James Kilner

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Maybe this is not the big issue of the day (with war here and there; Trump's tariff war crushing livelihoods; people being knifed in broad daylight in central Huddersfield) but why does LNER (that's a UK railway line) always cancel the drinks trolly because of "staff shortages"?

The US has now turned off the satellite that broadcast Radio Liberty into Russia -- a key piece of Western/US soft power since 1951. Sounds like a Trump concession to Putin.

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Absolutely. The little bully jack-booted brown-noser trying to impress for a pat on the head. So sad.

robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley

This may be the most awful moment so far. And Vance is like the classic bully sidekick acting tough in front of his boss

Painful to watch. Vance so, so ignorant; Trump moronic. The Kremlin are laughing, hard and heartily. This surpasses anything Putin dared hope for.

Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who

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Totally agree

alexmassie @alexmassie

Foreign aid wouldn't be my first choice when finding extra cash for defence. The state pension triple lock would be my first choice. (But I don't have to win elections.)

plus one to this (although not all pubs are equal and I'd rather not have sport on in the background.)

John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE

'The pub is our pressure release valve...It’s..where men and women from all walks of life meet as equals...It’s the shelter of stone walls and a roaring fire after a rainy country walk. It’s where you go for a big game, even if you can watch it at home'. Amen.

Yup. Quite incredible

max seddon @maxseddon

I genuinely don't think Putin could have even imagined Trump falling into his lap on Ukraine quite so hard, and so fast, as he has in the last week

Important as this hits global oil supplies and also drags Kazakhstan deeper into the war in Ukraine.

Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin @CASCBulletin

CPC pipeline pumping oil from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea via Russia will run at a 30% reduced capacity for the next couple of months after Ukrainian drones hit a pumping station on Monday, say Russian officials.

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