Steve Musgrave

@drhingram I cannot imagine the comments about alderaan places

My Leia dress from last year’s May the Fourth party

@m_millsey Who croaks first?

Don’t eat it!

We’ve agreed with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to sign the Poland-UK treaty strengthening our defence cooperation. It will take place on May 27.

@joncoopertweets Another American

Who the fuck dresses JD Vance?

@PedderSophie @anydel Sticks it to the Gibbon.

France, marginalised in world affairs April, 🇫🇷 conducts airlift + reassurance missions with 🇩🇰 in extreme conditions in Greenland 🇫🇷 Rafales intercept Russian fighter jets in NATO Baltic air policing Rafales deployed from 🇫🇷 base in UAE defend Gulf allies from Iranian drones

Just a reminder that...

@maddenifico Let’s hope it only takes a correspondingly shorter period of time to oust him, eh. Shall we hold our breath? You first.

Trump's catastrophic and mind-numbingly stupid decision to listen to Netanyahu and wage a disastrous war of choice against Iran is now as unpopular as the Vietnam War. Where it took years for Nixon's war to become this unpopular, it only took the incompetent conman's a few weeks.

@drhingram That’s no friend, they’re a purveyor of gothic marital aids

A friend has bought me the creepiest rubber duck. Now I have to shower looking at this thing.

May the fourth be with you

Reminder: The Epstein files weren’t “released” Parts of them were forced out by public pressure, heavily redacted, and now…paused.

Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel: “I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job. Everyone says Indian people are smart, hardworking, incredibly intelligent. I prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that we can be just as incapable and incompetent as white people.” Aziz Ansari is one of my favorite comedians, good to see him back.

@ChipActual @afneil Ohdearhowsadnevermind

The USA has no need for German bases. They might sometimes be convenient, but not when we need permission to use them. We have aircraft carriers and the means to fly cargo and bombers from halfway around the world with in-air refueling. We have bases all over the Middle East and Asia. You really aren’t educated.

Good luck continuing to wage your war against Iran without your German bases. Well nigh impossible. US troops aren’t in Germany to protect Germans. They’ve been there to project US power. Bye bye.

Germany is not hosting American troops. It is hosting American power. Amplifying it. Projecting it across three continents. And now, for the first time with real legal and political weight behind it, voices inside Germany are beginning to say out loud: Berlin could shut down every American base on German soil. A fiber-optic cable runs beneath Ramstein Air Base. It carries a signal from a drone pilot in Nevada to an armed aircraft over Yemen. Fraction of a second. Precision. Control. That cable sits on German soil. Cut it, and the strikes do not miss. They simply cannot happen. This week Washington punished Berlin for telling the truth about the Iran war. Five thousand troops withdrawn. A presidential post calling Germany a failure. The language of a tenant who has forgotten whose name is on the deed. Because Berlin can end all of it. Not the 5,000. All 36,436. Every soldier, every satellite dish, every signal passing through German soil on its way to a target over Africa or the Middle East. Spain tore it up. Italy said no. Germany has not moved yet. But it is thinking about it. And what it is thinking about is this: Germany holds the one thing that separates America from every other country on earth. The ability to project military force across three continents simultaneously. Take away the European staging ground and the United States becomes what every other nation in the Western Hemisphere already is. Large. Armed. And unable to reach anyone who does not live next door. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

The replies to this person's tweet lack a nuanced understanding of aesthetics. Let me tell you why I don't think this room works. First, the gold decorations make the room look like an ersatz Versailles. Go to Getty Images and type in "Oval Office." Then zoom in on the gold decor. You'll notice that the lines are very blunted and muddied; they lack the sharp lines and fine detailing that you'd expect on something made by an artisan. Hence why some people have suggested these decorations are from Home Depot (true or not, that's the impression). You can see the difference between the first and second photos. The first, of course, is of the Oval Office; the second is the reception room from the Hotel de Cabris in France, which was made during the 18th century under the direction of Louis XVI. Even at this distance, the second image looks much better because it was designed and executed by artisans working within a coherent visual language. You can really see the crisp lines and detailing. Second, the White House was designed by James Hoban, an Irish architect who migrated to the US for economic opportunities (what a great American story!). He originally designed it in the Neoclassical style, drawing on Palladian and Georgian influences. Neoclassicalism was a reaction against the Rococo movement, which reactionaries saw as overly ornate and frivolous. A bit of gold used sparingly and strategically can look fine in a Neoclassical building, but the amount Trump used has so radically encrusted the room that it's now in Rococo territory, making it look like a mismatch of aesthetics. You can see an example of gilded Rococo architecture in the third slide. Although it's not my thing, the effect is totally different because it's coherent. IMO, architecture sets the terms for you can decorate a space. Modernist furniture looks best in modernist buildings, just as Craftsman furniture looks best in Craftsman homes (see fourth slide). You don't have to do period recreations — sometimes mixing two aesthetics, or old and new, can make a space feel more natural — but having a sense of aesthetic history (art, architecture, furniture, fashion) can help you create better aesthetics. The Oval Office offends on at least three levels: the ersatz nature of the decor, the way it grates against Hoban’s Neoclassical vision, and the way it misunderstands the classical-republican symbolism that the White House was meant to project in the first place. As others have noted, this is the kind of decor you'd expect from dictators who rob their own country.

@ClarkeMicah Import the third world…

PETER HITCHENS: One thing is linking the violence on our streets... dailymail.com/columnists/art…

@lisa_liberal Is it, like the rest of him, full of shit? Asking for a planet.

Easy answer: He’s fat AF.

@ReaganInstitute @Kasparov63 @RonaldReagan @rachelhoff814 Got a funny way of showing it.

President @RonaldReagan understood the need to foster democracy and freedom around the world. Now, more than 40 years later, do American's still believe America should be the ones leading the charge? Our Reagan Institute polling found an overwhelming number of Americans (83%) and MAGA Republicans (84%) say YES, America has a moral obligation to stand up for human rights and democracy around the world. Hear more from our Policy Director Rachel Hoff at the @McCainInstitute's Sedona Forum. See more of our polling: reaganfoundation.org/summersurvey

@Lost___London Where is that?

@CuriosityonX GO BACK

If you could send a message to an Alien civilization, what would you say?

British Jews are our own people. That is precisely the point you are missing. The Jewish community has been part of British life for centuries. Since the resettlement under Cromwell in 1656. Through the merchant communities of the City of London. Through two world wars in which British Jews fought and died for this country in disproportionate numbers. Through the Kindertransport children who arrived in 1938 and built lives here. British Jews are doctors, lawyers, teachers, business owners, artists and soldiers. They pay taxes, they raise families and they have contributed to every aspect of British life for generations. They are not a foreign community. They are British. The idea that British Jews can look after themselves while native Brits cannot is also factually wrong on its own terms. The Jewish community of Golders Green has suffered five attacks in six weeks. An elderly man was stabbed in the face at a bus stop outside his synagogue. Two worshippers were murdered in Manchester on Yom Kippur. Families are changing their names and making plans to leave. A community that has been here for four centuries is considering whether it has a future here. That is not a community looking after itself. That is a community under sustained coordinated attack. And the argument that we should be more concerned about some British people than others is exactly the logic that has allowed this government to look the other way. The moment we start ranking which British communities deserve protection we have already lost the argument about what Britain is supposed to be. British Jews are British. Their safety is our responsibility. Full stop.