Oh wow, Hungary’s Peter Magyar has just invoked the Beneš Decrees in a call with Slovakia’s Robert Fico — a set of WWII-related decisions that imposed collective guilt on ethnic Nazi collaborators (mainly targeting Germans but heavily affecting Hungarians in Slovakia):🧵

That explains her joylessness.

Given recent disclosures about the predisposition of most UK media to hold Labour governments to a higher standard, foreseeing ‘all of this’ doesn’t exactly require the gift of prophecy.

😂🤣

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Meanwhile outside of Westminster bubble:
"Starmer is doing the best job that anybody could do, particularly internationally."

Whilst next week will indeed be fascinating, I suspect the years after the next general election will provide far more interesting times.

Today’s tumbril, already being dragged around by journalists who only ever bear bad tidings, whose truth is subjective, plus their assorted hangers-on.
Convinced this place is becoming another X, just on a low simmer with a lid.

So I’m probably gonna log out and do some DIY today.

From a typically insightful and thought provoking thread, Tony’s last point here is striking: there’s a lot about the structure and interactions of government that screams ‘fiefdom’ and giving that up will be a hard sell.

The very best of luck! 🍀🤞

Here’s my original question to you earlier today. It was asked of you a further two times but you’ve done nothing but deflect.
Enjoy your weekend 👋

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And I can’t believe you’re rehearsing for a Protocols of the Elders of Zion tribute act, but you do you.

You’ve posted a number of links, two from genuine tankies, one from Declassified which doesn’t add anything and another from a newspaper that is known for its detestation of Westminster, whoever is in government. Better to be educated to the level I am than wrap myself in second-hand opinions.

I have no idea how you manage to not only ignore a genuine question but also turn it into a statement that hasn’t been made. Clearly you have nothing to say.

I suspect you’d favour Ed Davey, but the stark reality is that the nation would be saddled with an admin far worse than that.

So, Burnham? Raynor? Who is this person of competence?

I’d have thought it’s more of an homage to Northern Italian cuisine?

How would stability be achieved by getting rid?

There’s a lot of things to tempt me about a FT subscription if I could afford one, but Stephen Bush isn’t among them.

As answers to the question ‘how will Starmer’s resignation help the Epstein victims? go, this is a pretty massive deflection, you have to admit.

Afaik the flights from Akrotiri are surveillance only, even Declassified UK doesn’t go further than that.
Completely agree that 🇬🇧 wealth inequality must be levelled but why this is conflated with Israel’s obscenities in Gaza?
How would it help this (and the Epstein victims) if Starmer quits?

As you weren’t directing your first post to me, why do you imagine I should answer it?

You seem to advocate some kind of revolution. Okay, how would that help the many Epstein victims or those slaughtered by the Israelis?

Let’s just say that Starmer goes on Monday, how would that help the many Epstein victims? Would all those murdered by the Israeli forces come back? What changes would there be in ME geopolitics as a result of Starmer resigning?

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

The Book of Arthur Brown, verse 1.

'Surprise, little Julius wants an addendum on a contract and an extension on the delivery deadline. And clowns.'

Apart from Russia’s inability to supply troops, the complete absence of medevac, sending human assaults on scooters and quad bikes and that Ukrainian forces are now capturing orc positions with only UAV and ground robots, we should cut welfare bc a former BP exec and arms industry spokesman says so.

Part of me likes to think this is Reeves going ‘octogenarian former BP director with defence industry ties says what?’ But sadly it’s another day at the office where deadening complacency seems to rule.

Pretty much at the same time that quasi-literates with purchasable beliefs became professors.

Especially one who, like Malcolm Offord, has managed to keep his political successes so well hidden from the voting public, that many doubt their existence at all. There’s even suspicion he may be a fraud who was elevated by a criminally incompetent former PM.