I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Morning.

COUNTERPOINT: You seem to be able to cope with some of them just fine. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I think she would look fetching in a beret

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Leavitt: "Thanks to the unmatched excellence of our warriors at the direction of the commander in chief, the world has just witnessed a historically swift and successful military triumph"

The school photographer at my son's school takes the year group photo by taking individual photos and editing them together. It looks really bad & must be 50x the work of just taking the photo properly.

My psychology degree is 25 years old, so maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure bipolar doesn't make you antisemitic or go to the lengths of writing songs & selling Nazi merch. I can't believe there was no pushback that West had to overcome on either of those things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK

West was due to headline the festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.

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Starmer (rightly in some cases) gets a lot of shit but fuck, imagine Badenoch or Farage in charge at this particular moment.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Badenoch has another new position on Trump and Iran.

I really hope the SRA is finally going to put a stop to solicitors who behave as badly as this guy.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"It was horrid, absolutely horrid. We felt a lot of pressure, which I think is his tactic." London lawyer Andrew Milne bought a strip of land. Then the threatening letters began. Featuring bee keepers, bikers and legal threats, it's a strange and disturbing tale... Check our latest piece below 👇

Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🎥 Donald Trump posts a video that appears to show the aftermath of a U.S. attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran.

I bring this one out every Thanksgiving.

The Artemis moonshot is a great American achievement. By the way, one crew member is Canadian. The service module, which keeps the astronauts alive, is built in Bremen. The communications depend on ground stations in the US, Spain and Australia. Dear America- don't give up your friends too easily

Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.

Another e.g. of a relatively small policy but one which helps address an every day irk, and a costly one too. Over past year Government has seemed to get much better at doing more of these tackling 'every day frustrations' policies and small cost of living fixes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions

Consumers will be able to cancel unwanted subscriptions 'at the click of a button', the government said.

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it's ridiculous that this "London has fallen" bullshit has been allowed to fester for so long. The best time to deal with this was a few years ago, and the second best time is now

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 4mo ago

Sadiq Khan tells UK ambassadors to fight London ‘misinformation’

Oh the irony. BBC News - Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees

The online listing portal is now being pursued in a class action, launched on behalf of potentially hundreds of estate agents.

bbc.co.uk

Well, with my understanding of the metric system: he wasn't speeding, the fine was less than $1, and he isn't old enough to have a driver's license.

Someone in the FT comments last week tried to justify Trump's wild swings by likening them to individual poker hands. I'm not a poker player but if Trump is trying to play a game of poker then his approach feels like he's putting all his cards face up and shouting BINGO. www.ft.com/content/77e5...

Donald Trump says US could withdraw from Iran ‘whether we have a deal or not’

US president signals growing impatience with a war that has sent energy prices spiralling

ft.com

I’m totally with President Trump. We had an empire once. We won the World Cup. We won the Falklands War. We voted Brexit. Let’s get OUR OIL back! Time to stop being woke wimps & invade the Straits of Hormuz. Let’s make Britain great again & help this brave, likeable President.🇬🇧

Put Dulcolax in Trump’s trough, Charlie!

Lomelindi12@lomelindi12.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Do they wanna get rid of you too, Charlington the Third?”

Yup, a noose. Nice people eh?🤬

Okay I know we are all sick of hearing about the Burkes but you have to admit going on the run, realising nobody cares, then turning up to a prison to get arrested on purpose, all so you can get some more attention, is a very funny bit

In fairness, even South Africa didn't do this and I'm not even defending SA here

I'm sorry but if Israel is bringing back hanging but only for Palestinians then that's an apartheid state and no decent country should be supporting them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks face death penalty under new Israeli law

The new law, passed on Monday, was pushed hard by the far-right and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

bbc.co.uk

Channel 4 News trying to link the sale of vapes to child sex crimes is just bizarre. There may be good reasons to restrict the sale of vapes but this isn't it. I had a client who used his guitar to abuse young boys but that's not a reason to ban guitars. It's a reason properly monitor sex offenders.

The discussions I have read about Dean Acheson’s responsibility for the Korean War after he omitted one word from a 1950 foreign policy address now seem so quaint that I might just give up and live on a swampy planet in a little hovel.

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I guess at least stuff like this will make for a short, fun and interesting source in a GCSE history book circa 2075.

I stupidly agreed to go to Aberystwyth Mags tomorrow morning. Now I'm discovering that there are no hotels* with vacancies for the night so it looks like I'm going to have to leave about 4am 😭 *of the sort I feel comfortable showing up to about midnight anyway.

Call out for other UK lawyers with an interest in domestic modern slavery (drugs) matters. Looking to build a bit of a practitioner group for a project, and just got better comms. Please share.

The UK should retaliate by speeding up the transition to renewable energy and cut our reliance on oil. Who would that hurt? The USA because that's where the UK currently buys the biggest share of its oil!

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.