I'd like the right not to have to be in the presence of cantankerous fucknuckles, but unfortunately that's the flipside of being a member of an inclusive society.

Children are members of society and have the right to be out and about within it. Would you say the same for people with learning disabilities who might not behave in the way you demand them?

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Lady Gaga praying for the end of pedophilia in America

Same, Lady Gaga.

Same.

The skeleton. So called because of the high prospect of it resulting in you becoming one.

Live your life in a way that gets you disinvited from the Board of Peace

The President Isn’t Even Trying to Sound Coherent Anymore - Esquire

The Valueless Presidency America is no longer Europe's ally. Stop bleating about NATO. It's already gone.

Trump sincerely believes Norway stole “his” Nobel Peace Prize.

That isn’t a joke. It’s the key to understanding his second presidency.

We have to drop the self-delusion, over-intellectualisation and listen to him. America is no longer Europe’s ally.

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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's very much got the vibes of "having not been given the award for toilet training I no longer need to avoid shitting my pants"

Interesting how, when pressed to sound more forceful personally against Trump, Starmer restates essential nuclear and intelligence partnership. Wld be interesting to know what, if any, implicit and explicit threats US has made to withdraw that cooperation. Strong whiff of backstage menaces there.

I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There

I’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.

As much as I would love the EU to throw its weight around like this, I think 'strongly worded' letter is the most likely response, at least in the immediate aftermath.

Not more than Farage or his ilk, surely?

How shit at business do you have to be, to be personally worth 37,000 times the amount an average UK worker will earn in a LIFETIME, and still be incapable of withstanding a tiny tax increase?

'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'

And then post-budget had Beth Rigby asking Rachel Reeves if she was going to resign - for what?!

As much as this would be wonderful to watch, i don't think we can rely ok Nigel Farage to uphold democracy.

Congratulations Naomi!

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Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

The Great Replacement Theory: all British people will, over time, be replaced by the progeny of Boris Johnson

Also welcome that he had the humility to apologise to Liz Sackville Roberts for his rudeness towards her last week. I do hope this signals a move away from the attempts to emulate Reform.

Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us…
And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him.
What a monumental piece of shit.

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

Sorry to hear you both (Alex especially) experienced so many negative reactions to the last podcast. For me, it was so helpful to have you give clarity to my own feelings on Starmer's recent words and actions after experiencing similar disappointment and upset from a government I expected better of.

For a moment there it looked like Switzerland might have been wishing they'd done similar.