Six months ago, King Charles III received Donald Trump at Windsor Castle. Horse-drawn carriages. A 41-gun salute. A state banquet in St George’s Hall with 160 guests. Trump stood next to the King, visibly moved, and called it “one of the highest honours of my life.” Britain smiled, nodded, and filed that away.
Today Trump posted a hostile video about the United Kingdom. Downing Street issued a three-sentence response and got on with its day. Because here is the thing about Britain that Americans never quite grasp: this country has been burying empires since before the United States existed. It has outlasted Napoleon, Hitler, and the Soviet Union. It will outlast this.
Trump wanted a reaction. He wanted the phone calls, the grovelling, the desperate reassurances. He got a shrug from a country that invented the stiff upper lip and has been practising it for a thousand years.
While Washington careens between threats and tantrums, Britain is quietly doing what Britain does. Building alliances. Signing defence agreements. Hosting the leaders that actually matter at Chequers and Downing Street. The adults are in the room. They just stopped expecting Trump to be one of them.
The special relationship was always a polite fiction. Britain knew that. It kept the fiction alive because it was useful. Now that it isn’t, Britain is doing what any self-respecting island nation does.
It moves on.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
🔝🗑️ Here's where Iliman Ndiaye’s goal against Chelsea crossed the line.
🏴 In England, we call this the 'Postage Stamp' or 'Top Bins'.
🇧🇬 In Bulgaria, they call this 'the place where spiders have sex'.
What do you call it where you're from?
I am sick and tired of listening to the BBC criticising Keir Starmer. Hardly anything said about the vile Trump or Farage. There are malevolent forces at work here to undermine and control and the idea of Farage or Lowe both fascists is frightening.
Kier Starmer was visiting a school in Wales and the class was in the middle of a discussion about words and their meanings. The teacher asked Kier if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy".
A boy stood up and said "if my best friend who lives on a farm, is playing in a field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that'd be a tragedy."
"Incorrect" says Starmer, "that would be an accident. "
A girl raised her hand and said "if a school bus carrying 50 children inside drives over a cliff killing everyone inside, that'd be a tragedy."
"No" says Starmer, "that's what we call a great loss."
Little Johnny put his hand up and said, "if a plane carrying you and Lammy is hit by friendly fire missile and blown to pieces, that would be a tragedy. "
"Brilliant!" Says Starmer. " now, can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"
Little Johnny replies, "Well, it wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident, either."
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@mihangelsiencyn Just a shame they feel need to take over whole areas and the local indigenous population feel threatened and made to feel unwelcome in their own country! Also our own Christian traditions are ignored!
I want to say that as a UK citizen I do not find the Eid festivities and public prayer in any way disturbing. I find any suggestion that they are disturbing to be very offensive and un-British.
I can't believe what I've just watched.
Here is the colossal cretin Yvette Cooper, clearly explaining that the UK and our allies are under *direct attack* from Iran.
She then proudly keeps repeating that we will not get involved in offensive action.
This is absolutely INSANE!
Oxford's Matt Bloomfield has accused Saints of risking player safety to gain a competitive advantage with the type of advertising boards placed around the pitch. Saints also wore Saints Foundation warm-up shirts to highlight the club's charity.
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Comedian Zoe Lyons tells BBC Question Time that Britain is missing out on all the doctors, nurses, engineers, and scientists that come over on small boats by not allowing them to integrate.🤣
Any adult with this level of naivety might as well still be playing with dolls.
I live in a Christian majority country with a deep Christian heritage. The cross appears in our emblems, flag, and our state symbols.
Yet for the past month, media and politicians have spoken every single day about Ramadan - and not a word about Lent.
Why is that?