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Saudi Arabia has made a major announcement that it will not engage in any war against Iran. Saudi officials have officially informed the United States that they will not allow the use of their territory or airspace to launch attacks against Iran. This is a major turning point for the Middle East.

GB News is furious at Starmer's £30k flat refresh—but where was this energy when Boris Johnson spent over £200k (mostly on wallpaper)? Selective outrage? Or just pretending the last 14 years never happened? 🛋️👑

Trump’s war is pushing up costs for millions - and Farage backed it from the start. Farage loved boasting about how close he was to Trump. Now the bills are rising, he seems to have gone quiet. So here’s a little reminder.

The Pentagon officially declares a total blockade on all ships entering or leaving Iranian ports, regardless of nationality. They are actively pursuing vessels globally, including in the Pacific. Washington is aggressively threatening international trade and escalating the war.

Of course I know what a customs union is: I worked a career in moving trade across customs borders. In what way is having a (major barrier to trade) customs border to trade across "superior" to having no customs border to trade across for any business, especially SMEs? Where has UK removed a customs border to equally compensate resurrecting a customs border against 28 countries? x.com/JohnRConstable…

I am being asked by @bj_goodwin if I know what a customs union is? 🤣 @Chevaliereducep @CaptainSwing666

This will remain the BIGGEST SHOCK given by Italian 🇮🇹 Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to US & Israel 🔥 She Said : "Italy will WITHDRAW the army from US led adventure in Middle East and will not participate in the war against IRAN 🇮🇷" 🔥 Mad RESPECT for such SPINE🫡

Can we just get one thing clear. The reason America lost its allies. Was because Trump actively destroyed every single relationship the US built since WW2 They didn’t suddenly turn their backs on US. They said fuck off to an abusive partner.

Journalist, "The Pope criticised people who manipulate religion for political or military gain. Do you think he's talking about you?" President Trump, "Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, because every country, including Italy where he is stationed, would be in trouble" "The Pope has to understand Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, the world would be in great danger"

@implausibleblog America has nuclear weapons and Trump is its president. The entire world could be in danger.

"It's a scandal hiding in plain sight. Everyone can see Nigel Farage spending a quarter of a million quid in a bitcoin company, which he then hypes up... it's the Trumpification of British politics.."

@HQNewsNow @guse_guse Bollocks.

Q: Why aren't people feeling better about the economy? Trump's Treasury Secretary: Well, in their heart of hearts they feel good

@RpsAgainstTrump I thought the Pope was quoting Jesus.

Trump on Pope Leo: “I want him to preach the Gospel. I'm all about the Gospel. I'm about it as much as anybody can be”

@atrupar Won't all that equipment get in the way of the dancing?

Trump rants that his ballroom will feature "Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment, Protective Missile Resistant Steel, Columns, Roofs, and Beams, Drone Proof Ceilings and Roofs, Military Grade Venting, and Bullet, Ballistic, and Blast Proof Glass." "The Ballroom is deeply important to our National Security, and no Judge can be allowed to stop this Historic and Militarily Imperative Project," he adds.

@SamaHoole There was a BBC TV programme about Lavenham.

There is a small Suffolk village called Lavenham. Population approximately 1,700. It contains one of the most extraordinary parish churches in England: a tower 141 feet high, fan vaulting, carved stone screens, the kind of medieval splendour you would expect to find in a cathedral city. In 1525, Lavenham was the fourteenth wealthiest town in England. It was wealthy because of wool. Between 1250 and 1500, the English wool trade was the backbone of the entire national economy. Edward I financed his wars with it. Edward III built his Hundred Years' War on it. The Lord High Chancellor still sits on a sack of wool in the House of Lords because the wool was so important that the symbol of state authority is, literally, a bag of it. Yorkshire abbeys ran herds of 14,000, 18,000 sheep. The Cotswolds, the Lakes, the South Downs, East Anglia: every region with grass and a hill became wool country. The fleeces went to Flanders and Italy where they were woven into the finest cloth in Europe. The money came back in cartloads. And the men who made the money built churches. Lavenham, Long Melford, Northleach, Cirencester, Chipping Campden. Stone the local economy could not possibly have afforded under any other industry. "I praise God and ever shall," reads the inscription a wool merchant had carved on his window. "It is the sheep hath paid for all." Then it ended. Spanish merino arrived in the sixteenth century. The Industrial Revolution moved value into finished cloth rather than raw wool. New Zealand and Australia, with vastly cheaper land, undercut British producers. And then synthetic fibres arrived. Nylon in 1935. Polyester in 1941. Acrylic in 1950. By the 1970s, your jumper was no longer made from a sheep that had eaten grass on a Yorkshire fell. It was made from petroleum that had been refined in a chemical plant, extruded into thread, and dyed with industrial pigments that would persist in the environment indefinitely. The replacement was, by every measure that mattered to a wool merchant of 1500, a downgrade. Synthetic fibres do not breathe. They do not insulate when wet. They build static electricity. They shed microplastics into the wash water. They cannot be composted. They will outlive the wearer by approximately five hundred years. They are, however, cheap. And the Yorkshire mills closed. The Cotswold villages emptied of weavers. British wool, which had built more cathedrals than any other industry in English history, became, by the 2010s, worth less per kilogram than the cost of shearing the sheep. Farmers were burning fleeces because nobody would pay for them. You can still see what wool built. Walk into Lavenham church. Stand under the tower. Then look at the polyester fleece you are wearing. That is what came after.

@Lina_rays1ya They don't get to quote the Bible as they blow up civilians and tell our soldiers they are fighting a Holy war with pastors saying we are fulfilling scripture by killing Persians .... and then when the Pope has a say ... they call it politics 😂

Trump: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it would blow Italy up in two minutes Italy PM: Nine nations have nuclear weapons and only one has used it. That one is the United States of America.

This is fucking outrageous! The Michigan Bureau of Elections just dropped a bombshell letter on Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop, exposing what looks like a blatant abuse of power. This far-right MAGA Republican clerk, elected on a loud "restore election integrity" platform and tied to the crowd still screaming that 2020 was stolen, allegedly went rogue and started canceling or messing with voter registrations she had zero legal right to touch. She reportedly sent out cancellation notices to people who simply didn't vote in the last two big elections — something Michigan law explicitly forbids — and then changed their status in the state's Qualified Voter File to "Cancel" or "Reject" without any verification or proper authority. Unbelievable. A clerk sworn to protect elections is now accused of playing games with people's fundamental right to vote, all while hiding behind "cleaning up the rolls." This is the same Antrim County that became ground zero for wild 2020 voting machine conspiracy theories, and now the new clerk is making it a circus again. The state is demanding answers because Bishop didn't even bother to independently check the info before stripping voters of their registrations. It's infuriating — a partisan operative allegedly suppressing votes under the guise of "integrity," exactly the kind of overreach that erodes trust in the system. If true, this isn't election cleanup; it's election tampering with a side of hypocrisy. Michigan voters deserve better than this reckless bullshit. What a disgrace.

@christopherhope @GBNEWS Which is the standard annual GRANT for the resident of No 10. So, no story then. When in a similar position, Johnson went outside the GRANT limit by quite a lot. You acknowledged the annual GRANT of £30k then. So how is the annual GRANT being spent within the limits wrong?

This is Christopher. Christopher claims to have broken a story that the PM has spent 30k on the 10 Downing Street flat. Christopher doesn't seem to know that all PMs receive a 30k allowance for the flat upkeep. Don't be like Christopher.