I'm sure it will. I have close ties to the US and was planning a visit in 2025 or 2026 but that won't happen while Trump et al are running the show. Plenty of places in Europe to visit and I've always wanted to travel to Canada...
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I'm sure it will. I have close ties to the US and was planning a visit in 2025 or 2026 but that won't happen while Trump et al are running the show. Plenty of places in Europe to visit and I've always wanted to travel to Canada...
Maybe?
That racist couple probably get a lot of their news from the Daily Heil.
Yep. One of the best albums of the 80s.
Un bel oiseau et une practique barbare.
Universal healthcare too. That would really help MAHA.
Beautiful. I visited in 1997. The place was practically empty. I had the tree-covered Ta Prohm temple all to myself. My retirement trip in a decade or so will be a good wander around SE Asia again.
'control the perimeter.' school as forward operating base in Afghanistan
Lovely. And a lot like the firecrest and goldcrest that we get here in the UK.
Hate filled knuckle draggers.
Even in the UK we think Johnson is a fucking weasel. Reminds me of another weasel in this country, Michael fucking Gove.
This is how it’s done.
Quelle surprise
They're all on acid. Utterly insane stuff.
These people have lost their minds.
I cut down on UPFs after reading Chris Van Tulleken's Ultra Processed People. To be fair I'm pretty fit and healthy (although 60 is approaching) and didn't eat too many but I noticed a change in energy levels, lost a bit of weight, and stopped falling asleep at 9 pm. Like a good heatwave though!
Not to mention Belfast, Brighton, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle... Oh and then there's Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Marseille, Oslo, Paris, Porto, Stockholm...
An ocean away but yesterday was a holiday in the UK. I drove my daughter to her new apartment in north London, sunny, warm, people out in cafés, parks, everyone having a great time. Cities are wonderful.
Puts one in mind of Michael Gove's "we hold all the cards" comment about the UK and EU Brexit negotiations. That went well.
Indeed. Lewes v Whitehawk derby last year got close to 1800 in Isthmian Prem.
Shadow cabinet required. Dems need to act with one voice. Newsom perhaps taking the lead, others like AOC, Pritzker, Waltz all singing from the same hymn sheet.
Honestly. How is this clown, loser, the one who brings authoritarianism to the US. What on earth does this say about America that Trump et al are the ones who have been able to pull this off?
The idea that this clown is the one bringing authoritarianism to the US is simply astonishing. He's an idiot who can hardly string a sentence together yet millions voted for him. What a damning indictment upon the country, its education system, and the low expectations of so many.
The French are absolutely right about this.
The tactics of Newsom could be replicated across the country with someone like AOC doing similar on the east coast. There need to be experts in defence, foreign relations, etc in place that can rebut the falsehoods continually spouted by the Trump government. A shadow government is what's needed.
Despite living in the UK I have close connections with the US and listen to your podcast on a daily basis. As usual another interesting episode but what appears blindingly obvious to me and others here in the UK is the need for the Dems to coalesce around a single leader and to agree to do that now.
Sandwiches at the ready.
The Butcher's Apron. Weirdly it just makes me think of nationalistic thugs.
And I thought champagne and canapés in a wood panelled room in Bloomsbury followed by a few pints at the Jeremy Bentham was rather special.
Of course he is and Putin has many of the details.
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Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America' also provides a useful and chilling insight.
Well if the US is fighting for its life with foreign troops having taken a chunk of Florida and US cities and civilians being relentlessly attacked by drones one might see the logic but that ain't going to happen.
I had to stop listening. It's all me me me from Trump. The world needs a real grown up in the WH and we're saddled with a petulant child. Desperate.
I'm surprised there are any forecasters left.
Goat's beard with a supporting cast of common knapweed at Fore Down, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour #daisyfamily @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Sussex looking just fine.
He's a laughingstock and too much of a dunce to see that just about everyone is playing him for all they can get. That so many Americans thought he was the answer to their problems is a terrible indictment of that country.
Utter humiliation. Trump usually lashes out wildly when humiliated, that he doesn't with Putin just makes me more and more inclined to believe that Putin (once KGB always KGB) has something that would be incredibly damaging to Trump and uses that as leverage.
Trump got played by Putin. Thankfully the likes of Macron, Starmer, Merz, are considerably more streetwise and won't kowtow to the murdering bastard.
Arrest the fucker.
Two pathetic little men in suits. Disgusting individuals.
Disgusting.
"Alaska stands with Ukraine" and "Zelenskyy should be here" #3E #StandWithUkraine #AlaskaWithUkraine
How to turn a police force into an utter joke. Pathetic.
He really is. His speech last night was excellent. A real leader in waiting. Dem politicians across the country should get behind him and act as one. In fact what they really need is a shadow leader and cabinet.
Well there's a leader in waiting. Dems across the country should get behind him, have a united front.
You might find Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America' an interesting read. An imaginary America in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It's astonishingly prescient and wonderfully written.
Much like in the US, in the UK it's fashionable (especially in the conservative media) to dump on cities, specifically London. Crime-ridden, declining, etc. etc. All the same shit they say about NYC or DC. Here's Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, saying "fuck off, cities rule."
An odious human being.
🧵🧵🧵 In this thread, I lay out more than a dozen facts about Trump and his child-molester friends Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I challenge you to read the whole thread and then decide what the odds are that Trump did not abuse girls or tolerate his pals Epstein and Maxwell doing so.
Removing an asset. Perhaps the plan is for Trump to walk across the tarmac, board Putin's plane, and be whisked away to spend the rest of his days in some tacky Moscow suburb safe in the knowledge that he'll never be tried for being a traitor and a paedophile.
Populist playbook 101 - blame experts / make gullible people mistrust experts. They did the same here in the UK with Brexit. Economics isn't as exact a science as putting a boeing in the air but were the experts right about the hit to the economy as a result of leaving the EU? Sure they were.
Well it's a great city. One of my brothers lived there for about ten years and I have wonderful memories of many things: the Smithsonian, cycling in Rock Creek Park, and hazy ones of Dan's Bar in Adams Morgan. Always felt safe and welcome.
That this deluded, uneducated, uncouth, and ignorant old man is president is a scathing indictment of the US. I lived near NYC as a child in the 70s and have wonderful memories of the country but something has gone terribly wrong over there and I fear it will get worse before it gets better.
These people are wankers.
Fantastic! I spent a wonderful year in Aix as a student and am visiting for the first time in 20 years in September, tickets for the Cezanne exhibition already booked. Just need to persuade my other half that a visit to the Stade Velodrome to see OM v PSG on the 21st is a reasonable use of our time.
Wonderful creatures and the only reason I still have an IG account is to cheer myself up with all the goofy dogs being goofy dogs videos. The world is a better place for having them in it.
Yeah but they're running scared of Farage, Reform, red wall, and right wing rags.
Time UK, EU ripped up trade agreements with Israel, stopped selling the bastards arms too.
Britcard....🙄
She's too old for him.
Fools gold(en) more like.
Lock the fucker up
A universal health care system in the US would have the (massive) clout to negotiate prices with companies. The NHS here in the UK isn't without faults but its buying power saves billions.
Nope.
Her lack of self awareness is simply astonishing.
Really? Shit got more expensive for American consumers but hasn't changed much for those in the EU.
Let's see how long that lasts.
How true.
I thought like that about Jack Russells but being able to scoop them up when you sense 'utter fucking chaos mode' is about to be initiated is one of their greatest assets.
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It is utterly appalling that so many Republicans are towing the MAGA line with this of all things - not only corruption but potentially complicit in protecting someone from the most heinous of crimes.
What could go wrong? Ask everyone in the UK.
Surely Bessent doesn't believe that. He truly can't believe that.
A jar of olives, bread and cheese will work just as well!
Two wonderful cities. A bottle of wine sat on the edge of the Canal St Martin in Paris in the evening sunshine, and a visit to the roof terrace at the National Museum of Scotland for unparalleled views across Edinburgh. Those two things will make you happy!
Really good. I was in Paris last month and met plenty of young Parisians who were really sad about Brexit.
Is Mexican coke really better? The president’s son thinks so.
Pretty poor HR Director. I mean HR need to be an arm's length from employees and employers in order to do their job properly. Imagine if a grievance was brought against the company CEO with whom the HR director was engaging in a (not so) clandestine affair. Shoddy for all sorts of reasons.
Orban is a wanker. Time the EU told him just where to go.
As a cycle messenger in London I delivered a parcel to Sharon Osbourne in Maida Vale. It was morning, music coming from a room nearby. Sharon was lovely, as I left I peaked into the other room where Ozzy sat, he took a big swig from a can of Kestrel, looked me in the eye and belched loud and long.
I was a cycle messenger in London and delivered a package to Sean Connery at his flat in Belgravia. It was the opening day of the play Art that he co-produced, he was having a little party and answered the door with a glass of champagne, wearing a black polo neck jumper. He was very nice.
He's right about the *interesting* bit though. Hopefully this will be the ruin of them both.
Jeez the NHS here in the UK is far from perfect but this and her subsequent treatment is simply shocking.
Murdoch v Trump. Let's hope this sordid mess is the downfall of both of these grubby old men.
Philip Roth's The Plot Against America is a terrific book. Written in 2004 and amazingly prescient. 'The Trees' by Percival Everett is great as is his latest novel 'James'. For a series of history crime fiction the Shardlake series of novels by CJ Samson are excellent.
Trump v Murdoch, hopefully this will be the ruin of them both 🍿
You should tag #wildflowerhour a lovely Sunday evening affair
#hairyplants you say, here's a nettle-leaved bellflower with hairy petals seen on a road verge near Lewes,East Sussex #wildflowerhour
And judging by the looks of that gull it'll be a Mediterranean beach...
Well, good luck with that.
I blame Gove and his "perhaps people have had enough of experts" drivel.
Schrödinger's Epstein Files
Odds on Brexit voter.
This is really worth a read.
Bit like Brexit and Michael Gove's "I think everyone has had enough of experts" comment re the economy. The experts were right (economy fucked) the flag waving Brexiteers weren't (economy fucked).
Cor blimey, that's a right old Elliott Ness.
The woman is an idiot and no one takes Trump seriously.
Ignorant spivs