Norrette M.

Trump Has Long Disdained Europe’s Elites. Now, It’s Official.

"...supporting right-wing parties antagonistic to the European Union would divide and weaken the continent, leaving a “fractured Europe which is easily colonizable” by the globe’s great powers."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/w...

Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina The 79-year-old president’s social media blitz included conspiracies, attacks on political foes and self-praise

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Frontal Lobe...about to implode any day now.

GOP will regret letting it carry on.

Same goes for mince pies.

Lemon sorbet the only suitable finish.

Indeed

precisely

That's fair enough, never thought you were. Wish I had your confidence in the outcome. Glad I held back from YP.

Not necessarily the case. Older lefties like myself know. But the newer Corbynistas are not necessarily aware of the history.

If they drive everyone else out...

but they can destroy it, in their attempt.

Does she never stop talking to the media?

Opposes only because she knows she'd lose a poll.

Her current behaviour means even the Greens would need more than a ten foot pole.

I can imagine she does...it's perhaps her base vote.

With friends like that, who needs enemies.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Woh. I've yet to see Leopoldstadt which might go someway toward explaining why he was stupid enough to be a Thatcherite.

Then again, I must try Arcadia once more. I didnt get it first try.

Thread

(as an aside, how many rw journos have expensive houses too)

Martin Rowson on a besieged Labour party – cartoon Keir Starmer’s U-turn over workers’ rights is the latest manifesto breach to give grist to the mill of the government’s critics

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Da Ming vase!

David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case | Simon Jenkins Barristers and criminals may not like the idea, but it’s key to reforming Britain’s antiquated and overloaded justice system, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

[UK sends] "far more people to prison than countries without juries. England and Wales imprisons 145 of its citizens for every 100,000. Jury-free Germany imprisons 71, the Netherlands and Norway just 54 The jury-loving US imprisons 541."

(For me the jury's out)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘A step-change’: tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones As navies seek to counter submarines and protect cables, startups and big defence companies fight to lead market

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The beginning of the end of the internet. As countries start to attack cables - this is probs more a deterrent than nukes.

And don't be counting your Starlink pennies, #Musk, they've long been able to knock out satellites

Just be Labour! John McDonnell MP sets out his thoughts on today’s Budget. The wave of relief that swept over the Parliamentary Labour Party was palpable when they heard the Chancellor confirm that the two child c…

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"The obvious question is why it has taken nearly 18 months for this administration to take the first small steps to acting like a Labour government."

hahaha

I’d pay more if Milk Shakes were put to good use ….

Excerpt from column in The i Paper https://inews.co.uk/opinion/rachel-reeves-speech-income-tax-budget-labour-starmer-4020771 New research from the Unite union, which represents workers in the energy sector, found that energy companies made £30bn in profit from the UK energy system in 2024 – which equates to around £500 per household and a quarter of business bills. People expect a Labour Government to tackle obscene profiteering like this.

There's a case for raising income tax to fund public services, but there's a much stronger case to tackle the cost of living crisis by clamping down on profiteering.

He should chill, we all know it. It's very removal will give it higher profile.

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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what stage of capitalism is this

Shame about that, will have to keep my recording.

BBC to expand standards panel and add deputy director general after bias row Planned overhaul of editorial guidelines committee would dilute influence of Tory board appointment Robbie Gibb

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

#BBC

It's a start. But seriously, folks, the #Labour party needs to use the majority and get ruthless in clearing out the augean Tory stables.

@georgemcgavin.bsky.social

Looking for a book on your BBC Oak programme. When will you publish?

I'm someone who has an outdoor container squirrel planted 15 yo "bonsai" oak. Which feigns death annually, then resurrects.

Lives next to a small cluster of urban oaks.

#Rubio is toast