Having been born on this day in 1957, I am somewhat susceptible to tv adverts we see at this time of year, ones that use the festivities of the 1970s as a means of evoking nostalgia for Christmases gone by. I think this one may have gone a bit too far however.

I love this!!!

Well colour me staggered.

Front page of Times: police have been accused of condoning the “scourge of antisemitism” after a string of forces refused to commit to arresting all protestors who chant “globalise the intifada”. Accused by whom? A crank Tory minister and one pressure group full of roaring shitehawks and crackpots.

The USA has made it possible for everyone to be murdered or to murder someone. Just like in the video games.

The world pie eating championship took place this week in Wigan. I feel compelled to remind people that Wigan did not invent pies not are they famed with pie manufacture. The Pie Eater moniker was given to the hated wigan when they broke the miner'd general strike and 'ate humble pie.'

Da gibt es nur eines. Den Bürgerlichen den Rücken zuwenden. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

I'm not usually into conspiracy theories, but if Putin wanted to use a crooked American demagogue to destroy American democracy, it would be playing out about the same way that it is right now.

Anyone tempted to wonder how many ¨Epstein wives¨ are wishing they had been as decisive as Melinda Gates was and were also today ¨Epstein divorcées¨.

Badenoch really is barking mad and dangerous. Alt text: thumbnail of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. A deeply unpleasant and possibly mad person. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

He really, still after all this time, thinks that asylum seekers have come from mental facilities to try to immigrate into the US. Has no-one tried putting him straight on this? Why not?

Every now and then I get flashbacks to a very early career interview I did where I agreed (I know, I know but I was young) to let the subject read the piece before I published. He sent it back, having amended it with flourishes like: “…he added, with a wry smile.” 😂😭🤢

Watch this space. oglobo.globo.com/politica/not...

This really is awful. Even walking along the shore has changed. You just can't unsee the quagga mussels - they are everywhere. Alt text: invasive quagga mussels growing below the surface of Lake Geneva. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am liking ski cross. But it needs to take another step: why just four skiers? Let's have a dozen!

We know what is happening and when our glaciers will die, and we know why, and we know what to do, but the carbon industry will not let us go, even though so many people will die. Shameful. L'Union européenne recule sur l'interdiction des moteurs thermiques dès 2035 www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...

The BBC has done what Trump never does - apologised. They should use his tactics, the only thing he understands: deny and accuse, and demand huge damages Alt text: a meddlesome autocrat and a BBC building. www.bbc.com/news/article...

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Ending. L‘UDC était contre, claire. Ils battent tous chez eux. Le National accepte finalement d'allouer un million de francs supplémentaires à la lutte contre les violences sexistes www.rts.ch/info/suisse/...

this 'stope the tories' tactical voting scam is how we ended up with starmer. every time someone posts it you should tell them to go to hell. if you want a better england vote green. at this point that's your only option: vote green. anything else will get you more of the same.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

I think I am suffering from an overdose of violence. Why are people killing others in such numbers?

Sounds about right.

i know there are a lot of candidates but this woman is the most loathsome person in government and quite frankly it's not even particularly close

Someone on a dating app said i looked average. I thought "that's mean" #Lunchpun

British Member of Parliament and former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May there, circling around a mass casualty event like a vulture to exploit it in service of a rancid reactionary culture war, in case anybody is still wondering how we got here.

ICE is asking for people to quit calling its hotline to report an undocumented girl named 'Anne Frank' hiding in the attics of Republican lawmakers. Please don't call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE (1-866-347-2423) for this reason, or to report pregnant foreigners seeking shelter in your local manger.

60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity. Top 10% earn more than the other 90%. They control govts, means of production; inflict civil strife, deaths; thwart possibilities of democracy. Tax the rich.

CSU fordert Abschaffung der befestigten Flaschendeckel

the wild thing is that putting the strip on the diagonal of the square solves the square problem completely

Zuerst der Bulle von Tölz, dann Hubert und Staller. Gibt es um den Starnbergersee überhaupt noch überlebende?

“So, Nick, what kind of dog do you have?” “She’s a werewolf.” “Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“

Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...

"But you did."

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

I FOUND IT! MARTHA WAS COOKING! 😏

Antifa is a movement against fascism. How can this be a bad thing, let alone a terrorist organisation?

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th. On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela. Bank on it.

circus marketing

Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.” Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…

Farage thinks I'm a maniac? Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts? Badenoch thinks I'm weird? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Now I shall buy moquette cushions at the London Transport Museum next time I am there. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

🎄 At last night’s @bradfordcouncil.bsky.social meeting, #Bradford Conservatives brought forward a proposal to bring #Christmas Cheer ... by cutting Council Tax Support for the most vulnerable in our district ... 🗣️ I was lost for words. Luckily I had a poem prepared ... #WealthTaxNow

Even Hitler banned Gothic script (in 1940) because it was too hard to read. But the US ploughs its own lonely furrow of hatred. Alt text: thumbnail of Trump displaying a blank page, appropriately enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The crib and attendant figures at the local catholic church, made from traditional Portuguese figures. One year they actually had live fish in a pond, but I guess this year they ate them.