If the Strait of Hormuz opens again, we are back to where we started, just thousands of deaths later and many billions poorer.

And all because there’s a mad man in the White House who we are sending the King to ego stroke next week.

What an absolute plank!
I’m no royalist (far from it), but imagine this being your first thought… never mind then saying it out loud.
How did the world ever get to Truss and Trump? 🤷‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

There is a direct line from Andrea Leadsom lecturing Pascal Lamy (former director-general of the WTO) on the scope & purpose of the WTO to JD Vance lecturing the Pope on theology. Brexit married weapons grade ignorance to epic entitlement in ways that hadn’t been seen for ages. And on it goes…

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

There should be an international "Day where you can't be late", where anyone who turns up late for an appointment can be rightfully berated at length for their arrogance and lack of consideration.

Victoria Derbyshire is, by a mile, the best interviewer on the BBC and she really should be their political coverage figurehead and Question Time host. Maybe because she takes no shit from politicians is the reason she isn't?

Today in Russia (so far):
▪️Russian human rights group Memorial designated an "extremist" movement;
▪️FSB says former Russian freelancer for RFE/RL detained, accused of treason;
▪️Masked security officers searching Moscow office of Novaya Gazeta newspaper.

‘Entrepreneur’ Ben Delo, who was pardoned by Donald Trump after pleading guilty to financial crime & now backs Nigel Farage, explains in the Daily Telegraph that he hates ‘lying politicians’ because he is autistic.

Nothing says “I cannot cope with lying politicians” like backing, er, Nigel Farage and, um… ‘In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence. In 2025, Delo was pardoned by President Donald Trump.’

If there is a nuclear attack tonight then I have a great post about the FIFA peace prize ready to go.

"A whole civilisation will die tonight" - the latest inspiring words from the winner of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize.

How long does the Queen have to be dead before we can start talking about her using our money to almost make Andrew's Epstein accusations go away?

Having made the careers of Katie Hopkins, Donald Trump and now Thomas Skinner, can we just cancel The Apprentice now please?

It's weird how a significant proportion of British people despise people on benefits who are apparently sponging off the state, but love millionaires who live offshore to avoid contributing to the economy.

Every single football supporter who sings "We are far the greatest team, the world has ever seen" is always wrong - that honour goes to the 1970 World Cup Brazil team.

The Royal Navy should go and blow up something Trump uses and tell him to fix it, maybe a golf course or Epstein's plane.

If someone says something along the lines of "it's not racist to like ice cream", their statement is true, but there's a 99% chance they're the kind of person who'd somehow find a racist way to like ice cream.

How many people that read this on supermarket shelves will find out it was all bullshit?

We need a "working class history month". Remind people just where so many of our hard-fought rights come from and why those in power are so hell-bent on convincing so many people that minorities are the problem.

Ipswich Town have hard questions to answer after Nigel Farage PR disaster | Nick Ames Reform’s use of the football club has shocked fans and left the ownership red faced but how did it happen?

Politics and football don’t mix? Tell that to Ipswich’s players, who are not happy about Farage’s visit. What a mess, and many tough questions still to answer: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

It must be a lonely existence indeed if your only pleasure in life is the discomfort of others

No idea. I think I might go and cry some of those liberal tears the right seem to enjoy so much.

Reform stunt embarrasses Ipswich Town and sparks fan outrage Fans react angrily after Reform’s publicity stunt at Ipswich Town leaves the club facing reputational damage

A political stunt by Farage at Portman Road.

Fans are furious the club allowed it to happen.

Here’s how Ipswich Town got caught out ⤵️

Shame I'm too late. We're getting battered on social media. It's so depressing.

We live in a bizarre world where it's fine to drive a 2 tonne metal box farting filth into the air to a Drive Thru, but the drink you buy there must be consumed through a crappy paper straw "for the sake of the environment".

Mmmm

Nick Timothy is an uncannily perfect encapsulation of the crapification of public life in the UK: a bigoted failure blithely oozing from one disaster to the next while being rewarded at every turn by the far right media/political ecosystem. A golf club boor with the intellect of a burst balloon.

I feel confident that the sort of people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax would say that those fleeing war in other countries are not our concern and they should seek refuge in a neighbouring country. In this case I’d suggest Iran, which they can reach by small boat.

Evening.