Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

This aged badly

With Boris Johnson, Putin weakened Europe with Brexit, dividing the UK from the EU

With Donald Trump, Putin is weakening North America, dividing the US from Canada; as well as the US from Europe

Putin's long game of tearing apart Western unity is succeeding

Is this why Nigel Farage admires Putin?

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He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

“Can I ask a practical question at this point… are we going to sign the minerals deal”

If you could find a way to generate electricity from Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave you'd be able to power the Eastern Seaboard right now.

It's not so much that Badenoch shoots herself in the foot, more that she aims at each of her toes in turn and keeps pulling the trigger. #PMQs

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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.

Just chill, yeah?

Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March

Everybody that signed this needs to sit down and read pledgeprogress.co.uk maybe with a nice cup of tea and a couple of biscuits. The second the Government stray from their manifesto pledges, I promise you'll hear from us!

It’s finally here. It’s They Might Be Giants Day! Been looking forward to this gig for yonks.

Be like Mark Hamill.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. (John F. Kennedy)(Google photo)

Happy Wednesday, everyone.