Syed's reasoning seems daft to me, but then again I have no idea who Syed is or why his ravings matter. (Of course it does matter that there are many who reason similarly and they vote.)
It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
The "tone of almost every research note" sounds very like Michael Caine in the final scene of The Italian Job: *nobody* get off the bus.
The Justice Department released documents from the Epstein files relating to a woman who made allegations against President Donald Trump.
The woman had alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was between the ages of 13 and 15
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It becomes the Defense Department when ammo is running low.
Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
Hopefully bringing Trump a glass of whisky and a pistol.
They think, or at least pretend to think, that this doesn’t sound like obvious cope to everyone in the world
It’s an entire White House comms shop built on the premise of “my hot girlfriend lives in Canada” being believed by normal people
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
Trita Parsi on American Prestige here, and yes: clearly, various Israel hawks slithered up to Trump, telling him - You only need to demonstrate your power Sire, then the enemy shall cringe in terror before your magnificence! You shall be the mightiest conqueror, everyone is saying it, more and more
"Try to inflict collateral damage" is an interesting example of how a euphemism can be made even more euphemistic.
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/...
EU backs Spain against Trump. Obvious really, but something that the UK lost with Brexit
Sure if the Kurds don't have complete confidence in the West, who does?
Chutzpah on steroids.
Merz on Trump: "I told him Spain is a member of the European Union and as such, we will only negotiate a customs agreement with the USA jointly or not at all. And there is no way to treat Spain particularly badly here; if anything, we will all come to a common result, and that includes Spain."
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
This is incredibly important, it shows that even in Donald Trump's America there can be a reward for having a spine.
Wonderful slip by Rachel Reeves in her statement to the Commons.
The ‘changes we promised’ morphed into the ‘promises we changed’.
“Destruction is not the same as political success.”
US air power can kill leaders and destroy infrastructure, but it can't build up a new government. An international relations scholar explains lessons from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.
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Especially after that particular speech, this video is quite something
President Trump’s inclination to bomb first then wash his hands of whatever comes next in Iran has alarmed U.S. allies.
Some U.S. lawmakers, primarily Democrats, have expressed similar concerns.
Decapitation often has that effect. There were a lot of decapitations in France after the fall of the monarchy, but the army went from strength to strength.
I seem to hear Lady Bracknell:
"To lose one aircraft may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two seems to me like carelessness. To lose three is a monumental cockup."
-nervously watching rapidly depleting stock of interceptors all over the region-
"How could we have known Iran might have a lot of Shaheds!?"
Form is the one thing to which Trump is true.
Chartered deportation flights are now a “routine” part of Ireland’s immigration system, as 8th flight took off last night
It comes as former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned the Government may be engaging in “performative cruelty” in its new immigration law.
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