A happy 24th birthday to dazzling Chelsea and England midfielder Cole Palmer, pictured here (right) with teammates.

Of course he does…

Politico: "Badenoch will speak to media around 10.a.m...to unveil her party’s new 'Plan for Drivers.' It includes the eye-catching plans to abolish 24-hour bus lanes to ease traffic congestion" Ludicrous policy. Buses are used by millions of people every day. This will make all their lives harder.

Should be part of his next test.

Every so often I can’t help but wonder… what is the purpose of Jeremy Vine?

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)

No one is allowed to say they didn’t vote for this. You voted for a vulgar, narcissistic, incompetent, mentally ill, bigoted, unfit, incompetent, maleficent person to run the United States of America. You knew exactly what you were doing. Stop pretending.

In his @status.news newsletter @oliverdarcy.bsky.social reports the White House got Getty to delete this photo (from a Thanksgiving White House PHOTO-OP STUNT) because Karoline Leavitt was offended It ran only in a Swiss newspaper. It would be a shame if you retweeted and Streisanded it

They are absolutely spitting nails about this because it’s absolutely accurate. Of course those very people who regularly mock and humiliate the powerless now want « kindness » for this deeply cynical, avaricious, self-regarding, hate-mongering woman.

Comedian Sparks MAGA Backlash After Brutal Video Mocking Familiar Conservative Woman #HuffingtonPost

Listen to a grieving mother and have no doubts: water privatisation has been a lethal scandal. Avoidable tragedies caused by ideology of privatisation & profiteering. Govts listen to corporations and their controllers, not the pain of the people.

It never worked and saved no lives. Rather than use existing NHS public health networks, including GPs, Dido Harding tried to set up a private network from scratch, funnelling 10s of billions to Deloitte, Serco, Sitel, Randox. DHL, G4S. Palantir, Sodexo… She never accounted for the lost money.

Must have seemed such a fabulous idea at the time to stick it to the woke and the migrants by electing a muti-millionaire, tax-avoiding, racist, smug, climate-change denier - now you’re drowning in your own tears and he doesn’t care. Quel dommage, eh?

Fascinating thread

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

Say “thank you”? Guy didn’t even wear a suit!

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

So the LAPD Police Chief Jim McDonnell said he wasn't going to enforce the law in California that requires #ICE to unmask. Here's some of the response. What do you think about what's being said by Angelinos like Catie Laffoon ⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Strong language

A nicely observed article on a great show, which I remember with great affection both for its production values and also its engaging and humanitarian narrative and central character. It’s redolent of a time when we dared hope that the arrow of history was finally bending towards justice. Ah well…

A 62-year-old TV show demonstrates just how badly the prevailing ethics portrayed in US television have degenerated in that time: maggiemcneill.com/2026/02/09/s...

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...

Strangely, Boris Johnson used to have a very different opinion about Donald Trump. Very different.

Privatisation in a nutshell: Steal from us something we own. Sell us back an inferior service at a higher price. The most obvious example is the railways. But the pattern is the same everywhere else: water, electricity, gas, the NHS, public services, council services…

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

Most distant image of Earth, taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft on 14 February 1990. In 2026, how about we remember we are all on this dot together?

What a contrast from the current horror show!

I’ll be over here waiting for the GOP or evangelical leaders to comment on the latest Epstein photos, i.e. the condoms, black glove and various sex gadgets.

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...

I spy….a man with a functioning brain:

Great to chat with someone who really loved my book on black holes, A Crack in Everything, and appreciated the fact I had gone and talked to the people who had made the discoveries and told their stories. Here’s the podcast newbooksnetwork.com/a-crack-in-e... #blackholes #space #astronomy #universe

Yes, America is probably the worst but ‘capitalist’ governments everywhere provide tax payers’ money as subsidy to corporations who generally do everything to avoid paying tax. It’s always socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the poor.

Absolutely!

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

And we think they’re heartless, traitorous, grifters.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

I’d completely forgotten, thanks for reminding me!

Do you want to know what will really stick it to the man? We cancel all passive entertainment Take up a musical instrument 🎻 🎸 🥁 🪘 🎺 🎷 🎹 Make singing with your friends around the parlor piano after dinner a thing again Rock out in your garage with your midlife crisis band

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

YES!!!!!

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... @hcrichardson.bsky.social

This!

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive

Brexit has been a disaster for businesses. 💼 📉 Nick Thomas-Symonds: "Companies - big and small - are crying out for a change, for practical help to bring down bills so they can make goods cheaper for the public."