Now the genie is out of the bottle and it's unlikely that anyone will be able to get it back in anytime soon. Iran has struck back at Israel overnight and while many drones have been shot down some have definitely hit their targets in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. Israel has also continued its attack on I...

Another day another crisis. This time it's Israel taking a pop at Iran. Having watched nervously as America continues its ongoing negotiations with Iran over the limitation of the latter's nuclear enrichment program, Israel has now decided to act - reportedly unilaterally, but believe that or not as...

There is some really serious shit going down in the US and the BBC are simply not reporting it. I can't explain it, but I'll do my best to fill in the void. From what I was hearing on alternative news outlets yesterday (LBC, Democracy Now - the Amy Goodman Report) it appears that Trump is attempting...

The UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway have jointly issued sanctions against two of Israel's most notorious right wing government ministers. Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have both had asset freezes and travel bans placed on them for c...

Gratitude Cord Hurn.

Am looking forward with anticipation and will post updates as I progress.

The 'i' has a little side headline (directing to an inside article) on its front page Women doing comedy upsets insecure men. Not exactly true. The trouble is that, like football, in the main, women just aren't very good at it. There has been a few that have made a passable shot at it, but they have...

News coming in that Israeli forces have intercepted the aid ship bound for Gaza carrying activists alongside food and medicines, one of which happens to be climate campaigner and all round fly-in-the-ointment Greta Thunberg. This is actually the second such vessel to be directed towards the under si...

Nasty stuff going down in L.A. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have carried out sweeping raids into people's homes, arbitrarily picking up undocumented hispanics for deportation in order to fill quotas. Crowds of protesters gathered and tear gas and batons were used to disperse them...

Papers and all over the Trump vs Musk feud, with the FT reporting that buddies both political and financial are begging for them to "hug and make up" before the fallout cost to America becomes even greater than it already is. But given the level of childish spitefulness that the pair have ...

Oh dear. It's a day for falling out on both sides of the Atlantic as Donald Trump and Elon Musk finally pull the gloves off and start gut-punches into each other, and here, the Chairman of Reform Zia Yusuf suddenly and without warning resigns leaving a big hole in the party's modernisation plans. Th...

In a seventy five minute call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the US President Donald Trump, Mr Putin emphasised the necessity for Russia to respond to the recent attacks it has suffered on its territory. In uncharacteristic understatement, Trump said that, "It was not a conversati...

Absolute disaster! 8O Took a ride down to the church yesterday and somebody has nabbed the lot ! My fault because they have been there for, well, weeks really, and I've been looking at them and not picked one up genuinely because there were just too many to choose from. I'm guessing that finally som...

Proof positive, if it were needed, that utilities like water supply do not lend themselves to private involvement comes with the sudden breakdown in a deal for American private equity house KKR to purchase the beleaguered Thames Water, currently some 20 billion pounds in debt. The company has appare...

We have a really serious situation in the UK (and probably right across the West) in that our main stream media (msm) has been degraded to the point where it simply cannot be trusted to deliver accurate newd on what is happening in the world. Take the operation by Ukraine reported yesterday called '...

Here we go again. "Britain sends warning to Putin with 12 new attack submarines," tells this morning's 'i'. Yesterday it was 6 new bomb producing factories and news that fighter planes were to be fitted with the means to fire tactical nuclear weapons. I mean - what is it that these fucking...

Useful link Menolly.

Gratitude!

Actually getting quite exited about going down to see what I can find. A new fantasy string to run with is always a good time for me.

What in heaven's name is all this foolishness about Britain being made "War Ready" in the newspapers today? Like it's a foregone conclusion that we'll be going to war in a short order, like it or not. It's a nonsense. If we go to war, it'll be part of a wider European conflict and it'll go...

Gosh Cord, that's praise indeed! I'd no idea that she could inspire such admiration, though the sheer volume her output should have given me a clue. I think it was never a conscious decision not to read her - just that I always had other books on the go (and also dropped all fiction reading for year...

The Times reports that Defence Secretary John Healey says that defence spending of three percent of GDP is an absolute certainty by 2034. This in response (presumably) of military chiefs belief that the "UK could be just a few years away from a war with Russia." Well let me ask this? If we...

Another story that has received virtually no coverage proportional to its gravity was the recent announcement by the newly elected Chancellor Merz of Germany, that his country will 'help' Ukraine in the development of long-range missiles which can be fired deep into Russia. It is known that Merz was...