At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.
note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills
It didn’t just elect him. It RE-elected him!
Yes and yes!
Thank you.
Great to see Warren Farm win Nature Reserve status, covered on BBCLondonNews tonight!
Years of great work by lovely locals. Often despite EalingCouncil policy.
Now extend the Nature Reserve over the canal; include St Margaret’s Open Space!
Some history
pasttense.co.uk/2021/12/04/a...
In other words, the exact reverse of any lesson the US might have wanted to teach Iran. Meanwhile the Iranians would have learned that when Trump says help is coming to rise up against the regime, it really isn’t.
It’s official!
Warren Farm is now a statutory Local Nature Reserve.
www.warrenfarmnaturereserve.co.uk/blog/togethe...
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Combined with young US Evangelicals no longer believing in the Rapture and hence abandoning theological Zionism, it's not looking good for Israel in the medium term.
And if people believe Trump is going to defend Europe against Putin I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
This is a good piece.
Not only has Trump lost Europe's governments, he has lost its people too. Even people who were broadly pro-US and believed in the 'special relationship' have now lost faith.
A clear majority of British people despise Trump.
Ukraine should tell Trump he doesn't have the cards.
Does this count as Trump-fluffing?
“Trump-fluffing” - that’s brilliant!
Scene from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
I once said on Twitter that Starmer was no Blair.
Right now I'm thankful.
Good news for Starmer. If Dan ‘Always Wrong About Everything’ Hannan is attacking him he must be on the right track.
How much of the post-war increase in life expectancy was down to a shrinking proportion of the population having manual jobs?
(I’ll have a root around when I’ve got a minute. Someone must have written a paper on it.)
All by myself….don’t wanna be
all by myself, Anymore! 🎵
You’d think he would have learned who has actually made us irrelevant on the world stage by now!
#BorisJohnson
At first glance this looks like a simple story about the mutually loathing poles of radical left and right in Britain. In reality the dynamic is more complex, and a lot more dangerous
Farage goes to get instructions from his master. www.politico.eu/article/nige...
Nigel Farage, the front runner to be the next British Prime Minister, is meeting with President Trump today. Time to sink Keir Starmer's ghastly Chagos surrender deal for good. @Nigel_ Farage
Nigel Farage is meeting Trump today, and you just know that he's going to fight Britain's corner and spell out our sovereignty and not desperately suck up to.... oh no, wait... that's the other Nigel Farage... the one I dreamed about when I got food poisoning from a slice of lemon sponge cake.
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
In the last three days, the Brexiters have been losing their shit because "MPs were dancing while the war in Iran was going on."
Here's Farage yesterday.
And nothing...
youtube.com/shorts/BLG7X...
This confirms what we already knew, but what is not talked about enough.
russia, a terrorist state, is directly targeting Europe with acts intended to kill.
It is at war with us.
This will only intensify, maybe dramatically, until Moscow is completely defeated in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
From Aditya Chakrabortty: “A child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness... healthy life expectancy is now the lowest since 2011, when records began.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
