The ring leaders of the conversation are two years younger than Vance.

Um none of them were “kids” Samuel Douglass is 27 Annie Kaykaty is 28 Alex Dwyer is 29 Peter Giunta is 31 Joe Maligno is 35 Vance himself is 41 Sorry but this isn’t something you can use the “kids say the darndest (and most grotesquely racist) things” defense JD Vance

For those of you still fighting me on this one thinking it was real. Trumps just been shot but here’s the Secret Service guiding photographers around ignoring danger to get the famous photo while the crane operator lowers the flag into position ignoring the danger. Staged event

Just in case you were confused as to the direction of travel in the GOP

So Trump and Putin spent TWO HOURS on the phone!! FFS I’m almost feeling sorry for Putin - can you imagine conversing with this power crazed, cognitively challenged baby for that long?!

I abhor antisemitism, but is the ban not about the fact that some core Tel Aviv fans have a reputation for violent hooliganism? It’s a great pity the police don’t feel able to control this, but it’s quite common for UEFA or local police to ban or segregate extreme hooligans.

FFS is every senior politician in the UK mentally defective? The hard core Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are well known for their hooliganism. It’s not antisemitism to ban them, it’s common sense and sensible policing. Their Islamophobia was what fomented last year’s Amsterdam violence.

Perhaps it’s time to stop paying the licence fee?

Absolutely right. The crazy thing is that the Maccabi Tel-Aviv fans violent hooliganism is well known, it didn’t need a European police warning. And UEFA are probably relieved that they didn’t have to instigate the ban. So either Starmer’s really dim or politicising the situation

🔴"The top funder of #Reform UK is Christopher Harborne, who also has citizenship in Thailand under the name Chakrit Sakunkrit. He is also the largest single shareholder in arms firm QinetiQ, which exports UAV drones to Israel for use in the Gaza genocide." -

Tommy Robinson, described by Board of Deputies of British Jews as ‘a thug who represents the very worst of Britain’ is welcomed in Tel Aviv & Israel’s diaspora minister Chikli says ‘he’s an extraordinary human being’. & Israel wonders why liberal Brits get a bit tetchy with them?

So the match between Maccabi Tel Aviv & Hapoel Tel Aviv is cancelled after “public disorder and violent riots”. But UK politicians of all hues continue to criticise & politicise the Aston Villa decision, clearly made to protect Birmingham. NOT antisemitism, just sensible policing

He truly is a disgusting man. And yet tens of millions still worship him. This may come to be seen as the worst cult mania in world history - a once great country humiliated by its own actions. Bit like the UK and Brexit, I guess.

I’m hoping Peston will learn how to spell taxes before he pontificates further!

Farage fails to pay £400,000 VAT. It's an oversight. Rayner failed to pay £40,000 stamp duty. It's fraud. Two tier or what? #FarageMustResign

Is she dim, or mendacious? Or both?

I’ll say it again- ask Tim Davie.

The White House has ordered Treasury Department employees not to share pictures of the White House demolition according to the Wall Street Journal. It would be a shame if this picture went viral then.

It is not overstating things to say that the UK is sliding into authoritarianism as a direct result of its support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.

My Dad, Golaud in Boulez’s wonderful 1969 Pelleas et Melisande at the ROH. A big man, great singer & actor, so in the moment that when he flung me off his shoulders after spying on Melisande, poor little Yniold would hit the stage like a bomb! But I was nimble, and he was lovely.