Tim Burrows

Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”

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Frederik Pleitgen © @fpleitgenCNN X.com It is raining oil in Tehran this morning after major airstrikes on oil facilities in the South and West of the Iranian capital. @CNN @cnni 1:12 12:11 AM • 3/8/26 • 3.8M Views

Tehran is covered with thick dark clouds, and the rain is saturated with oil, per CNN.

The city exists surrounded by a mountain range, creating kind of a bowl that is holding in toxic materials that emerged after the US-Israeli bombing of oil facilities.

Middle East war live: Israel expands attacks to Iranian oil storage facilities [FREE TO READ] Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait as Middle East conflict enters ninth day

Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...

Electioneering isn't what it used to be

'Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing, I remembered anticolonial poet and leader Aimé Césaire. “The hour of the barbarian is at hand,” he wrote in 1950. “The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”'

I've had just about enough of this.

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

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Soundtrack to Trump's apocalypse: no surprise the bass work absolutely sucks

TFW you're coming up hard in the Fabric queue

Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible."

- Middle East engulfed in regional war
- 11 countries attacked by Iran
- Oil & gas prices skyrocketing
- Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone
- Terrorism threat raised across the world
- No sign of Iran regime collapse

Rhetoric so evil I almost feel like I'm hallucinating.

Donald Trump ‘really does not care’ if Iran play at World Cup 2026 Donald Trump says he does not care whether Iran participate in this summer’s World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada

Can we just boycott the World Cup now please? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Ah true, at my Sainsbury's local it's the same whereas the small Tesco hides them. The big Asda puts them right by the customer service as you go out, meaning you can't actually put them with the rest of your shop as you would have paid by the time you see them

I've noticed supermarkets are now putting newspapers in really out of the way places as it they are a niche concern (which they kind of are)

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

My Insta algorithm is now exclusively showing me property mogul influencer ex pats in Dubai telling us (themselves) to keep calm and carry on as missiles are intercepted above their heads. We have reached a very strange stage of content

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Great thread this, particularly this point. Gwynne's behaviour not mentioned at all in most of the post mortem coverage

A thousand times this

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

We drove out our core activists, presided over a factional war in which the largest, youngest, most progressive group was effectively purged, abandoned our principles to chase far right votes and enact authoritarian policies, and told people who don't like it to fuck off. What are we doing wrong?

Most ridiculous thing about Lab seemingly following Tories into total collapse is that it is entirely self-inflicted and born of needless longstanding contempt for the base

Like Mandelson telling Blair not to worry about the working class because "they've got nowhere else to go"

Well, now they do.

Exactly. Agreed! *Shakes hand*

Yes, good on the Greens. Hopefully Labour can solve the issue of having a leader who can actually string a sentence together as to why anyone should vote for them come May

"The Starmer project is just the worst political vehicle of my lifetime" is what i wrote. It's not about the byelection strategy alone. Starmer has purged Labour of any leftwing reason to vote for them (aside from we aren't *quite* as evil as Reform), and is now seeing the consequences.