This is disgraceful. Starmer appears to be almost as bad as Johnson. Surely he has to go.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

As accurate and eloquent a description of the disease that is Donald Trump as I have read. 👌

The irony of this is delicious. If you’re vulnerable to imported hydrocarbons, adopt clean energy for energy security.

Screenshot of a tweet by Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) reporting that the Trump administration ended an $11 million Catholic Charities contract providing care and shelter for unaccompanied migrant children, noting the cancellation came after Pope Leo criticized Trump's war in Iran. The post includes a split image of Trump seated beneath an American flag in dramatic lighting, and Pope Leo XIV in white papal vestments.

That light fixture placement behind him is so apt.

I know an ex-MI6 operative (in a professional context). I put it to him that if Trump isn’t a Russian asset, what more would a Russian asset be doing to help Russia? He agreed “nothing” and indicated to me that he has seen strong evidence that Trump is indeed in Russia’s sway, if not control.

As a clinical psychologist I have to say that I concur with your diagnosis

Iran wins again. Iran has made it categorically clear that it will not negotiate until there is a ceasefire in Lebanon and voila ceasefire is happening.

I am really enjoying the spat between God’s representative on Earth and the Mango Mussolini and his fascist acolytes. 🍿😎

Stephen Miller claims the Democratic Party "controls its members through blackmail."

Methinks that Netanyahu and Putin control Donald Trump through blackmail in the Epstein files.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

My doctor doesn’t look like this. He generally appears, if at all, without a heavenly choir and dispenses medicine via prescriptions rather than healing by laying on hands.
However, I think he would diagnose severe mental illness for anyone who thought they were Jesus Christ.

But why has China become a global leader in renewable energy production? Because the fossil fuel industry has used its enormous influence (and funding) to attack any moves towards a transition to renewable energy in the West, using both the libertarian & far right political movements & the media.

😳

This is true

Trump ordering the US Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz is so insane it must surely alarm even his right-wing cronies? If it is the case that Iran blocking it is causing worldwide economic hardship, how can you logically think blockading it will improve matters?
This is unprecedented insanity.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz to unblock the Strait of Hormuz is peak Trump foreign policy.

That is objectively a very funny phrase.

😂

Niche, but I like it.

Frightening stuff…

The Godfather is better than The Godfather Part II

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea

🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation
🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship
🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund

www.carbonbrief.org/...

This is a brilliant (if a bit morbid) article. I worry that by increasing lifespan we’re consigning the world to an epidemic of Alzheimer’s and MND.
I’m not going to do anything drastic, but I’m damned if I’m going to eschew fun, great food and booze now to add a few extra years of ill health.

It’s hard to shake the feeling that Trump is undertaking military operations (Venezuela, Iran) which kill, injure and displace thousands of people in order that he and his cronies get richer. Market manipulation is happening too much to be a coincidence.

Trump's whole strategy with Iran was to break the "rules" and kill their leaders. He assumed that would scare everyone else into submission.

Instead Iran said, "No rules? OK, then we'll close the Strait and fling missiles at every oil facility within 2400 miles. How many Patriots you got left?"

Remember when Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over their government? It might be good if Americans heeded that advice right now

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

He wants to steal the oil from Iran and keep putting the lives of American service members at risk

It’s rare that I agree with MTG, but this is spot on…✅