Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.
🐶 With plenty of barks, treats and tail-wagging, the world's biggest and most famous dog show got underway Thursday in Britain, with a record number of overseas entries among those bidding for Crufts glory.
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That Nigel Farage thinks it is more important not to endanger his backing from the US government than take a position that reflects the overwhelming sentiment of the British public reflects underlying structural contradictions that could split the British Far Right
Labour MPs may have enjoyed delivery of this #UKbudget in Commons but hard to see party getting majority again in near future given pain inflicting on voters & inept way governing. Could there be bigger gift to anti-Establishment parties like Reform than this Labour govt?
BBC Radio 4's Today just created a "surge of interest in everything" Japan, that's happening in Britain and needs reporting on apparently, including "people going skiing in Japan who normally go to France" 😆
Anti #Trump protest fills Regent St en route to Parliament Sq rally
Amid🕴🍾 🍽 watch moment #climate campaigners who infiltrated #Republicans Overseas' eve-of- #Trump #UK #statevisit dinner in #Windsor reveal themselves -- to pretty hostile reception....
Amid🕴🍾 🍽 watch moment #climate campaigners who infiltrated #Republicans Overseas' eve-of- #Trump #UK #statevisit dinner in #Windsor reveal themselves -- to pretty hostile reception....
Strangest part is how long it's taken for these calls to gather pace; surprised there weren't more after Elon Musk's incendiary posts during summer '24 anti-migrant riots
Commendable but maybe no longer posting on his platform would be good start for Ed Davey...
Never too late for BBC News to realise sober daytime raves have been getting popular for at least a decade or two
Somebody cc Keir Starmer
Big surprise? Trump's threatened tariffs on Russia clearly not coming tomorrow despite his artificial deadline set 10 days ago... & Moscow will likely continue to bomb Ukraine unrelentingly
'To date, regulators have taken a heavy-handed approach' -- X on UK Online Safety Act.
Yeah, totally, social media's been so over-regulated these past years 🤔
Just heard #Trump say his first term tax cut massively increased federal revenues, but apparently... www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Club World Cup halftime show perfectly encapsulates whole tournament ... tacky as hell. Commercialisation of football on steroids. Can we have our game back please? #cwcf
As usual, I think Brian is right about Brazil. Its economy isn’t very reliant on exports to the US, its judiciary operates quite independently of politics and Lula will be eager to stand up to a foreign bully. Brazil already trades more with China than with the US; tariffs deepen that relationship.
Cracking expose story on couple behind #SaltPath book / film 👏 @chloehadj.bsky.social @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
News media seem shocked that we actually live in a parliamentary democracy...
Would love to see him say that to #Glastonbury crowd during his set this weekend...
The farce that football's become...
Illuminating update 🤔
Quietly damning line from @thetimes.com : “Trump did not say in his post that the White House had demanded constraint, or that he had tried to dissuade Putin from taking action. There is no indication that Trump has spoken to his Ukrainian counterpart, President Zelensky.”
3 London teams in #UCL next season... doubt that's happened before
More like all season
Really wouldn't be surprised if #NottinghamForest #NFFC bottle it on Sunday... if getting that worked up about #GaryNeville, sounds like distracted & emotion of it all getting too much for them #EPL #PremierLeague
Remember when high-on-hubris Jim Ratcliffe insisted every aspect of his #MUFC operation wud be "best-in-class"? Has statement ever collided with reality more brutally? Wud love if we could get our club back from bizmen whose inept decisions end up costing millions more than salaries of fired staff 😡
