Rob Jacques

I set today’s Guardian prize crossword: theguardian.com/crosswords/pri… Clues include: Eco-friendly facts about drilling (5) Thrash a legal case for trial out - it’s iron-clad (10) Tense during drama initially directed like some soaps? (7) No spoilers, ta!

@DavidMuttering @RaymondSnoddy @Baghdaddi @Ofcom Chortle

@KnutCrosswords @RaymondSnoddy @Baghdaddi @Ofcom Did you mean to type 'cult'?

Fines are not enough for GB News sterner action has to be considered

Qatar seems pissed.

@carlquintanilla Maybe they'll ask for that plane back

Trump on Iranian leadership: “We want to talk to them and there's nobody to talk to. We have nobody to talk to. And you know what— we like it that way.”

clues from the cryptic crypt: Controversial MP caught, put in prison...haha that's funny! (5,6)

@WalshFreedom nutshell👍

Donald Trump has taken America, a country the rest of the world always loved and/or respected, and turned it into a country the rest of the world now despises, laughs at, and wants nothing to do with.

Putin (thrashing himself with birch twigs in 110C dry sauna) "So Sergei what shall we get Krasnov to do this week for the lulz?" Lavrov (for it is he) "The new Japanese woman is in DC...I'll get him to do a Pearl Harbor gag in the Oval Office" Putin: "Ahhhhhahaahaaaa"

@The_TUC @TheAeronut Farage side arrow: lashes out at minorities

Nigel Farage trying to avoid blame for supporting Trumpflation.

@carlquintanilla @NOTUSreports @AP Not to worry though because fortunately Jared is on hand to guide the President through the labyrinth.

AP follows the @NOTUSreports piece on how the Trump administration had already gutted the State Dept’s staff of Middle East policy experts — and “eliminated the dedicated Iran office ..” @AP apnews.com/article/iran-s…

@piersmorgan He never had control of it mate. Not for one second.

Trump is losing control of this war.

@jondharvey all-purpose tweet

They must know it’s bad. Surely they know.

"🎶 Hi, I'm a shill and I'm moaning about goatherds ... layee odlayee, odlay-ee-oo ...🎶"

TRUMP: “I’m not afraid to put boots on the ground in Iran, even if it turns into another Vietnam.” When I say Trump wants to send your sons to die for Israel, I mean that he legitimately wants to send your sons into a meat grinder to die for the secular nation state of Israel.

You want the NATO allies to join you in a war you started without ever consulting these allies about the war or explaining your war aims. We’re meant just to meekly fall in line. You recently supported a US invasion of a NATO ally (Denmark/Greenland) but now you want these same allies to join your war. Your president disparaged and misrepresented the role of NATO allies in Afghanistan. But now you want them to join with you again in a war of your making. You went to war with Iran without a thought of how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open and without involving your allies in the matter. But now you want the NATO allies to bail you out, even though there’s still no plan for Hormuz. You want the NATO allies to join you in a war in which you still cannot articulate the endgame. Or what victory would look like. You went to war thinking the Iranian regime would quickly topple, that Tehran would not attack the Gulf States or close Hormuz. Why would we align with such Epic Stupidity? You and other know-nothing blowhards started this war all on your own. You can finish it on your own. If you’re able to …

That’s a compliment?

@adamboultonTABB one might quibble mildly with the definition "reporter"

What we have learned today. 1: there was no imminent threat (Head of the US Counter Terrorism Center) and 2: there was a viable offer from Tehran to accept tight controls on their nuclear programme (Jonathan Powell). Both from that much maligned species known as genuine experts.

Simple pleasures!