tash 💙☢️
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tash 💙☢️
@tash
Winner of the Nobel prize for sarcasm and 1.3 millionth of a George Cross, internationally acclaimed middle aged whinger & Advanced Practitioner Radiographer.


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







Diesel £1.71 per litre this morning. Labour has wrecked the UK


New Archbishop to walk from London to Canterbury bbc.in/4cGt6Ay

Media walls are the artex ceilings of our time.


















