We’ve all had ‘traditional architecture bad’ drummed into us and we’ve all learned these thin, easily countered, 1960s arguments defending the clearly ridiculous consensus that it’s only practical to build ugly, barely functional, short life span infrastructure and public spaces

You’ll be proved right soon enough. And you’re the aggressor

Until victory 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Deliberate cultural vandalism

This makes the kremlin fair game. It’s not as impressive a building and not as important to human civilisation. Go for it fellas 🦩🦩🦩

We must not ignore this, this is cultural vandalism equivalent to the kremlin being bombed

To understand the scale of today’s Russian crime against humanity’s historical heritage: it is the equivalent of bombing St. Peter’s Basilica in a war of conquest against Italy, or Notre-Dame de Paris against France, Westminster Abbey against Britain, or Aachen Cathedral.

They’re losing and they know it, so they’re doing as much damage as they can on the way down

Send Witkoff to Moscow for the 2,441st time -- there are still chebureki left to eat, and not all the cognac and black caviar have been consumed yet.

Ukraine attacks war production, russia attacks an art museum

⚡️Kharkiv Art Museum in flames after 'cynical' Russian drone attack. The strike caused a major fire at a critical Ukrainian cultural site and injured five people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said. kyivindependent.com/kharkiv-…

We can be so stupid

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

Very clever bit of baiting there

To President Trump and VP Vance: this is the regime you’re about to make a deal with. Six months ago, they slaughtered 40K Iranians who wanted one thing only: freedom. The IRGC butchers did it while innocents cried out your names for help. Don’t forget them. Free Iran!

Irish politicians are still denying the russian refinery is fuelling the Kremlins war. Well it is. Here’s how 👇

Hands off my underfloor heating that I’m never going to get to install anyway because

For other administrations we’d just assume you’re telling the truth and they’re lying. But not with you, JD, not with you. With you, it’s just one group of liars’ word against another’s

IMO Healey was the third leg of the Starmer-Reeves stool. Very very bad look for the government that he’s gone. More importantly bad for the rest of us if as he says No 10 is not taking defence seriously

In February 1937 Chamberlain's government agreed that defence spending had to rise... and rise rapidly. So the UK spent on defence: 1936: 136 m 1937: 168 m ( 23%) 1938: 382 m ( 127%) 1939: 630 m ( 65%) Note that in 1939 the entire (!) British government revenue was £942 m. 1/6

Ooooooooh hello, looks promising