Peter will be joining me on air at 11.45.

Today, Swiss voters will vote on two nation-wide referendums (popular initiatives): ▪️on replacing compulsory military service with a civic duty extended to women ( #ServiceCitoyen) ▪️on introducing an inheritance tax ( #Erbschaftssteuer) for the very rich to fund measures to fight climate change

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Tina Turner Eric Clapton Astrud Gilberto Jacques Loussier The Deep Sea Jivers

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Donald Trump approves the release of The Epstein Files. They will be released just as soon as the Tipp-Ex has dried.

Actually the immigration policy has some very good principles in an area fraught with difficulties because distressed human beings are involved. Safe and Legal Routes Contribution Work and Study Route The system is broken. I prefer Starmer fix it than Farage.

Did she mean "arrant tittle-tattle"?

A good day to resurrect this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEA...

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Preparations for civil unrest. Not the action of a confident leader.

Homeward from Heathrow early this morning...

"just wrap it up before she destroys you with her heat vision" youtu.be/ylF53eJZniw

Farage: epic grifter

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

This is impressive - solidarity with those women who performed the citizens arrest www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

I ❤️ Viz

incidentally I enjoyed the interview on BBC News last night with a woman from the Nobel committee who pointed that so long as Trump was using the judicial system to go after his enemies and sending troops into peaceful cities, he probably wasn't a strong candidate for the Nobel peace prize

Here’s the Wolfson Report recommending the UK leaves the ECHR www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina... Take a shot every time Policy Exchange is cited as authority for a dubious legal proposition and you’ll be drunk before the end of the first chapter

Brutal BBC piece on how fast Switzerland’s glaciers are melting. Drill baby drill. 🎶🎵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

More details on the Swiss e-ID vote. Note: everyone already has a physical ID card. BBC News - Swiss vote on electronic identity cards for second time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Macron www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

One more sleep... #TheSkewer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Reviews on the new portable patio heater say it’s impossible to move and offers no warmth at all, with one person reporting if you get too close it turns your face orange.

It is a bit ironic that something good happens on his watch for once (the Nagorno-Karabakh unpleasantness has been ongoing since 1988) and he can’t claim credit for it without fluffing his lines.

When authoritarians talk about free speech, they mean their entitlement to our credulity.

I thought I'd do a grim little thread on a cursed bird. Here it is. It doesn't know it's cursed, and it isn't it's fault, but it is.

It's nearly time. #TheSkewer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

As a lawyer who litigates against the Home Office in immigration cases, it sometimes - no, often - feels like they have chosen their policies and practices to generate work for lawyers! I don’t believe that’s true. But +

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

It might as well Rayner till September…

The Tories placed several Tory stooges in the BBC’s Political Editorial team. They, in turn, promoted a whole load of Tory apologists - Laura Kuenssberg, Nick Robinson, Fiona Bruce and so on - to be the face of BBC News. Then the Tories changed the meaning of ‘balance’ to allow Farage etc. airtime.

"A grand jury would indict a ham sandwich," then-Chief Judge of New York's Court of Appeals, Sol Wachtler, said in 1985. Oh. The. Irony.

Two-thirds of those arrested at the Bristol anti-immigration riots have been involved in domestic abuse reports It is these native-born thugs who are the main threat to women in this country, not asylum seekers. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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Trump "I Did That" Sticker Pops Up on $45 Pack of Meat — Enough to Feed Two People Source: Distractify share.newsbreak.com/emsau9p7

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Not now radioactive wasps!

Gordon Bennett!

Russia: "The work was completed on time, the asphalt has been laid, the roadway is open to traffic. This is a good example of the implementation of a national project."

There is a lot of deflection taking place by politicians this morning, suggesting that the court kept the superinjunction in place and that had to be overcome. That's not true or not complete- the government kept it in place by repeatedly applying for its renewal.

The art of manufacturing outrage. Just omit the fact that the OT programme 'denied to private school pupils' is commissioned and funded by mainstream schools. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

@marina-purkiss.bsky.social Well said.

According to Google's AI, the German word for 'but' can be translated into Swiss German as but, but, but, but, but or but, depending on the region and the context.

So the current high emigration from the UK of healthcare professionals, engineers, scientists, construction workers and IT specialists will actually help the Government's aim of reducing net migration?

A couple of pleasing clues in Vlad's #Guardian #Cryptic #Crossword yesterday: Gave order to Asian accomplished in conversation (7) Common resident of river (7)

this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch