Phil Kinsella

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

stealing a £20 ball of a kid as a adult to give to your kid

fucking state of it! Hate stuff like this! your a adult mate and its a child!

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, this dude @JonathanPieNews thoroughly OBLITERATED trump, and it is glorious.

Definitely worth a watch.🔥🔥

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine.

There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs.

Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Unfortunately, I don’t see current U.S. administration doing anything to help Ukraine. They constantly take Kremlin’s side. They still echo Kremlin talking points, which is unbelievable to me.

Vance brags that their proudest accomplishment was stopping aid to Ukraine. It’s unbelievable that American Vice President would say that.

Secretary of Defense, Mr. Hegseth, no longer attends normal meetings where they discuss aid for Ukraine. So it’s hard to consider this administration an ally of Ukraine.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

Every decision and announcement about Europe, Ukraine, NATO which comes from this Administration is something that the Kremlin would want and welcome.

[Sid @Trending_Sid]

🤡There are two types of Trump supporters:
Billionaires and Idiots.... Check your bank account and see which one your are.

FACTS -

As of early May 2026, U.S. diesel prices have surged, averaging around $3.52 to over $5 per gallon in some reports.

Driven by Middle East conflicts created by Trump and restricted supply. This surge, coupled with increased shipping costs, has pushed inflation to its highest rate in nearly two years, with consumer prices rising 3.3% in March.

Key Diesel & Inflation Data (As of May 2026):

National Average Diesel: Diesel prices have jumped significantly, with reports indicating a rise to roughly $5 per gallon on average by late April, and some areas seeing much higher costs.

Rapid Inflation Impact: The surge in diesel is causing significant inflationary pressure as it increases freight, logistics, and shipping costs for goods across the country.

Market Drivers: The primary drivers are supply chain issues caused by conflict in the Middle East and the disruption of tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Economic Outlook: Analysts expect fuel prices to remain elevated through 2026, with the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projecting an average on-highway diesel price of $4.80 for the year

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

The two days that JD Vance spent in Hungary desperately trying to shore up support for Putin’s lapdog Viktor Orbán reminded me of what a pathetic, loathsome, lying, traitorous scumbag he is.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

JD Vance accused Ukraine of “interfering” in elections in Hungary and the United States while speaking at a rally in support of Orbán. Apparently, only JD Vance has the right to interfere in elections in Hungary.

Personally, I still don’t understand how the United States ended up becoming a cheerleader for a Kremlin-backed candidate, effectively doing PR for Putin.

This is the same Orbán who serves as Putin’s main proxy in Europe. The man who has pushed Hungary toward becoming one of the most corrupt countries in the EU. The man who has blocked aid to Ukraine and is now obstructing a €90 billion EU support package for Ukraine.

[🦈2peanuts 🥜🥜 @2olienootjes]

@Bricktop_NAFO Exactly.

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Listen to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6. He is one of the most astute establishment figures we have right now when it comes to grand strategy. His warning that America’s defence shield has “infantilised” Britain and Europe needs to be taken really seriously.

Creation of hard power is absolutely central to grand strategy. But decades of security dependence have trained European leaders to treat it as someone else’s job.

Politicians like Starmer, Miliband and Ed Davey do not seem to grasp that hard power has to be built, funded, and maintained. It is fundamentally incompatible with many of their cherished agendas.

The same criticism applies to every single Conservative leader since Thatcher. They talked a good game about defence, but too often governed as if the strategic environment would remain benign forever. This was unforgivable post-2014.

To be fair to Kemi Badenoch, she seems to understand this better than her predecessors. And Nigel Farage, whatever people think of him, has a much sharper instinct for the reality that power ultimately rests on productive force.

For me, the clearest example of Westminster’s complacency and recklessness is Net Zero, renewables, the war on domestic fossil fuels and the steady march of deindustrialisation. We have treated our industrial base as expendable, as if our national prosperity and security can survive without cheap, reliable energy and carbon-intensive industry.

I am hoping Trump’s behaviour over Greenland finally forces a fundamental rethink of the national security assumptions that have dominated British politics, the media, and boardrooms for far too long.

This complacency has to stop, and quickly. We need late 1930s levels of urgency, determination and seriousness.

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @spectator column on the UAE cutting funding for its students to come to the UK because Islamist radicalisation is so prevalent on campus

https://t.co/27ZkA2MpDf

What is it going to take for the British government – any British government, of any party – to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood?

It was revealed today that the UAE is now limiting the number of students it will enrol at British universities because of the prevalence of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) influence on campuses. The UAE pays for most of the higher education of its citizens, and until now many UAE students have come to Britain.

But having spent many years alerting the UK authorities to the ever-growing influence of the MB on campus, and having seen no evidence that anyone in a position to act is taking any serious notice of those concerns, the UAE has now decided that enough is enough and that it has no choice but to stop paying for students to come to Britain because the risk – indeed, the likelihood – of their being radicalised here is too great.

The UAE’s decision that Britain is, in effect, too far gone as a breeding ground for Islamist radicalisation is a damning indictment – albeit only the latest – of our ongoing, wilfully blind and dangerous refusal to tackle the extremism in our midst.

The MB, which is a sort of ideological clearing house for Islamists, has a skilled modus operandi. It does not operate in its own name but sets up front organisations which can appear to anyone uninformed about how the MB operates to be legitimate, independent bodies. These vary from small individual groups to student associations to national bodies.

Little about the threat it poses is unknown, which is why it is all the more negligent that no government has yet acted against it. One of the MB’s key tactics is to encroach so deeply into organisations and public bodies (usually with the appointment of its fronts as outside ‘advisers’ and groups involved in ‘consultation’) that they are essentially taken over, even when the actual decisions are taken by others.

This is, for example, what seems to have happened when West Midlands Police barred Israelis from attending a football match at Villa Park, having effectively taken their instructions from local ‘community groups’. The police made the actual decision, but it was taken because of the influence of outside groups on the police.

As prime minister, David Cameron commissioned a report on the Brotherhood which was published in 2015. As he put it then: "Parts of the Muslim Brotherhood have a highly ambiguous relationship with violent extremism. Both as an ideology and as a network it has been a rite of passage for some individuals and groups who have gone on to engage in violence and terrorism

"Individuals closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK have supported suicide bombing and other attacks in Israel by Hamas, an organisation whose military wing has been proscribed in the UK since 2001 as a terrorist organisation, and which describes itself as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood

"Muslim Brotherhood-associated and influenced groups in the UK have at times had a significant influence on national organisations which have claimed to represent Muslim communities (and on that basis have had a dialogue with government), charities and some mosques. But they have also sometimes characterised the UK as fundamentally hostile to Muslim faith and identity; and expressed support for terrorist attacks conducted by Hamas.

"Aspects of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and activities therefore run counter to British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, equality and the mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs."

The report said that the MB typically preferred non-violent, incremental tactics, but that it was prepared to countenance violence on occasion.

The MB and its front organisations are banned in most Arab states because they are well aware of the danger it poses. Most of the MB’s offshoots are prescribed as terrorist organisations in the US and President Trump has now begun the process of designating MB chapters themselves as ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Both France and Germany have started to focus on the MB threat.

We are now, as Lord Godson put it in the House of Lords last week, an outlier in doing nothing. The UAE knows this.

[Phil Kinsella @Philkinny]

Man arrested after five people assaulted with weapon at a hospital https://t.co/UgRpArbpjQ

[NoContextLeigh @NoContextLeigh]

👏 @BoomersSwingers

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Ukraine has been implementing a long-term, well-planned grand strategy they should have been allowed to pursue all along, thus winning the war NATO hoped it would never have to fight.

https://t.co/97z4Z4W6G7

[Phil Kinsella @Philkinny]

@NoContextBrits A Slappy

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Calls to "close the skies" over Ukraine — the rallying cry of pro-Ukraine demonstrations in early 2022 — are resurfacing after a wave of Russian airspace violations against NATO members.

https://t.co/kQGnQdraNL

[Rugby Football League @TheRFL]

🥳 Happy Birthday, Rugby League!