An image showing a tanker dropped off on one side of a landmass at the start of a trolley problem leading to two pickup points, circumventing the closed strait of hormuz
Could this be a solution?
Oh no! *pop*
You’ll never guess who’s married to the editor.
Yesterday we secured the first ever strike-out under new SLAPP legislation.
We’re looking forward to more journalists being able to speak out without bad actors dragging them through the courts:
https://goodlaw.social/5w7w
OFCOM earlier today
UK is full of now abandoned mines.
I am a genius.
Invoice to follow.
How the Russian intelligence services, with an okay from Putin, decided to use DHL parcel deliveries to bomb warehouses all across Europe. An essential read on Russia's idea of hybrid warfare against Europe. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I thought this was depicting Starmer as the God Emperor of Dune
Maya Forstater posting a selfie of her at Transmission
The gender crits just care about women's rights. That's why they spent their money and their Wednesday evening turning up to a trans solidarity concert, and then posted about it. Very normal!
My rough timeline:
If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn.
If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption.
If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.
So tempted to write something on this almighty prosecutorial clustermuck by CPS.
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Quite the thread.
New Origin Story, on an absolute unqualified piece of Nazi shit, who is as close to the brains of the Trump operation as it gets.
There's a bunch of Chevening Scholars in my Masters classes and they massively enrich it. Impressive people and also so obviously wedded to going back and improving their own countries.
At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.
- More refugees
- More terrorism
- Increases in the cost of living
Supporting the Iran war means supporting all the above, says James O'Brien.
Beat me to it.
Someone read that gag in parliament once if I recall, nicked it from Private Eye…
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
So much winning
what is the actual point of having Ofcom?
Baby-brain nonsense to pretend this a matter of personal courage from the captains and crew, and not the straight-forward economics of prohibitively astronomical insurance costs.
Also, easy to be vicariously brave about sailing a giant floating bomb under Shaheds when you're safe in a Fox studio.
Doesn’t that usually mean he’s going to sue them for a billion dollars?
These fascists are the people whose views on trans Labour is choosing to align with, indeed to promote.
Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.
I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.
Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus.
When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue.
He then got detained by Saudi guards.
