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To those who follow: I’m honoured, really. Welcome to stay and laugh or shout with me or at me. I may not follow back because I don’t see it as a numbers game or a competition. (Exceptions made for Professors of International Law and Human Rights campaigners)

@castlvillageman Will there be restrictions on fairies entering the USA?

Apparently the USA has declared war against Fantasia unless they release the fairies and call their palace "trump"

@JamesTate121 ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ China would be an uncomfortable ally, Iran has offered free passage through the straits to ships carrying oil paid for in Yuan. In other circumstances these would be sanctioned by the US.

President Trump says the US in conjunction with "many countries" is sending war ships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it "open and safe." Trump also calls on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others to send war ships to Hormuz. Oh. Oh this is beautiful. This is the geopolitical equivalent of the guy who starts a bar fight, gets his head put through the pool table, and then looks up at the bouncer with blood pouring out of his nose going "Are you gonna DO something about these guys?!" Let me get this straight. You bombed Iran. YOU started this. You launched Operation Epic Fury like a kid naming his Nerf gun. You flattened their cities, cratered their infrastructure, killed God knows how many civilians, and now that they've done the ONE thing that every single analyst on Earth said they would do... close the Strait of Hormuz... you're asking CHINA for help? CHINA. The country you've spent three years tariffing into oblivion. The country you called an enemy of civilisation. You want THEM to send warships to protect YOUR oil supply chain? In what universe does Xi Jinping take that phone call and not just put it on speaker so the whole room can laugh? And here's the bit that should be printed on a plaque and hung in the Smithsonian under the heading "Weapons Grade Cognitive Dissonance Dipshit." Direct quote from the man himself: "We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's Military capability." Next sentence. LITERALLY the next sentence: "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." I'M SORRY, WHAT? You destroyed ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their military capability and they can STILL mine one of the most important shipping lanes on the planet? What kind of shit maths is that? That's not 100%, mate. That's not even close to 100%. If you hired a pest exterminator and he said "I've eliminated 100% of the termites, but they can still eat your house," you'd want your money back. He calls the Strait closure an "artificial constraint." ARTIFICIAL. Brother, there is nothing artificial about it. You dropped bombs on a sovereign nation and they blocked a chokepoint that carries 20% of the world's oil. That's not artificial. That's called CONSEQUENCES. That's cause and effect. That's the thing that happens AFTER the thing you did. Toddlers understand this concept. You touch the stove, you get burned. You bomb Iran, they close Hormuz. This is not complicated. And the absolute cheek of calling Iran "a Nation that has been totally decapitated" while simultaneously admitting they're holding the entire global energy market hostage with speedboats and sea mines. Pick a lane, Donald. Either they're decapitated or they're not. You don't get to claim total victory AND beg France for naval escorts in the same paragraph. Speaking of France. And Japan. And South Korea. And the UK. Notice who's NOT on that list? Australia. Not even worth asking apparently. Which, honestly, fair enough, because we've got about four days of fuel reserves and a navy that couldn't project force to Bondi Beach, but it does sort of highlight how far down the pecking order we've fallen while our politicians were busy kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago. But here's the real headline buried under all the tough-guy cosplay. He's LOSING. This post is what losing looks like when you're a narcissist who can't say the word. He can't reopen the Strait alone. The US Navy, for all its power, cannot clear mines and fight asymmetric warfare across a narrow waterway while simultaneously bombing the shoreline AND keeping tanker traffic flowing. It's a logistical nightmare and he knows it. That's why he's begging. That's why a man who has never asked anyone for anything in his life is out here publicly requesting that other nations come bail him out. And they won't. Because why would they? China's already getting its oil overland from Russia. France has no skin in this game. Japan and South Korea are furious about tariffs. And the UK is trying to figure out how to diplomatically distance itself from a war it never supported without losing its trade deal. He's alone. He did this to himself. And the only people who'll pay the price are the rest of us, watching fuel prices rip through the roof while this spray-tanned catastrophe stands at the podium claiming everything is going exactly to plan. One way or the other, he says. OPEN, SAFE, and FREE, he says. Mate, the only thing that's open is the hole you've dug yourself into. And it's getting deeper by the hour.

@g_gosden Ahead of absolutely anything with ‘liberal’ in its description.

Is the new US national security strategy based on Christian nationalist principles? Sky's military analyst Michael Clarke says it places an ideology of "race, Christianity and nationalism" ahead of liberal democracy and international law. Fascism

@JMPSimor I don’t judge him on his schoolboy insults, I judge him on his actions today. I find him to a far right, populist, divisive arse🙄

Was saying this evening that it’s never been about antisemitism - it’s a left right thing (& I myself have experienced it). Beyond parody is the right description. Ludicrous.

@mjfree youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc?si…

@allenanalysis Following orders, irrespective of their legality, was a defence discredited at Nuremberg.

BREAKING: Mark Kelly just went on national TV and flat-out refused to bow to Trump. No hedging. No wobbling. A sitting U.S. senator staring down the pressure campaign and saying: absolutely not.

@JMPSimor @HenMazzig I stood* with Israel. *note tense.

@HenMazzig barakabooks.com

Rosa Parks stood with Israel. Nelson Mandela stood with Israel. Ruth Bader Ginsburg stood with Israel. Martin Luther King Jr. stood with Israel. Simone Veil stood with Israel. Winston Churchill stood with Israel. Elie Wiesel stood with Israel. Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters stand with Israel. Albert Einstein stood with Israel. Barbra Streisand stands with Israel. Simone de Beauvoir stood with Israel. Leonard Cohen stood with Israel. Bayard Rustin stood with Israel. Frank Sinatra stood with Israel. Elizabeth Taylor stood with Israel. Coretta Scott King stood with Israel. But, sure, we’re the ones on the wrong side of history.

@docrussjackson @BBC We will miss it when it’s gone Ditto the NHS Ditto the ECHR

Of course Gibb should resign. Of course there's been a coup. Of course Gibb isn't remotely impartial. Of course anti-woke @BBC Chair Shah defends Gibb. Of course the BBC is under attack from the right who hate it and want to destroy it. Of course we should save it - it's OURS!

@JMPSimor That’s why R Catholics were not allowed to vote until 1829 - fear of divided loyalties.

She does so much harm to Jews, Muslims, Christians - to all of us. So much harm.

@BotFinderUK in submission to the that built most, if not all Churches so that the congregation prays facing east. Just a coincidence 🙄

Sunday morning in London. People forced to face east to pray, in submission to Aslan

@Bbmorg Britain liberated Crimea from the Russians in 1856🙄

Russia teamed up with Hitler until Hitler invaded Russia.

@BladeoftheS Now they can eat cake🤷🏻‍♂️

In the 1920's I bet half the supermarket was baguettes. They didn't eat them because they like them, it was because they had no choice.

Murderers, where there is unequivocal evidence of guilt, should be hanged, as has been the case throughout history

@mrhenrymorris @daveatherton Her apologists said at the time that it was a silly tweet from a silly woman. The more she is heralded as an intelligent woman the more her sentence is justified.

@daveatherton Can't believe a party whose politicians commit treason would platform criminals too.

I was at Reform Southend's Lady's Night where the star guest was former political prisoner Lucy Connolly. Here is her speech, she is an inspiring lady. This is the Q and A section.

@docrussjackson I don’t know, but they are available from Amazon 🙄

What's a Primem Minister?

@ZoeJardiniere Swap the Greens and LibDem and that the parties listed in order from Right Wing to Left 😡

I bet this latest attack on refugee rights is just the thing to turn it all back around though, you just hold on… 👀

@EsheruKwaku That’s how they see themselves, how we see them may differ-

@EsheruKwaku You need to be into sodomy if you are thinking of joining. It’s why they were disbanded in 1312😱

@Bbmorg Mayfair and Belgravia are dodgy. Ex KGB bodyguards do their own policing.

Where are these places in London where the police fear to go? Anyone?

@TadhgHickey @craigwhitefanc1 - because he was (allegedly)

Just sayin'...