Nigel Farage had already acknowledged, generally, that many of these allegations were broadly true in 2013 and 2021. Now that there is more detailed testimony from about 30 people, he is claiming they are making up things he had previously tacitly accepted happened.

FT’s who’s who at the ‘deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter’, dripping with contempt for Musk’s enablers, who it dresses up as clowns. Bravo

"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter." In an age of cowards, it's great to see the FT simply bodying these clowns.

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Poor analysis. Israel has long been courting small states in Africa and elsewhere to unsuccessfully counter growing trend of criticism at UNGA. Somaliland recognition is the kind of childish trolling that passes for Israeli diplomacy under Netanyahu. Not a masterstroke apple.news/Amy5Wo7paTBG...

It is *quite alarming* that this very important but also very basic distinction seems to be eluding UK authorities.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

If you have to tie yourself in knots to do a deal with a proven bad faith actor that deal is fundamentally not worth doing. Trump hasn’t even bothered enforcing his own ceasefire in Gaza with a belligerent ally he has leverage over. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks to HP for posting this collection of Nordic newspaper front pages. The Nordic countries perspective. USA under Trump has become our enemy.

Dept of magic beans

New York Times reporter on the situation in Venezuela

Once again, creating CSAM is not (just) a regulatory matter, it is a crime.

When people commit crimes you don’t call them to say what steps will you take to stop committing crimes, you prosecute them for the crimes they have committed

Security forces clash with protesters in #Iran's main market as at least 35 killed in demonstrations apnews.com/article/iran...

Without a hint of irony, Kemi Badenoch - after doing the full ‘Trump was right’ on Venezuela for best part of 10 minutes - when asked about Brexit on Radio 4 Today says ‘sovereignty matters’ Then asked for one big policy, says cutting net zero Fundamentally unserious

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

I mean what was the point of all this, if they are gonna let it slide because running scared of Musk? www.gov.uk/government/p...

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Venezuela military says U.S. killed Maduro’s guards ‘in cold blood’ before snatching him. | Miami Herald www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

💯. Just because Trump is convinced this is all about oil doesn’t mean it actually is. Apparently a lot of people need reminding that the President is not, in fact, very bright.

Its...not an unreasonable question to ask who is running a country of 30 million people after you kidnapped its President. Its not a gotcha or optics, its pretty important.

The war at home: the US Administration fantasising about deporting a third of the population, including 60 million US-born citizens + 30 million migrants with legal status, to Make America Much Whiter Again bsky.app/profile/sund...

A post shared by the US Defence Secretary

The ‘Mr PC’ on Coltrane’s Giant Steps

To point out that Maduro is deeply unpopular across much of Latin America and a potential majority of Venezuelans wanted him gone is not to justify Trump's actions but rather indicate that responses in Latin American societies might not conform with partisan battle lines in the US.

Kidnapping a head of state is not ‘audacious’ if you are the world’s most powerful military. It is not bold or brilliant. It is something within your capacity to do but that should not be done

I think European leaders in failing to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela out of some fear of provoking Trump’s ire are missing the point that (a) Trump clearly doesn’t care what they think anyway, (b) Trump couldn’t hold them in more contempt anyway. /1

‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US

I've just updated my previous post on the military intervention in Venezuela. I was right to be sceptical of Trump's claims that VP Delcy Rodríguez was prepared to hand over the country and its oil field to US - as she has now made clear. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/trump-madu...

Trump just now. We (USA) are going to run Venezuela with a "group". No details.

Trump also said that there would be no additional strikes, which makes US rule rather hard to imagine. Either they need more military force, or really the US will not run VZ. Can’t have both.

Truly bizarre press conference under way. Trump claims the US will rule Venezuela for now--but no details. Actually, the Venezuelan military is now in charge and there seems to be no plan to get rid of them. And all the blame is being put on Maduro (and his wife).

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

APNewsAlert: CARACAS, #Venezuela (AP) — No visible signs yet that US is running Venezuela after Trump claims, as country's security forces control key sites.

Donald Trump promising to run a safe, proper, and judicious transition in leadership is irony being taken out and shot.

Forget Panama this feels (in ambition, God knows whether in reality) more like Haiti in 1915.

It's becoming clear from the reading and watching I'm doing that almost zero thought went into "what comes next" questions while the mad king was planning his decapitation strike on Venezuela from his totally-not-riddled with spies Florida golf club. What a time to be alive.

Unlike Badenoch I’ve actually reported from Caracas. Unlike her I don’t have arrogant pretensions to superior knowledge. What I do know - and from personal experience - is that these interventions tend not to turn out very well more often as not

I can find Venezuela on a map. Can she find her party's polling numbers with a microscope?

"By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors." NYT Editorial Board www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Trump on China: "There's not gonna be a problem. They're gonna get oil. We're gonna allow people to have oil ... nobody can stop us."

Just so we’re clear on what’s happening here: Trump says US will decide on what’s next for Venezuela apnews.com/live/trump-u...

Trump's got a taste for blood.

FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice? TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision