The Bear

a bear is laying in the dirt in a cave . Alt: a bear is laying in the dirt in a cave .

Having a lowish day, so shall be hiding in my proverbial cave.

New posts on Bearly Politics to come tomorrow.

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Flip-Flop-Farage.

Sending you many pints of holy water 👼💦

I’ve not been on X since January - please tell me people aren’t defending the odious cave troll, Barton?

He must surely have gone too far now, right?

The War No One Wants - and the People Calling for It Farage and Badenoch are beating the drums for escalation. The public response appears to be: abso-fucking-lutely not.

The pub swilling man of the people doesn’t seem so convincing on this subject, does he?

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Further south.

Eni Aluko wins Joey Barton libel case over X posts The court heard how Joey Barton published dozens of posts relating to former footballer and pundit Eni Aluko [Credit: PA Media]

What a truly delightful end to the day.

I shall be clinking a glass of Meerlust to Ms Aluko for this well deserved victory.

Don’t you just love it when entitled dickheads have to face the consequences of their misogynistic, blatantly racist campaigns of hate?

Deee-licious.

Just a small reminder to everyone to always thoroughly wash your hands after finely chipping scotch bonnet chilli.

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A political problem for far-right ideologues is that they genuinely adore violence - not just as a means for getting what they want, but for violence's sake. It is confusing to them when they find out that regular people generally don't like war.

The War No One Wants - and the People Calling for It Farage and Badenoch are beating the drums for escalation. The public response appears to be: abso-fucking-lutely not.

The British public learned something from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Apparently some politicians didn’t.

While Farage and Badenoch push escalation with Iran, most Britons are saying something very simple:

Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Contrast this poignant photo of a young woman fleeing Kiev with her animal family😿

I do not disagree with you one bit.

They are British - British economic migrants to the UAE.

And as a migrant myself, I do have rather a lot of empathy with other migrants, asylum seekers and refugees - but it does become limited when people call themselves “expats” as to not be painted with the same brush.

You’re not wrong.

The Eclegraph Log in Q News Iran crisis Sport Business Money See all News Iran war LIVE Latest updates LIvE Markets Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave Travel restrictions and costs force animal owners to take drastic action as Iran targets Gulf states Tr

Two points:

1. They’re not “expats” they’re “migrants.”

2. Them abandoning their pets will hopefully give each and every one of these people just a little bit of insight into the incredibly hard decisions refugees have to make when they’re fleeing war zones.

Russia very suspiciously missing from this particular list.

Is there perhaps something that Senator Scott isn’t telling us?

Bahahahahaha!

Hahahahahahahaha!

Hahahahaha!

Oh, how sad for him 🤣

I seem to recall Trump promising no new wars and to bring down petrol prices and the cost of living.

He‘s also said he is innocent and not implicated by the Epstein files.

The dead giveaway is with words like "Fish", "Milk" and "Off".

It's also a bit worrying how often I get mistaken for Kiwi.

It is what it is though.

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I think it would be weird if you didn't - and if anyone else wants to join Don-Key in layering my posts with a weird South African accent, your guide to do so is below.

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Oil surges past $100 a barrel for first time in four years Traders bet widening conflict in Middle East will lead to weeks-long supply disruption Iran war triggers historic oil rally Brent crude ($ per barrel 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 Fr Jan Source: FactSet Jan Jan Jan Jan

The saying “the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed” seems particularly apposite today.

The British Right’s Permanent War Fantasy How the Telegraph, Mail and GB News turned a dangerous global conflict into another excuse to shout “weakness” and a supplicating audition for Trump’s approval.

Having just exposed myself to a fair bit of Telegraph again, I can first hand say they are on massive amounts of Copium and Delusionol.

Truly dangerous right-wing hacks.

This is good on the dangerous absurdity of some of the responses to the war. It's worth noting that 'betrayal', 'humiliation' and 'weakness' are exactly the same terms used week-in, week-out to describe how Brexit was undertaken. This is the embedded political psychology of the British right.

In short, things going well then.

big ben clock tower is lit up at night in london Alt: big ben clock tower is lit up at night in london

My new Monday and Wednesday office is about a five minute walk from the Houses of Parliament.

Hmmm…

"It doesn’t matter how clearly deranged the current occupant of the White House might be. It doesn’t matter how transparently unlawful, reckless or self-serving the current operation actually is. No - all that’s expected of the British state is to assume recumbency and obey."

The British Right’s Permanent War Fantasy How the Telegraph, Mail and GB News turned a dangerous global conflict into another excuse to shout “weakness” and a supplicating audition for Trump’s approval.

Trump bombs.
The Telegraph screams humiliation.
The Mail screams betrayal.
GB News screams weakness.

And all of a sudden a complex global crisis becomes yet another loyalty test to American power.

The UK deserves better than this performative war hysteria.

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