With talk of oil hitting $100 a barrel, let's remember a pre Radio 2 Rylan getting confused by the concept
12.03.2026 17:39
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With talk of oil hitting $100 a barrel, let's remember a pre Radio 2 Rylan getting confused by the concept
Evidence and science not your thing?
He's a blagger. An articulate blagger, but a blagger nonetheless.
Former Lib Dems often seem to have gone on quite a "journey", though not always in the same direction. I give you: Liz Truss, Paul Marshall and Mr Polanski...
Fuck no. Absolutely not. Cut disability benefits but give tax dodgers a get out of jail free card?
Saying the quiet part loud?
Kunal Shah, a senior Goldman Sachs executive, said on a client call that its private capital clients are “glad” that the Iran war is providing a “distraction” from questions over the sector’s exposure to software. as.ft.com/r/e9950538-f...
That's not a P/E chart...
everything totally fucking sucks right now. the president is a demented fascist. he’s wasting billions of dollars on an illegal war. masked and armed government thugs have invaded the streets of our cities. gas is unaffordable. food is unaffordable. Congress is useless. the press is useless. Republicans are trying to fuck with our system of free and fair elections. ugh. but at least we can take schadenfreudian pleasure in the fact that Marco Rubio’s feet are killing him. why is Liddle Marco hobbling around in pain? because Dear Leader is making him wear shoes that don’t fit, and he’s too chickenshit to take them off. I wish I were making this up.
get a load of this clownfuckery: Mad King Donny is making his flunkies wear the exact same shitty shoes as he does, and they're too afraid to say no. I mock the shit out of all of it, in a tremendous post like few thought possible. 'sir!' they say, 'how do you words?' link is here: bit.ly/4deDUG7
Marco Rubio greets Chuck Schumer in January 2026 at the Capitol Visitor Center
A close-up of his foot shows his shoes are too big
hmm
And Israel
Regime change in the USA is a necessary first step in restoring stability to the gulf region, isn't it?
In addition to these being, obvs, terrible investments (that their owners can't shift in any other way) with outrageous fee structures, there is the evident liquidity mismatch as shit shavings on the shit sandwich.
Does FCA remember nothing of commercial property OEICs coming into GFC? Or Woodford?
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Where is the FCA in all of this? Nowhere, presumably...
This is a remarkable chart; if you look *really* hard, you still can't see the plethora of privatisations of the 1980s and 1990s...
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
We're gonna need a bigger Y-axis!
A woman dressed in black
Qatar Minster of education Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater to the US: “…we just need you to leave us alone. To stop igniting wars so that weapons’ companies can make more money. We need you to Stop Bombing Schools, to stop trafficking and raping little kids.”
Wonder What Derogatory Word
Chump Calls Them Today ?.........
Along with most right-thinking folk and, a rather different thing, much of the public.
The British right really does hate its own country doesn't it?
Blair is probably the best prime minister of my lifetime, and almost certainly the worst former prime minister of my lifetime.
Fabulous piece by @willdunn.bsky.social positively bursting with cracking lines.
Sounds like a much better outcome than seemed at all likely...
Hopefully it will upset all the right people and the Germans will reduce the level of batshittery.
www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
See also: Trump administration.
Maybe someone should say something about that too...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Brummagem do you mean?
Personally, I'd have gone with the fact that "one in five (22%) also supported it for non-white citizens whose parents were born in the UK" for the headline. 😱
Given Iraq and Trump's popularity in the U.K., it's not really a big call is it?
