This series of articles in the Guardian on the Free Birth influencers makes terrifying reading. So many dead babies. If you’re planning (or going through) a pregnancy and you want to maximise the chance of a surviving, healthy baby, don’t mess with these people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Ah yes, I well remember our hard work on behalf of the fishing industry. Out of 42 Fisheries meetings while I was an MEP I could only be arsed to attend 1. Then we screwed the whole fishing industry with Brexit, so well done us.

Trump has now conducted 28 boat strikes, killing over 100 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

Sewage releases aren't just a #PublicHealth issue, but also a #biodiversity threat H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/swlondo...

What do modern Conservatives and Victorian Gentry have in common? They both believe Adelaide and modern day children of parents on benefits are undeserving of new shoes.

"All Kemi Badenoch cares about is getting a good media line," Jess Phillips tells Lewis Goodall. The Tory leader has attacked plans to teach children about misogyny, blaming migrants for crimes against women and girls. "She's not a serious person" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/jess...

A young girl from Powys has won multiple RSPCA Young Photographer awards once again, two years after becoming the competition’s youngest ever winner

'For years the Labour party has been under pressure to take the issues of foreign interference, and dark money in our politics, more seriously. However, a nervousness inside Downing Street about being seen to question the Brexit result...has meant that little so far has been done.'

Michel Mone linked firm goes bust bit.ly/3Yzqwns Liquidation means the money will not be repaid unless the govt can go after the personal assets in trust but that could be tricky.

Kemi Badenoch's stance on this is truly bizarre! It's so obvious to most people that these measures to tackle misogyny, and worse through additional resources, teaching and support for all young boys are necessary. In what world can someone oppose it?

Badenoch can recruit the 10,000 extra officers, but for some women the cases of Carrick and Couzens will not be easily removed from memory by this extra capacity.

“When they are defending their liberal democracy, they are in fact defending ours as well.” ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus shares a Christmas message with #Newsnight and says that the Ukrainians “deserve all the support they can have from us.”

Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’. Company provides address false address but still incorporated. Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities. UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.

Kent County Council are Reform’s Flagship Council showing they’re ready for Govern, here’s some achievements👇🏼 1 councillor on trial for threatening to kill wife❌ 9 been suspended or quit❌ Circa £60 million budget deficit❌ 1 councillor faces probe over 'punch' threat❌ Cutting services/raising tax❌ 🤦🏼‍♂️

WHEN LEO FELER GOT HOME, there was blood everywhere. On his front door, the window sills, the foyer. This wasn’t some tragic accident or a murder scene; rather, while he was out of town to run a marathon, immigration agents had decided to attack the workers replacing windows on his house.

The inevitable consequences of the unregulated spreading of toxic sewage sludge on UK farms. @fightingdirty.bsky.social

How to placate a child.

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Putin: “If we were to join our efforts—Russia and European countries—our joint GDP would be higher than the US.”

These two tweets were posted at almost exactly the same time. They say almost exactly the same thing. One by former Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies. The other by Reform's Wales director David Thomas. A defection coming or are they simply getting their instructions from the same source?

I’m reading some Christmas poems tonight on The Adverb on BBC Radio 4. But don’t let that put you off, there’s a fabulous line-up of other guests: Jackie Kay, John Hegley and Sam Lee, expertly compered by Testament. It’ll be on the BBC Sounds app once it’s aired. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Another warning to step up defence preparation against Russia.

Reform Mayoral candidate Chris Parry told Zarah Sultana on social media that he supported a call for her to be deported [withdrawn with an apology by Express journalist], saying that was not to do with her skin colour her faith. He objected to a Muslim MP swearing an oath on the Quran

Reform tried to dismiss questions on Farage’s racism, saying they should be asked about the ‘substance’ of their policies instead. Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too. “The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a particularly crass thing to publish the day that other outlets are publishing the (inspiring) letter home of someone killed serving our country, and while his family are freshly mourning.

In his life, Trump has had multiple Epstein chapters.

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

NHS: We would suggest you do not get pregnant again. Wife: That's not a problem. We're done having kids. NHS: Great. Wife: Actually, since it would also solve my chronic pain issues, could I get a hysterectomy? NHS: Oh no no no, you're far too young. What if you wanted more kids? Wife: ...I'm sorry?

It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.

The first Welsh actor to win an Oscar is to be commemorated with a blue plaque in his south Wales hometown to mark 80 years since he received the award wp.me/p8Mk4U-1b1j

Well, there's one to boycott

"Kemi Badenoch has to use people like me to give her any kind of relevance," @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tells @lewisgoodall.com, responding to Badenoch's criticism of her handling of violence against women & girls. "She should probably apologise to the girls who might have been raped."

In the year since the dictator Assad was overturned, 3.2 million refugees have returned to Syria. Many more are waiting for the rebuilding of essential infrastructure, now underway. That’s quite a success story.

Despicable Badenoch racist rant accusing migrants as rapists/sex abusers👇🏼 A v small sample of 11 year old White British boys who grew up to rape Shane Gibbs 15 counts of rape, sexual assault among other sex offenses against women & children🔥 John Ashby racially motivated rape🔥 She’s an evil cow😡

Reporter: Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for land attacks in Venezuela? Trump: I don't have to tell them, but I would not mind it at all. I just hope they would not leak it.

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Ludicrous www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks @kaplanikids.bsky.social and @lemonadegirl.bsky.social for the shoutout. 💙 @ltwlauren.bsky.social @jazchaz.bsky.social @josettewea.bsky.social @sailingsteve.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @lake-life-girl.bsky.social @annettebeebe.bsky.social @carlchri.bsky.social @kalgatron.bsky.social

Russian media report that approximately 10,000 individuals,a labor contingent from India,have arrived in Moscow.This’s the first group of Indians who arrived following Putin's recent visit to New Delhi I wonder how many of them will be deployed to the front line&how soon?What are your estimates?

A draw is held to decide who gets to ask Parliamentary Questions. I was lucky enough to be chosen to ask my question today, but I couldn’t be arsed to turn up. I was too busy saying the system is rigged and I am being gagged!

As soon as the racist bunting went up and St George crosses were being daubed everywhere, we knew. This was a far-right funded migrant-intimidation campaign, pretending to be about national pride. Never felt less proud. And many have never felt less safe. Disgusting of politicians to endorse it.

"I can only imagine America’s enemies in Moscow and Beijing and Tehran smiling with pleasure as they watched a president losing his bearings, berating his own people, and demanding that they absolve him of any blame when things get worse." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Absolutely!! Hence the shit show we have right now!!

Trump’s stupidity is absolutely staggering. He is referring to Venezuela’s 2007 nationalization of US company stakes which involved compensation disputes. BUT NOT THE LITERAL THEFT OF US OIL.

This is nonsense! In my school nativity at Dulwich I played the racist who told Mary and Joseph to fuck off back to Galilee. Admittedly they made the part up just for me, but still...

Keep up the pressure on Farage. Don't let him off his bad behaviour. That he won't apologize suggests strongly the desire to abuse is within him now.

🚨Keir Starmer's No 10 is cancelling afternoon lobby briefing, when journos can ask PM's spox as many questions they like, for as long as they like. They'll also sometimes cancel morning lobby, replacing it with ministerial press confs, restricting oppo for questions for many orgs.

Not ‘perhaps’. Labour ‘should’ stand up. What is it waiting for? Kick out the Tory appointments - the enemies within- like Robbie Gibb. And stand up for the BBC against Trump. Come on, Labour, grow a backbone!