The Secretary of State's popped in because there's not much going on in his department
06.03.2026 21:33
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The Secretary of State's popped in because there's not much going on in his department
For some reason Condoleezza Rice is in Trump's "Saving College Sports" roundtable and she looks delighted about it
this is defamatory
That Trump repeats calls for Iran's unconditional surrender on same day he's got the defence industrial chiefs round for an emergency meeting on military supplies perfectly sums up his grasp of ends & means.
There's a failed uprising joke somewhere here but I'm too classy to make it
Nothing they talk about more in "left behind communities" than reinstalling the Shah.
Genuinely an honour to have been interviewed by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social of @theguardian.com about my new book. Which you can buy from @bookshop.org of course.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Children swinging from a lamppost in a Dublin street during a teachers' strike, 1946, photo by Czech photo‑journalist Paul Popper.
Heating oil prices have more than doubled in the UK since war broke out: that’s 4.5m people living off gas grid, no they haven’t all got Agas, and in places like Cumbria and Scottish islands that’s a lot of anxious pensioners. (Difference with post-Ukraine is oil as well as gas spiking this time)
Purest, undiluted Bluesky
"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"
Watched this Mad Men gem last night w the wife:
ok this is photoshopped but only the bottom half
- how did you spend your Friday night General?
- blocking people who can't read that's how
STOP TALKING ABOUT MA BAKER YOUVE MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE BLOOT
In >10 years on Twitter the only DMCA takedown notice I got was for a clip of Rasputin
I can't express the disappointment I feel when a radio dj says they're playing Boney M next and it's not Rasputin
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Dear Romanians, please help me out 🙏🏻
Bit of Jason and the Argonauts for the dads
in denmark they made all the party leaders hang out together for 24 hours for a TV experiment
www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
Not actually braving it himself though is he? We're not talking Jason going between the Clashing Rocks here.
I saw a goose flying backwards, a squirrel recount verses of Horace, and here is Simon Jenkins with a correct take
Three years, failed bids, internal rebellions, law changes - the blighted Telegraph sale has had it all.
But Axel Springer looks to have ended the saga - & Lord Rothermere's hopes of a massive UK empire.
Analysis of a European giant buying the Tel:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
if anyone's still on Twitter you're welcome to post that ⬆️
Vernon Bogdanor says we need another referendum on electoral reform www.ft.com/content/38d8...
ok this is photoshopped but only the bottom half
This is, objectively, the most hilarious thing I've seen on the socials today, and I've seen that Starmer/Military TikTok clip.
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For the latest instalment of my Adventures in Woo-Woo, I step into, yes, a giant $75,000 egg.
www.ft.com/content/3993... (free to read! 💸)