Jo O'Reilly

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.

And yet they're quite happy to bomb kids, because that is serious governmental work. I despair.

The official White House account is sharing clips from Braveheart and Mortal Kombat. I can't get my head around the fact someone is the official US social media exec and this is now their civil service job.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Every other post in my feed is either "Kurdish militias are not involved in Iran" or "Kurdish militias are involved in Iran."

This war is hyper, hyper-misinfo / propaganda saturated - far more it seems like than usual conflicts, even in very recent history.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If your political strategy is to alienate your entire voter base and pave the way for a hard-right government, sure

Took a mental health break from doom-scrolling world war three to go and forage some wild garlic and make a LOT of pesto, thoroughly recommend.

Once you start torpedoing ships in international waters, that are not involved in conflict, you cease to have a limited theater of war.

You have taken a war global.

Every single US asset and citizen, worldwide, just became a target.

Catastrophically reckless.

(🎥 Department of War)

The Prime Minister is asked about abolishing leasehold.

He answers on management companies and ground rents that makes it really clear Labour have no intention of abolishing leasehold.

5 million people stuck paying service charges because Labour stand with property developers.

I really do not like Starmer, he has done enough in this government to make me seriously consider whether I'll ever vote Labour again, however I still feel for him having to deal with Trump and this whole mess.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Sadiq Khan responds to Donald Trump's latest attack. A spokesperson says: "The Mayor is clearly still living rent free in Donald’s Trump’s head. He’s obsessed with him. Sadiq could probably claim squatters rights"

The Middle East - famously a geopolitics-free zone.

Incredible that Trump's just dunked on Starmer for taking too long to fold. Starmer's managed to deliver his personal specialty: an outcome where he's pissed off literally everyone for zero gain.

Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe

I too had forgotten she existed, but no, here she is scolding the pope.

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Paul Conroy — a brilliant photojournalist who documented wars & human chaos for decades — has passed away. He was injured in the same attack in Homs that killed Marie Colvin & he just carried on travelling to conflict zones.

May he rest in peace.

I was not about to sit that one out. I packed my loudest shirt, a pair of flip flops, and took the next flight to Havana … After a month on the island, one question will not leave me alone. What exactly is the United States afraid of?*
Photos: Paul Conroy

You can understand the Iranian regime is oppressive and murderous and also understand that this war of aggression against it is illegal and immoral and that those who will suffer the most from it are the people of Iran.

I just feel like, ideally, the Labour response to yesterday's result would have tried to talk people *out* of detecting to the Greens, rather than, y'know, the opposite?

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.

You'll never sing that, etc...

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9

Starmer:

“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”

Voters:

You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.

As we all said, Labour didn't win in '24: the Tories lost. People consistently voted for whoever would beat the Tory candidate and Labour were the overall beneficiaries. When there's an actual alternative, we see how colossally unpopular Starmer's fash-curious management consultants truly are.

As someone from Essex I can confirm that we use 'from Hertfordshire' derisively.