Roland Smith

Heading off to St Lucia's Marigot Bay. Let's hope Trump doesn't decide to attack it.

Oil prices dip as Trump says Iran war is 'ahead of schedule' and will end 'very soon' After surging above $100 a barrel on Monday, oil is now closer to $90. Trump also says he will hit Iran

Why the heck respected news outlets are still spending their time trying to put a rational interpretation on a speech by a guy who literally doesn't know what he's thinking or saying from minute to minute, goodness only knows.

Evening.

EXC: Nigel Farage defends Reform-run Kent County Council increasing council tax by 3.99% despite election leaflets last year pledging to “reduce waste and cut your taxes”.

Mr Farage told ITV News Meridian: “Cutting taxes can be not putting them up as much, I suppose.”

The RW screeching is not working - just the opposite

Support will keep dropping as the sh1t show unfolds

What is the CANZUK economic bloc backed by Kemi Badenoch? A new £6.4trillion alliance between the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand could help the country protect itself from domination by increasingly belligerent superpowers.

Here...

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

Badenoch is going CANZUK.

GB News is both broadcasting + clipping "there is a genocide happening in this island" due to immigration and demographic change, by Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former digital campaign adviser to Johnson's Conservatives.

Would this be the same Iran conflict Kemi Badenoch has just spent an entire week calling Keir Starmer a coward for not wanting to join?

I hate to admit it but this is part of my standard 'uniform' whenever I put on a suit, which is almost never these days.

It's a 1980s thing.

I don't think we're there but they've certainly lost one columnist.

Headline: Trump makes his shoes the White House uniform.

The uniforms have started.

'Never has the connective tissue between rhetoric and reality been drawn so thin. In those 45 seconds [of Hegseth's chest-beating video], you can see the surface of American public life peeling away from reality itself.'

Well quite.

I wrote a piece on the rights of trans people in British law. I try to set out my reasons for thinking they are (or ought to be) still strongly protected.

Christ.

Is she really doing this?

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

Oh hullo...

Nothing in particular. He's just a quite useful, boring, stable guy in the middle of a world being set on fire by Trump.

I'm feeling better disposed towards Starmer today.

I mean, who'd want to be PM during this Trump chaos, apart from simplist d1ckheads who would just do anything Trump wants?

Two polls still showing 44% and 46% approving of Trump.

Two US polls just as the attack on Iran was kicking off.

FFS America, sort your sh!t out.

fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

The public are not wrong about the Tories here, as their anti-Trumpism is generally caveated, masked or tempered by their distaste of 'the other side' (which includes Starmer).

67% of Britons describe themselves as anti-Trump, with Reform UK voters the only group more likely to be pro-Trump than anti

By 2024 vote
Lib Dem: 89% anti-Trump / 2% pro-Trump
Labour: 85% / 3%
Green: 82% / 4%
Conservative: 61% / 19%
Reform UK: 24% / 46%

yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

Picture of the cry-laugh emoji, but with one hand giving the "OK" hand gesture and another hand pointing a gun into its open mouth

The USA in one emoji:

'There is no plan, only rampant idiocy.'

A summary of populism generally. Especially Brexitism.

There is no plan, only rampant idiocy.

#Iran

Future (and probably current) conversation inside the Conservative Party: 'Oh I didn't mean YOU.'

Second Life Social media has spawned fantasy worlds that we are now living through

Also an actual quote from the article: "Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X".

She/they are truly lost in a fantasy 'second life' world.

rolandmcs.substack.com/p/second-life

Katie Lam in Oct 2025: ”A large number of people in this country came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. They will also need to go home. What that will leave is a mostly, but not entirely, culturally coherent group of people."

Apparently in line for promotion.