Marco Rubio on 23 June: "No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway. That's existing international law."

The Iran War is now a fight between the US and Iran over which one of them gets to commit international piracy on the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."

Trump says the "Islamic Republic of Japan" fired 111 missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln two months.

Really wish I was American so I could run against this guy in Minnesota.

Democracies should not accept cash from political parties whose leaders are under investigation for financial nondisclosure of gifts from overseas crypto billionaires.

Rupert Lowe — revolting fascist though he is — knows this is the best strategy to destroy Farage.

Farage resigning and re-standing as an MP will not save him from parliamentary sanctions resulting from investigations. The Procedural Protocol on parliamentary conduct specifically states that any investigation by the Standards Commissioner would restart upon his re-election as an MP.

BREAKING: Nigel Farage announces he is resigning as an MP and will stand in the subsequent Clacton-on-Sea by-election: "This will be a people verses the establishment by-election."

"Hello Georgia... I mean Gianni, I need you to find me four goals."

Trump says that if Belgium beat the US while Folarin Balogun was suspended, he would have claimed, “It was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.”

Trump on his red card intervention: "I understand sports really well. And that wasn't a foul... He didn't do anything wrong and he's our best player... He gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant... I asked for a review."

Ted Cruz to Trump: "On behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card. It was spectacular."

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Starmer leaps to the defence of Bridget Phillipson after Badenoch calls her a "spiteful class warrior". "The Education Secretary grew up in poverty... It's an incredible story of social mobility and success... I am so proud... It drives every single priority and value that she has."

Dawn has broken over London and there’s now some spectacular orange lightning towards the east.

Some pretty cool stills. Looks like shitty graphics from the original Ghostbusters movie.

This is now a storm chaser account.

It’s 3.50am in London and it’s been thunderstorming for almost two straight hours. One of the biggest and longest storms I can remember in my almost 35 years in this city.

The UK's endless political circus is a direct result of Brexit. Leaving the EU made it impossible for any PM to deliver the kind of economy, living standards & public services that voters demand. Meanwhile, Farage exploits the failure of his own policy for personal power. Good to discuss on WION.

He was still better than any of this lot.

Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: "I will resign as Leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision." Britain is about to have its seventh PM in a decade.

Trump's UFC birthday party begins at 8pm tonight. Beneath this metal structure. In this weather.

A good day to be in Trafalgar Square!

I visited the powerful 'Testimonies from a Troubled Land' exhibit today in Hoxton, London. It features Israeli and Palestinian photography from Edut Mekomit, including war destruction in Gaza and Israel and life in the West Bank - hosted by the New Israel Fund. Well worth a visit if you’re nearby.

Day one of the next Democratic administration.

MPs heckle as Green MP @greenpartyhan.bsky.social asks whether MPs should be drinking on the job: “MPs shouldn’t be drinking on the job, given that we vote on huge issues like the climate crisis, disabled people’s rights, child poverty.”

This was the 2024 result in Makerfield, where Josh Simons is standing down to allow Andy Burnham to return to Parliament. It's going to be really, really tough for Burnham to win it.

Farage on his £5 million “gift” from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne: 14 May 2026: “Frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years.” 9 May 2026: “There was nothing political in its nature at all.”

Except Xi because he literally wasn't there.