The detention of Noriega in 1969 is clearly the closest precedent for the Maduro operation. But events in Caracas remind me of a now-forgotten episode in which the US invaded a Commonwealth Caribbean state, giving the UK Gov’t a few hours’ notice and ignoring their objections 1/9

Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?

I assume Putin will get a free permanent seat on Trump's Board of "Peace"

The very stable geniuses of British politics should not be allowed to forget their sycophancy towards Trump.

The Tory party is actually improving without even doing anything at the moment! If Fareham's MP defects, they might have a chance to turn things around after all!

Use the King's state visit as cover to kidnap Trump? 🤔 #OneKingToRuleThemAll

These fanfic articles are really ripping my knitting! He’s an 80yr old man, with clear cognitive decline, a rapist, a fraud, a racist and failure and these fuckwits promote just following along with the madman.

Whaaaaaaaat?! 🤯

I'm sure Farage will be busy working hard in Clacton for his constituents... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂

Do journalists not use email? Just wondering whether the excuse some politicians are using for staying on X is just bollocks, or complete bollocks.

First cup of tea: I’ll just set sail On this inland sea Made just for me, Just for me.

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

This might even be better than conference socks!

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

The very latest from the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent. Visit the link for more. mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

Couldn't Denmark just present Trump with a golden lego ballroom set to distract him?

Has Trump invaded Epstein Island yet?

Now I want a pancake!

When Discomfort Becomes Law: The Dangerous Logic of the Darlington Nurses Case. How an employment tribunal turned prejudice into principle and left trans workers with nowhere to go @goodlawproject.org @helenwebberley.bsky.social

@stephenkb.bsky.social v good on Jenrick defection, opportunity it presents to Tories, unlikelihood of them seizing it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The pump recovered from the Mary Rose, presented here as a thread. (Well, it has to be a thread, the blooming thing's over 8.22m (4.49 fathoms) long!)

I remember Apple booting games out of the App Store due to pixelated boobs. I recall it kicking off various apps due to porn. Yet GenAI CSAM and other horrors where those depicted haven’t consented? Oh, that’s just fine, apparently. FFS. It’s not just the cowardice. It’s also the hypocrisy.

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

I currently have 4 DMs that I cannot read, because apparently it's more important to protect me from my own DMs in the UK than it is to do anything about AI generated CSAM. Wondering how many DMs it would take before I tried to find a way to read them.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

what a headline 👀 (and a read)

First cup of tea: just a calm in a teacup.

For clarity, this government has so far: - cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally) - cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line - cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit - cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line

Have any companies publicly left X recently? Some did back in 2023, although I'm not sure how many stayed off.

A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn’t appear in the Epstein files.

Why we won't be using X anymore ⬇️

@Grok Add a Bikini Atoll

Me in 2025: Don't use AI note takers in meetings because they can lead to unchecked errors and unfair and discriminatory outcomes Me in 2026: Don't use Grok in military planning unless you want to accidentally start a war Not a fan of this rate of change

Still no sign of Paul Holmes. Has anyone spotted any other Eastleigh politicians move over recently, or are they mostly still sticking with X?

Had a lovely reply from @the3million.bsky.social. Now I'm contemplating a Christmas card design competition for my MP :)

Wot, still no Paul Holmes?! #HambleValley

So the incompetent and corrupt politicians who destroyed the Tory brand are moving to a new crappy party because the Tory brand has been destroyed.

I think that there are more with verified .gov.uk handles, I was just making a list here, mostly councils and NI Exec bodies: bsky.app/profile/agvb...

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

Incredible convo with a visiting friend and former colleague today in which we agreed that the US was on our personal lists of places we’d certainly not visit without diplomatic protection, along with, i.a., Belarus, Russia, Iran etc. Neither of us can really believe it’s come to this.

Just emailed @the3million.bsky.social to ask if they have any plans to sell new Christmas cards in the future. (My MP complained that I'm using up the pack that Axel Scheffler designed. Sadly, physical proof of settled status still seems relevant.) #HambleValley

Delighted to see that Kemi Badenoch appears to consider rejoining the EU???????

I wonder how many people are only still on X because the IT company/politician/journalist/government department* they follow doesn't post anywhere else. *delete as appropriate

Getting government press officers to use a social media app is my postcode address file.

It was not a super flu year and why I think government and NHS messaging was wrong and counterproductive - my latest post christinapagel.substack.com/p/it-was-not...

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

Where the hell are Google and Apple enforcing their app store terms of service on X? Grok doing CSAM should instantly be a removal from the app store. Any other app doing this would be pulled instantly. Journalists should be asking for comment from these companies.

This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...