Hope so. Vance seems to have gone very quiet 🤔

‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump’s expletive-laden threat to Iran Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing ‘open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards’

Could this insane rant trigger an historic turning point in the USA's 250-year history?

Great from The Observer (again). Reflecting a time when UK society was not so spitefully focused on who has a penis.

Who knew? Thanks Will Hutton in the surprisingly (to me) still excellent Observer. Another example of Government's poor storytelling. Journalists still allow to go unchallenged the false narrative that the UK should be drilling more of 'our' oil out of the North Sea. IT IS NOT OURS. It's the markets

'I won't buckle': Starmer hits back at Trump's Iran war pressure YouTube video by Sky News

If you're a UK voter watch this and then say you'd prefer Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, Kemi Badenoch or Angela Rayner as Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer knows what's going on. HE'S going on ©Harold Wilson.

So tired hearing privileged parents guilting three-job mums and dads about the length of time they let their kids spend on screens #moralpanic

I'd like to see UK rejoin Efta which it helped createbtgree years later.

Iran war: Who is behind mystery oil bet? Just 15 minutes before Donald Trump's Truth Social post, there was an odd peak of market activity – did some know what he was about to say?

Iran war: Who is behind mystery oil bet? Could this kind of detail shine a light on corruption at the heart of US government? 🤔

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Pete Songi on Donald Trump’s changing stances towards Iran – cartoon The US president’s conflicting announcements about Iran, his Nato allies and Keir Starmer make his actions very hard to predict

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Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention, 22-23 March 2026

Reform UK: 23% (-2 from 15-16 Mar)
Labour: 19% (+2)
Greens: 18% (-1)
Conservatives: 17% (=)
Lib Dems: 13% (-1)

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Bomb 'just for fun' and bomb 'our hearts out'. Are we in 25th Amendment territory yet? I'm not sure I'm joking #drstrangelove

President Taco yet again!

Whay do I still watch Laura Kuenssberg put pointless 'gotcha' questions to Government ministers?

Is it just me or was E1 of SNL UK truly awful?

Oh dear. Peter Hitchens actually made sense to me a couple of times on Any Questions?. Should I be worried?

Action star Chuck Norris has passed away, his family said in a social media post reut.rs/4cZyfE2

Disappointed by top UK journalists who fail to challenge interviewees claiming an increase in North Sea oil production would lower families' bills or strengthen our energy security. Not so. Oil's sold on global market and households would still pay international prices. Not biased to point that out.

Extraordinary solution to UK's economic ills posited by The Sun's Trevor Kavanagh: 'Some subsidies - free prescriptions, free bus and rail travel, winter fuel allowance, triple-lock pensions, unfunded state pensions - will have to go.' Neither Nige nor that title's leader writers have gone that far.

Let Starmer be Starmer The PM's approach to the Iran debacle has bee rewarded with his first glimpse of public approval since entering No10. He must build on that, forget about re-election and draw wisdom from The West Wing

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Guardian: "Initially it was believed the strike came just hours after Starmer had announced UK had allowed US to use Brit military bases to attack Iranian missile sites. But an MoD assessment found it happened before the PM's announcement." Dunno if that clarifies but am ending my end of this thread

Yep.

That's a parody news site.

Staggers nicks my headline 🙄

Starmer no Churchill? Well, Trump is definitely no FDR. Only a few months ago this draft-dodger besmirched the UK's fallen servicemen and women. Shame on those voices in the British media who are taking his side over their own government's.

An RAF base was bombed. No responsible PM can ignore that. But Starmer rightly refused to join the blitzing of Iran's schools and hospitals. Sad these events are misrepresented by right-wing media determined to oust Labour from government and replace it with fascist ReformUK. Starmer's our best bet.

In my view, as a layman,Trump has broken international law, and the conventions of U.S. governance. Starmer is different. He is legally defending UK citizens and assets.

I taught journalism at City St George's, University of London and Bedfordshire University. I led media ethics modules and have a PhD in psychoanalytic studies. But I'm no lawyer. Are you? Interestingly most of the flak Starmer is getting is for not joining the Bibi/Trump war on Iran from the get-go.

Self-explanatory.

Obviously.