Colin Hull

@afneil @TimesRadio Don't normally agree with you but I do with this. But its the GOP crazies in Congress who are also to blame for not opposing him to start with.

My monologue on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio on Trump’s War: Donald Trump woke up this morning to tell Britain to open the Strait of Hormuz without US help and to ‘start learning how to fight’ for ourselves because America ‘won’t be there to help you.’   Well, we learned how to do that in 1940, Mr President, when your country was nowhere to be seen and only Britain stood with its Commonwealth allies to defend civilisation against the greatest evil the world has ever seen.  For those of you wondering if the Atlantic Alliance still has a future, you can stop wondering. As long as Trump is in the White House clearly it doesn’t.  Meanwhile Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio is impatient with media criticism that the aims of Trump’s War are confusing and uncertain. So yesterday on American TV he helpfully listed them. Write them down, he advised, implying this was the definitive list. So I did: 1. The destruction of Iran’s air force 2. The destruction of their navy 3. The severe diminishing of their missile launching capability 4. The destruction of their factories Which is clear enough — except that it’s not the list with which President Trump started the war. That list clearly included regime change and the end of Iran’s ability to develop nukes.  They didn’t make Secretary Rubio’s list. Nor did the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.  There is further cause for concern. IF Rubio’s list is now the definitive one, then Trump could claim war aims achieved, victory declared even with Iran still in control of the Strait of Hormuz, still able to develop a nuclear arsenal.  Not quite the victory anybody envisaged.  Yet that may well be the route we’re now going down. Late last night in Washington we discovered that Mr Trump was telling aides he WAS prepared to end the war even if the Strait of Hormuz was still closed.  That opening it would prolong the war beyond his deadline. That it was up to the Europeans and the Gulf States to take the lead in opening it because they needed it more than America.  Well, thanks a lot Donald. You start a war without consulting your allies, you change your war aims more often than Keir Starmer performs U-turns and now you talk of ending it, leaving us to hold the baby. Just great.  This matters. Because the longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed the more the global economy faces something close to catastrophe. 1/2

@Sachinettiyil Now he needs to discover the rest of real Catholicism and its social teachings and not be perverted by a nationalist heresy.

U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance will publish a book about his conversion to Catholicism. Info: The New York Times

I am troubled by Trump. But I’m even more troubled by the Christians who defend him. Every time I hear @Franklin_Graham support Trump, I think of the words of his dad: “I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form… It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.” – Billy Graham Follow Jesus. Not Trump.

@TomLondon6 good to see Reform vote reducing.

What is the actual point of the Lib Dems? They win some seats for being NOT Tories and other seats for being NOT Labour but what is the actual positive point of the Lib Dems?

@TomLondon6 They do have distinct policies that many also want.

@thehill Without forethought and planning, causing innocent deaths and economic mayhem for millions worldwide.

Nikki Haley: Trump has ‘come too far to stop now’ in Iran war thehill.com/policy/interna…

@AgainstAtheismX So God designed horrible parasitic diseases as well, and defects that cause suffering to babies and children? That is also what Intelligent Design implies.

How can anyone look at this world and say it doesn't have a designer?

@afneil I know Trump is insane but the backing of the GOP in Congress without intelligent dissent shows they share his insanity.

I am told by White House sources that Trump is seriously considering taking Kharg Island.

@wendelltalks It's only a problem for the Genesis literalists.

What do you think? Is the age of the earth a primary biblical issue, or, is it a second, or third order issue, that Christians can comfortably agree to disagree on?

@AiG But it may all be wrong.

@RightWingWatch Thats Nazi

Right-wing commentators James Kunstler and Eric Metaxas suggest that Trump needs to declare a national emergency and outlaw the Democratic Party: "I think it would probably look something like a civil war." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…

@benonwine Lunacy

Rudy Giuliani calls King Charles a 'Muslim monarch'. What’s your REACTION to this Statement?

@ramzpaul Trump has caused economic havoc and loss of innocent lives. Are you happy with your gas prices and related goods going up? Lack of planning.

I agree with Trump. You Brits really fucked up the situation in Iran. You should feel ashamed.

@farmingandJesus Lots of lies at the moment from the Oval Office. Not a Christian President or Vice President

@MarkHam80780803 Is this real or some joke fake news?

Breaking:Rupert Lowe pledges that Restore will abolish the modern numbering system, due to its Indian and Arabic origins, and revert to a tally system which was popular in Palaeolithic Britain.

After shouts of Hosanna, Jesus enters the temple & clears out those who have used religion to exploit people. He then welcomes the blind & paralyzed in the temple & heals them. Holy Week reminds us that Jesus has a furious love for those the world has little regard for.

@KayBurley You can bet Trump will use it for his own ends. I wonder what embarrassment awaits the King in the Oval Office press conference.

The visit by Charles and Camilla to the United States is to go ahead in April. The monarch represents long term relationships for the state, not the government, so meeting elected leaders is part of the job. However, will a meet and greet with Charles and Camilla be used for domestic political messaging? Meanwhile 👇

@AgainstAtheismX That is not what most scientists believe.

Atheists unironically believe lighting struck some water and... poof! Life just... happened. And then that turned into a fish. And then a lizard. And then a monkey. And then you. But Christians are the ones that believe in fairytales...

@mikeysmith That is ignorance based on fake news by the extreme right . She needs to be put right with the actual truth.

American Trump supporters are convinced Britain has entirely been taken over by Sharia Law. Wonder who gave them that idea.

The current Christian Nationalist movement, regardless of what honorable aims it may claim, has completely discredited itself by approving and accepting among its members and co-belligerents racists, white supremacists, and nazis.