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The 12-yo me would have found it hard to conceive that heβd be listening to a new Squeeze album 48 years later. Especially on a phone carried in his pocket. π€―
This split will probably be one of the big strategic consequences of attacking Iran. Post-Trump MAGA will talk about Israel the same way Trump currently talks about Ukraine - as an unaffordable burden, peripheral to American interests. Israel thus stands to lose its main ally.
Just one of many very obvious and easy things Labour could do to improve our democracy and reduce the influence of offshore wealth. They should also strip tax exiles of their honours and British passports unless they agree to pay UK tax, like the US does with its own expatriate citizens.
Expat tax dodgers should not be allowed to manipulate our politics from abroad.
Thatβs true, but Italy used to be in the France/Germany column. In fact, they were often singled out as the archetypal stagnant βold Europeβ economy. Itβs a big change, so Iβm interested to know whatβs behind it.
I never once saw or heard it used internally within the Foreign Office in four years there as special adviser.
True. Hopefully most Americans will now realise it.
I see people are already panic buying petrol. One local petrol station already out of supply. What is America getting for this chaos?
This should be the end of illusion as far as the Special Relationship goes.
He almost said it yesterday, didnβt he? MAGA cβest moi! MAGA increasingly doesnβt see it that way, it seems.
This is such an odd thing to admit to. It makes the US look weak and will almost certainly accelerate MAGAβs shift towards an overtly hostile attitude to Israel. How can you say βAmerica Firstβ, then get dragged into a military quagmire by Netanyahu?
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On this issue, Trump is more traditional GOP than MAGA, which is becoming openly anti-Israeli and and even anti-Semitic. The open rift with Tucker Carlson and presumably Steve Bannon etc. is interesting.
Rubio is now saying they were bounced into it by Israel, which makes them look incredibly weak. The accidental theory is certainly the only one that works best given what is likely to be the high domestic cost ahead of the midterms. Canβt be rationalised as a considered step.
I think thatβs true. If they donβt get regime change, whatβs their βmission accomplishedβ moment that allows them to call an end to it?
There are far more controllable and less risky distractions he could have organised.
Iβve yet to see anyone provide a coherent rationale for why Trump is attacking Iran, and specifically why now. It doesnβt even make sense according to warped MAGA logic or Trumpβs own political interests ahead of the midterm elections, since itβs going to hurt the US economy. Itβs a total mystery.
And the winner isβ¦.. Heart of Midlothian. β€οΈπΎ
Their dominance has been corrosive, for themselves as much as anyone. Theyβve been hollowed out.
Nice to see the Greatest Living Scotsman at Tynecastle today, sporting a maroon tie, indeed. π
The progress of Hearts is just relentless now. Real Duracell Bunny stuff. Now seven points clear at the top with nine games left. β€οΈπ
Who do they think will be impressed by this? It doesnβt impress racists. Everyone else is disgusted. It literally makes no sense.
I at least credit McSweeney with having a viewpoint, rancid thought it is. I donβt think Starmer is independently capable even of that.
McSweeney may have gone, but this response shows that his ugly, bovine style of politics remains the guiding spirit of Starmerβs leadership. No class, no humility, no regret - full steam ahead to the next defeat. Nothing will change until Starmer goes.
The most urgent political task of this era is to unite Europe. Englandβs refusal to accept that fact means that Scotland must pursue it as an independent country. The Union is a trivial consideration by comparison.
Can anyone explain what part of this is βracially aggravatedβ? That Palestine should be free? That genocide should be stopped? That Churchill was a Zionist? Or that he was a war criminal? This is another piece of Met Police overreach that will never reach court because itβs bollocks.
I think Burnham would have walked it. Iβve seen much more spectacular by-election results over the last 50 years - all of them βbreaking the mouldβ. In reality, thereβs a gradual, long-term decline in two-party politics, punctuated be events like this.
A humiliating defeat for Labour for which Starmer should take personal responsibility. He made this a referendum on himself when he blocked the only candidate capable of winning. He must go. More importantly, Labour needs to ditch his policy of deliberately antagonising the partyβs own supporters.
This is too much fun.
Iβm reading another book about the Nazi era, which again reiterates the role that supposed democrats played in normalising Hitler and accommodating Germany to his emerging dictatorship. The BBC is now guilty of the same moral cowardice in a total betrayal of its public service mission.