Matt Severn

They are a bunch of grotesque perverts really aren’t they

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew

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He’s got no clue, no plan and no off ramp

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Trump saying things has no probative or epistemic value whatsoever, including as to his own state of mind and intentions

We all know this, by now. And yet somehow the lesson does not sink in

Let’s make sure we remind everyone that badenoch and farage wanted to get us even deeper involved

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".

Quote from the FT: Italy’s industry minister Adolfo Urso has called for the immediate suspension of the EU’s carbon emissions trading system to help cut soaring energy prices. “The suspension of the ETS [European trading system] should be considered precisely as an emergency response to the conflict, pending a more thorough revision of the system,” Urso told an Italian newspaper. The ETS requires polluting industries to purchase permits for their carbon emissions. Urso had called for its suspension before the war erupted, but said the issue was more urgent now because of the current surge in energy prices. Scrapping the system, he said, would cut the cost of Italy’s gas-reliant electricity production by €25-€30 per megawatt hour.

Quite noteworthy that the same people who years fighting the energy transition are now demanding quick dismantling of climate laws in response to the US/Israel-Iran war-made energy crisis.

How much better would we be prepared in Europe if we had more forcefully transitioned to headpumps and EVs?

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️

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It does sometimes feel that a lot of people in Westminster are just in denial about how much the world has changed over the past decade

So much of why Rachel Reeves has not been a good Chancellor is an unwillingness to accept that she has not come into office after a Conservative government that ran the economy really well but the public realm has gone to seed, and she actually does need a genuine growth strategy.

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Heartbreaking scenes of an iconic building in Glasgow engulfed in flames. A horrible hit for local businesses, the people of Glasgow, and for our city's history.

In order to topple a dictatorship from the inside you need armed defections from a sizeable chunk of the military and that is unlikely to happen if you keep airstriking their most ambitious colonels

has bombing a populace from the outside ever spurred that populace to rise up against their own government or is that just a thing we pretend happens even though it never does

Everyone in British politics lining up behind this recklessness are taking a massive risk...

Hello from haulage where tomorrow I'm phoning every customer to jack up their rate cards which otherwise would last for the year. Cheers Don, useless wanker.

christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.

The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm.

Percent of drinking water from desal:
Israel: 80%
Kuwait: 90%
Saudi Arabia: 70%
Oman: 86%
UAW: 42%

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Iran's parliament speaker said Saturday that the attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island was carried out with support from one of the airbases in a southern neighboring country. He did not name the country. "The crime will receive a proportionate response," he said.

The US doesn’t seem to understand how many targets there are for Iran in the Gulf.

Attacking the desalination plant in Iran is monstrous in itself as so many people depend on them, but it also opens up the way for Iran to target the Gulf’s desalination plants, which would also be monstrous

As was the case with Survation and YouGov, when pressed on what actions the UK should/should have taken, the positions which Badenoch, Farage and seemingly many of the papers have taken is a deeply unpopular one.

I struggle to see how their positions get any better as this war drags out.

Iain Dale citing Trump's Truth Social post against Starmer.

It seems the full spectrum of British Conservatives are now joining in and rubbing their hands with glee over Trump scolding Starmer.

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

Almost doomed, glimmers of light remain at the end of the tunnel…

Most Americans do not support this war. The vice president, the presumptive frontrunner for the governing party, does not support this war. The opposition party, with a handful of exceptions, does not. Even before “the vast majority of British voters oppose it”, reasons to steer clear.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

Hannan again demonstrating the broader point that the UK right has completely lost touch with where the bulk of opinion in the UK lies on the Middle East - both with this and Israel/Gaza.

He’s wearing a baseball cap in this picture

The Prime Minister currently in the spotlight of Trumps screeching incoherent rage. This is why solidarity with other other European and friendly nations matters, because Trump has no allies or friends, just people who he wants to bend to his erratic will