There can be few things more embarrassing than a political party suspending left-wing Jewish members because of tendentious accusations of anti-Semitism.

Definitely the more sensible genocidaire.

The Mandelson appointment must have been planned with no paper trail of his failed vetting to provide plausible deniability in just this scenario.

The BBC's establishment bias is so extreme that it even feels the need to take sides in the royals' family politics.

Looks like the Kelvingrove in Glasgow.

Having thought long and hard about the question of how extra defence spending should be funded, I have come to the conclusion that the answer is "Not."

Trump will go down in history as the President who caused millions of deaths by famine in Africa and Asia, all while in the process of closing USAID.

He could heal the sick with a simple touch. And a bleach injection.

Considering that the US had to withdraw its ships hundreds of kilometres from Iran during hostilities, imposing a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz might prove a tall order. They'd either have to expose themselves to enemy fire or resign themselves to chasing ships up and down the high seas.

Having glimpsed Trump's plans for a triumphal arch in Washington, I can confirm that Hitler had better taste.

Trump is on record as saying that the US needs more people from countries like Norway. To be honest, I think that Norway may have got the better deal when Pete Hegseth's ancestors emigrated.

The US leaving NATO in order to attack Turkey *only* makes sense if Trump is being blackmailed by Israel.

Looking forward to more Wakanda-like technological surprises from Iran.

LinkedIn now has "puzzles". I wonder if they will be monetised, with the platform charging recruiters to rank people according to "IQ".

Gaza.

How typical of Starmer's Labour that the EQUALITIES Minister is a "Baroness"!

Is there any absolute adjective that Trump hasn't tried to qualify with a "very"?

Cartoon by Bob Eckstein

My 90-year-old mother: "That Kemp boy only got a job on the TV because his dad was in some group. I suppose that's the way it used to be in the shipyards, too."

Petrol stations forced to close after running out of fuel The shortages come as the price of filling a family car with diesel exceeded £100 for the first time in more than three years

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland is the only major oil producer in the world that doesn’t have a single refinery

This is for the very same reason that Scotland is the only maritime country in the world without a port, or international ferry links

A Scotland that’s isolated and dependent will remain chained to the union

An English guy in McHugh's just described the Norn Irish accent as an Irish person trying to sound Scotttish.

Israel has said it is not going to leave Southern Lebanon it is going to occupy it.

Southern Lebanon has 25% of the area and 20% of the population of the entirety of Lebanon.

The BBC reported this brutal illegal invasion as Israel 'keeping control'.

The new Israeli law to execute Palestinian prisoners isn't only discriminatory. It's also retrospective. In other words, it's about as far removed from the norms of Western liberal democracy as you can get.

Jimmy Carter is often said to have been the best former US President. I'm pretty sure that, when the history books are written, Tony Blair will go down as the worst former UK Prime Minister.

Blocking a Chinese firm from investing in renewables for "national security" reasons would make no sense in an independent Scotland already covering twice its own energy needs.

Maybe if you were a *really* cynical Indy supporter and lived in England. One or two per cent of the 2016 pro-Brexit vote in Northern Ireland came from dissident Republicans who thought that it would accelerate Irish unity. Definitely not a moral strategy, however.

If you want independence, the only way to maximise indy MSPs at Holyrood is SNP#1 Greens#2. No matter what either party says.

Why is Israel just Israel, while Tehran is a "regime"?

Trump helping his cronies do a bit of insider trading on oil futures with his made-up tales of "productive" negotiations.

Keir Starmer has allowed the Americans to use UK bases to attack Iran, thus making them legitimate targets of Iranian revenge. Not for the first time in British history, the national loaf is unpleasantly dense.