I understand why you might want to pitch the Iran bombing to voters as a domestic costs issue.
But it is clearly illegal, both under international and domestic law, killing innocent children, and wholly counterproductive, shutting the Strait at enormous economic cost.
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I've reached the point where I think we're lucky that Putin isn't as batshit as Trump. I can't see him thinking Iran is worth sacrificing Russia for.
I'd suggest 1982 because it recognised the first time the UK was no longer an empire but still had a future as a middle power, the turning of a corner.
"We have ceased to be a nation in retreat.
We have instead a new-found confidence"
Thatcher 1982 www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104...
Yes it's a system problem, not a people problem. The trouble is that the only people who want to break the system are even bigger shits.
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
Yep
No, but with the combination of our huge increase in renewals and further exploration of both sea gas, it could make us energy independent and be greener than importing LNG.
TBF none of the opposition parties have a serious policy on this. Not sure the government has really either.
Next up - Trump threatens to bomb tankers that have paid Iran for passage.
I don't think it does. While the measures on EV/public transport would be welcome they aren't going to address the scarcity issues which will be exacerbated by cutting fuel duties. Ironically the impact of cost increase in the UK is dampened to some extent precisely because we have high fuel duties.
It's a mystery why one of the UK's wealthiest landowners should be trying to reduce competition from abroad for food and be cross about inheritance tax on very large farming estates.
Yes, I think he says that the upper bound is unlikely in that report, reality likely to be somewhere in between.
Then vs now. Such a shame.
Have you seen @edconway.bsky.social on this? The situation is more nuanced than that.
youtu.be/eDr0Z19x3p0?...
It's worse than that, they want the people they don't like to support them.
Did he explain how that's going to help with lack of supply?
Economic self sufficiency is easy, as long as you don't mind being poor, cold and hungry.
Ethereal reality is that a second life rebrand?
My very unpopular opinion is that this is a good decision (as it'll be pursued alongside a continued hard push towards more renewables).
Yep. Also if it reduces LNG imports from the USA it's better for the environment.
Man, you write a calendar of chaos and April is *still* more chaotic than you expect. So far we have had Trump's birthright citizenship attack flame out, a speech that succeeded only in tanking the markets, and firing Pam Bondi. And we're only two days in!
What an April, huh? Captain, it's the 2nd.
Please read this thread.
This is Brexit.
Introduce PR, then call a snap election.
Too much latency for discord?
Yeah, every candidate up against Reform should put this on their leaflet
metro.co.uk/2026/04/02/w...
Inventing staff members as dumping ground for awkward customers is as old as the hills, AI probably just improves the experience all round.
EV arrives in Wednesday
Clearly the correct response would be to start cutting a deal with Iran for Straits access. It’s far from ideal, but it would be suicidal to join any kind of US-led coalition under the leadership of Trump, before we even get to the legal issues.
So Trump
Vowed the US would hit the Iranians extremely hard over the next two to three weeks
Threatened to strike Iran's power plants
Says that countries reliant on oil from the Middle East to go to the Strait of Hormuz and "just take it"
Has there ever been a more appropriate gif?
I think people are right to be worried about AI, precisely because it's so good at some things, but fighting technological change didn't help the good folk of Tolpuddle in the end.