Rob Stephenson FRSA

We're into day 45 of a two week ceasefire which has included 16 final warnings, 4 threats of oblivion, 6 absolute last chances and 3 take it or leave or absolutely final offers. In return for Nothing

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@archer_rs Oh - Dear God - LINEN!

The world is reaching its end days.

Legendary

Trumb. You take the P out and replace it with B. A lot of people don’t know a skull has a brain in it actually. You don’t need it.

@Wescott464348 A

“How much do you support Jimmy Kimmel?” A. 100% B. 50% C. Not at all.

@Ariannnyy_ @StuartKells That looks like an Orvieto cathedral front cover! #Signorelli

Have y’all read this book?

I'm worried that Trump will launch a war on Cuba, to distract attention from his war on Iran, which distracted attention from his war on Venezuela, which distracted attention from the Epstein files

I just, I, I, I just, I can’t even, I just. I.

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home. Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward. And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this. A television review. No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent. That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself. If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gandalv

Trump should’ve already been impeached. Threatening to wipe out a civilization on Easter Sunday is a war crime. I just want to make sure everybody knows that. You don’t have to actually do it — the threat alone qualifies. Nobody is going to prosecute him. No senator is picking up the phone and saying hey, you’re making the country look bad, could you please stop. While all of this is going on — he won in Indiana two weeks ago by ousting 5 mainstream Republicans. He has been remarkably effective at taking out anyone who doesn’t fall in line. That’s not strength. That’s a stain on the American system.

A sick, sick man. What the hell is the 25th Amendment for again?

@archer_rs The universal standard - only the name changes!

Housekeeper says we need a new coffee machine, fine I say, choose one you like. This arrived yesterday. It has more controls than the flight deck of Concorde ! I have no idea where to start !

@GaryPetersonUSA And the ads-about flag on the pole?

@GaryPetersonUSA Why the extra “A” in “MAAGA”?

The left can’t handle my daughter’s new President Trump tattoo. Sorry, wokesters, consider yourselves owned.

Great thanks… tens of thousands of Arsenal fans gathered together in an outpouring of wondrous love on Tuesday night, including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, and nobody cared what colour or creed anyone was.

Trump’s approach to corruption is to do everything in the open. Make it so ridiculous and so inundating that people’s heads spin and then once they’re numb, keep going. The Epstein files are an atrocity. The allegations and the behavior documented in those files are disgusting. Yet, Trump masterfully buried the lead on all of it — through a war, through noise, through sheer volume of chaos. When you ask voters what they care about, the Epstein files are at the bottom of the list. They want jobs and gas prices they can afford. Trump’s corruption isn’t even on their radar screen. Do not underestimate him. He’s sitting at 34% approval and he still has 9/10 self-identified Republicans doing whatever he says. He says bark. They say woof. He says jump. How high, sir? That’s the architecture of power he’s built and it’s more durable than his critics want to admit.

"Short-run discomfort is not the same thing as long-run harm."⁣ ⁣ Phone bans make students feel worse at first — then better. By year two, well-being rebounds above baseline. Turns out kids (like all of us) just needed time to adapt.

@archer_rs Elegant and Graceful!

Found this lovely photo in the family album of my parents on their honeymoon.