Dr Nic Brownlie

Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?

Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Someone teach him a bit of French! He clearly doesn't know what the word 'Faux' means. How someone so ignorant - let alone so racist - can have ever been thought an appropriate person to be an MP is beyond me.

Proof that billionaire capitalists need to be castrated (metaphorically speaking) for their own good: let someone who is neurologically programmed to 'win' have their way and the world is a worse place for everyone...

Look at Russia. You are sadly on the path to totalitarianism but, like Russians who allowed Putin to do what he wanted (and the Chinese too), you are allowing it to happen. America is already no longer the land of the free.

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

“Why aren’t you celebrating?”

( @krystalball.bsky.social with a counterpoint to Speaker Johnson’s push for Trump to get a prize after enabling the carnage in Gaza)

*gasp*

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

What a surprise. Trump engineering an outcome that suits him and Russia and screws Ukraine: USA gets minerals and walks away; Russia grabs more of Ukraine and ensures USA gets minerals. Ukraine ceases to exist. If Charles meets orange fascist in the autumn, damage to the monarchy will be terminal.

Well spotted. Read up on Project 2025...

It is now sadly clear: the extreme right wing is seeking to take over the civilised world and carve up its enemies for selfish nationalistic gains. Unfortunately, it seems, there are currently too few moderates, in positions of power, willing (or awake enough) to stand up and confront it...

Twitter taken down? Something to brighten everyone's Monday!

'Trump says Ukraine 'more difficult' to deal with than Russia' - no shit Sherlock! One tell him what he wants to hear, the other speaks the truth, that he cant handle

Sorry. Can't help it. Trump is a child in a zoo, playing with the pretty locks on the doors of the luvverly cages, while thinking he is a god-given grown up dealing with supernatural forces that no-one else can see. Sort him out, America.

How long until countries across the globe begin forming military alliances against the US? If Xi Jingping had any sense, he would already be planning ways to make coalitions with China acceptable to the West. Ditching Russia for starters. Now *that* would be interesting...

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.

Meanwhile:

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

Thank god for Zelenski. Someone sensible prepared to speak calm truth to power and showing Trump and Vance to be childish bullies. Extraordinary.