David Knopfler 💙

@Microinteracti1 This is brilliant

The clinical term is malignant narcissism. There is a specific kind of man who walks into a room and immediately begins rearranging it. Not the furniture. The people. By minute four, he has forgotten the names of half of them. That is not a flaw in the system. That is the system. The clinical term is malignant narcissism. It sits at the intersection of four things: narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial features, paranoia, and sadism. The sadism part is what people miss. He does not simply lack empathy. He has inverted it. He reads your emotional state with the precision of a surgeon, then uses that information like a scalpel. Maximum discomfort. Minimum legal risk. Otto Kernberg, the psychiatrist who formalized the concept, called it one of the most dangerous personality structures a human being can carry. Not because it is loud. Because it is effective. And because it is almost impossible to name while you are standing inside it. History keeps producing the same man. Robert Maxwell looted his employees’ pension funds while they trusted him completely. Hundreds of millions. He knew the whole time. There is no evidence he experienced this as a problem. Silvio Berlusconi governed Italy like a man who had confused the country with his personal property. Laws bent to fit his legal situation. Courts were hollowed out when they became inconvenient. People who spent time close to him reported the same thing afterward: you left the conversation certain you had agreed to something. You just could not remember what. Charm makes you feel good about yourself. This makes you feel good about him. There is a difference. It takes most people years to locate it. The pattern has a shape. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. It begins with grandiosity so complete it functions as a worldview. Other people exist in one of three categories: instruments, obstacles, or audiences. He is perfectly pleasant to all three, for exactly as long as they remain useful. The moment that changes, so does he. The switch is not gradual. It is a door closing. It continues with a specific relationship to truth. He does not lie the way ordinary people lie, defensively, to avoid consequences. He lies the way a chess player moves pieces. If I can make you accept a false thing, I have demonstrated power over your reality. If you push back, I do not retreat. I escalate. The goal was never the fact. The goal was always the submission. It sustains itself by dismantling anything capable of judgment. Independent courts. A free press. Rival centers of power. These feel to him not like inconveniences but like attacks. The structure that can judge him is the structure that must be broken. This is not calculated. It is reflexive. It is as automatic as flinching. The frightening thing is not that these men exist. The frightening thing is the gap between when the room starts rearranging itself and when anyone names what they are watching. That gap can last years. Decades. Sometimes it outlasts the man entirely, and the next generation inherits the rearranged room and calls it normal. By the time someone says it plainly, the furniture is long gone. And he is already in the next room. @Microinteracti1

@RaymondSnoddy And GB News is just Reform News

We can only hope the new German owners will sort this lot out and turn the Daily Telegraph into a serious, reliable right-of -centre newspaper again

@NickSmi85755728 @OborneTweets If you think GBNews - for lumpen Brexit voters is truth you’re in terrible trouble

@OborneTweets Ordinary people know not to trust the BBC or that rag the Guardian, hence why GB News is the go to channel for the actual truth & why the left wing chattering classes hate it so much.

A massively consequential investigation by Alan Rusbridger into GB News: how "one political party in Britain has effectively ended up with its own television station". Raises deep questions about hi-jacking of British media/political culture: thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbridge…

Is anyone surprised?

@Tazo @cjmartinart Put me down for a dozen organic chai but you’d have to ship to the UK

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Today? I’m working, waiting for 3 items in my Amazon order. 2 more are arriving on Thursday… so excited. I got some stitch markers, a calendar, and a pack of #Tazo Chai tea(6 boxes), I can’t find it in the stores anymore.

@Tazo How do we get your organic chai in the UK?

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@Tazo @Gassman I do like your Tazo organic chai but flying to the US from the UK just to visit Wallmart Isn’t an option

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Finnish President Alexander Stubb, "Brexit was a colossal mistake" "I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit, during the campaign, and those who still think that Brexit is a good thing" "It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot" "It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"

@PeterStefanovi2 @barnsleyscouse @jnbarrot What in God’s name are we waiting for

If the UK wants to rejoin the EU's Single Market and Customs Union "with all associated privileges and duties", they will be welcomed with open arms, says @jnbarrot French Foreign Minister #Brexit #EU

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA His cognition is wildly unaligned to reality

🇺🇸🤔 Trump called it "dishonest" that Iran is blocking the Strait of Hormuz because "the US won the war" "It's even dishonest on their part. We already won! They have no right to continue what they're doing"

@Helen_Fields @louistheroux It crossed my mind - yes.

Absolutely sick to death of hearing about how the new @louistheroux documentary has made people think about attitudes to women. Lots of MPs jumping on the bandwagon. I mean, no disrespect to Louis - I’m grateful for the highlight - but for God’s sake… Women get killed by their partner every week. Tiny Man Tate has been a thing for years. Domestic violence shelters are overwhelmed. Women have been waving the red flags about incels and attitudes for years. We’ve been begging for change. We’ve been highlighting the serious threat of anti-women social media. Then a MAN makes a documentary and suddenly everyone’s interested? Do you not all think that this might be part of the problem?

@HQNewsNow NATO countries spend trillions propping up US industries - Trump is such an ignorant asshole

Trump: I'm disappointed in NATO that we spend trillions of dollars on NATO. I don't need Congress for that decision, as you probably know, I can make that decision myself. I don't need Congress for that decision

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar Lying for a pay check - unemployable the minute Trump is gone. You’d think she’d get exhausted cleaning up after diaper Don, but she persists from shit storm to shit storm

Trump Spox: "I think it's frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit.”@atrupar (2025)

@RpsAgainstTrump Graham never shirks from making a mockery of his job and shilling for Trump

Lindsey Graham: “Just spoke to POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.”

@PolitlcsUK Always the best until Trump came along — his lack of insight into himself is staggering!

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump says the UK-US relationship was "always the best" until "Keir came along" "I like him... but he doesn't produce"

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS Europe has never been so angry at the failure of the Senate to do their job

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

@archer_rs 😂😂😂

@DavidKnopfler As soon as the cameras were gone London returned to normal

The President of Finland and the Prime minister of Canada jogging together in Hyde Park, London is . . . . . . ...well just nice.

@archer_rs Dodging the many bullets flying round the park

@DavidKnopfler Yes I assume they avoided the world famous, "Muslim no go areas" that apparently make up most of London these days.

@Suzierizzo1 He never earned it in the first place - how could he have? Felonious Trump should have been locked away for a long time for inciting the Jan 2021 insurrection. Shame on the Senate for tolerating this

Who agrees that Trump has lost all credibility and respect with the rest of the World? 👇👇👇