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Even on The World Service - you can’t escape Trumpy Webb. Intellectualising Trump’s prevarications as strategic whereas the reality is plain incompetence, just like Johnson. Let doing nothing do all the heavy lifting so he can inevitably be left with a simple binary choice. What nonsense. #r4today

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How many of the US administration, especially those in the cabinet, believe in The Rapture? It would be nice to know. #r4today

Mr Trump wants the Nobel Peace prize.There are many ways to make peace. Stopping a war is one or executing a war until you win or call a truce is another. Whatever option, Mr Trump will state it couldn’t have happened without him (omitting to mention that it likely happened because of him) #r4today

Great news 👏. Let's see if this makes any of the papers? No, probably not. "National NHS waiting lists have fallen to their lowest level for two years". www.bbc.com/news/article...

Daily Mail 684k copies sold daily Population of 🇬🇧 = 68m More people listen to #LBC @mrjamesob.bsky.social than read this old rag… Still, I suppose it’s good to know what 56 year old ABC1s think is relevant #r4today

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

John Crace at his best.. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

@tomswarbrick.bsky.social Enough said

This judicial ruling was a Brexit benefit apparently and also the policy was not deemed to be in violation of any human rights law as defined by the ECHR. It’s a funny old world sometimes… #wato #bbcpm www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

Name drop: I met Brian Wilson backstage at the Royal Festival Hall. To say he was eccentric would have been an understatement - I then went on to ask Sophie Ellis-Bextor for her mum’s autograph and flirted with Natalie Imbruglia - much to her partner’s amusement and my wife’s exasperation #r4today

Domestic violence Why not ask his views on that topic? #wato

When I think about what MAGAts would do with this accidental revelation had it been Joe Biden, it just about blows my mind. Falling up the stairs and incontinent, sorry, how much space was devoted to Biden’s fragility again? #Trump #Catheter @timmiller.bsky.social

#r4today @coldwarsteve.bsky.social on point…

This has aged like ripened road kill.

Heard a chap complaining: 🇬🇧 is broken, bureaucracy, country full of immigrants etc. How in the Philippines you get a bank account in 1 hour, your internet in 2, pay someone £10 cash/day & they do anything. Irony: his girlfriend is a Philippine immigrant and he’s moving over there as an immigrant.

@tomswarbrick.bsky.social The guy calling in suggesting asylum seekers should join the Army is a sandwich short of a picnic - imho #LBC

@samfr.bsky.social Matthew Parris nailed it way back when…

I love Norway 🇳🇴

I love this

Bobby J may well have a point. Respect for the Law may not be what it was and as a lawyer he should know, no? However this isn’t a new phenomenon, unlawfulness spans back, well, at least 5 years #r4today

I’d really like to know what the law firm that appointed Bobby J actually did for their Russian clients. I think we should be told… #wato