Please help me out by pretending the Chairman of Reform didn't just show that he doesn't know what local elections are and thinks we are in America.

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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The Financial Product That Blew Up the Global Economy Is Back As if the economy isn’t already in enough chaos, the banks are reviving credit default swaps. Hold on to your butts!

The era of papering over America’s decline with cheap credit, imperial dividends, and toxic derivatives is over. The last Jenga block will eventually be pulled, and the tower that has loomed over us for 46 years will collapse in a heap.

trib.al/W48WnMU

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

🔥 I took a couple of days to compile this long analysis.

The elections in Hungary tomorrow are seismic, globally. So I cover:

- The rise of Orbán
- Orbán’s weakening
- The emergence of Péter Magyar
- The election battle
- The JD Vance visit
- What it all means for Hungary, the EU, Putin & Trump

I can only guess the Court took a very dim view of both past and present conduct in bringing the claim. Well done to all concerned (on your side of course!)

Indemnity basis too...

Why colluding with King Donald’s insanity is the only game in town | John Crace The madness is contagious – and nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the two-week ceasefire with Iran

The Madness of King Donald. Unless you’ve spent most of the last few years on a silent retreat – and who could blame you? – it can’t have escaped you that the American president is both not that bright and borderline sociopathic.
#JohnCrace
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ed Miliband hold firm! North sea oil and gas drilling won’t help anyone other than Nigel Farage | Zoe Williams It’s worrying to watch Labour entertain Reform’s fantasies about fossil fuels. Only renewables will bring lower bills an

Exactly this 🚨

"Only renewables will bring lower bills and higher energy security."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/0...

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

For whoever needs to hear this I'm the only Jewish person to lead a political party - third largest in the country.

The Daily Mail have been & always will be my enemy - they historically supported fascists & continue to do so.

I'll take no lectures from them on Antisemitism.

Foreign speakers in north wales

Exactly - we need native British people in charge, who aren't descended from foreigners like Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Romans, Vikings and Normans. Which would leave... err... umm... and...
oh.

World’s Greatest Negotiator a Bit Fucking out of His Depth Now Isn’t He — The Shovel The Best Dealmaker the World Has Ever Known is beginning to realise that starting a war with a hostile nation of 90 million people is a little more complicated than buying an apartment block in Manhat...

“The Best Dealmaker the World Has Ever Known is beginning to realise that starting a war with a hostile nation of 90 million people is a little more complicated than buying an apartment block in Manhattan.”

theshovel.com.au/2026/03/18/w...

Why UK electricity pricing makes no economic sense Electricity prices rise with gas, even when cheaper power dominates, exposing flaws in how the system operates

Why do electricity prices rise with gas prices – even when much of our power i.e . wind & solar - is cheaper?

Prof Richard Murphy explains why it’s not a bug, but how the system is designed.

It needs to change to avoid higher bills

'If the standards applied to Angela Rayner last year meant she had to resign, then the same standards must apply to Richard Tice here.'

A long time in politics – are the wheels falling off Reform? Gorton goes green, Reform responds with bad grace, the Mandelson fallout continues and council chaos ensues

Gorton goes green, Reform responds with bad grace, the Mandelson fallout continues and council chaos ensues | Gary Gilligan

FIFA is threatening to punish Iran for not coming to the world cup in the United States, which just bombed them to bits and this is the same FIFA that gave the president of the country that bombed them a peace prize????

I wish England weren’t going.

Parseword - A tricky wordplay game Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here:

www.parseword.com

Today I will mostly be trying to bribe people with cheap petrol, in the hope that they will forget that I have been cheering on the orange idiot whose war is pushing up fuel prices.

Britain’s war hawks are very upset that Keir Starmer isn’t personally riding a bomb all the way to Tehran | Marina Hyde Didn’t you know? True British patriots are the ones who want to join an obviously disastrous war on behalf of Israel and Donald Trump, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Britain’s war hawks are very upset that Keir Starmer isn’t personally riding a bomb all the way to Tehran | Marina Hyde

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

I once bought dog food for the cat.

You can't legislate to stop stupidity.

Is a deep freeze coming? The Atlantic ocean current that keeps northern Europe warm is in danger of collapsing. Compared with threats of war and disease, it is given relativel...

I didn't post this yesterday because we were too busy getting our April issue launched—but I've written a piece in it! It's about a big current in the Atlantic ocean, how it could collapse, and to what extent we, in the UK, are prepared for that.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...

Ouch!

"Responding to an earlier jibe from the President, a spokesperson for Sadiq Khan said: "The Mayor is clearly still living rent free in Donald’s Trump’s head. He’s obsessed with him. Sadiq could probably claim squatters rights.”

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris

I was firmly in favour of FPTP,one quote changed my mind entirely which I summarise as what is the point in a country lurching in one direction for x years and then another for the next x?That was before the chaos of the last 16 years.

We're moving to Manchester to get the full crack den in a school playground with no fences experience.

Would massively sort out the issue of underfunding of schools too,assuming it's the teachers selling the crack.

Bad Loss For Goodwin.

Even his name is a lie.

The Island of Strangers speech certainly hit home for a lot of people who would ordinarily vote Labour.

I've been massively unimpressed,that's not just a comms issue for someone like me who avidly follows politics.