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I don’t know much about football transfer season etc but perhaps team USA could make an offer for Zelenskyy and trade Trump somewhere? Not sure who might take him, Belarus? Just thinking. Be nice to have a serious leader surely?

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

No. No. No. Please do not be this stupid … we have literally been here before. The ‘special’ relationship only exists in the UK psyche. Do not send our young to die for this crap. No love for Iran leadership, but what happens next???

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

When yer rootin fer the banks …

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, this is going well 😂 Reform councillors reported to police by colleague

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Well, even a stopped clock …

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

It would be nice to imagine that the US’s BFF and perpetual lapdog won’t join Trump in Iran. However …

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Awful, appalling crime. It gives me some hope for humanity that 57 years was not long enough to stop civilised society, through the police, trying to bring the perpetrator to justice.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve truly lost our way in this country. An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs.

submitted 4 days ago • 601 comments

Roger Daltrey knighted for services to ending European touring? Ah well, he’s made his money. #Brexit

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It’s definitely a sensible way forward but, for the dreamers of #Brexit : imagine being turned away from a British sovereign area because you’ve spent 90 out of the past 180 days in EU states. How’s Nigel’s future suiting you?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If Thames Water gets nationalised (it should), it patently has no commercial value. End of.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

He’s presumably going to be deported now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Your reminder that, in the UK at least, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. If you’re ill, see a doctor.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Is Trump purposefully escalating or is he just a toddler trying to enforce his will? Kind of feel like escalation might be a tactic in a play and, to be honest I’m really not convinced he’s that bright. Meanwhile, yay… we’re giving this moron a state visit.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 11 days ago • 171 comments

Pretty dim if the Dems went anywhere near musk but, does this mean US now a one party state?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Never read his books or watched the films/series, however, this guy seems all right - for a brummie (obvs).

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine employs precision strikes on legitimate military targets, Russia launches indiscriminate attacks on civilians. Putin will probably never go on trial, but he absolutely should do.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Wonder what would happen to Tesla and SpaceX if Elon’s residency status got examined? So many things to wonder on these days.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder what Farage’s next party will be called.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I had no idea Reaction Engines had failed. What a huge shame, it seemed to have been almost there. The British jet engine that failed in the 'Valley of Death' www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Our water bill has doubled in the last 7 years. I checked the bills, we aren’t using any more water than we were back then, the thing that has changed is the charges. Infrastructure crumbling, monopolies(!) going bankrupt after years of profiteering. Great Britain indeed.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Err… didn’t Bailey say Brexit could be good for UK?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Having largely grown up in NW England I think this should read “A chronic lack of investment and maintenance by privatised water companies has been declared.” It rained throughout my entire childhood. It’s grim oop north.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"Transparent admissions reporting is vital: it can expose unfairness and illuminate a system that too often remains hidden from scrutiny." Comprehensive Future on an amendment to the Schools Bill, requiring schools to publish their faith admissions criteria comprehensivefuture.org.uk/lords-amendm...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

No, this isn’t a coup. The danger with clever pranks is that we fool ourselves into thinking that “we” got one over on “them”. We must not lose sight that justice requires investigation and action within a justice system. I wish the authorities were quicker for sure. Let’s not settle for less.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

If Trump prevails, international students will simply not go to Harvard even if they have the chance (for brief windows). Make no mistake, this harms the US and Harvard equally. Maybe Harvard should relocate?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The top image: The Guardian, July 2016 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The bottom image: The Guardian, May 2025 The article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 27 days ago • 302 comments

Surely better to put him in a glass case labelled “Geopolitical risk”?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Not convinced. Our GP flat out closed their appointment booking system weeks ago until the end of May, apparently pending a new system. You have to call on the day for urgent issues only.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

If it lands in your garden you get to keep it right?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

And yet, Mrs. Chiles will stump up for this column of drivel. How fortunate!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Oh dear, Mind you, this follows in a long tradition of despotic or otherwise bonkers rulers watching as their new toy sinks. A stern assessment indeed.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

This is Vino. Yes, he farts every morning before breakfast. Yes, they still sometimes surprise him. 13/10

submitted 29 days ago • 149 comments

#Brexit such a momentous waste of time, emotion and money.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Norm!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Thames Water exec claims bonuses would be paid by lenders, not bill payers. Lenders, in my experience, want to be paid back.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 36 days ago • 85 comments

We are horrified to hear that Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty for #Tataloo. A man condemned to die because he supposedly insulted Islam. Nothing short of barbaric. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w... #FreeTataloo

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments