Always the problem with these big, set piece select committee events .The members don't work together, and all want their own zinger moments for news/social media clips.

So, before the orange moron in the White House took a hammer to the global economy, the UK economy was on the up?

We're lucky that Farage is boycotting the BBC, think how often he would appear if he wasn't.

A mate of mine, who is 10 years older than me and a veteran of things like Rock Against Racism, says that taking on fascism at street level is a bit like mowing the lawn. You have to keep going back and doing it again.

"The King has suffered a relapse during his ongoing cancer treatment, and the Queen will staying behind to offer her support. A more than capable replacement, who the President already knows well and has much in common with, is being sent as his representative."

Wish this were true. He should have been finished after J6 in 2021, but has somehow come back stronger. Just as with Biden, too many people need Trump to stay in office. How can a country with so much wealth, power, intelligence, innovation and culture propel someone like this to President?

Starmer is a former barrister, isn't making an argument for something basically what they do?

We're only days away from Farage saying that he's never met Trump.

Someone else that Farage has never met.

Forgot about this from the ace negotiator.

The last time Trump tried running casinos it ended pretty well...

JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrive at the White House to brief Trump on the Islamabad talks.

Been a suspicion for a while that he is being briefed/spun against by people inside Reform. Read that there is a power struggle between him and the recycled Tories, significant that Jenrick got the brief on economic affairs ahead of Tice.

Just wish a few in our "world class media" would start joining dots regarding Farage and who/where Reform's money comes from.

This has aged as well as a bottle of milk left on a window sill.

That's buggered up Trump's plans. Ceasefire sorted, he must have thought he was free to watch the Masters on TV all weekend.

From The Economist a few weeks ago.

"It is hard to see how Mr Trump ends up a winner in Iran. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser." ■

I'm beginning to think that Trump has no plan...

Farage knows that his Trump alignment is a weakness as most British voters cannot stand the orange moron in the White House. Especially as the economic shock that is shortly going to hit the UK is of his making.

#R4Today

... and his vacuum cleaners are crap.

Doubt she's ever visited either place.

Perhaps #R4Today could have asked M&S about how their policy of effectively unstaffed stores has contributed to the rise in shoplifting. Our local M&S Food store has only 2 visible staff at times (but plenty of self service tills), and appears to be a free for all regarding theft

Jenrick on the triple lock pension. "Alexa.Off" #R4Today

Natural that people talk about payback period (our installer reckoned about 7 years when we had them fitted in 2024), but being free of using gas for roughly 6 months of the year is a great feeling in its own right.

There was talk about salary sacrifice being made available for solar panel and heat pump installations in the last budget. Guess Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves put Ed Milliband back in his box regarding this.

The app showing you how much electricity you are generating (and exporting) is addictive.
From about a minute ago, and it's a cloudy day here.

The phrase "paid in" does a lot of heavy lifting when triple lock pensions are mentioned.

Trump winning in 2016 should have been the wake up call for Europe. Too many thought that it was an aberration, and that President Biden would return it to business as usual.

What "foreign born nationals" are currently holding elected office? I can't think of any.
Most recent ones that spring to mind are from past governments, Boris Johnson (USA) and Nadhim Zahawi (Iraq).
Suspect Middleton and Lowe mean "children of foreign born nationals", which is pretty sinister.