As Ian Dunt in his substack describes it:

“What disturbs me most is the total inability of people to accept the reality ….. who should have the capacity to analyse this situation with something approaching realism, but settle instead for a shared hallucination of normality.”

Armageddon and the Rapture included or not?

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Maybe that US holiday can wait. Imagine doing nothing wrong and being chained like this and imprisoned on your holidays effectively so ICE agents can earn a bounty.

I’m surprised anyone who has a choice is going to the USA at the moment on a voluntary basis. This cautionary tale should inform people who are planning holidays there.

If that’s what he thinks is funny. . . .

A disgrace to himself and to the club

Disgusted with this.

I think Ratcliffe is going to be way more unpopular now. Unbelievable and incredibly disappointing ignorance

To be fair he did seem to have improved a little in the last couple of games . . . .

Fintan O’Toole: “This is what chasing women back again sounds like in the private chatter of the very filthy rich. What it smells like is the effluence of extreme affluence.”

#RTEcountrywide is fascinating today from part-time farmers make the best employees (apart from the day a cow is calving) to the life of pineapples and their harvesting and the invention of Irish farm machinery companies solving problems to Seamus O’Rourke. @philipb-h.bsky.social

What’s “it”?

Make billionaires history

“It’s worth remembering that what caused Trump to back down the last time was not the EU’s emollient approach. It was the negative reaction of the US bond markets to an impending trade war with its biggest group of lenders – the EU”

“It’s time to put the bazooka on the table.”

You bring in a young manager so it’s a given he will be learning as he goes along but you ditch him when you have gone through that and not given the time needed to develop from there. You do that when he is missing important players rather than trying to see it through and give the support he needs

Same. The longest I got was 60 or so and then forgot about it and disbelieved when it told me I was at no 1 again!

How many days?

Class!!

USA if they continue on their current path

“According to the Military Times website, the Trump administration launched 626 separate air strikes worldwide in 2025”
So much for charade of the FIFA peace prize

Not sure anyone can take that title from Moyesy

I thought that was Sesko’s best performance for United, slightly different positioning for his big chance and there would be a completely different conversation.

Never anything wrong with trying to be like Scholes

USA now following this schedule almost to the minute

Often works in the reverse for the current United team

Talking about himself and revealing the venom

C- and needs to try harder

Mbeumo and Amad

What a stunner

All part of the same picture. If whistleblowers etc are scared to highlight corruption the corruption becomes ingrained and unrecognised when no attention is drawn to it.