyahu got a lot worse after Oct 7 - demonstrably true with the extremes he went to in Gaza after the initial justifiable retaliation vs Hamas and the launching of *two* attacks on Iran - does not preclude him being extremely bad before.

Half of my mentions are currently versions of the left; half are versions of the right.

A bunch of these countries have closed airspace and no easy commercial routes out.

I realise it is funny in a way, but it’s genuinely really worrying to me.

What will these people do to our democracy in government? It’s so precious and it only takes one bad bunch to do serious damage.

"This is not about being a sore loser" I continue to insist as I slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob.

Apple News Sports This Mets prospect won't stop eating a terrifying amount of eggs. now

Breaking news:

Gaston survived the fall at the end of Beauty and the Beast and now plays for the New York Mets

You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.

Right now Whisenhunt feels like he’s a million miles away from being ready for the bigs. #SFGiants

if this is the preventative treatment imagine what the untreated version looks like

A lot of the current discourse on anti-Semitism on the US left does feel grimly reminiscent of what played out on the British left last decade but on a larger scale and in a worse information environment

Ryan Grim currently accusing every private citizen who criticizes Oyster Boy of being a Democratic consultant.

I'm pretty sure Grim's tirades are intended to discourage other reporters from thoroughly vetting the left's new Nazi plaything.

These guys have been smug pricks over there with their slave labour and are now shocked that moving a small stretch of water away from Iran puts you close to Iran

"After all, why not... why shouldn't I keep it?"

"No stupid rules of engagement" is how you shoot down three of your own F-15s in one day. Just a shocking display of martial ineptitude.

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??