Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

"I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too... So, we'll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute - that's pretty powerful."

Hmm, it does all add up though, from 2020...

Sir, a second Tottenham Hotspur joke has hit Bluesky users

2010: massive Orbán win
2014: massive Orban win
2018: massive Orban win
2022: massive Orban win
2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime
2026:

I'm holding Google Translate live to my speaker when they cheer to try to make out what's happening and every time it's something very benign like "This candidate is not a national figure."

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

Geordie Racer, Geordie Racer, Fly!

Your regular reminder that this time last month Kemi Badenoch told her party's spring conference that Keir Starmer should back Trump's actions in Iran "immediately and unequivocally"

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

1) "How did that get past the BBC?" 2) Scott Mills has a nightmare on World Book Day 3) BBC sacks Scott Mills

An unfortunate series of videos currently on the BBC front page..

Turning up to the Battle of Hogwarts like

Is it a giant wooden horse

Excerpt from the article: "The question here is not really one of whether such prayer is in fact an attempt to “dominate” – or the more obvious explanation, that during Ramadan one breaks ones’ fast by eating very briefly just before and then more properly after the evening Maghrib prayer (yes, like our own Maariv prayer). Rather it is about whether one has the right to publicly express their religious identity in this country. In this specific instance, an event to mark a key event in the Islamic calendar had been openly and legally booked for Trafalgar Square. Muslims present had every right to pray as a part of that."

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square

www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Hear hear.

"Trafalgar Square is for all of us", vomits the repellent Nick Timothy, implying special treatment for Muslims.

The facts:

I would politely ask people to politely call out anyone sharing this letter as a good thing (or even worse, believing it).

The world is messed up and the last thing we need is a 21st century Dolchstoßlegende.

Joe Kent is neither the worst person you know making a good point nor a broken clock; he’s a notorious antisemite and white supremacist who is blaming Jews to get out of a real job that’s quite difficult right now as we increasingly explode the world and create the conditions for terrorism.

The UK is a high trust society! 82% of us regard our fellow citizens as good. "Will there be a civil war?" Is not a debate anyone normal is having, it exists solely within a media bubble that can't process 2024.
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St Patrick pointing at snakes 🐍.

Saint Patrick has gone to his local paper because he’s had enough of these melonfarming snakes on this melonfarming island. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

“HIELANMAN'S UMBRELLA” should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.

Trump told me that the Ayatollah was close to collecting all the infinity stones and had to be stopped.

Is this the deal that he supported then didn’t support then supported then didn’t support again?

Look, I think quite a bit of Green policy is bad because it’s ill-thought out for the world we live in or impractical, but I have limitless contempt for Starmer equating well-meaning pipe dreams to a far-right racist party that would drag the country back to the 1700s and reduce women to chattel.

Is he.. sweating?

Andrew getting arrested because he was passing on confidential emails about the economy to a billionaire is getting perilously close to the plot of A Christmas Prince 2: A Royal Wedding.

Gordon Brown turned up to my first ever day of work, at the Labour Party’s Newcastle call centre in 2008. I didn’t notice him enter the room (he was nice though).