When I read this at first I thought he was threatening the ocean of the same name. Par for the course with this unhinged, Canute-led administration!

Sick of a cabal of media oligarchs like Murdoch and Rothermere deciding who runs the UK, and being treated as somehow immutable, like the weather. As a minimum, Labour should’ve implemented Levenson 2, enforced non-domicile rules and removed Gibb from the BBC.

Open Letter to University of Aberdeen Court Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

A sadly familiar tale of utterly wrong decision-making, affecting totally the wrong targets, as usual, this time at Aberdeen University, UK. Please sign if you can.

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I vastly prefer this AI image of the Messiah, here with Jesus…

The supreme court needs to put limits on Trump’s use of the pardoning power | Steven Greenhouse The president has reportedly promised mass pardons to administration officials. His misuse of the power goes far beyond what the constitution’s authors intended

Sadly, there is no chance of this SCOTUS stepping up and doing what’s necessary. Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and the three stooges, all enabled Trump.

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The supreme court needs to put limits on Trump’s use of the pardoning power | Steven Greenhouse The president has reportedly promised mass pardons to administration officials. His misuse of the power goes far beyond what the constitution’s authors intended

Sadly, there is no chance of this SCOTUS stepping up and doing what’s necessary. Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and the three stooges, all enabled Trump.

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And behold... an angel of the lard...

The Angel of Death?

JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’ Catholic vice-president effectively tells Leo to stay in his lane after pope criticized the White House over the Iran war

What a sycophantic toe-rag this man is. Morality inevitably segues into politics, relationships between people in terms of power - especially in matters of life and death.

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The only ‘LANDSLIDE’ Trump deserves to be involved in is the one that buries him for good. He was narrowly elected (alas, with a plurality) in the popular vote and had an average margin in the Electoral College.

Even by Trump's subsewer standards, the AI depiction of him as Christ healing the sick is a new low. The fact that there's been zero criticism from the RC Church and that Marjorie Taylor Greene represents sanity in all this tells you all you need to know. Pitiful.

Even by Trump's subsewer standards, the AI depiction of him as Christ healing the sick is a new low. The fact that there's been zero criticism from the RC Church and that Marjorie Taylor Greene represents sanity in all this tells you all you need to know. Pitiful.

The only ‘LANDSLIDE’ Trump deserves to be involved in is the one that buries him for good. He was narrowly elected (alas, with a plurality) in the popular vote and had an average margin in the Electoral College.

Yes. The same here in UK. Farage, Boris Johnson et al lifted a stone with the 2016 Brexit vote and what came scurrying out has been loose ever since. Unabashed racism and hatred of the ‘other‘. The difference is that Trump not only lifted the stone and poked about - he IS also what was underneath.

Quite. Republican ‘Christians’, Evangelical or RC, are all for the sanctity of life at one end, but have scant regard for it at the other - especially if poor, of colour, Democrat, liberal, left, or foreign.

Exactly. For such mindsets, overturning Roe v Wade trumps absolutely everything. The fact that all nominees three *lied* about it at their hearings, and subsequently supported de facto presidential fascism in 2024 (a truly monstrous decision, undertaken with Trump fully in mind), is immaterial.

For such mindsets, the appointment of SCOTUS members to overturn Roe v Wade trumps everything. The fact that all three lied about it at their hearings, and subsequently supported presidential fascism in July 2024 (a monstrous decision, undertaken with Trump fully in mind), seems immaterial...

I still remember having an argument about Hillary in 2000 with an eminent Catholic scholar. She, rather than GWB, was 'the evil one' - because of abortion. Against such attitudes, logic is powerless.

Republican Christians are all for the sanctity of life at one end but seem to have scant regard for it at the other - especially if poor, of colour, or foreign.

Donald Trump launches extraordinary attack on Pope Leo calling him ‘weak’ and ‘terrible’ President says US-born pope is ‘not doing a very good job’ and is ‘a very liberal person’ in unprecedented assault on leader of Catholic church

Disheartening but unsurprising that 55% of Catholics voted for this in 2024. The propensity of the religiously devout to perform moral somersaults never ceases to depress.

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I agree, but his sexuality would be used against him. California and NY fine, but the swing states? The US patently and regrettably wasn’t ready for a female commander in chief. I just cannot see there being a gay president in my lifetime.

Protocol be damned: here’s what King Charles should say on his visit to the US | Simon Tisdall The king has the chance to offer some tough love. Perhaps he could start with a speech to Congress about the Trump administration’s reckless trajectory, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon...

I normally agree with Simon Tisdall, but not on this - and he must know it's a complete flight of wishful fantasy. The whole visit is a terrible, terrible mistake, and KC3 will say nothing of the kind.

Quite. A pair of real estate sharks and grifters and a partisan, preening lightweight with zero diplomatic nous. Who’d have thought?

Come on Hungary, complete the week’s work and make Vance look even more useless...

The absolute presidential pardon is the most absurd single aspect of the Constitution. it opens the door to corruption and tyranny of the kind your country got a foretaste of with Nixon, and full-fat Nero version with Trump. It needs to be scrapped.

Republicans block Democrats’ push to curb Trump’s war powers over Iran Resolution was expected to fail but introduction signals unease on Capitol Hill about conflict with no clear endgame

Least surprising event in a volatile week. Cowards.

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Trump may be using Nixon’s ‘madman theory’ – and similar infamy may await Nixon’s Vietnam strategy appears at play in Trump’s Iran threats, but he may want to ponder the ex-president’s fate

This does Trump too many favours. He’s an evil, narcissistic, vain and shallow psychopath with no intellectual depth or ‘plan‘ whatsoever. Idi Amin is a better comparison than Nixon.

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Quite. A shame that that imperative didn’t reach GA in Green’s former district, where they’ve just voted a ‘yes sir no sir’ muppet in - because he was wearing a GOP rosette.

JD Vance claims US is not interfering in Hungary election US vice-president says on visit to Budapest ‘we had to show’ support for Viktor Orbán, as opposition leads polls

Brassnecked liar. If this isn’t interference, then I’m the next pope.

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Shame on the voters in MTG’s former district in Georgia. Predictable, but shame.