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If Andrew Neil couldn't see what millions of people could see clearly, based on the evidence of Trump's own words and deeds, why should he be taken seriously as a political commentator?

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.

submitted 8 hours ago • 163 comments

The continued threat by Musk that he has the ability to disable Starlink will end up costing SpaceX millions in cancelled and lost future contracts. SpaceX, much like Tesla, needs to consider the cost/benefit of continuing to be associated with Musk.

submitted 13 hours ago • 61 comments

The last seven days? What we have always feared? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 322 comments

Andrew Neil now.... and exactly four months ago. A great example of the British Right finally catching up. Their primary objective of 'owning the libs' has hit brutal reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

No schadenfreude or satisfaction in seeing ‘prominent’ Trump cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

It’s a DOGE eat DOGE world.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Badenoch is treading an unasavoury line at #PMQs. She supports the PM, but not really. She supports Ukraine, but not really. She supports our troops, but not really. I know it's difficult for LoTO to get noticed in a crisis, but her unpopularity and lack of grip does not override national security.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

A lot of people are asking why a Trump administration would want to create this chaos. I wrote this in the Guardian almost 12 years ago! We are not just talking about currency exchange here ofc, but for all hedging it holds true: There is less profit in stability, than in chaos. We must grasp this.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Keep reminding yourself that everything Trump is doing is completely pointless. In the sweep of modern history, relatively nothing has happened to prompt such an extreme, revolutionary administration. It's literally the most pointless revolution in history, driven forward by bored rich men.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Standing there proudly in a Union Jack suit, while your leader vigorously defends a foreign politician who has just dismissed Britain as a "random country" that hasn't fought a war in forty years, is quite something

submitted 5 days ago • 136 comments

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

submitted 5 days ago • 1815 comments

The UK and France were the main countries suggesting sending troops, so obviously he was referring to them. The main purpose of authoritarian lies/gaslighting is to see which grovellers remain loyal to the authoritarian despite the gaslighting. I see that Badenoch is in the ranks of the grovellers.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

When they say peace, they mean surrender.

submitted 5 days ago • 69 comments

The IEA's Chris Snowden here. If you see a hotter Brexit take I'll buy you a can of Irn Bru.

submitted 7 days ago • 140 comments

Keir Starmer embraces President Zelensky as he arrives at Downing St.

submitted 8 days ago • 131 comments

Tightrope walking so good he belongs in the circus.

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

The aid cut is so depressing. I know it's politically popular but it's going to cause an enormous amount of harm. It's deeply frustrating that we've never found a way of explaining why it matters to UK voters even though it really does.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

submitted 14 days ago • 97 comments

Let's be clear: the idea that breakfast clubs would adequately mitigate the impact of the two-child limit is absolute bollocks. The average household hit by the two-child limit loses out on roughly £3,800 a year. They're not currently spending that on coco pops.

submitted 14 days ago • 41 comments

I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

submitted 15 days ago • 53 comments

The Peace Plan: Get the fuck out of our country. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

A lot of Leopards around today. A lot of people who thought sucking up to a bunch of gangsters would somehow give them influence.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments

Three things on this, because I don't want already upset people to feel targeted. 1. This is deferred frustration and anger, therefore irrational. USA chooses, but THE WHOLE WORLD has to suffer Trump. So, I feel an impotent hostility knowing people who could vote didn't. I'd give anything to. 1/4

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

When forced to choose, they all seem to prefer authoritarian plutocracy. So much for the 'classical liberals'

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

Taken from Solomon Hughes on twitter - the Gwynne/Ryan Labour Right ladbantz group also made "jokes" about Marsha de Cordova's disability

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

From what I can see, since Sue Gray was replaced by Morgan McSweeney the government's comms operation has got less chaotic and more stupid.

submitted 29 days ago • 23 comments

Evening.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

Exquisite victimhood. But nobody MADE her a hard right pin-up & culture warrior. She didn't HAVE to write in the Telegraph or speak at Tory Conferences & neocon US think tanks. Her being sidelined is just the flip-side of the huge partisan favour she has enjoyed for years. youtu.be/k05eH25rC3g?...

submitted 29 days ago • 106 comments

Case was at the epicentre of everything utterly rotten in Downing St throughout his tenure. And I note with interest that leaks appear to have diminished since his timely departure.

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments

Oakshott leaving the UK because of VAT on private school fees is surely a huge endorsement for the policy.

submitted 50 days ago • 75 comments

I think if my last two jobs were Director of Comms at the IEA and Telegraph columnist, I wouldn't be so sniffy about "well-paid sinecures."

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Konstantly Griftin featured in Private Eye

submitted 57 days ago • 31 comments

"This has led to comparisons with the events of autumn 2022, and a suggestion that Reeves may be having a Liz Truss / Kwasi Kwarteng moment. This is obviously bollocks, but how obviously bollocks?" 👏 @financialtimes.com 11-8227-404d-8629-ae7dca82d0b8

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

good to see @jdportes.bsky.social complaint to @ipso.co.uk on inaccurate (& horrible) attack by Parris on people disabled by mental illness - upheld. Bad that Times hadn't checked or corrected the column

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Late (but also early, bc I'm at the airport) to this discussion about why Silicon Valley turned right. I appreciate Henry's discussion of ideologies, but I think a lot of it boils down to a simple thing (with his story): the pettiness of plutocrats 1/ www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si...

submitted 94 days ago • 133 comments

there's a few studies and stats that have done the rounds that indicate that increased housebuilding has a fast impact on rents - my theory is that build-out rates are paced/slowed to protect market sale prices, but not to protect market rent levels

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments