NEW: The armed man shot and killed by Secret Service agents outside Mar-a-Lago had reportedly become increasingly obsessed with the Epstein files and was also a vocal Trump supporter. Austin Tucker Martin sent a text to a co-worker on February 15, 2026, obtained by TMZ, that

Kemi Badenoch embraces the politics of the gutter & smear saying people call Labour "the paedo defenders party." Awful & desperate politics from a politician who as a minister not ONCE raised the issue of grooming gangs. #PMQs

Peak hysteria on a day of hysterical takes

🇦🇺 Sky News Australia anchor, Rita Panahi, addressed Iran's late leader, Ali Khamenei, in Persian: "You son of a b*tch, shame on you, burn in hell!"

#ARSvCHE May as well just let Arsenal provide the match officials and have done with it. Absolute joke what they are allowed to get away with.

I can just about remember when the British right thought that American presidents *should not* meddle in UK politics

Churchill would have seen him for what he is … a lying lardarse narcissist causing chaos in the world without anything close to a plan.

Astonishing that right wing politicians and media in UK are quoting Trump as if he is a sane, rational & unbiased person

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

Time for Andrew Neil to remind us that the Spanish Prime Minister is no Francisco Franco

Hey JD Vance …’looks like the most popular and respected leader in the US (YouGov last week … your Orange Manbaby is 16th) has some cards. Make sure you say thank you. And wear a suit

The Prime Minister is dithering, indecisive & has made many mistakes. I am no supporter of Keir Starmer. But I won’t take lessons from the draft-dodging friend of Epstein & Putin ready to fight to the last drop of somebody else’s blood to save his own miserable political skin 1/4

A new study shows people learn to lie and deceive as children, with the youngest example seen in a 10 month old baby and one of the oldest examples in a 79-year-old baby

It really is John Cleese out of Fawlty Towers: “don’t mention the war. I did, but I think I got away with it….”

#bbcqt Clacton next week. No chance of running into Farage, then.

The Defence Minister of Pakistan wrote on X: “It seems the war's objective has shifted to opening the Strait of Hormuz; a strait that was open before the war."

Only two competitions left to bottle for Arsenal.

#arteta Bottler strikes again. Prepare for yet another another Arteta whinge. And prepare for Arsenal to win nothing. Again.

My Sunday Times piece: The gilt market is calmer, because despite huge Labour losses the PM is still there. But markets are on high alert for another lurch into political instability: The bond vigilantes are back, and a Starmer coup would cost us all thetimes.com/article/1bc40f…