Nevermind the fact that Nigel Farage didn't bother to declare his £384,000 in bribes. The real question is why the hell are our politicians allowed to be bought?

US has given up its place as the leader of the free world. Traded an enviable standard of life to demand even more, at the global expense of everybody else. I'll bet a £1 to a penny MAGA lives ain't getting any better while they fuck everything up. Good luck with St Peter.

There will be enough globalists in the audience they could just rush him. The perfect end, torn apart by an angry mob of Davos delegates

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

this is genuinely incredible

*whispers* *hey, most of the world, you know we should boycott the Olympics and the World Cup, right*

Crazy to say it, but it's almost like we'd have been better off sticking with Europe.

Strong move. kotaku.com/dude-will-de...

I tell you what I don't need. I don't need an AI assistant in my figgin' PDF reader, is what.

here's a frog watching the news from 2026 on the bar tv

Folk used to say, "If you've nothing to hide, why hide your data?" Many of those being targeted by ICE had nothing to hide. Renee Nicole Good had nothing to hide. You too may think you have nothing to hide. At least for now. Textbook fascism before your very eyes. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Nice to see Grok blaming Elon Musk for the recent spate of sexualized images of children and non-consenting women.

It's not his business he may be unable to pass on - it's the £550mn worth of farmland he bought to avoid inheritance tax. Which he runs at a £5mn/yr profit, to be clear. That could attract a £120mn in tax. Ouch. But then since he's worth £20bn, IT'LL ONLY COST 0.6% OF HIS FORTUNE

If a young man [of fighting age], unable to speak basic english, is able to make the perilous crossing of the Channel in a small boat in mid winter, take your job, romance your girlfriend and buy your dream home from under you, you need to think about upgrading your basic skills.

I can't help thinking this is the very opposite of Christmas swimming lessons.

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There are reasons wealthy individuals want Reform in power, and those reasons do not include concern for the common Brit. Harborne doesn't live here; as an immigrant he's not fretting about immigration, flags or the EU; he simply expects to profit, at the expense of the typical Reform voter.

Glass! This is informative and fun. I used to dabble in scientific glassblowing myself, so I have a huge appreciation of the skill required to do it properly. vimeo.com/160106895?fl...

From Stoppard’s Arcadia:

Yeah, but 'hugely impartial' founder of GB News, owner of the Jewish Chronicle and self-described Thatcherite Robbie Gibb says they're too left wing...

I detest Nick Robinson with some passion. He takes every single point, good or bad and attacks it for whatever reason he can think of. "Why are you borrowing, that's bad. Why aren't you borrowing to promote growth? Why raise taxes? Why U-turn on raising unpopular taxes?" A bully and a twat.

Similarly, the claim "putting pineapple on pizza does not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that putting pineapple on pizza causes autism.

This really needs a UK/EU print partner.

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I wonder how many people have similar experiences. I've thought it, but figured I was being sloppy or forgetful or doing that bias where the coincidences are more notable than all the non-coincidences. But I've seen other people notice it too (see comment). Can we all be coincidences?

Two weeks to get to your destination though; if it's going to be the future of travel as well as transport, we're going to have to broaden the definition of Work From Home.

Over on X, the co-founder of the Brexit Party is posting open racism about Shabana Mahmood, saying she should be "deported". Blaiklock left the Brexit Party v quickly over anti-Islam posts but now identifies herself as a supporter of Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain.

Positive news - about time this started happening 🚢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What is it about 'processing' that makes foods intrinsically bad? How can it all be bad, when it's all so different? Maybe it's not all equally bad, but it does all equally stop you from eating the things that are good 🤔 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nick Robinson was calling the rhetoric out on R4 yesterday, which highlights a serious point - Labour can't win on messaging. I don't remember him being so outraged by Patel's anti-immigration bill, for eg. So why don't they stop the 'Reform Lite' signalling and take a moral & pragmatic stand?

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Dunno, man, if you've managed to get your car onto a dinghy and sail it across the channel then you fucking deserve to keep it.

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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Live footage from the DC Sandwich Guy case, where Border Patrol agent Greg Lairmore is being questioned by the defence. Whatever the outcome, we can all empathise with the trauma suffered by these brave patriots who put themselves in the line of sandwich fire without thought for their own safety.

My water bill has just gone up by 50%. Execs and shareholders are pissing their pants laughing at us.

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This noble false widow, Steatoda nobilis, had two distinguishing features: 1: She was the biggest I've seen by a country mile, fast, sure-footed and genuinely impressive. 2: She was outdoors, unlike her many cousins who are gumming up our house with their insanely tough & extensive webs. #ukwildlife

Literally one of the coolest comet pix I've *ever* seen: Comet Lemmon seemingly wrapped in the debris tail from a meteor! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/amazing-im... And hey: I bring you stuff like this three times a week in my newsletter. Please sign up when you visit! 🔭🧪

Farage: epic grifter

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As Peter emphatically puts it: 100 years? That makes me want to know all the more.

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨 That’s outrageous! Or is it? Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy? Let’s take a 👀 1/17 🧵