Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
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Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Interesting result: Brexit increased immigration in the UK.
Few points:
- Non-EU immigration was increased by the Tories out of necessity. otherwise the economic shock was too high. This was not an oversight.
- The undercurrent here was a deep hostility towards EU and all Europeans...
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Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters
Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either
When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them
‘Keir may have been a disappointment as prime minister domestically. But it doesn’t bear thinking about the state we’d be in if Kemi or Farage were in Downing Street right now.’
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Thread of the year, if not decade.
"No Churchill?" Well, we ain't dealing with Franklin Roosevelt, buddy.
Xenophobic nationalist National Front campaign literature "Make Britain GREAT again National Front says: Get Britain out of the Common Market Stop immigration, start repatriation Stop inflation by keeping proper control over our monetary system Crack down hard on disrupters in industry Stop property speculators House British people before immigrants Get tough with criminals Ban the I.R.A. Fight corruption in government Raise pensions to two thirds average wage Repeal Abortion Act"
Nigel Farage is the National Front in a posh accent and a suit.
"Get Britain out of the Common Market
Stop immigration, start repatriation"
Latest substack on Iran by @snellarthur.bsky.social is a must read
substack.com/home/post/p-...
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Scene from MASH, Hawkeye telling Father Mulcahy that war isn’t Hell. Almost everyone involved in war is an innocent bystander.
Don’t give them ideas
In future, will being on the receiving end of a Trump rant be a badge of honour?
Absofuckinglutely. Morgan Freeman is 100% correct about this.
Roughly an eight-hour flight. Plenty of time to discuss people like Isabel Oakeshott's tax status. Their flight can always be rerouted to Rwanda, where I understand there is some very comfortable accommodation, all paid for.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
North Vietnam won that war; the ‘regime change’ was TO the Communism the war was meant to prevent
The Taliban are back in charge in Afghanistan, almost like they were never relieved of power
I very much DO doubt the ability of the USofA to effectuate regime change through military force
They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
What we have seen in Gorton and Denton is what we saw in Caerphilly in October.
A lot of people really don’t want the hateful politics of Reform and will work hard and smart to try and keep them out.
Labour must now listen to this and stop the grim attempts to mimic Farage.
She’s grown a little but still Tilly 💙
Why go to Everest when the Lickey Hills are just by Selly Oak?
If you're interested in an informed perspective on SEND by someone who parents SEND kids and works in a school, please read this brilliant post by my wife.
open.substack.com/pub/helenlou...
She quotes @samfr.bsky.social, whose political analysis is also compulsory open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes.
Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates.
Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP
More echoes of history
Aroight, bab?
My brother did this to me. Not recently, I hasten to add.
My favourite meme so far
I look forward to the relevant episode of 24h in Police Custody
I was always shocked at direct advertising of Rx-only drugs in USA. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
(Off the top of my head, doxazosin + sildenafil = no blood pressure. Other examples gratefully accepted)