‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets as Qatar hit by missiles Traders and analysts warn of lasting disruption after damage to facility that supplies a fifth of the world’s LNG

“I woke up this morning and thought: ‘No, please no…this has always been my Armageddon scenario, the one I didn’t want to happen.”

It's too hot to think

Absence of leadership forces Labour to play to electorate Only a wider governing philosophy will enable Keir Starmer’s party to see off Reform UK threat

Today’s newsletter: almost all organisations are happiest when they can work to the boss, and when the boss has no political project, “the boss” becomes “the next election”, even when it is so far away as to be meaningless: www.ft.com/content/38a3...

Israel is presenting its "allies" with a diplomatic/military nightmare right now. Not only are they razing Gaza to the ground and murdering starving children but now they've essentially taken out the air defences to Iran's capital city

UK moves jets to Middle East as Starmer refuses to rule out defending Israel Military assets to provide ‘contingency support’ as PM repeats call for de-escalation after Iran’s retaliatory strikes

Starmer says UK jets are moving to the Middle East for "contingency support throughout the region" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Which scenario is more likely to trigger a third world war? Iran and Israel both possessing nuclear weapons? Or Israel dragging the US, France and others into an operation to prevent Iran possessing nukes? Frankly, both scenarios look scary right now

I am currently planning to continue onto Nu-Who after I finish Classic Who but at the rate I'm going this confusion isn't going to be cleared up for more than a decade!

I decided not to watch this series of Doctor Who yet because I couldn't really be bothered to make time for it as well as keeping up with where I've got to in Classic Who. Suffice it to say I'm now extremely confused about whatever the hell is going on.

PM has 'lost control' of borders

Politics of immigration at next general election will depend more on small boat crossings & hotel use than overall numbers.

Eg: net migration halved in 2024 compared to 2023 [ONS stats came out 10 days ago] but that did not feature even as a nib on a single newspaper front-page the next day

How come I can't see who's following me on here? The suggested fixes for it don't seem to work.

Thankyou. I'm not too bad. Hope you're well too.

Here we go again