Rosie Walters

IMPORTANT MOCHI UPDATE: Stretching and squirming.

Gato dorme embaixo de uma cadeira

Pipirro relaxing under a chair by the pool area 😻💦🌴🐾

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

Starmer/ Downing Street had one job to do yesterday. Stand up for a senior British Asian elected official from their own party. (Support for British and European democratic values would have been nice too). Their abject failure in that moment should be disqualifying.

A row of houses with mountains behind. A sliver of the new moon is high in the early evening sky.

'Late Autumn in Kai' - Yamataka Noboru, ca. 1980's.
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Martyn Turner @turnercartoons on #Trump #EuropeanUnion - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

The Daily Mail should do an investigation:

“The Curse of Brexit? Did woke Meghan Markle cause 4 million Brexit voters to die?”

Between her advocacy for Hacked Off and a social media ban for teenagers, perhaps Emma Barnett could ask - say - how many young people the government has talked to for these projects, and what contexts and channels they used.

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😂. New White House font dropped!

Australia’s kids are saved! The social media ban is here and all the teens are outside touching grass | First Dog on the Moon (Vaping, shoplifting Labubus and getting bullied in person)

Teen social media ban! Ban teens! Ban social media! Ban bans! All of it now! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

David Pope in Canberra Times

Yes, and they're doing their damnedest to thin them out...

Russians are now boasting about Trump being on their side.

Given the recent seismic geo political shifts and the demise of the transatlantic post war alliance and overt US support of an emboldened Russia, one could be forgiven for thinking that this is becoming increasingly urgent.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1664 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The headline reads “IT’S PARTY SEASON!” The cover is split into four panels. Top left: Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner smile, with speech bubbles reading “Angela is coming back to the Cabinet…” and “Yes, as Prime Minister.” Top right: Nigel Farage gestures onstage, saying “They keep putting me on the TV!” Bottom left: Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana stand at a rally, with Corbyn saying “I’m not as Sparty as you!” and Sultana replying “Your Sparty.” Bottom right: Liz Truss sits at a desk in a broadcast setting, saying “It’s going down the YouTubes,” while another speech bubble adds, “She’s gone doom loopy!”

It’s party season!

The new Private Eye is out now.

A braver Tory leader than Badenoch would dare to call out Farage's bogus patriotism | Rafael Behr Across western democracies, established conservatives are yielding to radical nationalism. There’s no sign that Britain will be the exception, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Opposition v resistance

"... there is a vacancy for a Maga stooge in Britain. Donald Trump can do some business with Keir Starmer, but there is no affinity of belief or shared cupidity with a Labour prime minister. The obvious partner would be Nigel Farage."

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How long Britain could really fight for if war broke out tomorrow In the event of a war, one expert suggests the British Army could be incapable of fighting effectively on land within weeks, once committed - though 'much depends on the form of the conflict'.

In some ways this is a useful reminder that a lot of the talk of European security guarantees to Ukraine have the whole thing backwards. For more than three years Ukraine has been guaranteeing European security by fighting and degrading the Russian armed forces.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is real expertise on Russia…. @jgmaber.bsky.social

A letter to Donald Trump, from London You don’t seem to like London very much, or our mayor. But people around here live longer than Americans, and we’re much less likely to get murdered. As for your Sharia law claims - have you ever actu...

"London had around 104 homicides last year. Let’s put that number into context – New Orleans had 124 homicides last year. That might make London look just a little bit safer than New Orleans, but here’s the thing – more than nine million people live in London, but only 360,000 live in New Orleans."

The paranoid security theatre is just incredible. Meanwhile, most of my wait at border control at Dulles last month was caused by the guy having to repeatedly reset his computer: “they give us these shitty relics that can barely run XP”.

They wouldn't have to go back five years to deny me entry. 😎

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This is accurate. Russia has succeeded very well in convincing media in Europe and the UK that the conflict is far more one-sided in Russia’s favour than is genuinely the case - and that contributes to the assumption that it should be settled in Russia’s favour sooner rather than later.

One of the frustrating aspects of Trump's 'peace' efforts is that he resides in an echo chamber that doesn't acknowledge the real difficulties that Russia is facing in continuing its war in Ukraine - and it is an echo chamber that influences media coverage, judging by the questions that I get asked!

Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’.

Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?

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Oh thank god…

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Thank God for Bluesky Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.

Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...