Declan

Just incredible that at no point in the Biden White House when Galaxy Brain Sullivan said, "if we make our Foreign Policy Trumpian enough he won't be able to attack us" did anyone reply, "but Jakey, what if he just lies about it the way he does about everything all the time?"

The law concerning the legality of a given war and the laws governing the practice of war are separate. There is a good reason for this. Even if the war itself is illegal, the combatants still have to obey the laws of war.

Conservative peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

Tory peer quits after investigation into PPE role

(No, not that one)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Work in progress pen drawing of a sitting being covered in biomechanical growths while it raises one hand in a gentle pointing pose while the other is on its lap. The lowered hand is flowing into a dripping space looking fluid. In the background are stone structures, some floating

It's been a while since ive posted an in-office break/lunch piece because work has been quite exhausting and meetings chewing up breaks and some lunch. That said..here's a few weeks of 5-10 mins here and there in the last month
9x12 pen on paper
#DarkArt #TraditionalArt

This is definitely me being grumpy but enough with the portmanteaus. Just use the normal words which already exist to describe the world. Create new words only as necessary to refer to previously unnamed phenomena.

3/3 Did you drive the pink Cadillac hired by Nathan Gill who last year got ten years for taking bribes from a Russian spy?

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2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.

Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?

Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk

1/3 I'm writing a book about Nigel Farage for Headline.

Some of his pals are blanking me.

Is it because after I reported on the killing of a Polish man in Essex in 2016, he said that I had caused him "more misery than any other in 25 years in politics"?

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Okay what the hell here's the free version if you have nothing better to do

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation?

We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The comments underneath this are depressing. "You are protected by [X] privacy law" does not mean, and has never meant, that you are completely anonymous. If you want a completely anonymous digital service, you are probably buying from criminals and, no, you're not truly anonymous even then.

Digital painting, the flying tugboat ‘Skateraw’

a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.

Okay.

Anyone long Guyana? I feel like now is a good time to be long Guyana.

Global power is not built at short notice, but China does have avenues open to them. They also have Russia as a resource colony now, so they're probably less concerned than some other countries.

Yes and no. China doesn't have a presence in ME but they are all over Africa and LATAM. They are very quickly transitioning away from technologies that keep the ME relevant as a supplier. ME obviously still relevant as a trade route. This is an acute crisis for them, but that won't last.

Sunder is correct here - the headline figure is quite misleading

Here are the profiles *over time*

Both care workers *and* dependents are fiscally positive for their first *20 years*.

Dependents are ultimately negative but only when old/sick/retired.

Well, Hezbollah again commits suicide and invites Lebanon's doom in the process.
Dying for Ayatollahs thousands of kms away. We are about to face a refugee crisis of unbelievable proportions from Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan. And it's still just day 5.

*The war between the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and Pakistan continues in many areas, sparking a significant refugee crisis, so far contained and supported by the UN agencies. Those however, are at maximum capacity, overwhelmed preparing in the whole region.

This is a good game. Well worth that price

Today has been a good day.

My painting SONORAN DESERT

I’m giving away 20 free mini prints this weekend! Enter on my site!

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Untrue - the Convention provides both for the possibility that protection might cease to be necessary (ie the cessation clause: refugee status ends if there's a change in circumstances) AND the possibility it might need to be long-term (ie references to facilitating citizenship of the refuge State)

This is one of the greatest burns of the British tax dodging class I've ever seen.

“I’d rather have a Fajr-2 for tea than let the NHS touch what I, a self-made man, earned all on my own. Yes, my father is a peer and my mother was a Bond girl. What of it”

- overheard, Emirates Business Class Lounge

The local fortress nobles must be Reform UK members.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Only thing that would have improved this is a drone slowly approaching the expat's window behind him.