Bill Burke

Significant oil price drop based on nothing more than nonsensical, grumbling reassurances from Trump. This is sending-money-to-Nigerian-prince levels of credulity.

‘I was mesmerised by Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste’: Diane Morgan’s honest playlist The Philomena Cunk star’s life was changed by the Fall and she knows a Spitting Image song inside out. But which haunting banger does she say is the best ever?

Diane Morgan citing Container Drivers by The Fall as the song that changed her life. The pinnacle of good opinion-having.

Possibly sees the insane fees he commands and his ever-expanding net worth as a kind of validation in itself; the court of public opinion is make-belief.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Grinding my teeth so much I'm getting a headache from all the military-focused talking heads do the whatever-you-think-about-the-politics-of-it-all routine... Day one: bomb a school. The story here should be how bad strategy only amplifies operational blunders.

💯 That out of touch notion they have about the working class - you're not it unless you're carrying a hod around all day. Presumably factory workers, nurses and the God-forsaken masses in call-centers are just bourgeois scroungers.

As bad as Iraq was, they at least recognized that removing Sadam and leaving a failed state with a population of 25M after them wouldnt work... The plan was bad and played out badly. But there was a plan.

Literally my first job out of school, a crappy factory number, required me to use a lanyard to get in and out. It's such a fucking braindead signifier.

I'm confused by the nuke-in-two weeks assertion. Process sounds less Oppenheimer, more Scrapheap Challenge.

Everytime I see his little face above another daft headline my mind fills in the gap and does a comical broken spring noise.

I still can't fathom his rehabilitation. This is next level stuff from him. Stateside there are quite a few old-school neo-cons that have found a way to criticize this adventure without looking like utter hypocrites (principal vs approach).

Here's Campbell though, doing a Robin Cook impersonation.

They HAVE to protect us because of all the tax we don't pay.

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

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He's literally trying to sell the idea of illegal "forever" wars now.

I suppose the flip side of that is those nihilistic psychos can say ANY outcome is a victory. A failed state of
90 million people? Victory!

Whatever about the strategic shakeout, I imagine the news of a fellow despot being killed in an airstrike probably cast a shadow over Putin's weekend.

Glenn Greenwald: Every major presidential campaign is based on lies and knowingly false promises, but Trump made opposition to regime-change wars a central part of his political identity for a decade. His voters believed it. He's proven himself one of the most deceitful frauds in US history.👇 The American Conservative: Trump on the campaign trail: "We are finally putting America First. Our policy of war regime change and nation-building is being replaced by the pursuit of American interests… It is the job of our military to protect our security, not to be the policemen of the world."

Even now, Glenn Greenwald can’t bring himself to say “I believed Trump’s lies.” It’s “his voters believed it.” But it wasn’t just “his voters,” Glenn, it was you. You believed the lie. In fact, you promoted it. Incessantly.

Rip

Being a Canadian Liberal right now must be like being in the Labour Party c1998, but with the added bonus that the French keep vaguely threatening to invade Britain and William Hague, due to ideological ties to Jacques Chirac, can’t quite articulate if this is a bad thing or not.

Leopards. Faces.

It sounds OK when it's rattling off facts about the Middle Assyrian Empire but then it confidently fucks up basic information about my home town and I begin wonder about about the stuff I just learned about Tiglath-Pileser.

I have this niggling feeling that instead of going hell for leather attacking Reform and this racist policy (which is already demonstrably unpopular in the US), Lab will do another round of "actually we hear you, racists"

Struggling to figure out what agenda this piece is servicing. I presume it's just O'Neill playacting.

omg

windows 95 right click menu didn't have a load time even with my 100 MHz processor and 8 MB of RAM which sure does make me mad at everyone who works for microsoft today even if their job there is entirely unrelated

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

When Labour are making the case against Farage, casting him as a servile, unpatriotic puppet of the US far-right is pretty much off the table now.

Nihilists AND left wing ideologues? It's like words don't matter to the man who literally writes for a living.

It's easy to pick and choose stuff from the Bible. It's telling that you didn't quote the bit where Jesus says wokeness will stop us becoming an interplanetary species.