Martin Fletcher

These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

whoever is doing this campaign in London well bloody done 👍

Is this a Nazi salute?

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau:

"Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette

https://www.instagram.com/misterjesseduquette/

220,000 Romanian Jews were murdered in WW2.

And here we are 80 years on

This is absolutely next level insane

A photo of the front cover of issue 1641 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "ON SHELVES NOW!" The headline reads "DONALD TRUMP: AN APOLOGY." The cover features a mock statement claiming that, in contrast to past descriptions of Trump as "a sleazy, deranged, orange-faced man-baby," the magazine now recognises him as "a political colossus, the voice of sanity, a champion of liberty, and the saviour of the Western world." The parody humorously describes him as "slim, handsome, and young," concluding with a note that "this statement has not been fact-checked."

Donald Trump. An Apology.

The new Private Eye is out now

So Republicans are pro drug dealing and murder now, too?

The party of law and order!!

Trump just pardoned this guy.

'Trump is not a brash but necessary guy, but a serious pox on humanity. Maybe we should substitute the word Trump for a harmful affliction, and see if that feels clarifying in terms of the futility of appeasing him.' Marina Hyde in @theguardian.com spot on as always.

This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.

The redoubtable @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social have just beaten Gillingham* 1-0 to make their way into second place in League Two. Am I dreaming?

* Or possibly Jillingham. No one knows the correct pronunciation.

I very much enjoyed The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, a page- turning thriller that also addresses issues of class, entitlement and misogyny in 70s America.

A tweet depicting a person with a red Canadian flag, standing on a mountain ridge, erroneously labeled as Canada by Donald Trump. The image shows the Matterhorn, which is actually located in Switzerland.

Four years of this shit.

Reuters 25 March 2024: British farmers protest outside parliament over food imports. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

BBC 25 March 2024: In pictures: Moment tractor convoy reaches Parliament. With pictures of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall.

Telegraph 26 March 2024: Tractors bring rush-hour chaos to London as farmers stage protest. With picture of a digger outside parliament.

Euronews 26 March 2024: 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals. With picture of tractors blocking streets in Whitehall. The front one bears a placard: "No Farmers. No Food. No Future."

Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂

Samantha Harvey's Orbital received the Big Prize, but a novel that received less attention is Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional which is amazing, it manages to make the everyday and mundane extraordinary, rich and affirmative.

Richard Flanagan at the South Bank recently was funny, humble and compassionate. The acclaim for Question 7 is well deserved.

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

I've just finished reading Tessa Hadley's The Party which is wonderful. However, I'd like to recommend her first novel Accidents in the Home which is sublime.

You don’t bury an ethics report that would exonerate Trump’s pick.

You don’t skip FBI background checks unless his nominees have something to hide.

See what they’re doing? Please tell me you see what they’re doing.