Simon Flett

"The reason we are both grinning is that we are enjoying vengeance. Good, honest, straightforward and Christian vengeance...we can rejoice together.'

David Starkey to Nathan Cofnas, on the suicide of Jason Arday.

The public discourse now between British right wing nutters is truly awful.

https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/the-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

What other right wing European politicians can JD be persuaded to fly in to lobby for on the eve of important weathervane elections?

Hmm.

#farage

If Count Binface is elected to the House of Commons, he will have to disclaim his title, (as did Anthony Wedgwood Benn) and become plain old Mr Binface. I'm sure his wellwishers can live with that.

Much more seemly than the conferring of FakeLord titles on common losers to secure their continued participation in democratic (hah!) service (yes, you David Cameron, Zac Goldsmith & others).

#clactonbyelection

David Lammy would have made a better Home Secretary than continuity Mahmood who has done nothing but double-down on the "hard man" act in the role, in some sort of tribute act to the awful Theresa "Go home vans" May, and is not to be trusted with British civil liberties.

#RejoinEU

Stamford Bridge 1066.

England 2 Norway 1

Naivety? Sloppy unprofessionalism? Or worse ?

Whenever such hasbeens as Lord Robertson pop up from obscurity and start receiving headline BBC news coverage, we all do well to smell a rat.

One that sits on the Board.

And requires to be ousted, without further delay or damage.

#BBC

Time for our new leadership to review Automatic Number Plate Recognition as part of its reassessment of ID in the digital age. What sort of country do we want to live in? One like China where surveillance is universal as part of their state's total control of internet access? ANPR has been permitted to morph from a police tool combatting vehicle-related crime, to private corporations, with no national conversation. Implicit, is state collusion - sale of private data to the parking oligarchs.

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) estimates the cost of #Brexit at 8% , (£224Bn running at £4.3Bn a week) drawing on US studies.

Your problem, Rachel Reeves, is your lack of independently-verified public UK Government data. You NEED to institute a #BrexitInquiry , immediately. Because until you do, your detractors, diehard Brexiters led by the oligarch-owned British press, will simply mock you, as it did with your Tory fiscal "black hole" pronouncement, and claim "fake news".

Just when you'd hope that some really intelligent & experienced military advisors were being summoned to the Oval Office, instead we are shown kooky evangelical pastors acclaiming TrumpJesus , & we all understand it's just going to get worse.

#trumpjesus

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn897e8280do

What to make of this purile hyperbole?
"Carnage" is descriptive of slaughter & massacre. Not travel delay & disruption.

The implicit effort, in the manner of reporting, to blackguard Easyjet, & the EU, adds self-delusion to the misdirected outrage.

We VOTED (collectively) for this.

And for those who voted to Remain, with (now) the many who abstained owing perhaps to uncertainty as to the consequences, the entire stolen decade has been the "nightmare".

#RejoinEU

An alliance is a partnership of equals under conditions of mutual respect.

An organisation in which the strongest dictates to the weaker partners is no alliance.

NATO risks being reduced, by the manbaby in the White House, to a satrapy.

If he flounces out, so be it. #NATO will continue in being without him, restored to a partnership of equals, who remain, by alliance, sufficiently strong for purpose.

NATO members must not permit themselves to be blackmailed into joining Trump's war.

MacDonald, on meeting Macleod, the psychotic piper of Clann an Drumma at the merch desk, who glanced at his be-kilted psychotic comrades at my son's mention of our name and muttered something ominous ;

"Ach! Harta Corrie. The Bloody Stone. I don't remember who won".

MacLeod:  "I don't remember who started it".

Clann an Drumma, on tour. Not to be missed for an assault on the senses. Pure showmanship.

Sure, Mr President. You want Russian missile subs cruising off Long Island, and your forces don't know they're there because you threw away naval intelligence sharing from UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, & Iceland because you flounced out in a fit of pique, go right ahead.

#NATO

Er...no.

Totally different ecosystem and therefore completely unqualified for the role.

Next.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9mz082y5go

"In a sense, the true mystery is that it took so long for the lovechild of Mussolini and Mr Toad to open the biggest box of toy soldiers in the world and get stuck in. What, frankly, did we expect? Thoughtful restraint?"

Matt D'Ancona.
The New World.

“The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.”

JF Kennedy

The Art of the Deal: Maxim number [whatevs] :

"Not making progress? Easy. I start negotiating with myself".

So, Trump today made up a story about fictitious "talks" with the Iranian Government, which the speaker of the Iranian Parliament denies.

This must be what they learned to do in Real Estate (him and his golf-buddy Witkoff). Offers too low? Easy - make up a fictitious competing buyer.

What a clownfest.