It feels as if the US and Russia are working in tandem to break up Europe and divide the spoils between themselves.

Excellent analysis thank you.

We lived without social media before, just jump ship and live without it for 'a while' - watch X collapse, wait for the fallout - see what replaces it, be it Bluesky or whatever. Set up a UK government social media site for goodness sake, can't be hard ...

Nice to see a woman with power in this world at last ...

Funny how the only person to go to jail over the Epstein scandal, barring Epstein himself, is a woman. Think of all those guilty men, over all those years of playing in the Caribbean ...

Sorry, but the FT today is saying immigration halved?

I'm a Brit, I've scrolled through about 20 posts to get to you Annette - all have been from US.

Really, who cares what Liz Truss thinks. The press only keep her on their pages for us, the public, to look at in amazement, like a freak in a fairground. Roll up, roll up, see the totally mad ex prime minister.

Surprised you stayed so long Mike - Elon Musk should not be supported in any way.

Rerouting does not change the output of the engine, be it a plane, a car, whatever - Einstein's law still holds.

Sounds like a recipe for early onset bowel cancer - she looks overweight and she is always seen sitting down.

Your book was a very good read as was Rory Stewart's. You both shine a light on how badly we are served.

You're doing a great job for foxes but I don't think the country lobby are listening, hunting is still the big social thing in our village, they were out last week.

It's Farage's path to power - watch out.

It's never spent - not in this day. Go back 100 yrs, people had anonymity, mistakes were made, life moved on, nobody knew, you could make a new life.