Can we at least all agree that he deserves to win the Carabao Cup?

I think this is hugely important. I have done a lot of research on religion and politics for my book (about 🇬🇧) and I cannot overstate the difference between the pundits and politicians who talk aggressively
about "cultural Christianity“ and the people you meet when you actually go to church.

And it shall be known as: ‘The Nobel Peace Prize (That You Don’t Know Because It Goes To A Different School.’)

The British-Israeli Jewish descendant of Holocaust survivors with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk right now.

So so sad. It's going to get a reaction but you can't deny the passion behind the words, and they demand attention.

Evergreen comment, but on the Israel/Gaza conflict...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - what a call, what a caller.

Dear Lord - you will not hear a more earth shattering call than the first on @mrjamesob.bsky.social today - please listen

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

What? Really? Sorry.

On the other hand, the Daily Mail appears to be launching a campaign for Donald Trump to be canonised...

There's a piece by Catherine Philp in The Times today that provides forensic & fascinating detail about the peace deal agreed yesterday. I cannot recommend it highly enough but won't share a link because I'd get a dozen replies from people pointing out that it's behind a paywall!

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

Peace in the Middle East?
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In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

I propose a deal: Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for the Epstein files

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

First time me and Mackenzie have been on stage together in 25 years.

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

I strongly suspect that as the legal case is adjudicated and becomes clearer, this number will only grow: www.timesofisrael.com/poll-nearly-...

Today’s uplifting & illuminating chat with @ntarnopolsky.bsky.social.

I just did!