Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.

THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven

Johnson can't quite bring himself to name Trump personally

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

Let me join the Ukrainians and the whole world by telling America it’s time to get a new president and lock this one up for the rest of his days.

In more serious times, the US government trying to cover up the deaths of service members would be a career-ending scandal.

Trump is not just an appeaser but now an open advocate for Putin's Russia: unapologetically aligning with the aggressor who started & continues this conflict. Trump's America is an enemy of the rest of West & its leaders have to oppose Trump & support Ukraine's resistance.

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

“Missing out” — come on, get real.

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

New Secretary of Lying Katie Zacharia says “Trump deserves credit for unilaterally trying to bring prices down all by himself” 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️ Welcome to the United States of North Korea

Nailed it. 🔨

To bastardise the Disraeli quote, ‘lies, damn lies and data’. It can be interpreted and manipulated to support all sorts of stuff; this would seem to be the WRU clutching at straws to support their decision. I’d love to know how much they’ve spent on consultants yet still no feasibility study …

Typical WRU drop the hand grenade at 4 o’clock on a Friday afternoon and promptly run away. Oh and there’s a Welsh derby kicking off at 7:45.