"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."
Such a dismal tale about the UK govt: so obsessed w competing with far-right to keep out foreigners that it won’t let in the brightest & best from war-torn countries even when they’re hand-picked by the FCDO, lest they ask to stay. Soft power sacrificed, but how many Reform voters will it convert?
A couple of lads from Cavan with a Transit van could get oil over any border you like.
I grew up in that world and parsing the good from the bad is a life's work. One thing that is definitely no-good-very-bad is the obsession with leadership, especially young men who are picked out by older leaders, strapped to a rocket and told they can shoot for the moon.
A very brave woman and absolutely unforgivable behaviour by parts of this Labour government.
This is a conversation which is desperately needed in Ireland but one which very few people want to have.
Headlines are systematically dehumanizing the Lebanese people who are being killed, injured, and displaced. But these are the types of people that Israel is killing with its escalation in Lebanon-- a priest serving his parishioners to his dying breath on the land he calls home.
Utterly despicable twisted glee in the death of others.
I'm no Cranmer expert but claiming he was trying to reform the church from within by splitting with Rome is a wild take.
Once you convince yourself that human sexuality is an immovable pillar of Christian orthodoxy anything is possible, I suppose.
As bombs rain down death and destruction, the good news is that Donald Trump still has plenty of time to play golf with his rich mates at Mar-a-Lago.
you do not need to wait for jesus to “come back.” dig through the rubble of any bombed out apartment complex, office building or, yes, girls’ school, and you’ll find him there, covered in dust.
christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
There is nothing "fair" or "unfair" about asylum. People who are in danger deserve safety. Those who can provide it should.
It is impossible to imagine Eisenhower saying he would fight “without mercy” even against the Nazis; nor would he have reveled in the thought of death and destruction.
He would have regarded it not only as deeply un-American but also beneath his dignity as a serious career soldier.
You may think that these are crackpot American notions which are alien to the respectable, reasonable British expressions of Protestant Christianity, that most British people are immune to such nonsense: but history always has a way of puncturing are comfortable national mythologies. end/
It was Darby who then brought those ideas to America and popularised them through preaching tours just after the Civil War. The transmission of what would become Dispensationalism was East-to-West, not the other way around. 5/
Albury Park in England and Powerscourt in Ireland were two such meetings. In any case it was here, not America, where it was decided that Israel was key to hastening the return of Christ. It was here that the 'Rapture' was first conceptualised. 4/
Darby was just the most famous of a number of people across Britain and Ireland who were obsessed with Eschatology and interpreting biblical prophecy. Members the aristocracy, always a ready source of enthusiasm for the esoteric, hosted gatherings in which biblical prophecies were debated. 3/
Christian Dispensationalism as we know it today originated in the mid-19th Century in Britain and Ireland. Many cite an Anglo-Irish Church of Ireland Priest, John Nelson Darby, with inventing pretty much all of this stuff but it's not quite so clear-cut. 2/
See, what's interesting here is that a British newspaper in 2026 publishing this stuff receives, rightly, astonishment. AND YET Britain and Ireland are instrumental in the development and popularisation of these ideas. In fact: the Americans got this stuff from *us*. 1/
HMS Irresistible sinking during the Dardenelles campaign, having proved to everybody's satisfaction that the name might just have been a teeny-tiny bit premature after all.
If I'd rushed into a poorly planned campaign around a notorious maritime choke point that left it closed to friendly shipping I'd carefully lay off the Churchill comparisons, but hey...
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
The UK government have hearts of pure stone, and empty skulls.
Lord have mercy.
As Democracy Volunteers are the source of the claim of "Family Voting" in the Gorton & Denton by election, I got curious about their claims and thanks to @joenoonan.bsky.social I came across this claim about "Family Voting" during the 2020 Irish General Election.
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If he is gone, I won't shed any tears for Khamenei, if he is dead he is face to face with God and will have to answer for his crimes.
I will be praying for the hundreds of innocent Iranians and other civilians killed and wounded during the attacks.
