Tony Andrews

A photo of a miniature windmill on a crazy golf course.

You have to remember that windmills are the natural enemy of golfers. That’s why Trump hates them so much.

There was an air of seriousness in the House of Commons. Over the weekend, great events had taken place: the sweeping away of the hated Ali Khamenei from Iran, and of the scarcely less-hated Labour Party from Gorton and Denton. Earlier in the day, Kemi Badenoch had made a heroic attempt to link the two issues, claiming that Keir Starmer’s reluctance to get involved in Donald Trump’s attack on Iran was because he feared upsetting Muslims. As though there aren’t any British Muslims who are glad to see the back of Khamenei, or indeed any other reason why a Labour prime minister would be nervous about a Middle Eastern regime-change operation run by a US president without a plan. However bad a job you might feel Starmer is doing, Badenoch speeches are a reminder that things could be worse.

Bickering as the bombs fall. My SKETCH of Britain failing to rise to the occasion. thecritic.co.uk/bick...

Lawyer: “Probably best not to dress like a sex offender when you’re heading into court.”

Russell Brand:

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics.

He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free.

#JustAskingQuestions

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X.com For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

Leave NATO? No thanks Zack... I don't think the Brazilian navy is coming to our rescue if Putin attacks

Zack Polanski's mad plan to ditch a >70 year military alliance for a defence pact with Brazil, whose army is full of fash and whose current president has Putin on speed dial ... htsf.substack.com/p/leave-nato...

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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The film itself has the air of an expensive corporate video. Like everything involving Trump, there is cross-promotion. We are shown that Mar-a-Lago has a pool and a golf course and tennis courts, and then Melania tells us that Mar-a-Lago has a pool and a golf course and tennis courts. You too can enjoy a visit to Mar-a-Lago, with its pool and golf course and tennis courts, at low, low rates. Assuming you don’t get arrested on your way into the country. Melania, a producer on the film, delivers a narration that is flat and expressionless, neatly matching her face, which is remarkably smooth for her 55 years. It is also weirdly immobile throughout: it is a good hour before the camera catches what seems to be an actual feeling, a look of nerves as she prepares on the morning of the inauguration. There is one faintly candid interview, as she sits in the back of the car, discussing her love of Michael Jackson. “He was very sweet,” she said. “Very nice.” It’s possible that Mrs Trumpisn’t

Melania is a film that may end up being shown to a jury, though not at Cannes. I watched it so you don't have to. thecritic.co.uk/an-e...

Thanks, but we'll do as we see fit in our own country.

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Tory MP Simon Hoare has given a very vivid quote about Donald Trump's comments on Nato allies, which could actually be used in many contexts about the US president:

"Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?"

For the safety of the Western world, we need Donald Trump to win the election.

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.

Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron If you can’t see it now, you’re the problem.

If you can’t admit Trump is a dangerous, lunatic moron, you’re part of the problem. My latest.

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Now Is the Time to Admit It, America: Trump Is a Dangerous, Lunatic Moron If you can’t see it now, you’re the problem.

“while he may be talking a big game about his “conquests,” his actual approach is very hit-and-run. He puts the tip of our military in for a little and tries to pull out before he gets in trouble.” @djrothkopf.bsky.social
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.