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@PastPostcard Yours Joseph Radetzky

There is nothing to beat Austria for scenery.

@OldGassy1984 @artbookreviews Hideous

Rococovfefe

@DeborahMeaden @SeddSezz Not banning tumble driers, just phasing out inefficient vented/condensing ones in favour of heat pump ones. I have a heat pump, not significantly more expensive but so much cheaper to run

@SeddSezz That family would benefit hugely from lower electricity bills… why is that such a problem?

🚨Rush to buy tumble dryers after Miliband’s net zero ban Imminent law changes will see traditional tumble dryers phased out for Net Zero. Perhaps Mad Miliband should visit a 14th floor flat where a family of 4 do washing on a regular basis. Would he like to live in a place with several airers of damp washing, which damage children's health? Screw the Net Zero con. Screw this Miliband prick.

@Marc_Allum There has been more activity at Fairford today than over the past week or so.

If I’m not mistaken, that’s a B52 bomber flying over my house…..☹️

@ingridsusanka Combined it with Lake 104 on my morning run.

Another lovely bit of walk.

@MsMelChen Fairford only became a target after you based your bombers there. At least get your facts right

Let’s be real here. Europe has spent decades freeloading on American security. Even now, with every NATO member finally hitting the 2% GDP target in 2025. But beyond the financial contributions, the real rupture is philosophical and the Iran crisis has shown a spotlight on it. Europe worships process. Endless committees, consultations, and “predictability.” Macron actually calls it a virtue. For Trump, this is paralysis as his style is to articulate a threat, fix a target, and act. The Americans are men of conviction and purpose. Europe on the other hand lives by bureaucratic liturgy and in high-minded abstractions. Sure, Americans might make mistakes when acting. But Europe never considers what the costs of not acting actually are. Just look at how their nations are doing on various fronts, especially on the border crisis, and you see the same cancerous rot that undergirds their foreign policy approach play out domestically. It's the same problem on a different scale. Iran is currently holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage, choking 20% of global oil and spiking prices past $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, the regime is bleeding from strikes, its nuclear ambitions are still alive despite degraded capability, and its proxies are firing missiles at allies and oil tankers. If this isn’t a clear and present danger to the global economy - of which Europe is a part - then I don’t know what is. Yet when Washington asked to use European bases to finish the job - bases the US has defended for generations, the response was hesitation and hand-wringing. The US did strike from RAF Fairford, but only after warnings that British soil could become a “legitimate target.” If you cannot agree that a theocratic regime with eschatological ambitions who have shown no restraint in hitting out at Gulf countries and threatening the world’s energy jugular is an enemy worth confronting, then what, exactly, are we allies about? Europe loves to preen about being tough on Russia. They issue condemnations and speeches and slap sanctions that hardly work to cripple the Russian economy. Now here was a chance to do something concrete: let the Americans use the bases they already pay for, help clear the Strait, and actually degrade the Iranian war machine that arms Moscow’s proxies. Turmp didn’t ask for boots on the ground or any kind of more offensive action. All he wanted was permission to operate from the infrastructure America has underwritten for decades. They couldn’t even manage that. So can you blame the Americans for seeing NATO for what it is? A paper-tiger alliance that expects Washington to bleed and pay while Brussels and London convenes and deliberates. If Europe refuses to treat Iran as the threat it is while happily letting American power keep the Strait open and the lights on, then the alliance is already dead. Trump is simply stating the obvious and the Americans are becoming very reluctant to subsidize the European delusion any longer.

@carolkirkwood Come to Kelmscott Manor (summer home of William Morris) in Oxfordshire and meet Horatio,the Chief Wellbeing Officer

@BasilTheGreat “Fewer dogs” and better grammar?

@Number10cat Went for a run at the new 6:00am. Loads of lights on. Assume it was people still trying to change their oven clocks😂

A reminder to all my friends across the UK that British Summer Time starts tonight at 1am so don’t forget to put your clocks forward an hour and get your snow shovels ready!

#samryder Absolutely fantastic

@DeborahMeaden Can we clone him?

This man…

@GeoffreyMunn1 Kelmscott Manor reopens in two weeks time for the season. Can’t wait to get my stewarding hat on again.

St George Street London

@NormalIslandNws @artbookreviews Keep them here for 180 days and they have to pay income tax

@tedlieu @RpsAgainstTrump @WhiteHouse For heavens sake.

Dear ⁦@WhiteHouse⁩: Please send JD Vance to every single House swing district where he can tell voters that soaring gas prices are the fault of Biden.

@Alex2Desna @RpsAgainstTrump He doesn’t have allies. He’s alienated them all.

@RpsAgainstTrump Trump is a reckless fool. Now he needs help and allies. I hope allies charge him full price - arrogant fools have to pay.

Trump 6 days ago: We don’t need the U.K.’s aircraft carriers. Trump today: “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others…will send Ships to the area”

@RpsAgainstTrump Now all of a sudden you need us?

@KerryBurgess @DeborahMeaden Why… you started it you sort it.

You couldn't make it up. Trump spends a year mocking and insulting the Europeans, then starts a war of aggression, gets in way over his head, and comes begging for Europe to save his pathetic, worthless ass.

@sjeuk @RpsAgainstTrump He’s a low level intellect moron

@RpsAgainstTrump Just one week ago he snubbed Britain and told us not to send ships because America didn’t need them anymore! Now it’s all turned out harder than he expected, and he’s ‘hoping’ we will. 🙄

Trump on Truth Social: “Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

@RpsAgainstTrump It’s your responsibility to sort out the mess you’ve created. Low intellect, moron

@RpsAgainstTrump You started it. It’s your responsibility to sort it out. Moron

Trump: "The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!...This should have always been a team effort"