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It's wonderful day for the supporters of the vibrant, open-to-the-world GLOBAL BRITAIN that supporters of Brexit embraced. Correction - they think GLOBAL BRITAIN is shit.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The media coverage of the India trade deal is mental. It's not even toss of a coin stuff it's just absolute falsehood.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We need more of this sort of thing. "Change is good, say local residents as absence of anxiety grips local area."

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

submitted 37 days ago • 458 comments

447% tariff on shops that put stickers on books that don't peel off cleanly

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

European messaging today in Paris was exemplary. Strong message that Europe won’t prematurely lift sanctions for sake of a terrible Black Sea deal. Efforts to goad Trump into seeing he’s being played. Signals that Europe won’t accept caps on Ukraine‘s military. And pressing on w/ coalition planning.

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

I don’t think the UK Government is trying to bridge the divide. They’re trying to buy time and Starmer nearly said that bit out loud at PMQs this week. It’s the right strategy for a country that maintains your nuclear arsenal in a naval base in Georgia

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Stupid policy: (1) A lot of money is being sucked out of the economy and into pensions (2) This will be taxed much later at a lower rate (3) Frozen thresholds will push more money into the big pension funnel as the years go by (4) A bunch of skilled workers will retire early in ~20-30 years

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Currently can't use mobile data in the middle of the City of London with O2. Our digital infrastructure is so cooked

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye. It’s set a long time ago.

submitted 48 days ago • 14 comments

Surely a contender for the funniest thing a judge has ever said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 49 days ago • 50 comments

New phone, Houthis

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Was going to do a jokey post about very senior policymakers using emojis and reaction gifs in a group chat about bombing Yemen, but turns out they actually did that anyway

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Around 4% of US oil imports are from Venezuela 13% of crude oil imported by US refineries on the Gulf Coast is from Venezuela

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

That scene in the Simpsons where Lenin smashes his fist through the lid of his glass coffin, except it's George III www.ft.com/content/8b1f...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I see Kemi Badenoch's name my brain starts going "If it's Badenoch for you, it's Badenoch for me" to the tune of Good Enough by Dodgy. And now your brain will too.

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

so sad what happened to Thunderbird 2

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself” Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.

submitted 57 days ago • 51 comments

House clearing - a doleful task. Flipped open a book of political quotations and it came up at Thomas Jefferson ‘if a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be.’

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

All Zelensky has to do is collapse his own government, oversee a serious corruption scandal that nearly saw half a billion pounds (literally) go up in smoke, refuse to resign, lose seats, waste three years, lose more seats, restore the government briefly, waste a year, resign.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Some people seem to think that Trump is a blip and everything will get back to normal when he goes, but my money is more on the Orbanisation of the US. Their media landscape is so fucked that I doubt people will even blame him if the economy goes into full meltdown.