Simon Evans

Italy are very good indeed. What they haven't done a lot is win from winning positions and performances. When they get used to this, they're going to be very dangerous.

For those keeping track, we’re at the “secretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

The enthusiasm of most billionaire media outlets in the US and UK for Trump’s illegal assault on Iran is another reminder of how deranged, perverse and frankly psychopathic these organisations are.

It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.

Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:

“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

He's clean off his trolley and a threat to everyone. It's long past time America dealt with him.

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:

"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.

First Past the Post achieves neither."

Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a mo... New political donation rules won’t stop him giving as much as he likes

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.

Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

an older man with gray hair is making a funny face while sitting in a chair . Alt: an older man with gray hair is making a funny face while sitting in a chair .

Of course I was very, very drunk.

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Churchill would be appalled by the kinds of things Donald Trump says and does. But Fleet Street is happy to ignore history for the sake of some political point-scoring, writes Alan Rusbridger

“You’d think he’d be busy monitoring the wildfire consequences of the war he’d just started. But, no, he entertained himself by slagging off the British leader to any British journalist who’d listen.”

And they did more than listen. They disgraced themselves.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.

There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

Not sitting in a filled nappy.

“Dear Diary,
Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”

"Hardly anyone in the mainstream national conversation is prepared to state the basic reality, which is that the world is run by microdick clinically sub-cognitive narcissist madmen who are going to get us all killed."

Thanks for the heads up. Been looking for a new dealer.

Trump being 'blessed' by loony evangelicals. Taliban in suits

America hasn't made its 250th birthday, it is now broken beyond repair.
Sorry America, you are going to have to burn this clown show death cult down and start from scratch.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC.

Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators.

Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “The ship that was sunk in the Indian Ocean was unarmed and full of training officers.

“Attacking such ship is a war crime.”

I hope so. He bloody well should.

Tbe Spanish Culture Minister on C4 News tonight was superb. Resolute, diplomatic, but dismissive of Trump. The days of trying to 'play' him are over.

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Didn't there used to be voices of reason, doves within the US military establishment. Wasn't there a cadre of proper military historians and strategists in the Pentagon? Did I imagine that?

Netanyahu must be so thrilled that Trump and his US stooges are providing such great cover.
Flabbergasted that the entire US military establishment goes along without any dissent.

He'll have to sack her I think. I get the feeling there's little party or voter support for her cruelty.

U turn incoming. Home Sec resignation or replacement. She's committed to this stuff. Utterly predictable.

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

Mortified shame?

More Netanyahu signature memorials.