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Oil Prices Tumble After Trump Says Iran War ‘Very Complete’ Oil futures, which surged as much as 31% Sunday night to more than $100 a barrel, have tumbled back down, a stunning reversal that gained momentum after President Trump told CBS that the war he launch...

If true that Trump is signalling an end in sight, then what we’ve learned from this fiasco is that the Iranian regime does not collapse even under intense pressure & the rest of the world can’t endure closure of the straits of Hormuz for very long at all www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Aaaaggghhhh - delete the not between and and still

If the Iranian regime retains control of Iran at the end of this war, it's kind of won, hasn't it, because it's survived?

Local TV and radio journalists - not cocooned in the Westminster Village and not still focused on journalism, not stenography - regularly give grifting frauds like Farage a harder time than their nationwide broadcaster equivalents.

For all the talk of how investors and bankers are sophisticated analysts who earn millions as a result of their skills, the stock market is very "orange man do mad thing, sell!", "orange man say he stop doing bad thing, buy!"

I think when the British people find out what the British people think about this, they'll be very disappointed

It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.

There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.

Maybe Starmer could apply this in other areas: actually do what he believes is right, lead opinion rather than trying to second guess it. The EU relationship springs to mind.

Spitting image of Berlusconi

Deeply weird article, this. An attack on the government for doing what the vast majority of people in the UK want it to do. Then I saw who wrote it and it all made sense!

I say this as someone whose vote the LibDems can count on at the next election thanks to where I live, deeply unserious and unimpressive stuff from Ed here. Disappointing.

Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike

Tice says Britain should join the bombing.

Jenrick says Britain shouldn't join the bombing.

Farage has gone silent for the past 72hrs.

This mob couldn't run a bath let alone a country.

In which I have a go at the PP, and, just for a change (🤪) the guys who write about Spain for the FT and The Economist

macdonnchada.substack.com/p/the-partid...

It beggars belief that the UK right did not take a deep breath, step back and think through the consequences for the UK of unquestioning support for Trump's madness. Not least, the fact that as @stephenkb.bsky.social noted in his FT newsletter today, the biggest winner in all this is Putin.

We've seen a lot of ill-advised US aggression over the years but I am struggling to think of anything as downright stupid and dangerous as this Iran attack.

If this is right there is no way Trump can sustain the madness for too long.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”

And if you are like that, when most of your coalition is socially progressive, guess what happens?

There is a weird belief that social conservatives will step away from Labour if we don't reflect their values, but social liberals will just... stay if we reject those

That was the correct action at the correct time

Drive less to save fuel, motorists told

This is genuinely leading the Telegraph homepage

Gallup Poll (3/5/26):

Do you approve of $8 gas

No: 99%
Yes: 1%

Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy

No: 46.6%
Yes: 38.9%
Unsure: 14.5%

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

It seems to me to be HIGHLY unlikely that we won't be in the same position, or worse, this time next week. No prospect of a ceasefire by then. I don't think the US can forcibly and securely open the Strait of Hormuz by then, but Iran could start mining it. And more infrastructure attacks likely.

It's partly about reflexive Atalantism and imperial nostalgia. But I think a big part of this is their sheer hatred of Starmer's focus on international law. Same as the reason Chagos has become such a big deal for them.

And you know what? Whenever an attack on Iran has been mooted over the years - and years - all of this has been completely predicted. All of it.

America is ruled by dumb, bloodthirsty people. We gain nothing by slavishly following them.

As a caveat, in 2 weeks Trump could just as well declare victory after the IRGC gets just enough to claim its own win so that prices go down enough for the core base of MAGA supporters to claim he was right all along

There is not going to be a sudden "aha" moment that makes 35% MAGA America go away

Gilt yields surging, oil and gas prices soaring, wider systemic impact transmitted through food prices and everything else.

Iran didn't need a nuclear weapon to create mayhem. It just needed an idiot US President.

And as for those who backed him- eyes open yet?