Professional engineer. Like to grow my own vegetables and watch Exeter City FC. Left of centre, environmentally conscious. Hate the culture war grifters!
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
None of those examples are even from this century.
Meanwhile, Israel and the US are attacking Iran *right now* and Israel bombed five Arab countries *last year alone*.
You really should remove the ‘history’ thing from your biog as you’re not very good at it.
Nigel Farage is complaining about foreign millionaires donating huge sums of money to far right populists who then use it online to spread hatred and division in our politics to affect the outcome of elections.
Paging alanis morissette ..
So yesterday Donald Trump posted a video of him crashing Stephen Colbert's final show, and literally throwing him in the garbage, and of course, I had to FIX it.
For those who don't know how this works, Reform are supported by the owner of X. All their accounts are centrally run and 1000s of bots are programmed to like their posts as soon as they go out. This is a form of election fraud no one is talking about yet. Rob's account is run from the US. Good local Makerfield boy.
It's all such a grift.
@reformparty_uk Cat check: Nigel Farage unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the following constituencies
Eastleigh, Hampshire
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Bexhill & Battle, East Sussex
South Thanet, Kent
Bromley and Chislehurst, London
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire
South Thanet, Kent (again)
I am lost for words. Having such a prominent British Jewish voice write this Op-Ed means so much.
Thank you Daniel Levy.
Thank you @zeteo_news@mehdirhasan for publishing this without a paywall.
Link is below:
https://t.co/bg1s01wfLE
Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:
10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool
This man is clearly not well.
Ben Habib to Paul Thorpe on donations to Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson from foreign based billionaire Christopher Harborne,
"Christopher Harborne had always told me that he wanted Brexit.. He donated £14,000,000 to the Brexit party"
"Then we discover this £5,000,000 payment that Farage took in 2024"
"In 2023, the same Christopher Harborne gave £1,000,000 to Boris Johnson"
"And he also paid Nigel Farage £1,000,000 in 2022"
"The 2019 General Election was sewn up between Nigel Farage, Christopher Harborne and Boris Johnson, and it was a monetary deal, that's how I see it"
@JimCognito2016 Easy; they just want to incite more division, especially along racial lines, and distract from the real culprits of inequality (and cost of living issues), which are the Epstein class that they revere so much.
It will never not be remarkable that a popular Muslim social democrat has been leading the West’s greatest city for the past *decade*, re-elected twice.
I have complained about this to the BBC:
Dear BBC Complaints Team,
I am writing to complain about a segment on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) broadcast on 10 May 2026.
During the interview with Richard Tice (@TiceRichard) of Reform UK, Mr Tice stated that the Green Party is “the anti-Semitic Green party.”
This was a serious accusation.
My concerns:
-No right of reply
No Green Party representative was present to respond. The presenter did not mention that the Green Party had not been given an opportunity to reply.
-Failure to challenge
Laura Kuenssberg did not question, challenge, or provide any context/counterpoint to the claim. She simply moved on.
-Breach of due impartiality
BBC Editorial Guidelines require serious allegations in political contexts to be properly tested and for due weight to be given to opposing views. This did not occur.
The Green Party is led by Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski), who is Jewish. No context was provided to viewers.
I believe this fell short of the BBC’s standards on fairness and impartiality.
Please investigate and consider a clarification/correction.
Thank you. James
#BBCLauraK