Mike

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Why are Reform supporters trying to suppress debate about the role their MPs - Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick - had in allowing the Belfast attacker to remain in the UK. Why are they trying to suppress debate about Nigel Farage's failure to condemn last night's violence.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

@AsplinKevin It was two Reform MPs who were responsible for letting the Belfast attacker stay in the UK.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

82 years ago, 14,000 Canadians landed on Juno Beach, many of whom would never come home.

On the anniversary of D-Day, we pause to honour those who served and sacrificed. We remember that our rights, our freedoms, and our way of life were fought for and were won by those who answered the call.

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

No axe to grind and clarity of point. We didn’t vote to be worse off financially, educationally, scientifically, holidayingly ( I know there is no such word😂) and health wise.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Yet another financial story that is buried by the media

If this was Angela Rayner the story would run for months on various front pages......

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@xAviation This is so old. Just recycling stuff for clicks.

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@maddiecholette Ern-dog? Maybe Gausman?
Having just watched last night’s highlights (I’m a 🇨🇦 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿) the year suddenly feels more and more like last….heading into June with the win rate ticking up, hopefully some more injury returns, steadying performances from George…feels good👍🏼 ⚾️

[Candice Holmes @hol40900]

Farage demands Rayner resign for £40k stamp duty error.

He took £5m from a crypto billionaire – undeclared – and faced nothing.

Same game. Different rules. 👑💷

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 2006, Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed in Afghanistan. She was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat.
She was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.
Two schools and a Coast Guard patrol vessel are named for her.

📸 Sally Goddard

[Rob Rinder @RobbieRinder]

On Carnaby Street last night, a kid on a bike cycled up, saw it was me, looked friendly at first then offered up his favourite “lyric”: “Heil Hitler.” I wasn’t sure whether to share this. I hadn’t experienced that personally before. The most striking thing: I wasn’t shocked. No threat. No anger. Not a victim. Just: what has he been taught Hatred is learned. We are not defined by it. We answer it by what we teach.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Get in the habit of respecting people right from the start, even before you know their job, titles, or any of that stuff. We're all just humans doing our best, everyone deserves that kindness.

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@maddiecholette It’s the middle of the night in the UK so I’m not tracking tonight’s game BUT….remember last year? They were nowhere to start with…down and out. Hang tight, we’ve only just started the season💪🏼⚾️

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

The mother and the daughter killed in Odessa today by Russians

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@analyticflying Dunno, the AIP only tells you what is there now. It says nothing about UBN potential.
1. R/way dimensions are ok for largest a/c + elev lower than Jo’burg, so payload/range fine
2. ME hubs to plan/build took years, not overnight. Maybe they are just suggesting dream big…DXB did!

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@AmericanShortsX @RpsAgainstTrump Nor has he written one

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump wins the prize for repugnance.

Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed "wartime president" and master of distraction, has reached a new low in moral depravity with his latest attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the "P.T. Barnum of Ukraine."

This repugnant rhetoric is nothing more than a desperate attempt to mask his own catastrophic incompetence in every area—from foreign policy to military leadership to basic humanity. By shifting the blame for his own failures onto Zelenskyy and Ukraine, which has suffered four years of brutal Russian aggression, Trump exposes himself for what he truly is: a weak, evil, and utterly repugnant individual incapable of taking responsibility.

Trump has unleashed a war against Iran—without congressional approval, based on flimsy justifications that were already refuted by his own Pentagon briefings on the second day.
US soldiers dead, the Gulf region ablaze, Dubai a battlefield—and who's to blame? Not the man who pulled the trigger, but Biden and Zelenskyy, who supposedly "gave away" ammunition. This isn't just ridiculous, it's pathological. Trump, who boasts of having "rebuilt" the military, is implicitly admitting that his armed forces aren't even equipped for a "four- to five-week" conflict.
And instead of acknowledging his failures—such as underfunding ammunition production or chaotic planning—he shifts the blame to a nation fighting a genocide-prone aggressor.
Ukraine has received billions in aid since 2022 to defend itself, not to "cheat." Trump is twisting this to justify his own waste in "Epic Fury"—a war that's swallowing billions while he dismisses Ukraine as a "show."

The comparison to P.T. Barnum is particularly toxic and dehumanizing. Barnum, the charlatan who turned suffering into entertainment—that's Trump's code for: The Ukraine war is fake, the massacres in Bucha, the destroyed cities, the traumatized children? All a staged event to fleece "suckers" like Biden and thus America. This isn't just a lie; it's an insult to every victim of Russian terror.

Trump is dehumanizing an entire people who are heroically resisting in order to sell his own "strength." He, the man who eliminates Khamenei's successor without a plan for the consequences, poses as a "winner" while sending thousands to their deaths.

That's not strength; that's madness disguised as machismo.

People like Trump—incompetent, flawed, and cowardly—are the real charlatans. They build empires on lies, shift the blame onto the weak, and destroy everything they touch.

Zelenskyy is fighting for freedom; Trump is fighting only for his ego.

This rhetoric is not only repugnant, it's dangerous: it undermines alliances, emboldens aggressors like Putin, and betrays American values.

Trump doesn't deserve a platform; he deserves contempt. History will expose him as the ultimate "sucker"—the one who leads a country to ruin just to save himself.

Thanks, Regina @Sunnymica , for the tip and the template!

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

What’s really damning…

…is that all these Brexiteers who used to crow about “sovereignty”…

…now seem to think that the UK should not be allowed to operate its own foreign policy with its own military bases.

Subservience to the US, even when clearly mad, is their all.

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@Phred_jr Until Mariah Carey ‘sang’….

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@jamesanthony777 @paulmorrishhl @British_Airways @emirates BA has had declining quality of service for at least 10 years. It’s not oil-rich states providing subsidy that make them better - Cathay/Singapore are fab examples. Airlines make choices on *making* and *investing* money. To me BA chose profit, living off outdated reputation.

[Mike @Travelbug1973]

@Turbinetraveler BA