Meg Hillier:” One of my concerns is the layering & layering of challenges on that generation.” [the cost of housing, inadequate pensions saving & the jobs threat from AI]
Bang on! The UK is a de facto Ponzi scheme: kicking financial, climate & systemic issues on to next generations to deal with.
Whatever our political differences, depicting political opponents as pests or vermin has a long and troubling history in propaganda.
That the Conservative Party now thinks this is acceptable political discourse is deeply shameful. I hope Tory MPs roundly denounce it.
View down the portico of the Grande Palaestra of the display cases housing the casts
One of the casts lying on his back. Behind him the Grande Palaestra is bathed in sunlight.
A reflection of one of the casts on display
A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii.
At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.
The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.
Last Post on this.
Churchill has only been on the £5 since September 2016. Before that it was Elizabeth Fry the prison reformer.
Did Farage call her removal woke too?
This isn't some ancient tradition but Farage is ridiculous. And that statement is timeless
Exclusive: The Iranian elementary school building where scores of children were killed was on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site, multiple people familiar with the strike told The Post.
Old farthing with bird on it
Animals on money?
Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.
Can't tell if it's funny or grim that some politicians and papers have moved swiftly on from calling for the UK to enter the stupidest war of this century, to talk about badgers on £5 notes.
Serious people, as ever.
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Over the moon to win the Regional Press Awards Specialist Journalist of the Year award.
Very grateful for all the people who trust me with their stories and the colleagues who support me along the way
another excoriating column via Janan Ganesh in the FT
www.ft.com/content/d975...
Oil tanks at Oman's port of Salalah continue to burn after being struck by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. #Iran
The UK PM has spoken with G7 leaders this afternoon to talk about the latest situation in the Middle East, action to manage its economic impacts and support regional partners.
The PM also said that Putin must not be able to take advantage of this situation to boost his war effort in Ukraine.
CBS EXCLUSIVE: Dozens of U.S. servicemembers in Kuwait suffered serious injuries, including burns, brain trauma and shrapnel wounds, sources say
Absolutely infuriating.
The Iranian missile that Hegseth downplayed as a "squirter getting through" killed six Americans and left dozens with traumatic brain injuries, burns and shrapnel in their bodies.
Again, the people involved in this, from Elon Musk on down to the lowest level recruits, need to go to jail for a very long time.
And somehow the sky doesn’t collapse on earth, and nobody’s ass in high office falls off.👇
Nigel Farage now trying to pretend he didn't initially favour getting behind Trump and Netanyahu over Iran War.
Last week, the Reforms UK leader said “the gloves need to come off,” “we need to accept we're part of this” and called Starmer’s decision not to back Epic Fury “frankly pathetic”. 🤔
Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fiøht is in their backvard. If vou are not willine to
I urge more senior US officials to publicly dress down the allies they dragged into a war all of them hate, that’s getting them bombed. Really grind it home: their security is dependent on the whims of a bunch of clueless, pissy old men who don’t give a damn if they get the entire region melted.
Reuters: Trump administration says cost of Iran war's first two days was $5.6 billion, source says
Left: Nigel Farage's leaflet says Reform will cut taxes
Right: Nigel Farage says he never said he would cut taxes
"Iran believes there can be no end to the conflict until it believes Trump has been shown the economic, political and military cost is so high that it is not worth repeating."
The U.S. State Department has declined offers from benched State Department officials to help with Iran war-related evacuation efforts, reports FP’s Sam Skove. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/10/s...
Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...
This is a jaw-dropping indicator of the shrinking sphere of US hegemony. Just wild.
I know it won't make any difference to his voters, who pay no attention to what's actually going on, and think foresight is for pussies and consequences can be wished away.
But if Farage was PM, we'd now be in a moronic, illegal war he demanded we join 2 days ago, and now thinks is a disaster.
This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
To some degree the administration is now along for the ride in this war it started on Iran.
Israel seems to have a clearer desired end state—Iranian state collapse—than the US.
The question is when POTUS has had enough and decides he wants off the ride.
www.axios.com/2026/03/10/i...
WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at a Reform UK petrol station They have pledged to reinstate the 5p fuel duty cut in their first Budget
Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy.
So much dignity going on.
Staggering numbers. “Mass displacement across Lebanon has forced nearly 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – from their homes, adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted from previous escalations…Children are being killed and…thousands are now sleeping in…overcrowded shelters.”
