Peter Arnott

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

Thd good old days! Soon have them back!

‘It’s like a nuclear bomb has hit’: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation Families are going back to Gaza City and surrounds to find their neighbourhoods obliterated, with many forced to camp in the ruins When the Gaza ceasefire took effect a week ago, tens of thousands of Palestinians began to move from the sprawling camps in the south back to their homes in Gaza City and the surrounding area. For most, it was a shocking and bitter homecoming. Continue reading...

‘It’s like a nuclear bomb has hit’: shocked Palestinians return home to desolation

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

“A savvy rich man can build an apparatus out of this to spot talent, pick winners, and control the flow of ideas. All of it is allowed – in 2025, only a fool or an unambitious man need bother donating to politicians or political parties directly.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Fuck society. Fuck the planet. I've got piles of unspendable money under the mattress earning 7%

That dog must be going deaf...

Repellent man. In every regard. A possible alternative to gfarage as our next Prime Minister.

Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are we, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

"The teenage girl (in) the picture is dead, having taken her own life. The person who took the photograph is dead. The woman in the background is in prison...And the smiling lunk with his arm round the girl – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate."

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For those Americans who don't know, Orban belongs to Putin.

Now more than ever...

Rehearsal for shutting it completely in 2026

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days.

They have worked 12 days in 3 months.

Epstein Shutdown.

Away fans *do* get banned from Champions League games on a relatively regular basis. Here are two from last year.

If average Argentinians get so much as a sniff of that money, I'm probably writing in Dutch.

Well, they're much EASIER to arrest...

It's either that or participatory global democracy that can properly address global problems on the basis of human equality. So, yeah...

The conman's dream - an idiot who thinks he's smart..

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, AP sources say The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean, the first since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region this summer.

The US Navy is holding living witnesses to Trump and Hegseth’s murders captive in one of its vessels. apnews.com/article/vene...

The Coughing Seagull.

Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals

The only available alternative for WEEKS (at least) to come... is the IDF. And both Hamas and the IDF know it. This is what comes of declaring peace without a strategy . Much the same way as superpowers declare war, come to think of it.

See Vietnam and after.

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War Policy dictated by the News Schedule. See: Vietnam and After...

Spending now is lower than under Cameron. This is to do with mood music, not statistics,

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information Eighteen-count indictment handed down by federal grand jury in Maryland as US president calls former ally a ‘bad guy’

Well, that's what you get if you agree to be a henchman of Dr Evil, I guess...

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JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

I don't know if they want to be paralysed by despair. They just are.

Everybody kiss my ass! Give me prizes! Hotels! Airplanes, hotels, bitcoin! As long as my name is REALLY Bigly!

(As for playwrights! Don't even get me started!)

British.