Trump's Iran 'deal' has achieved nothing & set the world back | Andrew Neil youtu.be/iioBmJro5nU?is=_yyp… via @YouTube

Iran always agrees to that, way back to 1970 when it signed the nuke non-proliferation treaty. What it says and what it does are two different things.

Trump's Iran misadventure has achieved nothing & set the world back | Andrew Neil youtu.be/iioBmJro5nU?is=iqOg… via @YouTube

Why thank you. A short Andrew Neil Report Special coming up shortly on YouTube on the US-Iran ‘peace deal’.

Well, you certainly haven’t been to the USA if you think ‘New York is practically Los Angeles’!! That’s the daftest thing I’ve heard since I listened to Jeremy Corbyn talking about defence. Next you’ll be telling me Glasgow is practically Edinburgh. 😂😂🤣🤣

So a live backdrop of the south of Manhattan adds an extra perspective to the presentation of a match in Los Angeles?

In what way is the viewer experience different if the BBC is in Salford commenting on a match in Boston 3,000 miles away and ITV is in Brooklyn commenting on a match on California, 3,000 miles away?

Understood. You can pick and mix from my menu. You wouldn’t need to do it all to raise enough for defence.

‘The deal is reached’. Let’s bookmark that, shall we?

You’re quite right. More evidence of my football knowledge!! We beat England 2-1 and went on to dismantle the goalposts, including trying to abscond with them on the Tube, and dig up the turf. Just think what we’d have done if we’d lost.

Iran’s Fars news agency (mouthpiece of the Tehran regime): Marine traffic thru the Strait of Hormuz will be regulated by Iran in co-ordination with Oman. So not even the status quo ante — i/e a return to the way things were before Trump’s War.

The latest respected tabulation of world’s safest major carriers has @British_Airways at 18 out of top 20. But since the difference between the top 20 is infinitesimal, it doesn’t mean much — other than BA is up there with the very safest airlines in the world (as you’d expect).

Safety, of course, is by far the most important metric. But it’s not the only one. And in that regard all major Western airlines (primarily US, Canadian, and European carriers) have roughly the same excellent safety records, with differences that are minimal and often statistically insignificant. Given that, it is only right to then debate quality of service. @British_Airways

Unclear if the ‘deal’ says anything about Iran’s ballistic missile arsenals and capabilities or about its funding of its terrorist regional proxies. Nor how any ‘nuke’ deal, if one ever done, would be policed. We need much more info but it’s hard to avoid the fear this has the makings of the biggest foreign policy failure of the Trump admin to date.

They don’t really care. They just count the short-term bottom line. A once great British brand continues its decline.

That US-Iran ‘peace deal’ in full: No list of specific, agreed-upon details has yet been provided by either side. Won’t be signed til Friday (June 19) Work still being done on ‘final details’.

Ed Miliband’s expensive mad dash to net zero has close to zero impact on climate change. So small as to be unmeasurable.

What’s happened to you, John. Your tweets are increasingly bananas.

Simples: Release tens of billions from Ed Miliband’s net zero follies for defence capital investment. Release billions more for day-to-day spending by some tough love for the 10m of working age not working and living on benefits. Plus abandon triple lock. Go through current defence spending like a dose of salts to root out current waste and inefficiency (which is mega). Cull legacy programmes for platforms soon to be obsolete.

For broadcast yes. For newspapers no