I am OBSESSED with calling him hegsworth, I can't not do it
06.03.2026 13:27 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0I am OBSESSED with calling him hegsworth, I can't not do it
06.03.2026 13:27 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Yes it's total nonsense but I found it very enjoyable nonsense. I kinda admired her.
06.03.2026 12:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've been the UK explaining-the-madness correspondent for Late Night Live for eight years. This week, for the first time, I went into the studio. It was oddly moving. It's been such a privilege being a small part of this great show.
06.03.2026 09:43 β π 222 π 27 π¬ 23 π 1Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
06.03.2026 08:57 β π 7762 π 2511 π¬ 212 π 151I remember when βBrexit Means Brexitβ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the βwarβ in Iran. And itβs mostly the same people doing it.
06.03.2026 08:10 β π 2897 π 624 π¬ 184 π 17Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
06.03.2026 07:44 β π 1635 π 432 π¬ 89 π 50Sidebar but I am reading about India/Pakistan partition and boy religious nationalism leads to some really bad places, probably should stick with liberal pluralism.
05.03.2026 23:36 β π 632 π 47 π¬ 14 π 7They deserve Dubai and Dubai deserves them
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Iβve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administrationβs Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
A senior Home Office official, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive policy details, estimates the changes could extend to thousands of individuals. They would not rule out asylum seekers deemed to have broken the law being forced into destitution and rough sleeping in the process.
And you wonder why so many Home Office policies are successfully challenged in the courts...
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
I understand the pressures on Rutte but he really has turned into a hapless buffoon. Helping to eradicate the rules based order he believes he's upholding.
04.03.2026 23:02 β π 681 π 92 π¬ 40 π 11These brave Americans died because Trump was bored and wanted to spice things up with a fight.
04.03.2026 00:23 β π 224 π 70 π¬ 15 π 1What happens if they kill this one? Is there another smaller younger one inside him?
04.03.2026 00:56 β π 455 π 46 π¬ 39 π 2
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Finally, the thing we were promised in 2024: boring stable government
inews.co.uk/opinion/reev...
This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something
Confirms their story titled: βWe earn Β£345k, but soaring private school fees mean we canβt go on five holidaysβ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used
www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...
"Todayβs OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up β while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They canβt have it both ways".
03.03.2026 14:12 β π 194 π 77 π¬ 4 π 9This is a wonderful interview
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I do enjoy these sort of charts. Somewhere between boom and recession. But probably quite similar to now.
Thanks OBR.
I don't really mind Stride, but he talking a tremendous amount of arse.
03.03.2026 13:02 β π 82 π 4 π¬ 9 π 2Shadow chancellor Mel Stride now doing his best to damage her, but honestly Reeves in a decent position, with some relatively benign economic indicators and a commendably and studiously boring financial statement.
03.03.2026 13:01 β π 99 π 5 π¬ 6 π 1Headroom up slightly from Β£21.7bn to Β£23.6bn. She's in a pretty good spot, which we haven't been able to say of the chancellor since she got the job.
03.03.2026 13:00 β π 64 π 5 π¬ 3 π 1Reeves confirms OBR growth forecasts include lower net migration. Growth slower in 2026 (1.1%) then higher in 2027 and 2028 (1.6%).
03.03.2026 12:45 β π 51 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Wonderful slip by Rachel Reeves in her statement to the Commons.
The βchanges we promisedβ morphed into the βpromises we changedβ.
Mahmood staring at Reeves like the ghost of death sitting uninvited at a family feast.
03.03.2026 12:43 β π 125 π 9 π¬ 4 π 1Rachel Reeves entirely right to only hold one major financial statement a year, as a method to increase stability. On this basis she should also reform the obviously irrational one-number approach to fiscal rules, but that might be a hope too far.
03.03.2026 12:41 β π 94 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0I don't do as much Commons coverage as I used to, and honestly having to listen to the yaa-boo bollocks actually becomes more irritating the less often you hear it.
03.03.2026 12:37 β π 147 π 5 π¬ 7 π 0Imagine citing Donald Trump's opinion on something as if it weren't a) the ramblings of a madman b) like to change within the next 37 minutes
03.03.2026 12:27 β π 352 π 24 π¬ 7 π 1God I'd forgotten how annoying and half-arsed Priti Patel is.
03.03.2026 12:27 β π 766 π 48 π¬ 38 π 5'The relationship is obviously not what it was'. First true thing I've ever heard him say.
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