I explained a while ago that it would be impossible to say anything about Trump’s Iranian ‘adventure’ with absolute certainty. I’m sorry, I was wrong. He will *never* do anything that genuinely upsets or angers Vladimir Putin. Whether in Iran, in Ukraine or even in the USA. It is his only constant.
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
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Charlie Gammell joined me a second time to talk about the latest.
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This. Every fucking day. This.
New #StrongMessageHere. When is a war not ‘A War?’ How do you pre-taliate? And what is a real person?
Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Joyful.
A daylode for celebrakers of talenty women, small businesses and talentymost creatiloppoers.
Terrific essay on inter-generational fairness from John Lanchester, that brings up some of the discomforts of the past but still broadly accepts the problems now faced. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.
Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.
Some of his pals are blanking me.
Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
Chapeau!
Dear UK, please send your aircraft carriers to Ukraine. We actually appreciate our allies.
Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform £100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received £3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than £5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given £2.4 million and Labour received £1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London — have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth £85,000. Their family wealth was put at £26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party £250,000. Reform also received £100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".
More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCB’s chairman, Bamford, said he was “supportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."
Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
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Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
The absolute shits.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
With thanks to Edwin Schoon, an extraordinary document: never-seen-before colour footage of the young Cruijff, my forever hero. nos.nl/l/2561009
Take a bow, @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Bombing passenger trains with drones is another pattern of terrorism russia is scaling up in Ukraine — one the axis of evil will soon apply elsewhere.
Faced with a choice btw committing to Ukraine's victory and letting russian evil grow, why does Europe keep choosing the latter?
The brittle populist Barbie of bullshit.
If it's good enough for the Scottish and Welsh parliament, it's good enough for Westminster. One of the reasons I moved up here.
🇪🇺MEPs from across the political divide have called for the proclaimed EU–UK “reset” to be “decisively accelerated”.
The UK must go further and faster in our reset with the EU.
ITV News has turned into War Watchdog, as someone advises viewers what kind of compensation travellers can claim if they have to cancel their “dream Dubai break”.
The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night.
The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like.
Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
This is perhaps the greatest ever description of the Iranian regime
