“One source doubted the BBC would air the film. “And I was quite shocked he felt that way,” says reporter Ben de Pear. “But actually, he was 100 percent right.””
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“One source doubted the BBC would air the film. “And I was quite shocked he felt that way,” says reporter Ben de Pear. “But actually, he was 100 percent right.””
On the left: a photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney on a red background with a black and grey border. On the right: text that reads “Carneymania sweeps the country. Yes, even Quebec and Alberta. Polls show the prime minister’s popularity stretches far beyond the Liberal base.”
After nearly a year in power, new polling from Leger puts support for Mark Carney’s Liberals at 49 percent, with even Albertans giving the prime minister favourable marks. Is this Carneymania? Or something more durable? Philippe J. Fournier explores: https://ow.ly/YqU850Yt9Ex
I wonder when this is from and whether it still holds true for the UK. The 17% is less than current Reform voting intentions (23%).
Well, there’s the undeniable truth that 35% of US voters will always vote for terrible people, so that’s going to put your numbers up. In the UK it’s more like 20% so I guess Brits are just more optimistic. When was this from?
Is this just a very inefficient money laundering scheme? I give you $1bn a day in US military spending and you give me $150m a day in Russian oil revenues?
“But I think everyone in politics and finance and media who anticipated a fictional, level-headed version of Donald Trump succumbed to years of spin and misinformation and algorithmic propaganda on Twitter.”
Looks like it needs a lot of electricity for lighting and air conditioning, which might be a problem after the apocalypse. Is there at least an exercise cycle to power the lights?
Seriously, I now think for the first time that if there were an election tomorrow, Vance would get more votes than Trump.
Epstein distraction; unifying the base; because Khameini didn’t take the hint and give Kushner and Witkoff a personal bribe. I don’t think he thought it would backfire this badly, it’s the most unpopular thing he’s ever done, losing him 30% of his base.
It’s supposed to be about reducing criminal justice backlogs but it’s very much not the way to go about it.
Trump knows he won’t be running in 2028 and wants the GOP to crash and burn then, to show they’re nothing without him. He doesn’t care about elections any more, just bribes.
At this point, is there anything Trump does that doesn’t hurt the midterms or indeed 2028?
I think Donald knows full well that he won’t be running in 2028 one way or another and actively wants the GOP to crash and burn then, to show they’re nothing without him. Apres moi, la deluge, and all that.
Damn, that’s a tough PhD viva.
So what’s your S-tier mango? Asking for my taste buds.
Got my Epipen? Right, it’s mango time.
Best version of the DCU. RIP Dwayne McDuffie, comics genius.
I think this is perhaps a likely result but also one that will likely require either a continued military operation at enormous expense or a pretty humiliating public capitulation to letting the Iranian regime survive and either way the public will be *furious* with $90 a barrel oil.
The worst case scenario for the UK BTW seems to me to be that we deploy both our new aircraft carriers to the Gulf and then the Iranians sink the Queen Elizabeth while Trump fails to give a crap.
How likely are the USN with or without allies to be able to open Hormuz? This seems an era of asymmetric warfare with $4k drones needing $4m missiles to counter (I exaggerate). The Houthis could repel the USN with Iranian drones, why can’t the Iranians?
You’d probably be a brilliant DM (or GM, to not restrict it to D&D). I’d happily GM for you but, you know, we don’t know each other. Sorry to hear your friend is moving away.
BC has - this is the last change.
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For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
And so foresighted, too!
One of the main issues in the UK is the lack of NHS diagnostic clinic capacity (you can do it privately, of course). In Canada, diagnosis is publicly funded but relatively few psychiatrists will follow up or treat, so waiting times at that stage are quite long.
I do love it but I agree it’d have been better as a TV series, that would have given it more time to breathe.
I spoke to some of the people behind the Trans Mission benefit concert at Wembley Arena next week
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
As a GP who used to work in the UK and now work in Canada, I think ADHD is very likely to be significantly underdiagnosed in the UK.
Sadly I think the main trigger was Khameini refusing to understand that when you send Kushner and Witkoff instead of State, you’re asking for an open personal bribe. That’s US diplomacy now - you turn up with a sack and ask them to fill it with cash.
Deeply disappointed to hear Alastair Campbell defending this nonsense on TRiP; one can only blame his Iraq flashbacks.
