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1956: Hungary's communist leaders phone Moscow for help

2026: Hungary's postcommunist leaders phone Moscow for help

Not many records left in football but winning the Champions League and getting relegated in the same season is still there for the taking.

Andrew Tate is currently in KSA custody and please please please please please, do your thing, you're like the Michael Jordan of this specific thing, come on KSA don't let me down

Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.

Cos they were full of crap?!

Markwayne isn't a name, it's a way of stopping England at major tournaments between 2004 and 2016

Nah. We’re not lucky/deserving enough for that

I’m moving to Stella Creasy-land in a few weeks’ time. Looking forward to having her as my MP

No, keep him in

So the man who thought that Khomeini and Khamenei were the same person is now in charge of Homeland Security.

These two responses are contradictory. You can’t say that the UK’s actions over Iran should be “Purely defensive” and then complain about Starmer doing just that bsky.app/profile/did:...

Crazy that Roisin Murphy from Moloko needs deradicalising but that’s where we are.

The “Going for an English” of travel documentaries…

American-style “Christianity” is heresy

1 Me: He froze like a deer in the headlights. 2 Deer: Okay tough guy, what would you do? Me: It’s just an expression. 3 Deer: No, no, no. You’re standing there, suddenly all you see is a blinding light. What’s your plan? I want to hear it. 4 Me, frowning: I would freeze. Deer: I fucking thought so.

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

You mean you need more than crappy, overpriced shopping centres and rubbish chocolate?!

The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

No notes.

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I’ve seen a lot of good/funny points in qrts of this but let me add: it’s working. actual experts are demoralizing transphobes. keep it up pals

A New Spy Radio Signal Has Appeared. It's Broadcasting in Farsi. A new shortwave numbers station appeared the day the bombs fell. Nobody knows who's running it.

This is fascinating.

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> Be Tory Leader
> Be performing badly in the polls
> Support an unpopular US war in the Middle East
> Be Kemi Badenoch
> Pic unrelated

Seems notable that Starmer's line about why we're not joining the American bombing didn't just mention international law, but also the need for "a viable, thought through plan". Implicitly the position of the government is that the US has no idea what it is doing.

I like the “we’ve been at war with iran for 40 years” talking point because by implication surviving members of the reagan bush natsec team should be tried for treason

Analysis | George W. Bush's Iraq invasion was preceded by months of meticulous planning, and yet history regards it as a failure. Perhaps Donald Trump's loose, improvised approach to invading Iran will be the key to its success.

Don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that an organisation making these kind of claims one minute past polling close is clear about who saw things, where, and what they saw. It’s Tuesday night, polling closed Thursday night, and some of these things are still not clear.

People at The Atlantic will write anything. “Netanyahu was a peace activist until October 7.” No he wasn’t. That isn’t true.

Starmer’s genie grants him one last wish…

Log off!

North Korea-esque dynasty in Iran

I think that's right and, although there's so much loathing of Starmer on all sides, and plenty of legit criticisms to be made of him more generally, IMO he's handling this crisis as well as any British PM could - and certainly far better than any of the other party leaders would.

[Ducks]

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

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