Why is Trump-sane-washing and appeasement so prevalent amongst Lobby journos? For the foreseeable, there’s authoritarian madmen in the whitehouse. UK to play nice with diplomacy, but UK interests lie with trusted partners who respect international law & honour agreements. NO to trade deals with US.

I’m thinking coffee morning more than tea party, cos they really have to wake the F up after a decade of dozing

Your headline “Russia and US hold peace talks but freeze out Ukraine” is a nonsense. There are no peace talks in a war without the invaded sovereign country being a party to them. They are just talks between two deranged narcissists and the rogue states they represent.

More BBC normalising and sane-washing Trump’s nonsense. BBC News and current affairs output is so full of lobby groupthink and privileged right wing public schoolboys & think-tanks, that far-right propaganda & bad-faith talking points are unquestioningly reported as normal discourse. It’s disgusting

Liverpool’s form has fallen off a cliff. I was waiting for the “Are you Arsenal in disguise?!!” Chants

Unfortunately that alliterated description is also true of around 75 million US voters

It’s the framing they’ve been using stateside for a generation as part of their multi-pronged voter-supression assault on democracy. No surprise to see Tories & far right grifters and charlatans using the same playbook over here

Welcome to the party, Pal! The Tories & far right have had a controlling grip on UK legacy media for 20 years, with all framing based on on bad-faith rightwing talking points, misinformation, disinformation and culture wars. It’s about time right of centre commentators like yourself wised up.

How many CEO/corporate elite murders would it take for the GoP to warm to the idea of background checks & automatic weapon controls I wonder? The murder of schoolchildren doesn’t move most republicans, who simply shrug & do the whole “thoughts and prayers” thing

Garbage Person of the Year 8 years running