Tuberville's source:

Please send him to the UK to endorse Farage & the Reform Party!

JD Vance & Jared Kushner depicted as Laurel & Hardy exiting plane at onset of US/Iran talks

Ht @SUCardinalRule at t’other place.

The Mar-a-Lago papacy?

Sad news about a great guy I met years ago when he was producing a tv program about Ötzi, the glacier mummy.

Remember when Assange told us that Hillary couldn't be trusted with an army? Good times.

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To quote Marx* it appears that, despite the 25th amendment “there ain’t no sanity clause”.

*Chico

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Some images are so powerful they burn into your mind instantly. Picture by Sue Coe, ht Stephen S Eisenmann.

One of my former colleagues was longlisted for the trip Helen Sherman eventually went on. As his surname rhymed with Aldrin he was, to his annoyance, nicknamed “Buzz” thereafter.

Failed strabismus surgery?

Escaped Capybara in footie scarf drinking a pint of beer at Totton FC football match

Some of the responses to the news about the escaped Capybara have been excellent.

Crude Trump drawing of naked woman for Epstein

Do not mock - here’s the evidence:

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Photo of a “no Kings” rally, showing caricature heads of Trump, Netanyahu, Vance, etc.

Delight expressed across the US that they didn’t elect Kamala Harris, thus avoiding an unnecessary war against Iran.

Poor MattGPT, the guy who allegedly used an LLM to help write large chunks of his recent book. Not sure what that says about his own command of English, or facts.

Congratulations on devising a new, useful political metric - the eejit/arsehole ratio. I'm sure that I'll be using it in the near future, alongside the cokehead/idiot ratio that I devised to classify Reform Party luminaries.

“They Looked Iranian”: Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours — The Shovel Donald Trump’s supposed ‘talks’ with Iranian officials were actually with a bunch of patio umbrellas in a White House courtyard, it has emerged.

Oz humour at its best: ‘Security Footage Shows Trump Negotiating With White House Patio Umbrellas for Six Hours’ theshovel.com.au/2026/03/25/t...

Ex The Lever: “Some traders saw bigger gains than others when markets rebounded on Monday [after Trump’s announcement of Iran negotiations]. Those who placed $580mn in bets on oil prices collapsing just before Trump’s Truth Social post declaring positive talks with Iran were among the big winners.”

It was, in fact, a Pizza Express in Woking.

Ryugu asteroid sample contains all five key components of DNA, scientists find A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

Shhh…Don’t tell RFK jr!
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I can't understand why Donald Trump isn't getting more offees of help from the allies he's spent the last few months insulting, threatening to invade and randomly applying tariffs to.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

a man in a suit and tie is smiling while sitting at a table with his hands folded . Alt: Putin smirking.

I regret that I’m old enough to remember the origins of the George Soros conspiracist memetic. Three guesses…

In praise of Jeremy Bowen His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.

Great Substack piece from Mic Wright on Jeremy Bowen’s middle east reporting. Bowen is so good I worry for his job, given the current state of the BBC. substack.com/@micwright/n...

“Trump may need to release all the Epstein files to distract from how badly the war is going” Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, MEI Institute