Only the UK would be mad enough to plan a high speed railway, and then slow the trains back down again to save money.

Trump and the people around him understand that democracy is basically over at this point and if you have power you can just do whatever you want.

Israel has pushed Lebanon into the ranks of the world’s worst displacement crises almost overnight. Syria and Somalia took years to reach this level. Israel did this in three weeks.

An insane statement in a day of insane statements. Trump says he is negotiating with an Iranian leader but cannot reveal his name or Israel will kill him. Apparently proud of his complete subordination to Israel

The level of corruption of the Trump administration is beyond anything in any of the most corrupt kleptocratic regimes of the third world

The FT now reporting that, even without the energy shocks, there's a pretty good chance that the closure of Hormuz will pop the AI bubble and lead to a stock market crash

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC: • Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards • I cannot make any purchases • I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal • Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated • A

Someone should really find out why it’s so deadly

Lebanese medics are adopting strategies as they know they are targets: — Not seeing family or friends so that if they are bombed, they don’t take their loved ones with them — Reducing team sizes — Sleeping in ambulances far away from each other so a single strike doesn’t kill

There might not be a better single illustration of the moral and intellectual collapse of the Western liberal intelligentsia than this interview.

Here’s the Economist EIC letting Netanyahu run through with the claim that Israel delivered the lowest civilian to combatant casualty ratio in history with almost zero pushback. A few weeks later Tucker trapped Huckabee with a simple follow up: “how did you calculate that?”

Tucker Carlson presses The Economist’s Editor in Chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, on her Gaza stance. Arguing that many people ‘suck up to Israel’ as if they are afraid. Beddoes said she had recently visited Gaza with the Israeli army, describing Gaza as a ‘flattened place,’ but ‘a

The idea that states - any states - have a right to exist would - by people a little more versed in the history of political thought - be immediately recognised as a far right or fascist idea. In the Western liberal tradition it is individuals and peoples - never states - who

NEW: In a letter to employees, United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline is prepping for oil to hit $175/barrel & “doesn't get back down to $100/barrel until the end of 2027.” United is shaving 3% of off-peak flights - “think redeyes, Tues/Wed/Sat flying” - this spring & summer.

Defining remark of our era.

An absolutely insane start to a story.

No other European state is prepared to let US bombing runs on Iran overfly their airspace. Starmer lets them actually load their bombs and take off from UK airfields. He calls it "defensive" bombing.

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. My latest in the Guardian. https://t.co/7nQHOIO0cW

TRUMP DEMANDS TOOTHPASTE PUT BACK IN THE TUBE IMMEDIATELY