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Britain is heavily anti-Trump.

Reform UK and Tories allying with him is a very big mistake.

Allying with the person whose war is about to create a Depression probably wasn’t their wisest move.

There were reasons why saner Presidents left Iran alone even though they really didn’t like Iran, I think we are going to see why that was the case

The irony is Trump sold himself as the GOP candidate who was NOT going to bomb Iran unlike the likes of Bolton & Haley. 5 minutes into his second term with Netanyahu in his ear and...

Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian

Let me predict the future for you.

Oil Stays >$100 for a few more days.

Trump panics as he sees his Poll Numbers collapse further.

Trump makes some schizophrenic truth social post that the U.S. won this war.

U.S. soldiers leave Iran.

The Ayatollah’s Son just got a 40 year reign courtesy of the Red White & Blue.

Trump & Hegseth bomb Cuba next.

https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/2030825072194097219

This is about right.

I'll be honest, when we first attacked Iran, I hoped that freeing the Iranian people from their brutal regime would be one good thing Trump might accomplish.
I hoped they wouldn't do to Iran what they did to Venezuela.
But they did, and so much worse. Just like russia, they were so convinced of their superiority that they had no plan B. Just like russia, they assumed Iran would roll over without a fight against the might of a superpower.

Now thousands of civilians are dead across the whole middle east, we're bombing civilian infrastructure that the very people we claimed to be saving can't survive without, homes and businesses in Tehran are burning, Iran is dragging other countries into the fray and activating their terrorists worldwide, endangering innocent people everywhere, and we will all be less safe for a long time to come.

Just to increase the sheer scale of insanity, Trump rolled back sanctions on russia, enabling them to not only continue killing Ukrainians, but giving them the money to aid Iran against us.

There was no plan. None. There still isn't. And instead of liberating an oppressed people, we're killing them and sparking additional violence around the world. Even if Iran were to surrender, the terrorists will never stop trying to take revenge.

I don't even have words for what a disaster this is for the whole world.
And people still support him.

No words.
https://x.com/FoxBrambleFarm/status/2030707636564287534

It’s alright, Trump and Bibi haven’t lost @BartholomewRoberts yet.

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.

Betting Post

F1: could be entirely wrong, but I think this is a two horse title race and the 3.8 or so on Ferrari on Betfair Exchange is well worth considering, especially as China may well suit the Prancing Horse rather more.

On a similar note, I've backed Hamilton to win each way at 9.5 (Ladbrokes boosted). He's often been strong there and looked very good in Australia, and sounds a lot happier than he has been. As ever, do at your own risk.

Ferrari seem to still have the inability to change strategy during a race, see yesterday when it would have made sense for 1 of their drivers to pit early when the opportunity came

They should be amazing at sprints. Premium on good start and no opportunity for the strategy team to sabotage the drivers' races.

China has a sprint (4am, not getting up for it). If Ferrari do well, and they should, the odds will shorten for trading.

So at work we’ve decided if things remain as they are heading into the autumn we’ll initiate a mass work from home edict.

Which is bad news for businesses that rely on commuter footfall.

Is that based on how things are today, or how you envisage things to look like in a months time with Israel still fighting Iran

We are working on a reasonable worst case scenario in the autumn.

I'd be looking at an unreasonable worst case scenario. You are dealing with Donald and Bibi here...

We assume the worst with the Ayrshire hotelier.

To which the follow up question is how do you think we are going to get to September without an oil supply crisis?

I can easily see WFH due to rationing being required from May

We can see that too.

Assuming TACO we might see a de-escalation but but it’ll be a recession rather than a depression.

For the price cap residential customers are protected until July when rationing might kick in.

Does Trump still have "de-escalation dominance"?

With things like tariffs, he could turn the disruption on and off again at will, but war isn't like that, especially now that multiple countries are involved.

This is about right.

I'll be honest, when we first attacked Iran, I hoped that freeing the Iranian people from their brutal regime would be one good thing Trump might accomplish.
I hoped they wouldn't do to Iran what they did to Venezuela.
But they did, and so much worse. Just like russia, they were so convinced of their superiority that they had no plan B. Just like russia, they assumed Iran would roll over without a fight against the might of a superpower.

Now thousands of civilians are dead across the whole middle east, we're bombing civilian infrastructure that the very people we claimed to be saving can't survive without, homes and businesses in Tehran are burning, Iran is dragging other countries into the fray and activating their terrorists worldwide, endangering innocent people everywhere, and we will all be less safe for a long time to come.

Just to increase the sheer scale of insanity, Trump rolled back sanctions on russia, enabling them to not only continue killing Ukrainians, but giving them the money to aid Iran against us.

There was no plan. None. There still isn't. And instead of liberating an oppressed people, we're killing them and sparking additional violence around the world. Even if Iran were to surrender, the terrorists will never stop trying to take revenge.

I don't even have words for what a disaster this is for the whole world.
And people still support him.

No words.
https://x.com/FoxBrambleFarm/status/2030707636564287534