BREAKING: Donald Trump gets slammed with crushing financial news as Trump Media — parent company of Truth Social — plummets in stock price by another whopping 19%.

It's now down to 40% of what it was worth just last month. But it gets even worse for MAGA...

The stock has been…

Another European country is being sucked into Putin’s sociopathic orbit by the deeply corrupt leaders of Georgian Dream while the Georgian people overwhelmingly desire a future in the European Union.

The US policy on Ukraine has failed. The US has not delivered sufficiently strong arms in time because of flawed analysis, believing that it would be harmful for the US to stand up to Putin.
Unless President Biden sacks all the people who misled him so badly, he will be blamed.
Clean up!

April showers, a bitterly cold north-westerly wind and white horses in the harbour, the Scaraveen is here #BereIsland

This is the harshest, rawest, most direct post I've likely ever read.
I'm afraid, in reality, it's also the truest.

Farrukh He was the Minister for Brexit Opportunities.

He found none.

He stood down, and he was not replaced.

The position no longer exists.

2019: Jacob Rees-Mogg, 'We could have cheaper food, clothing and footwear, straight away, by getting rid of the protectionist anti trade tariffs that the EU imposes. It would be very good for the British people. It would provide certainty. Once there's certainty, the country will…

Why is closing the sky over Ukraine not possible? Why can western planes intercept drones and rockets launched at a non-NATO country Israel but it would be the WW3 if they did that for Ukraine?
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The #InteroperableEuropeAct promises to reshape the EU's digital landscape, aiming to save businesses up to €20 billion and to improve public services for citizens. Learn more about the practical implications and impact in our latest news piece: europa.eu/!txf38p

Bob Costas on Trump: “He is by far the most disgraceful figure in modern presidential history...

You have to be in the throes of some sort of toxic delusion in a toxic cult, to believe that Donald Trump has ever been in any sense, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, or…

One of our finest broadcast journalists set to leave Newsnight and the BBC. It would be less of a moment if the Corporation was committed to offering audiences what Mark has done. To allow so much ability to disappear and not be replaced is to betray public service broadcasting

Of course Ukraine can win this war. Politicians of impotence like JD Vance want to make Ukraine lose, because they want to show that no one can really do anything and that nothing really matters. See my article on weak man politics.

Difference is that in Ukraine it sometimes happens on a daily basis

💬«Only Russia's defeat and the complete restoration of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity will bring stability, security, and the prospect of strong economic development to the Black Sea region» — Dmytro Kuleba at the Black Sea Security Conference of Crimea Platform

It would be remiss of me not to mention that Samuel Beckett was born #OTD in 2006 - my portrait of him hangs in the The Hist Trinity College Dublin - I am proud to have been elected the vice president of the officially recognised oldest student society and debating society the world!

7.25AM.Great to see a return of the sunny morning! Fr my window in Blackrock Co Louth, overlooking Dundalk bay, towards the Cooley Mts and beyond.Happy Monday and may you have a great week, TwitterattiX

Thank you to all the people who saved my beautiful husband. And to all the people who’ve supported both of us through this horrendous rollercoaster.

Hug your people close.

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Not a good look for Ireland - we underspend on security & defence. In fact military capacity is weaker now than at any time in last 30 years. We seek to prevent development of EU capacity - shows a lack of concern with exposed security of others Irish Foreign Ministry Department of Finance

Ukrainians sitting in shock watching how everyone scrambles to respond to Iran while the same drones and missiles along with North Korea’s have been raining down on Ukrainian cities and towns for over 2 years. The response in Ukraine is countless conferences and discussions

Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman HM Treasury One of the mysteries of the time was the reference in an online Tim Shipman article that an IEA economist had bounced the idea of the mini budget off a group of friendly hedge fund managers before it was announced. Next time I checked, that paragraph had been deleted.