Trump, Vance, Musk and now Kennedy....you have to wonder if someone's running a weird competition...

Excellent piece by christinalamb on Israeli settlers running amok in the West Bank, accelerating their murder and dispossession of the indigenous Palestinians thetimes.com/article/c47df6…

Comrade Musk was forced to reveal that two sanctioned russian oligarchs helped him to purchase Twitter! What a twist. I cannot believe it. Oh wait, but wasn’t it obvious?! 1/n

Great piece and reassuring in this dangerous world The inside story of the secret backchannel between the US and China ft.com/content/c62ca8… via @ft

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In the real world doctors, teachers, nurses, GPs don't just fall off trees "NOW"....it may be that the government ends up falling short on its commitments to the public services, but we should really give them more than 7 or 8 weeks before rushing to judgment....

Philip Stephens I'm disappointed with the attitude of many Labour voters. It's very immature to expect instant results from the new government. The most important thing to me is that we now have serious, mature, honest politicians in charge.

Just leaked: A workable proposal by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian Authority Nasser Al-Kidwa. If former Likud and Fatah leaders can come together with a plan to end this war and create a roadmap to peace and

Ireland's transformation....my review of Diarmaid Ferriter's excellent contemporary history of how Ireland became a successful,modern,European nation. The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 — a tumultuous quarter-century ft.com/content/90830b… via @ft

LIVE UPDATES | "Netanyahu is executing our loved ones for his own political survival": Hostages' families kick off weekly protest, demand Gaza deal haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Thank you!

O dear, can someone give him a glass of milk and a cookie...obviously past his bedtime....

He gets even weirder......

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More than weird..unhinged

Mr Starmer goes to Washington. My take, Inside-Out column... philipstephens.substack.com/p/mr-starmer-v…

Keir Starmer's Washington trip...and how he can avoid the trap of the "special relationship" philipstephens.substack.com/p/mr-starmer-v…

A message for starmer on his way to the White House...Inside-Out column philipstephens.substack.com/p/mr-starmer-v…

Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text