Colour me shocked: Trump chickened out again from his blustering threats yesterday. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he did: a ceasefire is a necessary precursor to negotiation. But I really wish he was capable of shutting his mouth once in a while
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It'll be a fun to watch which senior Labour politicians are bold enough - and ambitious enough - to champion Olly Robbins (and by extension the civil service) against No. 10.
#WWE Jey Uso has possibly the world's worst haircut: a basin fringe transitioning into a mullet
He'll hang around to add the May 7th Labour drubbing to the load of the personal incompetencies already on his shoulders, then stagger off - a party loyalist to the last, it has to be acknowledged - into the wilderness, clearing (to an extent) the decks for his successor
Can you imagine how large the head of a JD McDonagh bobblehead would have to be? #WWE
His advice doesn't seem to have cut through with his boss
If he's mad enough to do so (and that's certainly plausible), then the GOP will not get so much as a sniff of power for a generation.
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"Source: Fox News" kinda kills it as a meaningful topic tbh
"And He has written it within the curvaceous outlines of a beautiful woman on the young side."
It was daft. Robbins stayed well within the protocols and, where he strayed from best practice, was clearly trying to support No 10. The villain of the piece was McSweeney, who was pushing all-out for a plum job for his mentor. Starmer would have been wiser heaping additional opprobrium on McSweeney
No second Ed Stone, please, and tell him to steer clear of the bacon sandwiches
Much of what Olly Robbins is saying is throwing criticism back at the Prime Minister's office, because of their determination to appoint Mandelson. This implicates McSweeney, Starmer or both.
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A grim thought has just occurred to me: what if those in the British government who were pushing Mandelson to be US ambassador, wanted him *because* of his relationship with Epstein, on the assumption that the Lord of Dark Arts would hold kompromat over Trump?
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I wasn't even *aware* there was any long grass at the outer reaches of the Mandelson farrago. But Starmer found it, bless his procedural socks
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So who is going to be the next UK Prime Minister?
It does indeed beggar belief. It has beggared me *way* beyond belief. I do not believe it.
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I'm outraged at the IDF's illegal slaughter of Lebanese civiliars and their genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. I'm less fussed about a knobhead attacking a sculpture
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He knows he's toast; but he's a party man through and through, and knows that his duty is to wait until the Labour drubbing on May 7th, so that he can add those results to his burden and stagger off into the wilderness, clearing the decks (a bit) for his successor.
It turned out to be Shaggy Starmer, chorusing, 'It wasn't me', over and over again
Huffy Starmer. Peeved Starmer. Miffed Starmer
Trump promotes to high office people he knows and believes to be brilliant thinkers, based on the limbo bar of his own intelligence.
Tbh, Trump has done his best to alienate God, too.
There's not a lot of room left up there. His threadworm cabinet and staff got there first
I honestly don't think he has it in him. I'm not suggesting he doesn't have strong and empathetic feelings - I suspect he has - but he has a very buttoned up (dare I say very British?) inability to articulate them.
If he and Hegseth are mad enough to send in ground troops - and I fear they are - then the Republicans won't have so much as a sniff of power for a generation. If they bomb civilian infrastructure, they'll have the prospect of impeachment for war crimes as soon as the balance of the house changes.
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Trump's ICE is right now being written in as the villain agency of every edgy action thriller currently in scripting.
I think he'll stay, and take the inevitable Labour drubbing on his shoulders, along with his prime-ministerial failures: and head dutifully off into the wilderness, clearing the decks for his successor. He's a party man
I'd settle for No more Mister Mad Asshole.
That is the best diss!