The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Being of a certain age, many of my family and friends require the services of the NHS - some serious, most routine.
It's noticeable appointments and treatments are now made weeks, not months in advance.
There's a good story here. Just wish Labour would tell it.

I've put my post about successful efforts to tackle the small boats over on Substack too.

Would be great, if you have a Substack account, if you could like and share it on there too, so more people see this good news!

open.substack.com/pub/warrenoa...

imo big part is simply that people respond positively to politicians that seem to be speaking honestly and in a "normal human being" register, as opposed to communications trained evasions and elisions. So much so that they vote for this:

I think this is as close to a ringing endorsement as you can get.