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Inspiring stuff.

https://x.com/pippacrerar/status/2030952994733179302

Keir Starmer warns that the longer the Iran conflict goes on, the greater the impact on the domestic economy.

"You will sense I think, that the longer this goes on, the more likely the potential for an impact on our economy, impact into the lives and households of everybody and every business.

“And our job is to get ahead of that, to look around the corner, assess the risk, monitor the risks, and work with others in relation to that.”

File under "PM Insights: No Shit, Sherlock..."

"Get ahead of that". Try firing Ed Miliband. Oh you can't, because then he'd be working to unseat you as PM.

Why would he fire Ed Miliband whose renewables vision will save the UK whilst Kemi and Farage lick Trumps oily ass

Ed is ridiculously blinkered.

Has anyone used the governments new petrol price finder website? Perhaps it also has a code for "no fuel available..."

Some sites have new functionality...

Is this going to be like that incident from a few years ago, when a couple of stations in a specific area ran out of petrol, but Radio 5 Live could talk about nothing else for six hours, treating it as a national emergency and setting off panic buying among all the road warriors who spend their days listening to the radio.

Why should journalists learn from mistakes?

The US are doing a great job today of proving “No matter how much you hate the media, it’s never enough”

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2030738086116642999

What actually happened is there was a demonstration outside Mamdani’s official residence, led by a guy who’s best described as an American Tommy Robinson.

Two jihadis threw bombs into the crowd of demonstrators, which the NYPD have confirmed were viable explosive devices. They were arrested at the scene.

If you only read the headlines, you’d be pretty sure that the people with the bombs were the people protesting Mamdani. The Mayor’s statement also deliberately confuses the situation.

The American Tommy Robinson is described by Sky News thus:

“Mr Lang was previously charged with assaulting an officer with a baseball bat, civil disorder and other crimes before being pardoned as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping act of clemency for defendants connected to the January 6 riots in Washington DC.”

I guess the difference between the US and the UK is that we don’t pardon Tommy Robinson.

The problem isn’t that this guy was a moron, he’s clearly a moron, it’s that the media are being very careful to avoid saying that the bombs were from those opposing him.

"The media".

The first account I found was quite explicit in its reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/new-york-city-anti-islam-protest
New York police have confirmed that an improvised explosive device was thrown outside Zohran Mamdani’s official residence on Saturday when anti-Islam demonstrators, led by rightwing influencer Jake Lang, clashed with counterprotesters.

New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that a preliminary bomb squad analysis of the device that was ignited and thrown during the protest had “determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb”.

“It is, in fact, an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death. Further analysis will be conducted, including on a second device,” Tisch said in a social media post.

The commissioner added that two men, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, who were arrested on the scene, are in custody in connection with the incident and that New York police are working with federal prosecutors and the FBI through a terrorism taskforce...

..Six people were arrested on Saturday during the clash between far-right protesters who had gathered for a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” demonstration near Gracie Mansion, the Upper East Side home of Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, and counterprotesters.

One counterprotester at the event lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the anti-Muslim protesters after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said. Fistfights broke out among the crowd, said the New York Times, and raw eggs flew through the air.

Tensions continued to heighten, she said, when someone in the counterprotest lit and threw a device Tisch described as smaller than a football into the protesting crowd of about 20 people.

Please don't quote "libsofticktock" as a reliable source. It isn't.

Most people don’t read past the headline and first paragraph of any story. That’s my point.

Has anyone used the governments new petrol price finder website? Perhaps it also has a code for "no fuel available..."

Some sites have new functionality...

Is this going to be like that incident from a few years ago, when a couple of stations in a specific area ran out of petrol, but Radio 5 Live could talk about nothing else for six hours, treating it as a national emergency and setting off panic buying among all the road warriors who spend their days listening to the radio.

Why should journalists learn from mistakes?

The US are doing a great job today of proving “No matter how much you hate the media, it’s never enough”

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2030738086116642999

What actually happened is there was a demonstration outside Mamdani’s official residence, led by a guy who’s best described as an American Tommy Robinson.

Two jihadis threw bombs into the crowd of demonstrators, which the NYPD have confirmed were viable explosive devices. They were arrested at the scene.

If you only read the headlines, you’d be pretty sure that the people with the bombs were the people protesting Mamdani. The Mayor’s statement also deliberately confuses the situation.

The American Tommy Robinson is described by Sky News thus:

“Mr Lang was previously charged with assaulting an officer with a baseball bat, civil disorder and other crimes before being pardoned as part of President Donald Trump's sweeping act of clemency for defendants connected to the January 6 riots in Washington DC.”

I guess the difference between the US and the UK is that we don’t pardon Tommy Robinson.

The problem isn’t that this guy was a moron, he’s clearly a moron, it’s that the media are being very careful to avoid saying that the bombs were from those opposing him.

Has anyone used the governments new petrol price finder website? Perhaps it also has a code for "no fuel available..."

Some sites have new functionality...

Is this going to be like that incident from a few years ago, when a couple of stations in a specific area ran out of petrol, but Radio 5 Live could talk about nothing else for six hours, treating it as a national emergency and setting off panic buying among all the road warriors who spend their days listening to the radio.

Why should journalists learn from mistakes?

The US are doing a great job today of proving “No matter how much you hate the media, it’s never enough”

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2030738086116642999

What actually happened is there was a demonstration outside Mamdani’s official residence, led by a guy who’s best described as an American Tommy Robinson.

Two jihadis threw bombs into the crowd of demonstrators, which the NYPD have confirmed were viable explosive devices. They were arrested at the scene.

If you only read the headlines, you’d be pretty sure that the people with the bombs were the people protesting Mamdani. The Mayor’s statement also deliberately confuses the situation.

I've heard suggestions that there simply won't be enough LNG in the world to meet global needs without Qatar if warmer weather doesn't arrive in Europe and North America within the next couple of weeks. There will be blackouts as countries are simply unable to get enough supply for energy generation.

I think we may need to turn the coal power back on, the government needs to start contingency planning to have coal energy back online within weeks, even if the war ends and shipments restart by the end of March there is going to be a shortages everywhere for months.

Starmer may have the misfortune to be in power when multiple mistakes made by previous administrations start coming home to roost. The state of the Royal Navy is the current one, but you're right that energy is probably the next.

I've heard suggestions that there simply won't be enough LNG in the world to meet global needs without Qatar if warmer weather doesn't arrive in Europe and North America within the next couple of weeks. There will be blackouts as countries are simply unable to get enough supply for energy generation.

I think we may need to turn the coal power back on, the government needs to start contingency planning to have coal energy back online within weeks, even if the war ends and shipments restart by the end of March there is going to be a shortages everywhere for months.

Starmer may have the misfortune to be in power when multiple mistakes made by previous administrations start coming home to roost. The state of the Royal Navy is the current one, but you're right that energy is probably the next.

Yet unbridled glee from right wing posters desperate for the UK to go in to recession.

Unpatriotic traitors