Lord Dartmouth comments

Believe me, you'll drink it if you have to. And it won't hurt you.

This sad little man, so loathed in his own country, having failed to persuade Putin not to invade Ukraine, now trots off to Greenland, a country at zero risk of invasion, to 'protect' it from an imaginary threat. Presumably, when Trump doesn't invade, he'll claim all the credit. Pathetic.

albaleo, The 1948 law wasn't completely bad - it legalized abortions.

Listen to yourself. This man is lucky to be able to speak out against his treatment, a right never to be enjoyed by all the millions of little ones whose lives were snuffed out by chopping them up and ripping them out of their mothers' wombs. The idea that we can ever build a just society while we continue to allow this abominable crime is a mad fantasy.

The black box will reveal the problem, and it will be pilot error.

Another day, another hit-piece against Trump. Yawn.

When almost all the mainstream media have been captured by left-liberal globalists who are cheer-leading for the destruction of our culture, history, societies and values, is it any wonder that people are switching off?

And any form of media 'education' (ostensibly about how to spot fake news or bias) in schools will inevitably be left-wing indoctrination, given the capture of the 'education' system by the left.

Great! Of course, the Dem judges will shoot it down, but Trump will never give up on protecting the American people.

This will end in tears.

Not to worry. Carbon dioxide is not a problem, as it is not a driver of climate change.

Stunningly idiotic.

Just waiting now for that bastion of free speech and democracy, the 'European Union' to step in and force Poland to rerun the election. It seems they believed their man would win, so didn't do their usual thing of getting the conservative barred before the election.

Underworld,

Being aligned to MAGA is hurting politicians wordwide.

Ooooooops! That didn't age well....

This is fantastic news!

kaimycahl, there is no climate emergency. They don't need funds 'to help cope with climate change': https://www.freedom-research.org/p/exclusive-professor-richard-lindzen

They should do what the Maldives did when 'threatened by climate change': build a socking new airport (Malé Velana). Quite an investment for a few islands allegedly doomed to slip beneath the waves within a few years.

Nagasaki was certainly a port with the Mitsubishi shipyard, which was not targeted and survived unscathed, being across the bay and rather to the south. The bomb was calculated to do the maximum damage to the city itself (and, by implication, to the civilian population). It was an obscenity. You can't simply say 'this city has military stuff in it, so we're going to wipe out the entire city'. Sorry, no. And yes, the Japanese committed war crimes. So did the Germans, and British and Soviets. That does not mitigate the heinousness of the atomic bombings.

Correction - 'Kyoto was ruled out because Groves had good memories of his honeymoon there'. It wasn't Groves, but Stimson.

Thanks for educating me, and sorry for my obtuseness, but I have not changed my mind. A warning would be 'We are going to wipe out X part of your city on 9 August 1945. Please leave that area on that day.' It is ridiculous to ask millions of people to leave a city on the off-chance that it might get hit. In any case, they had no idea they might get hit by an atomic bomb. The leaflet dropped on Nagasaki after the Hiroshima bombing, if indeed it was dropped, would have given a population of 200,000 a few days to evacuate - an obvious logistical impossibility, considering the impoverished state of the country.

What military installations did the USA bomb in Nagasaki? As a far as I recall, it was selected because it was untouched until then, and they wanted an untouched city in order to measure the destructiveness of the bomb. Kyoto was ruled out because Groves had good memories of his honeymoon there, and Kokura was cloudy on the day, so the next on the list was Nagasaki.

If they had wanted to hit particular military installations (the Mitsubishi shipyard?), that could be achieved by conventional bombing. They aimed the atomic bomb on the centre of the city, but missed and it fell on Urakami. By no stretch of the imagination was it aimed at any particular military target.

War crime.

JboneInTheZone, of course it was a war crime. Victors don't get prosecuted for war crimes, though. It was the cold-blooded massacre of thousand of civilians, who were given no warning and no chance to escape. Indiscriminate and intention killings of civilians have always been considered war crimes, for as long as that concept has existed. The ends NEVER justify the means.

Karol Nawrocki sounds like the man.

The Japanese media tells the Japanese people that Trump is going to hurt the Japanese economy, and hey presto, they all distrust him. The Japanese media tell them Trump is strong on China, they love him.

I once asked my students to imagine they were American, and then look at Trump from the American point of view. I asked, 'Don't you think you might be happy with him if you were American?' I got blank looks. One student replied, 'But he is not good for Japan.' I gave up.

You'd need a hell of a lot of cold water to counteract all the hot air emitted in that building.

Finally! The EU is on the way out, and its virtue-signalling 'Wir schaffen das!' nonsense is the first thing to collapse. EU countries are now putting up fences to control their borders in defiance of EU law. It's a beautiful sight to behold. Smug, out-of-touch, left-liberal globalism meets cold reality, and reality wins.

Anti-semitism alive and well here, I see.

I totally agree. It's disgusting how widespread this kind of anti-semitism is becoming. When Japanese visit the UK, do we ask them if they have ever been involved in atrocities during the Pacific War? Incredible.

Terrorist attacks? I remember London during the IRA bombings in the 1970s. Not a bin in sight. It was inconvenient, but we put up with it. The idea that Japan might be facing a similar threat is simply ludicrous.

virusrex, you totally misunderstand the meaning of catholic. It has nothing to do with DEI. It means universal, for all continents and nations: for the entire population of the world, but united by the apostolic faith.

The divisions in the American Catholic Church are due to the radical liberalism that has engulfed the Church in the west since the Second Vatican Council. The liberal 'progressives' wished to open the Church to the world, but in reality simply subjugated the Church to the secular humanist Zeitgeist, minimalising the differences between it and other Christian denominations and even pagan religions, and refashioning it into just another NGO, preaching fraternity, socialism, peace, and dialogue. Any Catholics who now push back and insist on Catholic doctrine and practice as it was handed down over the last 2000 years is labelled a reactionary. It's the usual leftist playbook. In truth, there is no division; there are just a lot of confused liberals like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi who believe they are Catholics, but are actually not.

P_C: Yes

All too often, I see commentators here opposing literally everything Trump does and says because they hate him and refuse to consider the possibility that sometimes he may be right.

isabelle, if China attempted to hold the world to ransom by blocking trade routes, they would suffer as much as anyone else, and probably more. It would never happen.