He’s so inept, he couldn’t find himself a half-decent advisor to stop him from falling into the man traps he’s walked into left, right and centre. The only thing keeping him there right now (in my eyes) is the way he’s keeping the country out of an illegal war. That alone redeems him. #wato

The whole thing has been a debacle. Starmer threw Robbins under the bus because SOMEONE had to go and it wasn’t going to be him. I never doubted Robbins, I understood a political sarcrifice had to be made to a baying media mob - Starmer himself was a hair’s breadth from resignation on Friday. #wato

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I believe he should stay but… #wato

I 100% agree that this needs to happen. Everyone not lifting a finger as he edges closer to pushing that button is culpable. #Trump #MikeJohnson #PeteHegseth #JDVance #Iran#WarCrimes

(Should have deleted the word white obv).

You can lead the Daily Telegraph to an NHS story, but you can't make them report it accurately.

Hard to tell whether Trump accidentally hires morally bankrupt reprobates or whether he’s just drawn to them innately. #ChavezDeremer #r4today

Israeli Guards Admit Dogs Are Used to Rape Palestinians, Says Analyst Guards at Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman torture camp have admitted their colleagues use dogs to rape Palestinian captives there, according to a prominent Israeli analyst.

The whole world is complicit, everyone is turning a blind eye to Israel’s wholesale rape, murder and torture of an indigenous population. #SdeTeiman #IDF #SettlerViolence #Palestine #r4today

AI image of Netanyahu standing next to. Putin seated with a small Trump on his lap.

The biggest problems facing the world today are not mass migration (which all these men have used to great effect), but white Caucasian warmongers in their seventies. #PutinsPuppet #Gaza #UkraineWar #IranWar #r4today

Sorry, but for almost a week now the BBC, especially #R4today has shovelled the Tory position that Starmer MUST be lying

And yet the most likely explanation (likely to be confirm by Robins) has been that the civil service did what it has form on - they just didn’t tell ministers

It’s a real dilemma, to stay on, lending further credibility to the regime but ensuring he doesn’t press the button - or to resign and sound the alarm which may prove ineffective because of the apathy of the Republicans still held in his thrall. I think General Mattis had the same dilemma. #r4today

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Carp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

I suspect it’s the latter. “ #Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant from an arrogant organisation,” said Martin Wrigley.” [Lib Dem MP] #AlexKarp #r4today

A Far Side cartoon from 1987 by Gary Larson depicting a cruise ship straying into the Straits of Hormuz. “Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.”

This was published in 1987. If only the Trump administration had asked Gary Larson what might be a factor in launching a war against #Iran. They had no idea apparently. #r4today #Islamabad #Hormuz #TheFarSide

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

The world allows #Israel the shield of #impunity “..settlers and soldiers stripped, handcuffed and beat Palestinians from the village of Wadi as-Seeq, urinated on them, attempted to rape one with a broom handle, and took photographs of them naked which they then distributed publicly.” #r4today #IDF

#Iran has its own reasons to distrust American ‘guarantees’ even without bringing up the subject of how #Ukraine was betrayed. #JCPOA #BudapestMemorandum #r4today #Islamabad

Trump 'blocked from accessing nuclear codes' by head of US military US President Donald Trump is alleged to have received push-back from a senior military person in a meeting at the White House during an attempt to access his country's nuclear codes

I’m trying to be optimistic here so at least it shows that there are still some sane people on his Staff. But for how much longer? #IranWar #NuclearCodes #DanCaine #r4today

#c4news

Does this sound familiar?

Netanyahu in Gaza … Lebensraum

Netanyahu in West Bank .. Lebensraum

Netanyahu in South Lebanon… Lebensraum

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

No matter how sticky the political situation is, #YesMinister has always been there first. #KeirStarmer #Mandelson #r4today

Headline in The Jerusalem Post: IDF to investigate alleged incident of soldier smashing Jesus statue in southern Lebanon According to reports, the alleged incident took place in the Maronite Christian village of Debel, with no official Israeli or Lebanese confirmation of the incident as of Sunday night

This is how the IDF goes about winning hearts and minds in #Lebanon. Expect an “investigation” any time soon, with the usual result of no punishment for the soldier. #Israel #r4today

#Hormuz #r4today

Mass shooting rampage in Louisiana leaves eight children dead and others wounded Shreveport police say suspect Shamar Elkins, who was fatally shot, killed seven of his children and injured their mother in a ‘domestic violence incident’

“US House speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican whose congressional district includes Shreveport, issued a statement saying Sunday’s violence was “heartbreaking”.” Not heartbreaking enough for Mike Johnson to bother to do anything it about though. #MassShootings #Shreveport

On any given day, you might as well roll a die to predict whether Donald Trump is going to claim total victory; imminent victory; a negotiated ceasefire; an imminent ceasefire; new attacks; crucial negotiations or imminent crucial negotiations. The only certainty is that he’ll be lying.

Strait of Homuz is operating on banker’s hours now.

Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.

Boris Johnson didn't pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.

The media must have missed that one.

A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin

Imagine how wonderful that country could be if it wasn’t for the racists always prevailing. Reminds me of this:

“The news is always like: "America has banned wheelchair ramps because they weren't in the Bible. Meanwhile Finland has made ice cream free."” #Mamdani #Obama

‘It’s kind of a tough situation’: US Catholics torn in feud between president and the pope Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV polarizing the diverse community as faith and politics come to a head

“it’s kind of a tough situation to see the leader of your nation feuding with the leader on Earth of the Catholic church. It is for me.”
It’s only tough for the Catholics who still cling to convicted felon Trump’s depravity over their own faith - and turn up to Mass as usual on a Sunday. #PopeLeo