Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸

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Curious, keen follower of current events worldwide, teenager at heart. Multicultural, multinational & multilingual granny/ baba Recreating community of diverse thinkers and doers. Parish councillor trying her best She/ her

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Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Jul 8

How can party leaders talk about by-election when Farage can not just resign as an MP? Do they also not know what are Parliamentary rules? As a reminder see below

Why MPs can't "just resign"

Since the 17th century, it has been a constitutional principle that a Member of Parliament cannot unilaterally vacate their seat. The idea is that the MP represents the constituency, not themselves, so they cannot simply quit by personal declaration.

To effectively "resign", an MP must accept an office of the Crown that automatically disqualifies them under the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975. The two historic offices used for this are:

• Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern
Hundreds

• Steward or Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead

Applying for one of these offices is the formal mechanism MPs use to leave Parliament.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Jun 18

More pictures emerge from Macron hosting Trump in Versailles and showing him around the palace to get the taste of what real bling looks like! (Via @theeconomistevents.bsky.social )

President Macron (on the right) showing big ballroom in Versailles to President Trump while giving him a tour.

Watch the costs of WH ballroom rise again!

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Jun 18

Just look at the line up of all former live Presidents with Obamas

All live former USA Presidents from Clinton, Bush and Biden with their wives and family Obama together!

Spotted Angela Merkel, former German Chancellor in the audience

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Jun 18

Gallery of all former live presidents attending Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. In the audience further down I spotted former German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Photo of all live former Presidents of USA at the opening of Obama Presidential Center from left to right: President Biden, Dr Biden, Obama daughters, Michele Obama and President Obama, behind them left to right President Bush, Mrs Bush, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Jun 17

This is a worrying development. Not sure how it fits with GDPR. Palantir in NHS has access to patients data!

From HSJ

Minister apologises for NHSE Palantir
data blunder
By Joe Talora | 17 June 2026

A health minister has apologised for
NHS England wrongly telling a watchdog that Palantir had no access
to patient information in the federated data platform

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· May 26

This is how my sister’s cat copes in the heat - finding her happy cool place!

Cat relaxing in the guest bathroom basin during heat wave in England

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· May 23

This address?

Royal Lodge (30 bedroom mansion in Windsor Great Park belonging to Royal Estate) where then Prince Andrew lived from 2003 to 2026

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Apr 14

In the writing and jubilation about Peter Magyar victory in Hungary one important piece of information is missing. It is the significance of the name of the party he leads - Tisza! It is the longest tributary to Danube. Look at the picture of the area with its flow shown

Map showing the flow of river Tisza from its source in Romania and route along Ukraine - Romania border to forming part of Hungary-Ukraine border running through full length of Hungary to Serbia where it Danube

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Apr 13

So I did not get whether you were escorted out in the end. Seems Goodwin’s reading of local audience in Budapest is totally missing. Bit of research on sales of his book

Matt Goodwin's paperback book, Suicide of a Nation, is reported as the No. 1 paperback in Britain on the Sunday Times bestseller list as of 12 April 2026. A separate Guardian piece notes that its official NielsenIQ BookScan debut-week sales were 5,539 copies, which placed it at No. 20 in that sales chart.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Apr 5

Not sure what @nytimes.com says but here is top live news v from @theguardian.com

Trump uses abusive language in new post threatening Iranian infrastructure

In a follow-up post on Truth Social, Trump has used abusive language to call on Iran to let ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and threatened to further attack Iranian energy and transport infrastructure. He said:

11 Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.
There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Updated at 13.22 BST

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Apr 4

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New York Times article from Friday paper edition entitled “A North American Treaty Organisation Without America”

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

Photo of two shelves with my predominantly cooking books in the kitchen / dining room now having second layer

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

So he said without missing a beat!

Iran will be just like Venezuela as far as Trump is concerned!

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

And final bit: Trump also reiterated his claims that Mojtaba Khameini, Khamenei's son and Iran's new supreme leader, could be either dead or severely injured. "The son is either dead or in extremely bad shape," Trump said. "We've not heard from him at all. He's gone."

Trump also reiterated his claims that Mojtaba Khameini, Khamenei's son and Iran's new supreme leader, could be either dead or severely injured.

"The son is either dead or in extremely bad shape," Trump said. "We've not heard from him at all. He's gone."

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

State of the war: "We've got about 3,000 targets left - we've bombed 13,000 targets - and another couple of thousand targets to go," he said. "A deal could be made fairly quickly." "The people we're dealing with are a totally different group of people... [They] are very professional," Trump said.

When asked whether a ceasefire deal could be reached in the coming days that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil usually flows, Trump declined to offer specific details.

"We've got about 3,000 targets left - we've bombed 13,000 targets - and another couple of thousand targets to go," he said. "A deal could be made fairly quickly."

Trump also claimed that Iran had already had
"regime change" after Iran's longtime supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials were killed at the start of the
war and in strikes that followed.

"The people we're dealing with are a totally different group of people... [They] are very professional," Trump said.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

More: "Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don't. We have a lot of options," Trump told the FT. "It would also mean we had to be there [in Kharg Island] for a while.” Mark his famous words: "I don't think they have any defence. We could take it very easily."

"Maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don't.
We have a lot of options," Trump told the FT.
"It would also mean we had to be there [in
Kharg Island] for a while."

Asked about the state of Iranian defence on Kharg Island he said: "I don't think they have any defence. We could take it very easily."

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 30

Trump key quote: "To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: 'why are you doing that?' But they're stupid people."

Trump said: "To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: 'why are you doing that?' But they're stupid people."

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 25

Two extracts from this article clearly point out to how USA now influences Venezuela top politics. Wonder what Machado thinks of the stunt pulled on her in D.C.

Ejecting Padrino removed a potential threat to Rodríguez, and may also curry favour with her most important backer - US President Donald Trump. Where Padrino prioritised relations with Russia and Iran, González is believed to have a network of contacts in the US. When CIA
director John Ratcliffe visited Caracas, he was greeted by González.

"People like González López who were so high up in the intelligence services have always been talking to the Americans," said one Venezuelan intelligence officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The Americans must have approved for him to get his new position."

Juan Barreto, a former mayor of Caracas who was close to Hugo Chávez, the late founder of Venezuela's socialist state, but later broke with Maduro, said the personnel changes represented "replacements rather than realignments"

"There's been no investigation into what happened" when Maduro was captured, Barreto said.

The opposition's most prominent leader, Nobel peace prize-winner María Corina Machado, told the FT she saw González's position as "unsustainable" in the long term.

"He is a sanctioned individual, clearly investigated for crimes against humanity, and one of the worst torturers the country has had."

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 22

Top news in The Guardian! Redacted is totally out of control. Escalation of war is one thing. Threat to commit war crimes and destroy key country infrastructure that affects primarily civilians is straight out of Putin playbook in Ukraine. Could he get any worse?

Top news in The Guardian.

Iran vows to destroy Middle East water and energy facilities if US attacks power plants
3h ago

An Israeli strike hits a bridge near Tyre in southern Lebanon

• Middle East crisis live

Iran will completely close strait of Hormuz if Trump acts on infrastructure threats, says
IRGC

Timeline Civilians bear brunt of US and Israel's monthlong campaign

'Nobody else is responsible' Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chef says

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 13

For those who do not want the whole article (it is free and I recommend it) here is a stark conclusion - USA is not winning on this front!

Faced with the unappealing task of trying to defend the strait in the middle of a shooting war, the United States might try to respond to Iran's escalation with escalation of its own. But those choices present problems, too. For example, the United States might decide that it needs to control the Iranian coast by inserting Marines or special operations forces —but the entry of ground forces would raise the risk of casualties and quagmire. Or the United States could try to escalate its bombing campaign to coerce an end to the war—but the United States and Israel may be running out of targets with which to bring about such pressure on the regime. Indeed, this is likely why the regime now seems much more willing to close the strait than ever before.

In short, if Iran effectively mines the strait, all U.S. response options are suboptimal. The United States should therefore focus aggressively on preventing Iranian mine-laying in the first place and finding an off-ramp from the larger war. If it does not, Washington should expect that ongoing harassment of traffic in the strait will be but one of a number of responses that Iran has long prepared and will now deploy.®

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 11

Meanwhile magnolia co in our front garden is starting to flower. Rather later than in the neighbourhood. #flowers #earlyspring #skygarden

View of the whole (uneven) magnolia tree in our garden

Branches with most flowers starting to open
#magnolia

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 11

Pathetic! All is preening for these guys. Meanwhile people due, billions of $ spent, world economy shakes but they worry how they look on a photo. May we b never see any of their photos again. Except in striped suits!

From The Washington Post - top title today

Pentagon bars press photographers over
'unflattering' Hegseth photos

(Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 7

This is the leading article in that well known highly unbiased paper @washingtonpost.com

Intel report warns large-scale war
'unlikely' to oust Iran's regime
(Vahid Salemi/AP)

A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran's opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign.

By John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 4

Seen on the local street walk yesterday #spring #blooms #skygarden

Tree in full bloom - possibly cherry tree

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Mar 4

Spring in our garden in full flow! #climatechange

Camellia in full bud and started to bloom

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Feb 21

You really have to have bad judgement to keep on joining failing teams! It is not too difficult to see Reform is full of worst Tories. #Reform

Photos of three former Tory ministers who were in Johnson and Truss cabinet only to join Farage one by one. They are Zahawi, Jenrick and Braverman in order of defection.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Feb 20

Trump and his Project 2025 enablers do not give up on tariffs - just create more chaos! Via @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social

New tariffs can be imposed for up to 150 days

Michelle Fleury

New York business correspondent
President Trump said the US will generate more money from his new 10% global tariff.
The White House plans to replace tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) - which the Supreme Court today struck down - with new duties.

Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act allows the president to impose levies up to 15% for up to 150 days on imports from all countries before needing approval from Congress.

In anticipation of today, Erica York of the Tax Foundation has crunched the numbers. By her estimation, the 10% tariffs announced today would replace around 56% of the revenue generated by tariffs under lEEPA.

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Feb 19

You have found a perfect example for the use of an AI assistant. Below is what Perplexity told me. Hope it helps

Here's a simpler version of what you wrote, rewritten so a 12-year-old could easily understand it:

Most corn oil is made by first pressing oil out of corn using a machine called an expeller. Then, a special liquid (a solvent such as hexane) is used to wash out the rest of the oil from the corn. The solvent is later boiled off, cleaned, and used again.

After that, the oil is cleaned in a few steps. First, parts of the oil that make it cloudy are removed (called "degumming"). Then, another cleaning step with a mild chemical removes acids and helps make the oil lighter in color.

Finally, the oil is chilled to take out any waxes ("winterization"), and heated in a vacuum with steam to remove smells ("deodorization"). By the end, the oil is clear, light, and ready to use for cooking. (

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Feb 18

Xtend is among the companies trying to capitalize on America and its allies' push to keep up. After the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis sparked a bloody war in Gaza, Xtend's Shapira told The Wall Street Journal that his firm's products helped Israeli forces map out terrain, explore inside buildings and take out booby traps around Hamas's underground tunnel network.

In a November press release announcing a contract with the Pentagon, Xtend said its "one-way" drone kits would be specially built for small tactical teams in "irregular warfare oper-ations."

That business could soon grow. The Defense Department this month named Xtend as one of 25 companies invited to participate in the first phase of its "Drone Dominance Program," a procurement push ultimately slated to reach $1.1 billion.

Write to David Uberti at david.uberti@wsj.com

Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸@alherix· Feb 7

Brand new warning appears today