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Published Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT A Prosecutor Hunting Ghosts Before the Ballots Have Even Landed Right, here’s the thing that’s got me proper wound up about this LA prosecutor pushing for a public voter fraud investigation before the votes are even counted: you cannot investigate a crime while the scene is still actively happening. It’s like showing up to a murder scene with a press kit and a megaphone before the body’s gone cold, innit. ...

Trump’s Oil Heist Fantasy: Why Threatening to Nab Someone Else’s Resources Is Just Colonial Cosplay Right, let’s have it out with the absolute bonkers energy of a man standing in the Oval Office threatening to nick another country’s oil like he’s planning a smash-and-grab at Tesco. “Take Iran oil infrastructure” — mate, that’s not foreign policy, that’s a heist film plot written by someone who failed Economics A-Level. Here’s my actual take, and I’m saying this with genuine concern rather than just for the laugh: When Western leaders start casually threatening to seize another nation’s natural resources, we’re not watching tough negotiation. We’re watching the death rattle of the rules-based international order, and nobody seems bothered enough about it. ...

The Great Tantrum Theatre: Why a Grown Man Storming Off Telly Tells Us Everything About Modern Politics Right, let’s cut through the noise here. The story isn’t that Trump walked out of an interview—it’s that we’ve all collectively agreed to treat a grown adult’s strop as a legitimate political strategy, and nobody seems bothered about it anymore. I’ll be honest, mate. I watched the clip and my first thought wasn’t “scandalous!” It was: “Christ, we’ve normalised this.” A bloke gets asked a difficult question on live telly and legs it. Fifteen years ago, that would’ve been the end of his credibility. Now? Now it’s a tactical move. It’s the political equivalent of flipping the Monopoly board when you’re losing, except instead of your nan telling you off, three million people on Twitter applaud you for “not taking the mainstream media’s nonsense.” ...

We’ve Stopped Pretending the Law Applies to Everyone, Haven’t We? Right, let’s have a proper chat about what’s actually happening here, because I think we’ve all collectively decided to just… stop bothering with the fiction that the justice system works the same way for everyone. And I’m not even angry about it anymore—I’m just fascinated by how brazen we’ve become. A former Republican congressman gets pardoned for insider trading. Fine. Lovely. Brilliant. But here’s what’s actually mental about this: we’re not even pretending anymore that there’s a principle at stake. We’re just doing it. Out loud. In front of everyone. Like a bloke nicking a pint from the bar while making eye contact with the landlord. ...

The Intelligence Community Just Got a Proper Pantomime, Hasn’t It? Right, so let me get this straight. We’ve got Bill Pulte—a bloke who made his fortune in real estate and became famous on social media for giving away money—now sitting in the director’s chair at the Director of National Intelligence. The DNI. The absolute top of the intelligence pyramid. The person who’s supposed to coordinate America’s entire spy apparatus, from the CIA to the NSA to all those mysterious three-letter agencies that probably know what I had for breakfast. ...

When Politicians Remember They Actually Need to Eat Crow (And Other Delicacies) Right, so here’s the thing about watching politicians do the old U-turn shimmy — it’s like watching your mate insist he’s “definitely not drunk” right before he tries to order chips from the bin. You know what’s about to happen, everyone in the pub knows what’s about to happen, and yet somehow it still manages to be both tragic and hilarious in equal measure. ...

“50/50 on Iran? That’s Not a Foreign Policy, That’s a Coin Flip at the Bookies” Right, let me get this straight. The President of the United States just announced he’s genuinely undecided about whether to negotiate with Iran or bomb them into the stone age, and we’re all supposed to just… what? Nod along? Act like this is normal diplomacy instead of the geopolitical equivalent of “eeny, meeny, miny, moe”? ...

Trump’s China Trip: The Art of the Spectacular Stalemate Right, let’s have a proper chat about this whole Trump-in-China business, shall we? Because what we’ve got here is genuinely fascinating—not in the “thrilling blockbuster” way, but in the “watching two chess players agree to call it a draw while pretending they’ve won” way. And mate, that’s actually more interesting than most people realize. So Trump’s back from Beijing with what the papers are calling “stability.” Now, I’ll be honest—when I first read that headline, I thought someone had accidentally left their thesaurus on the keyboard. “Stability” is what you get when you’re stuck on the M25 at rush hour: nobody’s going anywhere, but at least nobody’s crashing into anyone else. Is that really what we’re celebrating? Apparently, yes. And here’s the thing—it might actually be the most sensible outcome anyone could’ve hoped for. ...