"Nigel Farage Recommends" www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6822673...

Yeah! Because the climate emergency isn't nearly as important as Derek in Carshalton Beeches God given right to drive a diesel Mercedes through Sutton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Danish intelligence accuses US of using economic power to ‘assert its will’ over allies. Danes have it right. The US is not a reliable ally. It is using tariffs & military threats to secure dominance. Europe needs closer economic & military cooperation.

Incredibly brave. Imagine the faceless bores the BBC will have making their programmes if they continue down this path.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...

It’s when my husband tells stories about the time he told a reporter he wanted her to have his baby, and then we learned all about felching, and the 37 affairs he documented in his diary during his previous marriage. There’s just no time like the holidays in the Kennedy house!

Thank you for all the messages and solidarity - I know it could be a strange week ahead so I may be quite quiet - but I am chipper and ready

8 series of joyous pulpishness, never pretentious, never taking itself too seriously, and the fun of noticing all the van Dyke family members appearing in it. And Dick’s roller-skating.

The new @CSMVSmumbai galleries are a massive achievement and marks the beginning of a new age of really world class museums in India. Three cheers for Mr Mukherjee and his brilliant team!

There is also a wonderful Buddha from the Buddhist university, library and monastery in Nalanda, brilliantly juxtaposed with an image of Ptolemy II who built the Library of Alexandria.

Completely dazzled by Networks of the Past, a new gallery @CSMVSmumbai charting India's relationship with the ancient world. Its not just one of the best curated museum galleries in South Asia, it is also the best visual representation I have ever seen of the world I describe in The Golden Road...

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Best two pieces I’ve read today are by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (The other one precedes this in my feed.)

The fact you have to say "any compassionate employer" is the point. Not every employer is compassionate!

Trump's National Security Strategy is a manifesto for undermining democracy and carving up Europe. It demands that we both shore up our protections against foreign political interference and unpick our 8 decades of dependence on our most unreliable ally. My latest for @heraldscotland.bsky.social

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Latest monthly visa application figures are out. Skilled workers? Still dropping. Health & care workers? Still dropping. Slow clap.

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC. *Why not?* Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...

Frankly, I’m up for this. I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.

We really didn't need another reason to not visit the fascist shithole that the clueless cult on the right in the US has created. You couldn't pay me enough to visit the US. Not as long as it's run by demented demagogue.

My former hardcore Brexit friend tonight: Words to the effect 'we need a stronger and more united Europe, and leaving the EU was a massive mistake'

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

What is constraining government capital investment in the UK? Speakng at the Treasury Select Committe this week, Ruth Curtice argued it was less to do with fiscal rules and more to do with the UK's higher borrowing costs.

Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.

Sweet Jesus Starmer’s here to make the headlines about immigration again. The actual worst politician I’ve ever seen 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Today - are foreigners really human? Should they REALLY enjoy human rights protections like the rest of us? #r4today

This is quite unbelievable A Labour Govt Give me strength I will find it very hard to vote for a Labour candidate even if it is tactically when policies like this are in place Shameful, really shameful!

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

This is why Polanski and the Greens using "cowardice" as their narrative framing of Starmer and Labour lands so effectively.

Presumably, Reform will claim this was all years ago, and while he's completely innocent, "everyone" had massive presidential style election campaigns in Clacton back in the long distant er summer of 2024 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d.... Very high on the no shit Sherlock scale...

Maybe it’s my age, but I genuinely feared for the country under Thatcher. 🤷‍♀️

Fuck those guys!!!

Very good question Peter 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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There were people with the power to stop Truss , Trump and Johnson - but they helped them to gain power fully aware of how destructive they would be and how frighteningly unfit for the job they were

“Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he.”

Amen, Mark.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

This is getting stupid now. We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth. And yet they still reinforce their red lines. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Not clumsy. Spreading racist myths isn’t clumsy.

Not for the first time, I’m being told that attacking Farage for his boyhood racism is futile. The opposite is the case, as you can see from how rattled he is by it. And no, it’s not about persuading Farage fans anything, it’s about mobilising the non-voters and encouraging tactical voting.

I wonder how many cigars JK Rowling smokes as she mumbles “I love it when a plan comes together” as she giggles, picturing all the children she has made feel sad and more alone today

Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Meanwhile, the University of Essex is making 200 academics redundant and closing an outreach campus.

BREAKING NEWS Over a third of Welsh Labour Senedd Members have written to Keir Starmer to stop undermining devolution. They say: "If this was being done by a Tory Government, we would be calling for a judicial review. This must never happen again." 1/2