“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

The cost of winter fuel payments is £3bn a year. The profits of the big four gas supply giants in 2023 were £65bn. It's hard to see any obvious policy conclusions here, but I'm sure top economists are working on the problem.

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, don't forget that she called Osama bin Laden a freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela a terrorist, General Pinochet a friend. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

If you can't get a job, they call you 'a scrounger'. If you get a job and can't make ends meet, they tell you to find a better-paid job. And if you do get a well-paid job, they tell you train drivers earn too much.

Charlie Kirk sent 80 coachloads of activists to Washington to join a bid to overthrow a democratically elected government. Then Liz Truss demands the BBC be defunded for entirely accurately describing his politics as far right.

It's amazing how the same politicians can describe VAT on public school fees as an attack on aspirational parents and then argue that free school meals for poor kids are a waste of money

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Really inconceivable, of this group of Jewish children (4-17 years old) from Deventer, The Netherlands, *only* the girl in the white dress survived the #HOLOCAUST. #WW2 #HISTORY

Just catching up on the news, and feeling in need of a handy checklist of which countries have functional governments this morning

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵

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Why are we striking?
Our owners says the sale is “necessary”. But the Observer is a successful part of the Guardian family

The deal has been done in secret and without considering other bids

Our owners have a £1.3bn fund & a duty to protect liberal journalism - why not invest?