🚨 James O’Brien ABSOLUTELY RINSES a Brexit voter live on LBC
Brexit voter Richard: “You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?”
James: “I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.”
One year on: GDP hit by 6-8%, trade down 15%, businesses struggling, no sunlit uplands in sight, just excuses.
This level of brutal accountability is what we need back.
Full rinse here 👇👇👇👇
Trump sued his own government for $10 billion. Today he settled with the DOJ he runs and cut the judge out of the process.
The deal: a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund his Attorney General controls, with no court oversight and no transparency. It’s the most corrupt scheme of his presidency.
No. 10’s revolving door is the UK’s problem, not the cure. Trenchant comment from @FraserNelson, spot on in my view.
No 10’s revolving door turns us into a global laughing stock
https://t.co/txmM9QtE4I
Europe keeps asking how much Ukraine needs help. Stubb asked the question that changes everything.
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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said he has always supported Ukraine’s EU and NATO membership. But his strongest point was bigger than membership: he said no military in Europe — or even the United States — can conduct modern warfare the way Ukraine is doing it now.
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His message was simple: Europe should stop seeing Ukraine only as a country that needs protection and start asking what Europe needs to learn from Ukraine.
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Ukraine is not waiting outside Europe’s security system. Ukraine is already teaching it how to survive.
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Mark Gatiss: "I don't understand the antipathy towards Keir Starmer"
The actor – currently starring in a play lampooning fascism – argues that the PM is doing a good job, but from the press he gets "you'd think he was Vlad the Impaler".
Listen on the New Society podcast.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the United States has undergone a 15-year strategic shift to prioritise domestic interests and China, regardless of the administration in power. Speaking in Athens, he said that recent US policies, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, demonstrate that European interests are no longer at the centre of the American agenda. While acknowledging that Donald Trump is often more explicit about this stance, Macron stressed that the underlying strategy remains consistent across different presidencies.
Instead of focusing on the behaviour or social media rhetoric of US leaders, Macron urged European nations to concentrate on building their own strategic autonomy. He described increasing European independence as his "obsession", calling for greater scale and speed in continental decision-making to guarantee self-reliance.
(1/10) @realDonaldTrump cited me as supporting his attack on Iran and expressing regret we didn’t do it during the Biden Administration. Except I didn’t.
While Trump lectures the world on economic independence, the world just moved on without him.
Today, the EU signed a free trade deal with Australia. Earlier this year, they closed one with India. In May, the Mercosur deal covering Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay kicks in. Brussels is signing with everyone. Washington is tariffing everyone.
This is what strategic genius looks like, apparently.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the sheer, majestic stupidity of what America is doing. You have the world’s largest economy, built entirely on imported components, foreign manufacturing, overseas credit and a global supply chain so intricate it makes a Swiss watch look like a hammer. And the plan, the actual plan, is to slap tariffs of up to 100% on the entire planet and wait for prosperity to arrive.
Here’s the problem, genius. When 90% of what fills American shelves was made somewhere else, you can’t just tax the world into submission. You’re not punishing China. You’re punishing the woman in Ohio buying a toaster. A toaster that, by the way, now costs twice what it did last year because some man in a very large house decided globalisation was for losers.
And then there’s Iran.
Bombing Iran was supposed to send a message. It did. It sent oil to over $100 a barrel. Magnificent. Americans are now paying through the nose at the pump to fund a military adventure that achieved the geopolitical equivalent of kicking a hornets’ nest while wearing shorts. You wanted energy dominance. You got inflation. Congratulations.
The rest of the world watched all this and responded with breathtaking pragmatism. They didn’t panic. They didn’t beg. They opened their laptops, called their trade ministers and started signing documents. The EU didn’t need America at the table. Nobody did. The table got bigger. America just isn’t sitting at it anymore.
You cannot bomb your way to cheap oil. You cannot tariff your way out of globalisation when your entire economy is a monument to it. And you cannot isolate yourself from a world that has collectively decided to carry on without you. There is no island. Not even for a country that size.
Especially not for a country that size.
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