'Please, you don't have to have your hand on me' Watch the moment ITV News' Peter A Smith was grabbed by a Reform UK staffer after being told to move on from his line of questioning while interviewing the party's new Scottish leader, Malcolm Offord

Breaking Just Now: A massive explosion has rocked Utrecht, Netherlands. Emergency services are on the scene. Details still emerging. Monitoring.

#ProudBlue Minneapolis is Chicago on steroids. As expected, the orange overlord is using the chaos HE’S DIRECTING as an excuse for martial law. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Election Night 2024 hundreds of thousands of Kamala's votes disappeared multiple times in multiple states. That's not supposed to happen. The process is additive. Precinct counts should go up, not down when new batches are counted. How did it happen? open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Ed Davey on Robert Jenrick going to Reform UK, "This is one more rat leaving the sinking ship" "The Conservatives are running out of ideas and Reform UK only have bad ones"

Europeans prepare military exercises in Greenland, Trump's ambitions undeterred reut.rs/3NeGQId

WIN: A federal court rejects Republicans’ argument that California unlawfully drew its new voter-approved congressional map “to favor Hispanic voters.” The three-judge panel found no basis for blocking the map.

This is from the US but it seems to fit RefUKers too.

Today in History: January 14, 1994 U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk signed the Trilateral Statement, an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine in exchange for security assurances from the U.S., UK, and Russia.

Nuclear option launched against Kristi Noem by 70 Democrats

BREAKING: The Foreign Affairs Committee has written to social media companies – X, Meta and TikTok – to request they give evidence to the Committee on the threat posed by foreign disinformation targeting the UK and its overseas interests committees.parliament.uk/committee/78...

The cringe is real.

UK social housing firm faces $404 million fraud, bribery probe reut.rs/4sLrdIs

It’s so greedy, the Clacton Cunt knows no shame, but it’s also a tetchy twat… this will anger it. Its life must have been full of bitterness and resentment, so much so it treats the country that it benefited from with absolute disdain.

UPDATE: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social says California is investigating (also MEMPHIS-based) xAI for child porn. Why don’t Tennessee officials/Republicans care about this? @GovBillLee @SenBrentTaylor

The FBI searched a journalists (Hannah Natanson of WAPO) taking her phone, a work and personal computer and a Garmin watch. Where are the freedom of speech people? What is happening to the US? #ProudBlue www.bbc.com/news/article...

Denmark has begun deploying special elements and heavy military equipment to Greenland to establish defensive positions and logistical infrastructure ahead of a larger Danish Army deployment, with additional European forces expected to follow, including Sweden that is deploying forces today.

"... in all caps"

Can someone get Fed Chair Jerome Powell a glass of water?

Venezuela’s 'law of terror' grips streets amid detentions, fear

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." .. (quote Robert A. Heinlein) .. (cartoon Matt Wuerker) #politics #quote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

So what was the point of having police and crime commissioners and going to the trouble of transferring their authority to combined mayoral elected mayors then? This is just a jumbled mess www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

(cartoon by John Darkow) #trump #politics #ice

Godspeed, Mr. Carney. My cartoon in the Wednesday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

It is time to eradicate AI from all educational environments. Find another way. Maybe teach kids about AI like when we learned about drugs in middle school. “The risks of AI outweigh the benefits” - new report about AI in elementary schools.

The decision is a boon for President Donald Trump's longtime campaign against mail-in voting.

Labour secures record offshore wind: clean power, jobs, cheaper bills. Reform UK’s reaction? Screaming bollocks, scare stories, fuck-all plan. Trash renewables, suck up to oil & gas mates, then whine when bills stay high. All mouth, no brains, pure grift. #ukpolitics

Blimey. Did I really just hear Keir Starmer say this “They had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra. No wonder they are knackered and they left the country screwed” #PMQs

Keir Starmer on Nadhim Zahawi's defection to Reform UK: "I don't know which is more pitiful - the flood of former Tory MPs deserting her sinking ship or the Reform Party so desperate to launder any old, failed Tory politician."

Here's an update from the post I shared a few days back. The 21 year old youngster who protesting peacefully & holding a speaker and was shot in the face by #ICE point blank has been permanently blinded in 1 eye! Please share this story widely!

Release the Epstein Files!

This afternoon’s meme…

Anti-racism campaigners and unions have voiced their horror after Nigel Farage doubled down on his decade-old call for anti-discrimination laws to be ripped up so employers can discriminate www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Cartoon by @chrisbritt.bsky.social.

Spoiler: Yep! www.cbsnews.com/news/house-d...