All Keir Starmer has to do is retweet Trump’s tweet with a sarcastic 👍🏼 emoji and keep on keeping us out of another pointless war in the Middle East. That’s it. That would be the best response.
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
Why does it have abs?
Dana Bash • @DanaBashCNN X.com 1/7 I just got off the phone with President Trump where he rated the war with Iran at a 12 or 15 out of 10. He told me, "We're doing very well militarily - better than anybody could have even dreamed."
Sometimes the level of stupidity is too much. It’s like listening to the permanently drunk guy at the end of the bar.
Got my hair cut and now I’m like, where’s all my hair gone? My head feels so light lol and it was only about 2 inches off.
there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists
2006: don’t be evil
2016: but really, what *is* evil?
2026: meet your new assistant Evi L® delivering +225% ROI on prison labor
I assume they get this a few times a day so I’m hoping they’re sort of blind to it now instead of slowly being driven insane. Mind you, great premise for a film…
Earlier this week I saw Colin Firth in the park and grinned at him like he was my local postie. To his credit, he utterly ignored me.
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Maybe JKR can pay for this easily from her yacht bought from Jonny Depo, with the same credit card she used to send Marilyn Manson flowers, seeing as it’s what she wanted for women.
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
An extract from a blog, which reads: At most they will be able to say: They started it because it was fun. They like thumping things and this was a thing they could thump. They were insane with the most degenerate notions of what it is to be a man and ended up accidentally converting it into a foreign policy.
Perfectly put by the brilliant @iandunt.bsky.social
I find it ludicrous that no matter what this government does, the press get annoyed. If we’d been gung ho about an offensive, the press would be irate. They’re equally irate with only taking defensive actions. The Tories weren’t met with this level of aggression in interviews.
Such a ridiculous interview with by Radio4 with David Lammy. No, Brits in the area don’t want an escalation. Yes, sometimes a politician knows something but can’t tell the press. No, the deputy PM isn’t going to directly slag off a volatile US president. Terrible by Emma Barnett.
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
Ah, it's definitely pollen time. Today's walk was a delight - the parakeets in Battersea Park now like to sit on my head and rearrange my hair - but I'm now suffering with horribly itchy eyes.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.
It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.
Ah, I was a little later!
I wonder if we overlapped while there! Yes, he had a definite reputation in the Council - he used to throw temper tantrums while the exec team attempted to actually run a borough.
BBC Radio every 5 minutes: or why not ask your smartspeaker?
Because I don't have one! I either have a tab open to you on my computer while I work which is surely modern enough or I'm listening on my car's janky FM radio that can only get about 6 stations on a good day!
It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.
He had a history of just announcing policies for Newham and then making the council scramble to figure out how to both pay and deliver them with no warning, so he'll be among friends in Reform lol.
Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???
I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life
I will venmo any reporter $2,000 to give trump a map of the middle east and ask him to identify iran
The world is going to shit so I’m watching other people pull for a character I want but can’t afford in Genshin Impact. Whatever gets me through the day at this point.
