Guarantee you that the majority of lefties opposing peace in the Ukraine were also out there on the streets demanding PEACE NOW in Gaza.

How many Ukrainians have to keep dying to keep the war going?

Listening to European leaders on the news this morning you would think they are quite keen on making themselves irrelevant while Trump sorts peace out and brings the killing in the Ukraine to an end because without Uncle Sugar Daddy Sam's money Europe is in no place to demand the killing continues.

Musk talks DOGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LOoxK4j4A

tomo,
That article pretty much covers why solar doesn't work anywhere.

It comes down to the fact that energy isn't difficult, it's getting energy at the right time that is tricky. To that end, I've just had a brilliant idea. Winter too cold, summer too hot, all we need is to set up a summer mirror on the Earth's surface, and a corresponding mirror 3 light-months away which will timeshift the sunlight by six months. Basic physics at work.

Agree about the media. High time the squatters were moved off the fourth estate.

I wonder if DOGE peeps ... even in what seems to be a "target rich environment" will take a look at Gannett Corp.

They operate the *largest* UK local newspaper publisher which routinely promotes many the issues that have surfaced at USAID and more added by our own UK spooks and they have a predictable comment censorship machine... ("Guardianesque")

Look at their list of Pentagon adjacent publications...

A starter.... albeit Reuters

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1889895315970392215

Matt Taibbi, well said.

An interesting item where a vaccine-sceptical doctor points out some downsides of vaccines to an economist. It's brief, and all very civil.

Both look sceptically at the sort of claim I loathe:

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years

Would dramatically reduce the reading material for academics too.

tomo,
The "wasn't paid off until 2015" part is probably a bit misleading. It sounds very like the original 20 million was funded from British Consols. These were interest-only perpetual bonds, at around 3%. It only became worth buying them out when the interest rates fell substantially below that. Coughing up £20m in 2015 wouldn't have burdened the taxpayer very much (though I'm sure there were a lot of other consols to buy out too).

Of course the main point still stands. The British paid plenty in money and lives centuries ago, but no good deed will go unpunished.

On the Albanian lad with the food fetish: do you think those stick figures recently released by Hamas were just fussy eaters?

Mailman,
I sympathise, but think it's a bit ambitious to hope for a ground invasion. And now that USAID has had its wings clipped, funding insurrection is going to be trickier too. If you're lucky though, he might say few unkind things about Mr Starmer.