Nigel Farage: "I’m the only figure from the other side of the Parliament that has consistently stood behind Trump, and stood behind the Maga movement. “I have never wavered in my thoughts or my views for one minute."

Obese, incontinent, senile, superannuated tantrumming toddler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I own that I'm an omnivore. But there's something about the use of tools that, for me, places an animal species in a different category of sentience www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Photo in today's Guardian of Starmer with that expression he so often wears, as if somebopdy has unexpectedly stuck a finger up his bottom.

Seems to me that the ICE Temu Gestapo has given every restaurant in the US a compelling reason not to serve them. Enjoy your sandwiches, knobheads. balleralert.com/profiles/blo...

Yet again Labour central command unilaterally proposes a shit law - in this case, a get-out-of-jail card for the secret services in the Hillsborough Law - then has to withdraw it. They refuse to recognise that their own MPs are a vital consultation resource. Idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The best video I have seen in a long time

Trump completely betrayed Iranian protestors. Thousands died directly because of his hollow promises.

I'm cheered by this article. Of course, with Trump, all bets are off: but, "If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency. And he needs to know", from a Republican congessman is strong stuff. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...

Sky News suggests that Kate Hoey will join Reform next week. That should make all the page sevens. news.sky.com/story/who-is...

Who'd'a thunk it? The rotting emperor and the brainwormed smackhead were talking bollocks about tylenol: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Trump can go fuck himself. And if Starmer doesn't have the balls to tell Trump to go fuck himself, then Starmer can go fuck himself. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Austin Smith, former Republican lawmaker, former leader of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, staunch election fraud polemicist, has pleaded guilty to forging 100 signatures on a petition to be added to the candidates of a 2024 primary. Republicans gonna Republican abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

If the history of populism and the pathology of narcissism have taught us anything, it's that Farage and Jenrick will be tearing at each other's throats within a year.

ICE agents: the children of Jabba the Hutt.

Farage claims he 'hasn't decided' yet whether to accept Jenrick into Reform's swivel-eyed ranks. Why the hell not? He's taken every other whingeing Tory rat.

Iranian citizens protesting against authoritarian regime *GOOD*, US citizens protesting against authoritarian regime *EVIL*

The UK Guardian reports that HMRC Chief Exec John-Paul Marks has admitted that “just under 5%” of the 23,700 parents who lost their child benefit in last year's 'anti-fraud crackdown', were in fact fraudulent. What an egregious and cruel mess. Surely somebody needs to take responsibility and go.

Interesting to see global banks lining up in defence of the independence of the US Fed against Trump: www.theguardian.com/business/202... If the Supreme Court also rules against the legality of Trump's tariffs this week (which seems at least plausible), then Trump's economic policy is shot to shit

I notice that simultaneous closed captioning routinely spells Kristi Noem's surname as 'Gnome'. Seems apposite: Gnome (def): 1. A small ugly person; an ageless and often deformed dwarf 2. A person regarded as having secret or sinister influence in financial matters.

I look forward to Farage, Trump and Musk congratulating Sadiq Khan as London's homicide rate falls to a ten year low www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Noem's gonna Noem, but she's spraypainted the largest imaginable target on her back when the tide changes. She's going to look shit, raging - or more likely, whingeing - in orange overalls. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Inauthenticity isn't going to trouble the fake-tanned, absurd-haired narcissist: remember his faked-up Time cover on the walls of Mar A Lago?

The Smithsonian: from global custodian of fact to obsequious sycophancy in one move. Reputation and respect takes so much work to build, and can be annihilated in a single moment of cowardice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tragically, I *think* Trump's going to do nothing to support the Iranian protestors. I really hope I'm wrong, but I wonder whether the spectacular backfiring of his Venezuelan adventurism is going to trigger the 'coward' flip of his bully/coward flip-floppery. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Oh, Lord: if Americans in Venezuela are killed, it will be entirely down to Trump's lawless adventurism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." George Orwell, 1984

...but it has everything to do with further enriching the super-rich who want to rape it of its resources and use it as a giant AI farm

The Kennedy Center may have to consider a permanent residency by Kid Rock www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There is not much to distinguish Trump's imperial America from Putin's Russia any more, bar the scale of oppression of its citizens. But that's well underway.

Greenland and its NATO family have made it abundantly clear that the US is welcome to massively expand its strategic presence in that country. So why does Trump continue to press for imperial occupation? Because he wants to rape it of its resources.

As bizarre a news story as you'll read today. Wrestlers, a lovelorn evangelical church leader and massive theft of charitable funding:

I spotted this in the Sleazy Ads weeds at the bottom of a Sky News article. I bet Brits will be flocking to it in their ones.

Grok AI imaging allowed users to generate abusive and exploitative depictions of women and girls. The only thing that drove X to turn it off for all but subscribers was the threat that X might be banned in many countries. No moral consideration at all: just greed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This wilfull murder was recorded from every angle. The agents of evil can bullshit all they want: but in time, this murderer will be brought to justice.

WWE Becky Lynch winning the IC belt is overdue. She's been working her socks off to get Maxine Dupree over. Dupree has improved, no doubt about it, but she's nowhere near wrestling like a champ.

Through Trump's illegal kidnapping of Maduro, Starmer's Labour has arrived at an irreversible fork. Either it grows a spine, or it offers up the United Kingdom's neck for a collar. It's Starmer's call.

Starmer is a mealy-mouthed coward. That Maduro is a corrupt, evil shit is an irrelevance - so is Trump. Kidnapping another nation's leader is illegal in international law. There is no 'clarification' that can justify it. Starmer either condemns it or makes the nation an accomplice to America's crime

“Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.” From all the evidence of his failing health, would anyone be surprised if 2026 turns out to be the year that Trump has his Forever Blink? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just look at the state of the daft buggers

Anyone who believes the claim that white people don't have rhythm is a racist myth, just needs to watch WWE audiences attempting to Yeet along with the Usos.

#AEW Kyle Fletcher sells like Ron Popeil, bless him.

That's top quality Rickrolling

This year's BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, 'The Room in the Tower' was truly dismal. Gatiss has produced, directed, and scripted great contributions to the canon, but this wasn't one of them. Classic ghost stories are better if you ignore the Hammer/Tales of the Unexpected structural tail-end twist.

The King's Christmas Message is an annual BBC fixture, and Channel 4's Alternative ChristmasMessage has become a staple, too. This year, Channel 4 invited @jimmykimmel.com to deliver it. To Kimmel's credit, he used the idiomatic term 'bollocking' correctly. youtu.be/dergOG7vpJg

I'm doing the festive tear duct workout: bingeing Christmas Repair Shops whilst prepping dinner.

Grifts of gold, Farridge and meh www.theguardian.com/politics/202...