No technology can compensate for having blithering imbeciles in charge.
14.03.2026 10:15
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No technology can compensate for having blithering imbeciles in charge.
Telling juxtaposition on two pages of the FT. One story about how amazing the US's new AI military tech is and the other about planners/politicians entirely failed to realise what Iran would do to fight back.
Humans still matter...
Farage & Badenoch both called for the UK to go to war on Iran.
Then complained about the price of fuel 🤷♂️
Rachel Reeves declares tonight: “Brexit has not been good for our country, for growth, for prices in the shop.”
Correct, if almost 10 years late.
But she goes on to say we voted leave and “that ship has sailed”.
Why, when the disaster is now apparent to all, should we accept “that ship has sailed”?
On Iran for once Starmer finds himself in tune with the public.
As the Tories thrash about invoking Churchill and losing their minds over Five Pound notes and as Nigel Farage does his best impression of an Adele song - I make sense of it all for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/rock-paper-w...
Apparently this is right-wing coded now, but I wouldn't have thought for a second before selecting historic milestones. I am, as ever, utterly alienated from the British public.
Read more: thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Farage is very clearly a borderline, if not actual, alcoholic. Physically, I doubt he’d last a year as PM.
The President of the United States casually talking about destroying a country “in an hour” should chill every democracy on Earth.
This is exactly why leadership requires restraint, diplomacy, and respect for human life.👇
The Middle East is on fire, UK military bases are under attack, energy prices are going through the roof and the official opposition is spending its week wanging on about pictures of otters
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Has he bunged up the toilet again!..
Too many people, including some news media, let the truth be trampled upon without thought for what is happening to us and our nation.
Incredible that just 24 hours after this tweet, it's being reported that America is preparing to put boots on the ground in Iran.
They’re coming for our NHS…
Nigel Farage breaks with his Welsh leader over insurance system for the NHS
t.co/1v8pq30JpB
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
Guess who? as.ft.com/r/2f67f3cc-4...
Gird your loins Americans, it is only going to get worse...
London's most urban riding school transforms lives through horses reut.rs/4srIaHr
And there I was thinking that Stephen Miller was emphatically against foreign politicians interfering with national sovereignty.
A perfect fit for the NHS…
Great at killing and disempower clever women to empower men too bloody idle or incapable of thinking for themselves
🚨 Asked about council tax promises, Nigel Farage just shouts:
“Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!”
Then threatens to end the interview with Beth Rigby.
The man who sold Britain “the easiest deal in history” still struggles with basic questions about the consequences.
Very good news that the government has accepted the Fingleton Review on nuclear power in full.
It’s the exact repudiation of Clegg’s 2010 view that nuclear is “not even an answer”. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Chris "Wrong" Trump Sec of Energy tumbles the price of crude oil with wrong information only to cause it to spike after retracting his "X" comment. Can America not see how absolutely unqualified this admin - from Top down - in unqualified to lead. They are destroying our economy & our government.
Exactly this ⬇️
"The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/11/the-guardian-view-on-kemi-badenoch-and-the-iran-war-confusion-reveals-a-lack-of-serious-thinking
Picking fights with the right people is critical in illuminating your values.
One of the very few popular things the govt has done that cut through has been VAT on private schools. Much less important in policy terms than other things but it created a noisy row + they were on the right side.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
It was blindingly obvious how things would play out. Did not take a political genius to see it.
Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.