Alasdair MacDonald

Left: President Trump insults Norway calling it a sh*thouse country Right: Visit Norway, the tourism board, trolls President Trump, displaying some of their best toilets on their Instagram 😅

This has all become so normalised and yet... this is not normal.

When you've been sold the same crock of shit for as long as you can remember, why would you even consider buying it one more time, especially when it's being resold by the biggest bullshit artist of all time.

The humanitarian Putin bombed more civilians today. Maybe Witkoff should spend a couple weeks in Kyiv to see first hand how much of a humanitarian his friend in Moscow is.

988,000 people bought into Trump’s crypto scam. Maybe start there.

All of this.

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Public ownership of water is way better than privatisation. Here's why. Andy Burnham MUST block the Thames Water bailout and bring it into public ownership. Sign the petition NOW: vist.ly/5pavf

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

Start with that orange nonce and his family who've made billions since being elected this term, there's loads of stuff that looks like insider trading.

The Telegraph long ago became Viz for Volvo drivers

Trump is once again focused today on the many difficult issues facing Americans.

From the soccer fields of Ridgefield, CT To the reflecting pool ruined at the Lincoln Memorial Overtaking Salt Lake City And surging to the shores of California People are protesting the Trump administration’s abuses at #NoKings rallies across America Making their plan to win at iwillvote.com

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

Target pensions or welfare, don't tax banks, neoliberal IMF tells UK Chancellor. Silence on corporate welfare, bank subsidies and profiteering; poverty, equitable distribution of income and wealth. Sacrificing the old, poor, sick to the gods of fiscal rules, so that banks are not inconvenienced.

Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden. Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Yes and they should be utterly ashamed

It’s time for the Friday Cat.

Trump has no right to call anyone a disgrace, let alone Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy is the courageous President of a country that is fighting for its freedom and democracy. Trump is a corrupt abomination who prefers the company of autocrats and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This is lovely. I’m sitting in bed with tears rolling down my cheeks.

Anything in this thread to make one think that the senator owns a vineyard, by any chance?

Zelensky is welcomed by EU leaders at the Brussels summit. On this side of the Atlantic, no other leader commands this level of love and respect.

I want to believe in “a better America” and to agree with those who say “this is not who we are as a country.” But, hope is not a strategy. It’s not enough to say it, it has to BE it, and until then, the world must treat with 🇺🇸 as it currently IS - depraved, disloyal, disruptive and dangerous.

Reform is a racist party, its leader is a racist, its MPs are racists and its policies are racist. Anybody who supports Reform is supporting racism, either because they themselves are racist or because they are too stupid to realise they are supporting racism, but they can't say we didn't tell them.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. And we certainly wouldn't have public executions. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It's about cruelty.

So, she never actually took the American bar exam. She’s an attorney in the same way that I’m a talking fucking unicorn. I can tell you I’m a unicorn all day long, but it still won’t make me a fucking unicorn. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/trumps-new...

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

Everyone still on X. Everyone Elon Musk has turned off his Starlink satellite in favour of Russia. He’s working against Ukraine and working against us. It’s terrifying and YOU ARE ALL working against the safety and security of all of us, including your own families.

I don't think he broke his own legs. The US government broke his legs.

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

I was on the telly.

Towns in England at risk of running out of water until 2027. Over one trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. No new reservoirs since privatisation. Record customer bills. Polluted rivers. No national planning. No national grid. Crisis deepened by privatisation. archive.ph/0XI5H

Given His Holiness is about to undergo lung surgery, this is probably a smart call.

Jenrick’s been on quite the journey from a one nation, Remain-voting Tory, through to frothing Brexiter and on to demanding that Royal Marines murder people at sea for daring to seek refuge here. All to impress the country’s racist losers and maybe get a few more votes. Christ he’s repulsive.

As ever, Gary Kasparov understands exactly what's going down.

Russian propagandists are just phoning it in now

Worth reading the whole statement - esp if you don’t know about Navi Pillay’s lifelong efforts to promote peace and international law, from her early days fighting apartheid & beyond. A striking reminder of the need for international law in our fraying world. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄

Andy Burnham is a man lucky in his opponents: Polanski, Farage and Badenoch seem determined to lend him a helping hand. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Been to see the four-hour Elon Musk film. Definitely something a little rum about that chap.

🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”

I'm old enough to remember the 'free trade with Trump will save us' phase of Brexity derangement (enjoy your coffee, tea and bananas while you can, US friends 😀)

A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr